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Too much news accompanies the moves.
Each morning when I wake up, the only way I can find the moves of the overnight Anand-Carlsen game is to navigate to websites that also blare who won.
But what I want is to experience the drama in the context of a normal progressing chess game. I want a .PGN of the moves, except with exclusion of the [Result “1-0”] element and exclusion of the final end-of-moves indicator 1-0.
That way I can replay the moves of the game, and see an advantage slowly grow for one player, and enjoy the chess game’s drama.
But I know of no such webpage which offers only the slightly-stripped .PGN without any clue about the game’s outcome. Bummer.
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I think of events like football and basketball, where people are able to DVR (or for us dinosaurs who remember those days, VCR) an event and the lengths they’ll go to in order to stay spoiler-free.
It would be nice if there were a single link to take one to a replay of the live coverage on the official site (without showing news results.)
That said, for today’s game (9), press conference starting now, if you’ve got Chessbase or any viewer/website which you can C/P PGN text, here you go (with hope you won’t see spoilers on this site):
Credit (and any errors - Didn’t check the text against the main site) to Wikipedia for already having the moves and score as the press conference was starting.
If the PGN shows all the moves except the final result, wouldn’t that almost be a giveaway? Odds are the player who played the final displayed move won the game. Players seldom resign while their opponent is on move.
Though it does happen that a player will make a move and the opponent resigns before making a move, or the (admittedly rare) player makes a final move then resigns, or both players may agree a draw when either player is on the move.
Also, at least with ChessBase, you could select the game, close an eye when one copies/pastes (or if one is dealing with an actual PGN file,) then immediately switch it into training mode.
They are still playing Game 10 right now. If the game ends before I leave for work I’ll post today’s game here likewise. (Hope Gene is looking at the forums before the rest of the world… ) If I have time, but I doubt I will, I’ll do a drop of the file to my website.
I did watch several of the games via online replay, in mostly real time. (I did fast-forward now and again.)
However, I did have to start the player while squinting: the final result appeared on the site in a window at screen left. Some spoiler-avoidance early on would have been welcome.
I want a .PGN of the moves, except with exclusion of the [Result “1-0”] element and exclusion of the final end-of-moves indicator 1-0.
) If I have time, but I doubt I will, I’ll do a drop of the file to my website.