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no it wasnt

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its unusual but its not a faiL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh, just read #18

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Yeah, it seems reallllllly odd.... I mean how can you do that?!

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Pretty funny! Maybe he was calculating Nxf7?

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Although 5...Qe7 sure kills that idea. ;)

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Sorry, ATC97. But you're completely off here.

Nothing strange happened in that game. So he used a minute and a half. So what. He could easily play 3 games in the 3 minutes left. I assure you he had his reasons, whatever they are.

The commentators were just creating some "spectacle" for the viewers.

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How can this hole in is theory be sooooo bad? I mean it's blitz. I mean had he lost, we'd be in agreement. Right? :)

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Addicted-to-Chess97 wrote:

How can this hole in is theory be sooooo bad? I mean it's blitz. I mean had he lost, we'd be in agreement. Right? :)

You don't know that. You assume that EDIT: (he had a hole in his theory). You have no idea what he was thinking about. A real chessplayer doesn't just bang out his moves just because he happens to know the theory. I can think of many reasons he took that time.

EDIT: And no agreement. The result is irrelevant for my opinion on what happened.