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17/2/2018 0 Comments

"It's a draw, idiot!"

This blog post is about the dark side of online chess. Here I was playing in a rapid 15 10 chess.com tournament. You will notice that it's the same time control as in our Vancouver Rapid League. I firmly believe that this training pays off. But I digress.

​When we reached the position below my opponent messaged me: "It's a draw, idiot!" This is very sad behaviour. I always tell my kids to express themselves intelligently.

​Black is an exchange up and play is way more difficult for White. And I am also very stubborn. Once I'm insulted, I concentrate even harder. White went down hard and resigned one move from mate. I am a proud, and very humble, National Candidate Master. If it's a draw, we'll find out soon enough.

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White to move. Is this a draw? Let's find out.

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2018.02.12"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tornike Ruxadze"]
[Black "NCM Vas Sladek"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[Annotator ""]
[SetUp "1"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2018.??.??"]
 46... Rb7 47. Kg2 Rh7 48. Kh3 g5 49. Bg3 gxh4 50. Be5 Kg5 51. Kg2 h3+ 52.
Kh2 Kg6 53. Kg1 Kf7 54. Kh2 Ke7 55. Kg1 Kd7 56. Kf2 h2 57. Bxh2 Rxh2+ 58. Kg3
Rh8 59. Kf4 Rf8+ 60. Ke4 Rf5 61. f4 Kd6 62. Ke3 Kd5 63. Kf3 Kxd4 64. Kg4 Ke4
65. Kg3 Rxf4 66. Kg2 Rf3 67. Kg1 Ke3 68. Kg2 e5 69. Kg1 Rf2 70. Kh1 Kf3 71. Kg1
Kg3 0-1
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