In blindfold chess, the players look at a blank chess board on the computer screen then they have to make moves using the mouse. As reported by Chess Today, I agree that it must be a mouse slip. This is a nice case of sportsmanship by Kramnik.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Gelfand could have demonstrated even greater sportsmanship by refusing the draw offer – and resigning.
thats my favorite player for you, always a class act
who has kramnik as his favorite chess player anyway
either, you don’t know about enough great chess player (throughout chess history) or you are playing blindfold chess fan just for the sake of it and forgot where everything was
note: for the record, my monkey gives me one of his bananas sometimes.
what does the above has to do with class or class with anything?
How can there be a mouse slip? If you see the video of the first day of the Amber you will see that players actually see the move and confirm it before playing. So either he was less in time and did not waste time in reading before confirming or lost the position in mind. In both cases Gelfand should have lost as even blindfolds have a time limit. So in blindfold if you run out of time or make mistake in time pressure or loose position in mind, one should loose as these are the skills that one need to have it when you play blindfold. I will say that it was little idiotic on part of Kramnik to offer a draw.
Well that is really cool.
Bravo Kramnik.
In an age of where people seem to bend the rules to go for any advantage, Kramnik reminds people of what it means to be a champion
as far as I am concerned Anand is the only one reminding me nowdays of what a world champion is supposed to be doing
Why is this necessarily a mouse slip? Maybe he forgot the pawn was on d5 and was exchanging off a couple of pieces.
Do we have a blindfold analog to the “touch-move” rule in regular play?
Excelente tu blog Susan…
Kramnik demostró una vez más que no todo en el ajedrez de la superelite es dinero y premios.
Los caballeros siguen dando batalla en el tablero.
Besos
yes yes yes makes more sense to me that he perhaps forgot the pawn was on d5 because if pawn is not on d5 it just trades a queens and knights. first thing that entered my mind seeing the position. however, if kramnik offered the draw and it actually was a mouseslip then BRAVO to Kramnik but the facts of this are far from obvious to me. Did you have a phone call from one of the players? lol
Here someone saying that was an idiomatic thing to offer a draw in such a case. First this expression is a reflection of evil souls who think only “winning” in all cases whether is it true or not! (I am sure of this man is a supporter of Topalov! because they have such habits!)
But Thanks God that my favourite player is Kramnik and he honored himself and all of his fans!
Thanks champion! Everything in life is not winning the important thing is winning with honor!