Bah, they keep changing formats faster than my dadi forgets a verse. In my day, it was one long match—twenty-four games, no tiebreaks—and the title went to the one who outlasted, like patience on a Dehradun bus stand. The new Candidates and short matches feel like city music, all hurry and no soul. My own best game ever was a fifty-move draw in a monsoon drizzle, no tiebreak needed, just the rhythm of the rain on the tin roof.
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