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World Chess Championship: Game 14 and Tiebreaks

Following it on Lichess made it very exciting for me. First time in my life I was able to follow the World Championship match like that and it was great.

Thanks Lichess.
@LDog11 said in #43:
> Following it on Lichess made it very exciting for me. First time in my life I was able to follow the World Championship match like that and it was great.
>
> Thanks Lichess.

The FIDE coverage wasn't bad either.

https://i.imgur.com/jtvvfa5.jpg
Damn it, dog Liren! Jan, how did you lose this? Why 17th world champion Ding??? Aaaaa
I am happy for Ding, and I don't think his title is less valuable bacause the champion wouldn't defend his title. But the disqualification for Karjakin from the candidates' tournament is indeed a stain on this competition.
the last match was amazing, ding found some incredible moves and deserved to win. i still wonder if he wouldve said the "deepest reflection of my soul" thing if nepo won it, that was a bit too poetic for my taste :)

great world series all in all, couldnt script more drama, very enjoyable for the viewers.
Determining the World Chess Champion after fourteen games and a handful of rapid games fits the era in which we live: a news "feed" instead of a newspaper, baseball games have a clock (!), hyper bullet, fast food, courtship replaced by hookups, and who the heck has time to read Tolstoy? What's the rush? Remember, if you are old enough, the epic matches between Kasparov and Karpov? Fisher/Spassky? Nineteen inning ball games, dating, home-cooked meals, War and Peace? Probably this paragraph is too long for most....

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