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by hibikir 693 days ago
But every serious chess game is a matter of time allocation. The best players in the world are unable to calculate as much as they want in every position: Ultimately there is bluffing and risk taking. See the last game of the last candidates, where both Fabi and Ian have to win to get into a playoff, and they get themselves into extremely complicated positions, where accurate play just takes too long for a human. At an 8 hour time limit, the game is very different than at the time the players actually had, as ultimately Fabi just couldn't calculate to the end on every position he knew was key.

It wasn't the most accurate game of the tournament, but the most instructive as far as the psychology of chess goes