Alexander Grischuk

And I think there's ultimately two kinds of players.

I think you have the Grischuks of the world that spend too much time and you have the Nepos that play too quickly.

And everyone kind of leans one way towards the other.

And so on the Nepo side, you have people that are like more practical.

practical player as well, Svidler.

He's not like Grishuk.

Grishuk is the thinker.

I think they're friends and Svidler talks about Grishuk in the podcast and how he spent like 70 minutes on Move 12 in the candidates tournament and so on.

On the other hand, it's really quite heartening that there's all kinds of thinking styles or like metacognitive approaches to chess that can lead to success right like you can you can play fast or you can play like weirdly slow like Grishuk or you can try to be practical like Svidler or use your intuition more like and still you can achieve like you know strong results fascinating gives us hope

Yeah, the whole time management thing is actually all about metacognition, you know, so that was a good segue that we actually talked about time management too.

Now let's talk about, Chris, if you wish, your recent study.

Ding draws again for eight straight rounds.

Alexander Grischuk.

So do you think have lady luck, you know?

No, just no.

He is all business when he plays tournaments, and it's clear that hard work is what brought him to the top.

Fabiano, Fabiano, can you just talk very quickly [gentle music]

Next, in the all Russian game, we had Kramnik and Grischuk, and that was a firework of a game.

Kramnik played this offbeat opening system and really kind of mixed it up and took it to a game that was pretty even.