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Mistakes often repeated in simultaneous exhibition play

Mistakes often repeated in simultaneous exhibition play

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Grandmaster Bronstein said that in his simultaneous exhibitions, he could count on replaying Morphy’s game from the Paris opera house at least once.

It sounds like a tall tale to me, if only because I can’t see Bronstein playing 1. e4 on 100 boards of a 100-board exhibition, and transposing to Morphy-Allies by 1. d4 d6 2. e4 e5 3. Nf3 Bg4 seems too far-fetched.

However, I think I get one of these in, say, every other simultaneous.