Kramnik: ‘Some kind of black-out’

PeterDoggers

Updated: Aug 31, 2011, 4:41 AM | 0 | Chess Event Coverage

and I calculated this line many many times, re-checking myself, and in all this Qe3 and Qxe4 I was calculating Ng6+, and okay, I already did it when I was playing ?¢‚Ç¨¬¶Qa7, I already calculated this line. After each move I was re-calculating it again. I was thinking it's all fine, then again and again and finally I blundered it, mate in one. It's really actually the first time it happens to me and I cannot really find any explanation because I was not feeling tired, I was feeling well. I think I was calculating well. It's just very strange. I cannot explain."

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