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Game 10 — Everybody’s tired; Salt and pepper

by scribe | May 7, 2010 | 2010 world championship, endings, games

The tenth game of the world championship match could have been Topalov’s chance to break through and place Anand in an almost untenable position. Anand lost the thread in the middlegame and drifted into an inferior endgame, with a bishop and knight against...

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