Yesterday I posted the game with some notes, today (after hours of uploading), I managed to get one of the videos onto YouTube.
Here it is, in all its hand-held glory (by the way, credit goes to my friend Dan Zaelit who took the video with my phone):
(youtube link is here)
There’s another version out there too (taken by my friend Ashraf), as well as shorter clips floating around on Facebook.
Looking at the video now, it’s interesting to see how expressive Magnus is during the game. It looks to me like he thought things would be simpler early on, but then became increasingly concerned as the game wore on until he was finally able to smile at the very end.
One other thing I realized from the bughouse and blitz games (and this was confirmed in between the two by his team), is that Magnus is ultra-competitive and hates losing even a casual game.
Apparently, he had lost a casual game against a computer a couple days prior and he was still sore about it at this event. Magnus overheard that little comment to me and shot a glare in our direction.
Anyway, this was a pretty memorable game and the dinner wasn’t bad afterwards either! I’ve met Karpov, Kasparov, and Anand (in that order), but of those 3, Anand is the only one who I’ve exchanged even more than just a couple words with, and I’ve never played a game against any of them.
Before Magnus then, the closest I came to playing a World Champion was a casual game against David Bronstein in the early 1990s (he was just under 70 years old, while I was about 9). Maybe at some point I’ll post that game, but it got ugly in a hurry. The Max Lange Attack doesn’t cut it against people of that class!
There and Back Again 
Speed at the end is impressive. Hard to believe mere mortals could do it even with 10,000 hours.
Obviously I need to get invited to a better class of party. If you’d just had my push-button Chronos, rather than the touch-sensor type, I’m sure the game would have gone your way.
I think Gladwell has pointed to studies that show the average time to reach chess master (not sure if that’s NM/FM/IM) at about 11,000 hours, but with huge variation running to as little as 3,000 hours on the short end.
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