Kramnik Drops Part Three. Inside: When FM Plays the Endgame Better Than Magnus Carlsen.
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Part Three of Vladimir Kramnik's Fair Play Detection paper is out, and it centers on a player who appears to forget how to play chess for the middle of the game, then remembers in the endgame — at a level above the world's best.
Part Three of Vladimir Kramnik's Fair Play Detection paper is out, and it centers on a player who appears to forget how to play chess for the middle of the game, then remembers in the endgame — at a level above the world's best.
The subject is a regular in one major platform's weekly titled events, an FM rated under 2400. In the middlegame he plays like a 2300. In the endgame, across more than a thousand analyzed moves, he turns into a top grandmaster — posting numbers that, at the time of examination, beat Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Wesley So over the same stretch.
Read the full paper.
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