Yes, I noticed that too. Meanwhile, Women's Grand Prix served with the similar unbelievable thing. Ushenina was unable to win with B+N and today one game was lost where R vs. N endgame was played.
One of the worst played sequences ever seen in a Super GM tournament!
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Patzers like you? Is there something worst than a Patzer? Just wondering how I may call myself if u r a patzer! :P
To be fair, the time control at move 40 may have been a factor.
Definitely. And it's a very complex position. Not seeing any moves that are obviously bad. Like simple tactics or hanging/trapped pieces. Things that without enough time can be missed. Things I would have missed even with plenty of time. I've seen clearer blunders but the shear number of them is still surprising.
Seems a bit early to resign to me at the end, though up a pawn with the knight check and a passer and against a bad bishop is certainly winning if played well. Maybe Hao was tired/saving energy for the next match. Certainly played like it.
May 13, 2013
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Yes the moves shows human grandmasters. I don't feel however that I would say they played badly like blundering. These were not easy moves to find. And they had very high time pressure down to 1-2 minutes or less with the 30 sec increment per move.
Yeah, they had to do 7 or 8 moves in 1 or 2 minutes to reach the time control.
Well, if it's very poorly played, I'd say
NOT ENOUGH QUESTION MARKS!!!!!
Um... Is it bad if I can't see why those moves are blunders? 
the between nakamura and rajdabov today already has more blunders!!! lol
May 24, 2013
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asmund_hammerstad wrote:
Yes the moves shows human grandmasters. I don't feel however that I would say they played badly like blundering. These were not easy moves to find. And they had very high time pressure down to 1-2 minutes or less with the 30 sec increment per move.
I'm pretty sure they had no increment in the first forty moves. The increment only kicked in after move 60 in this game. They were playing blitz chess and missed some tactics.
May 25, 2013
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I am pretty sure they had an increment.
http://norwaychess.com/en/supertournament/regulations-of-the-international-chess-tournament-supreme-masters/
- The time control is 1 h 40 min for 40 moves + 50 min for 20 moves + 15 min for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from the first; the Participant is obliged to record the moves on the score sheet, starting from the first move.
May 25, 2013
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Ok, thanks. I was wrong.
That's just strange, how the various tournaments mess around so much with the increments.
May 25, 2013
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Its the official tournaments from FIDE that seems to do without increments lately for the most I think. By the way I don't necessarily think 30 secs increment is enough to give good quality play when the rest of the time is burned. It just prevents losing on time.
The position look way complicated even for good grandmasters.
Not really sure what you're talking about. It's not like there were a bunch of hangs or anything. All of those "??'s" certainly seemed undeserved.
Today, after move 34, up until 41, the game between Jon Ludvig Hammer (white) vs Wang, Hao (Black), had one of the most "poorly" played chess games by players at their level I have seen in a long time.
My intention of this thread was to show, EVEN the best players are very much human, are not beyond patzers like me, from blundering/making mistakes {playing} horribly!
That was certainly a crazy position though. Good game.