It's a long, careful climb to the world championship match—first the Candidates tournament decides who challenges the reigning champion, then they play a long match of classical games, with tiebreaks of faster time controls if needed. Watching the live streams late at night after my daughter's asleep, I think of it like my students' yearly exams: so much quiet preparation for one concentrated test, where every move holds the weight of all that study. The real tension for me isn't in the blitz tiebreaks, but in those long middle-game silences, which feel like the quiet moment in my classroom when a child is slowly puzzling out a sum on the blackboard.
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