A real draw rain was pouring on the participants of the fifth round of the Men’s Cup of Russian tournament – only two effective games on the first ten boards. A game between Mikhail Mozharov and Nikolai Shukh is an obvious reflection of peaceful tendencies of the fifth game day.
Sometimes it happens. The opponents were struggling. They were improvising at the board (in other words didn’t play memorized computer variants), the time keeping records confirm it. They were playing almost without any mistakes that in our days means following the first computer line. And still this interesting game seems to be cold….
I can’t do anything else but remember Savely Tartakover again. He marked that “existence of chess can be justified only by existence of mistakes!”