Dr. Hangin's take:
Charlie, don't be silly. I know where da Nile is. I went white water
rafting there a few years back. It's a 40 minute drive from my house in
New Jersey. Charlie, you sound like you are making steady progress. The
electro shock treatments appear to be working. I am no psychiatrist, but I
did take a class in abnormal psychology in college. Your symptoms indicate
that you are suffering from a Nasty case of WithDRAWal. The main symptoms
are that the player has trouble WITH ALL DRAWS. The player is unable
to distinguish between fighting draws and the no fight ones. The player
becomes bored out of his skull. In the final stages of the disease the
player with draws. The good news is we caught it in time, I think. I have the cure
below.
In Dortmund history repeats itself in round 4. Back in 1962 a young
Bobby Fischer took on the black side of the Grunfeld Defense against then
World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. Bobby, at adjournment, had reached a
winning position, but fell into an trap when the game was continued the
next day. The world champion escaped defeat at the hands of a future world
champion. Botvinnik had help from a team of top soviet GM's led by
Efim Geller, who worked all night to find the drawing
chances.
At Dortmund Round
4 we saw the same kind of match up, the current World Champion
Vladimir Kramnik vs. a future world champion Sergey Karjakin.
Sergey was able to Karjakin Kramnik's queen for a bishop and a rook. Sergey
tried to grind down the world champion for 86 moves. However, Kramnik is
not the 14th
world champion for nothing. Kramnik extricated himself by sacking a
pawn with move 44 ... b6, which allowed his G passer to jump two squares
closer to queening. Kramnik held on for another 42 moves.
Charlie your treatment, replay these two fighting draws, and
call me in the morning.
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