Maybe it took so long because it was a short night and I was tired...I get up at 6am regardless. It was a short night because we stayed up until midnight watching Pawn Sacrifice on television.
The movie is rated 7 out of 10 stars and Rotten Tomatoes may have called it "fantastic", but I think real chess players would rate it lower.
Spassky called the movie "weak" and said that it had "no intrigue." He added he that the film misrepresented how and why he agreed to continue the match after Fischer failed to show up for the second game.
Anatoly Karpov said, “Maybe the film is not bad for the popularization of chess, but its content is terrible. There are many inaccuracies. The chess positions are simply idiotic. The film is quite budgetary, so take a chess consultant, pay him a fee, he will correct your position. And then there the diagonal from left to right is white. You are making a film about world champions, and such bloopers, for me as a professional, are terrible."
The New York Times review was probably on point. "Pity any ardent chess fans who go to this movie; they’ll be pounding the walls over the differences between Mr. Zwick’s depiction and reality, and will no doubt be irked that the film doesn’t dwell much on the actual chess playing. But this isn’t a chess movie, it isn’t a biopic, and it isn’t a documentary. (For that, see “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” a very good 2011 treatment from HBO.) It’s a dramatization, one aimed at a general audience."
The afternoon was spent napping and then playing a few games on Chess Hotel, the following of which was the pick of the litter. That isn't saying much, but it was a lot of fun.
Guest–Tartajubow0–1Chess Hotel2022Stockfish 15
Irregular Defense 1.d4 f6 2.e3 e5 I often play the Fajarowicz variation
of the Budapest (2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4) even though it's not considered very good.
When an opponent crosses my plans with this move which has happened several
times by those apparently wanting to play the Colle, I have played this
dreadful move several times. 3.c3 3.dxe5 This is, of course, the only
move worth considering. e4 4.f3 c6 5.c3 d5 6.exd6 xd6 7.c2 f5 8.d3 e7 Guest-Tartajubow Chess Hotel 2019. Black has no real compensation for the
P. 3...e4 Assuring that white is going to be horribly cramped. 4.f4
This is awful. He should have played 4.c4 even though it involves a lost tempo.
At least he would have had some freedom. d5 5.d2 g4 Stockfish likes 5...
Ng4 attacking the e-Pawn and forcing white to misplace his N on b3. 6.e2
I was happy to see this move, voluntarily exchanging his good B. 6.b3
This is his best chance. c6 7.xb7 d7 8.a6 8.b5 b8 9.a6 xb5 10.xb5 xd4 wins for black. 8...b8 9.b3 g4 10.e2 Black has sufficient
compensation for the P. 10.h3 h4+ wins 6...xe2 7.xe2 d6 8.0-0 0-0 9.c4 c6 10.b3 bd7 In spite of white's rather poor play in the opening
black cannot boast of anything more than being slightly better. 11.a4 c7
I realized this is rather pointless, but couldn't think of anything else to do.
11...g4 is the engine way. 12.b1 h5 13.h3 h6 14.e1 g6 15.a3 xa3 16.xa3 f5 and black is slightly better. 12.c5 White is playing to gain
space on the Q-side. Stockfish can't make up its mind between 12.Nb1 and 12.h3.
xc5 White has a decisive advantage says Stockfish. I knew this
wasn't good, but it was an 8-minute + 2 seconds per move game and rather than
the passive 12...Be7 with near equality I wanted to complicate things. 13.dxc5 xc5 14.b1 Too passive. 14.Nd4 was better. No matter...white still has
a huge advantage. b6 The engine wants me to play 14...Re8. Why, I don't
know. At least with the text I am threatening the e-Pawn. 15.d4 a5 I
didn't want my Q driven back. 16.a3 With the elimination of my B all
attacking chances disappear. xd4 This assures me of at least one advanced
passed P...for whatever that might be worth. 17.exd4 17.xf8 would
actually lose. xa1 18.d6 xe3+ 19.h1 e8 and those center Ps will be
decisive. 17.xd4 A really swell move as it pretty much forces the
exchange of Qs xd4 18.exd4 and black has two Ps for a piece, but that is
not enough compensation in this position. 17...fe8 18.c5 c7 19.g4
While this is not fatal, it creates a weakness on the K-side that allows black
plenty of counterplay. Simply 19.Nc3 keeps white's winning position. b6
Much better was 19...e3. After the text white is better, but not winning. 19...e3 20.c3 e4 21.xe4 xe4 with a completely equal game. 20.a3 e3 21.e2 A better way of stopping the advance of the P was 21.Ra2 h5 22.g5 22.gxh5 b5 22...xh5 23.f5 f6 24.c3 and white is better. 23.axb5 cxb5 24.c1 White must deal with the e-Pawn. 24.xb5 e2 25.e1 xf4
and black is winning. 26.a2 26.c3 xd4+ 27.g2 xc3 26...ab8 27.d3 e3 etc 24...e4 with complications and equal chances. 22...g4 23.f3 Better was 23.Nc3 getting the N and R into play. e4 Attacking
the f-Pawn; I thought the attack on the d-Pawn was incidental. 24.c3 Now this is
wrong! He must tend to the defense of his K-side. 24.h3 xd4 24...f2 25.c3 xf4 26.xe3 favors white. 25.hxg4 e8 26.xe3 xe3 27.xe3 e4
Amazing! White is two pieces up, but with the R and N out of play black stands
better. 28.c1 c8 29.d1 e6 30.d2 xf4 Black threatens mate beginning
with ...Qe6+ 31.e1 xg4+ 32.h2 xg5 33.e7 f6 34.h3 to prevent ...Rh4#
d4 35.e6+ h7 36.f3 g4+ 37.xg4 hxg4+ 38.g3 gxf3 and the B might
have difficulty coping with all of black's Ps. 24...xf4 Wrong P because
it allows white to ease his position with exchanges. After 24...Rxd4 white
would be pretty much helpless. 25.af1 xd4 26.xf7 xf7 Relying heavily
on my extra pieces seemed like a good decision, but it actually leaves white
(according to Stockfish) with a decisive advantage. Keeping the Q with 26...
Qe6 would have kept white's advantage at a minimum. 27.xf7 xf7 28.d1 This attack on the P is fruitless. 28.h3 wins the N. f2 29.xh5+ g8 30.g6 and the threst of Qh7# leaves black with no way out. c5 31.xd5 d1+ 32.g2 e2 33.h7+ f8 34.h8# 28...e8 This threatens to win with ...Rd2
and black is right black in the game. 29.b2 He should not have
allowed the R to go to e2! 29.h3 d2 30.e1 h2 31.h1 f3 32.f1 h2# 29.c1 keeps the chances equal. de4 30.h3 8e5 31.g6+ 31.hxg4 xg4+ 32.h2 exg5 wins. For example... 33.f3+ e6 34.xe3 h4+ 35.h3+ gg4 36.xb6 xh3+ 37.xh3 b4 31...xg6 32.c3 f4 33.d3+ f6 34.e2 f2 35.c2 xh3+ 36.h2 c5 37.b2 d4 38.xh3 Stockfish evaluates the position at
0.00. It's unclear and anything could happen. 29...d2 After this white is
lost. After a promising start a combination of passive play and using too much
time has been his undoing. 30.f3+ g8 Now there is simply no way to deal
with the coming ...e2 31.h3 e2 White resigned 31...e2 32.e3 e1+ 33.f1 f2 34.d3 xf1+ 35.xf1 g3+ 36.g2 e1# 0–1
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