Jon Speelman: Forward to the past

[Note that Jon Speelman also looks at the content of the article in video format, here embedded at the end of the article.]

In the nineteenth century, Black would surely have tripped up and got himself checkmated, but Duda defended brilliantly – indeed both players acquittedly themselves superbly with limited time on the clock – and it ended in a very honourable perpetual check.

I imagine that many if not most readers will have seen the game already but I'm presenting it anyway with fairly extensive notes. Centaur anlysis (man plus machine) has been the norm for well over a decade and we've got increasingly good at it. I wonder whether such throwbacks will become ever more prevalent as the silicon influence creates increasing chaos (to the human eye) which invites us to move forward to the past.

I've supplemented  the game with a famous previous example of what a centuar can achieve against mere carbon.

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