Timeline for How can a chess game with clock take 5 hours?
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| Nov 15, 2020 at 11:01 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | It's no more ignorant or offensive then how every single dramatic depiction of a difficult football game comes down to a matter of inches in the last seconds; how a difficult basketball game comes down to a buzzer beater; how a difficult baseball game is bases loaded, 2 outs, bottom of the ninth....They're just the natural way of creating tension and drama and helping along non-expert viewers. Running out the clock at the end of a football game is boring and will rarely be chosen for a drama, even if the victory was a difficult and hard fought one. Even documentaries give it all of 2 seconds. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 10:58 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | The show, especially in the final tournament, makes it pretty clear that Beth is an aggressive attacker, a chessboard blitzkrieg, seeking to unbalance her foes and put them in awful positions quickly, and that she's always seeking victory and not draws. The constant "bet he wasn't expecting her to destroy him in 27 moves" lines were all about that. Long games against her are a demonstration of skill because her specialty and focus are on preventing those. And I agree with Accumulation: there's really no other practical way for a fictional drama show to demonstrate a "difficult match" here. | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 19:59 | comment | added | paul23 | @Acccumulation showing such a gross misunderstanding is like a show arrogantly showing "dutch" people by throwing extra cheese in the picture: it's offensive for chess players. I'm not saying they aren't doing it for this purpose, I'm stating it's blatantly ignorant and borderline offensive. | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 18:46 | comment | added | Acccumulation | @paul23 I said relative skill levels. The overall skill difference among participants in a tournament is zero, so given that you're talking about the skill level of opponents, plural, you must be talking about absolute skill level, not relative. Furthermore, I am talking about the show indicating relative skill level. Obviously there are better ways in general of evaluating relative skill level, but having a game go on a long time is one of the best ways that a fictional show aimed at a mass audience can show it. | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 18:07 | comment | added | paul23 | @Acccumulation that's about the worst indication of skill level I could think of in chess. Better opponents facing each other will typically have fewer moves before a winner is decided. While a worse opponent might wish to play "to the finish". | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 4:21 | comment | added | Acccumulation | This gives an indication of their relative skill levels: her opponent was able to survive 40 moves, which most of her opponents were not. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 20:38 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 20:25 | history | edited | dbugger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | Ross Millikan | The 120 minutes for the first 40 moves is for each player, so 40 moves by both sides can take 4 hours. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 14:47 | vote | accept | SirDuckduck | ||
| Nov 10, 2020 at 13:06 | history | answered | dbugger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |