The crowd assembled for game 12 of the 2016 World Chess Championship was small but excited. The match between Magnus Carlsen of Norway and his challenger, Sergey Karjakin of Russia, was tied; if either player managed to win in the final round, they would take the match and the title. By a few moves in, though, the commentators were already describing the position as “solid.” which is chess-speak for “boring.” In a few more moves it became quite clear that Magnus had no ambition of victor...
The crowd assembled for game 12 of the 2016 World Chess Championship was small but excited. The match between Magnus Carlsen of Norway and his challenger, Sergey Karjakin of Russia, was tied; if either player managed to win in the final round, they would take the match and the title. By a few moves in, though, the commentators were already describing the position as “solid.” which is chess-speak for “boring.” In a few more moves it became quite clear that Magnus had no ambition of victor...
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