Sunday
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This Week's World Chess Column: The Spoiled Masterpiece
Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 12:32AM
My column this week takes a look at the spoiled masterpiece, which I define in a person-relative way. We're playing a great game (at least by our standards), only to ruin it before collecting the point and finishing the artwork. Even if the game finishes in a draw, failures of this sort can be more upsetting, more disappointing, than losses. Two examples are offered in the column. The first is from one of my earliest tournaments, and the second, far more exalted example, comes from the 1966 World Championship match between Tigran Petrosian (who looks vaguely like Cosmo Kramer in the picture at the link) and Boris Spassky.
tagged AGON, Tigran Petrosian
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[DM: Thank you for your helpful comment and the charitable interpretation. You were correct about the provenance of the error, but I had a chance to notice it before print and missed it. Errare humanum est.]