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A comment on Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship. Parent comment

Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by FPGAhacker on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:41PM (#18556758)
Are you also against sacrificing a piece in a game to gain an advantage? How is this different? He played a sacrifice in the meta game to gain an advantage.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by gpm on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:02PM (#18556883)
The difference is that:

- This was part of the metagame.

- This was agreeing to a "semi-draw" in the metagame when he did not need to.

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