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Re:Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship by slm_HN on Sunday November 23, 2014 @09:22PM (#8650748)
This is part of the plot of Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes. A woman on a cruise ship with two chess grandmasters bets a large amount of money that she can draw a game with each of them. Of course she plays them at the same time, one game with white, the other black.

It's hilariously improbable to chess players, but some of my non-playing friends thought it was clever.

Re:Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship by krisgenre on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:30AM (#8651178)
Lot people do this in online chess games by using a computer.
Re:Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship by mathattack on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:29PM (#8653437)
If you do this too much your ranking gets raised. And at that point, why bother?