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A game where the attacker never wielded a sword, but the head fell!

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"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing that to have answers which might be wrong"  - Richard Feynman Carlsen is ok with anything, or so it looks like.....whether dealing with hundred pieces or one piece..... The point is, he has a unique way to converse with his pieces and make them obey his command. Fortunately for him, his opponents too obey his command on most occasions and hence he prevails more often than not. Chess is a very difficult game to understand.....even for the greatest masters. All that they succeed in doing is to cope up with this predicament and they manage to keep their nose up in the water.....as long as it is possible. Tal said, " I began to succeed in decisive games (all game are decisive), perhaps when I realised a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent . " There was a great poet in Tamil called Kannadasan ( கண்ணதாசன் ) who ...