GrandMaster Blunders

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galacticking

Why do Grandmasters make such blunderous moves, on purpose, when playing against other Grandmasters?

ie; there will be a piece hanging, and instead of taking it, and winning or equalizing, they try to make some `deep` move. Next thing you know they are losing. These are very obvious moves, even to me, a low level player, because I will spot these while playing through games, and then turn on Fritz or Rybka to blunder check, and sure enough, blunder!

Did you see the endgame between Carlson and Kramnik recently, where Kramnik moved his King and gave up the center. It took me less than 5 seconds to know the correct move, and I am only rated 1350 here. I felt like Kramnik basically gave the game away on purpose for whatever reason.

What do you guys think about these situations.

Have you noticed this? 

NimzoRoy

Giving the game away on purpose is your opinion, not a fact

The fact that it happens to GMs occasionally does not prove your opinion is a fact

Rubinstein & Nimzovitch both overlooked a mate-in-2 in one of their games (vs each other) do you think they were both doing so on purpose?

GMs have much more subtle ways of cheating available, such as memorizing a plausible looking draw & then playing it out OTB

Jazo23

It may look to you as blunders, but those are not blunders, those are detailed plans, traps or continuations. Why would a GM with a 2600 rating purposly blunder? Undecided

Bribe? Money mouth

Dragec

this one?

the analysis:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6995