Judit Polgar recaps the World Championship match 2021

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12/16/2021 – Judit Polgar followed the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi in Dubai particularly closely. She was in Dubai and commentated the match live. In an interview with Sagar Shah after the match she talks about criticial moments of the match, claims that it is sometimes good to be a "bad boy", and reveals what it takes to win a match against Carlsen. | Photo: Screenshot from the interview

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guest1227491 guest1227491 12/20/2021 12:27
@adbennet Perhaps the USA colleagues could teach the Indian colleagues how to make taxis outside the home "go away". Failing that, they could learn from the Indian colleagues how to function in spite of background noise.
adbennet adbennet 12/17/2021 04:39
Having done Zoom calls with colleagues from USA and India: If there is the slightest background noise, the typical USA colleague apologizes and immediately makes the sound go away. Meanwhile the India presenters have variable and sometimes continuous background noise from children, animals, taxis, etc. No matter what, they ignore it and press on. I haven't done any Zoom calls with people from Hungary, so I don't have any idea how they feel about it.
Raymond Labelle Raymond Labelle 12/17/2021 02:17
Could have they not arranged to do it in a place without background noise?
sshivaji sshivaji 12/16/2021 10:28
Great interview, covering the key games of the match by position, and also outlining psychological insights seen from both players!
Aighearach Aighearach 12/16/2021 09:00
And thanks to Sagar Shah, who apparently shot this hand-held with a phone?! Epic field journalism technical skills on display there.
Aighearach Aighearach 12/16/2021 08:58
Great interview, thanks Judit!

The background sound is very mild, you can hear Judit clearly the whole time. If you only have interviews in a studio, you don't get so many interviews...
Minnesota Fats Minnesota Fats 12/16/2021 08:50
anti climax match.
MLoftus MLoftus 12/16/2021 07:58
Un2atchable with that ridiculous background noise
Theochessman Theochessman 12/16/2021 07:43
The match in only 2 words:
Nepo punchingbag
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