I wish Pia to win a classical game. A legend who was the Nr 1 female chess player 40 years ago and still can fight against these youngsters. Anna and Pia, you are lucky to have each other.
There were some people with mean comments. They probably hardly know how to set up the pieces. There are very few people in the world who would be about equal for about 4 hours against the best woman in the world and Pia did just that, an almost perfect game for about 4 hours against the world champion. I'm amazed how Anna dealt with her disappointement, how she explained things and how quickly she turned her disappointment into something positive. Yes, I hope Pia will play Titled Tuesday 🙂
@@kramermccabe8601 Strange, I usually watch first and then check comments. At least I saved you almost 20 minutes, but I can recommend you to watch anyway.
@@kramermccabe8601 Obviously comments will discuss the contents of the video 😂 That’s why you don’t read comments before/during watching a video like this if you care about spoilers😂
Pia is simply incredible. She is almost twice Ju's age and we all know younger players will always be stronger... so to play so well against the current Female World Chess Champion is amazing. Truely an inspiration!
@@annymp theres a saying "chess is a young man's game" probably bc as people age, most experience declines in memory and cognitive abilities. although knowledge and wisdom hold significance, chess primarily revolves around skill. eventually, even the most skilled players at their peak can see their abilities diminish
I was going to say like mother - like daughter... Your mum is a superstar - and you Anna - you have a talent for making chess so much fun and so approachable. You really do have a great Family! Thanks for your great efforts popularising. Analysis paralysis is a thing - before we called it the Hamlet Syndrome. The longer you sweat the position the harder it becomes sometimes to see the move. And of course - once you have moved - you see what you should have played immediately...
Regardless of the results, how alive you must feel when your prime was 40 years ago, you get invited to face the very best in a very very small tournament and you give ALL OF THEM a really hard time. So inspiring and moving.
The fact that Pia can play at a grandmaster level many years after she first earned the title is awesome. She doesn't necessarily focus her entire life playing like younger players as Pia has a life outside of chess. She has a home with a loving family, she's married (to a fellow GM, the only GM/GM married couple BTW), and of course, her lovely daughter Anna. Such a full life that also includes chess - what a blessing! Losses are certainly a disappointment, but she handles every win or loss with quiet grace. It's fun to watch how Annas parents play against each other - Pia is calm, quiet, and stealthy - Juan has a fiery personality, going head on into battle. Anna has a video of them playing against each other - just watch how they push the clock button!
Congratulations, Anna! Your commentary on your mother's games is fantastic. It's wonderful to see such a talented and passionate family sharing their love for chess with the world. Keep up the great work!
She had the actual world champion by her kness but she realized that she was so low on time to late ... Ju wen jun was Lucky for that she was lost till Pia spent time searching the winner move. Amazing level by pia, what a legend.😮❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 A Lost that taste a victory
I love your relationship with your mom, how much you admire her and how much you support each other. It's beautiful to watch. Your passion for chess is inspiring.
That was brutal at the end. GM Pia is playing so well against the players with higher ELO but the results are masked by (in my opinion) Armageddon All those draws she had only to lose because of another draw (with white pieces) in Armageddon
She played so well, it's so sad how it ended but she has gone toe to toe with the best players in the world and lost nothing, head up Pia you are an inspiration 💜💜
Always good to remember that this doesn't mean she played bad, she actually played incredibly. It just means that our female world champion is even stronger and she really attacked like a beast in this game.
It is heartwarming to see how Anna is beautifully defending her mama an showing great empathy and understanding. This is way more important than the rank in a chess tournament. Congratulations to both of you for having each other!
Ahh this made me cry a tear. I find it impressive how invested you can be in chess. The psychological aspect of this game was crazy. Very impressive, thank you for this video specifically! Very interesting. Warm greetings!
I didn’t like how disrespectful some people were when Anna's mom was in her last minutes. The chat section was flooded with comments like “MOVE!”, “Just take a piece and put it elsewhere”, “This is already over”, “gg”, and so… Some people are both completely lacking in empathy and trapped in a bubble of delusion. They can’t seem to grasp the tension of an OTB game and think if it was them in that situation they would fare better. Why don't you first beat Korchnoi and then tell Pia Cramling what to do?
To be honest it's not disrespectful. Anna was doing literally the same. Since 13:46 till end And well, they were right. Mistake of bad time management. Pia is a great player, but she can make these kinds of mistakes especially because of age. I don't see it as disrespectful.
It because they are not champion Pia Cramling has a champion Spirit, so competitive... She want to be the clear winner not flagg her opponent she wanted to find the winner move.
Pia reminds me of my favorite player Ivanchuk. He is inclined to get involved in a position. It is simply his love of the game. He finds a deep sequence but there is problem that needs solving. He will find the solution but his clock is in another universe and his elegant solution can only be explained later. But when the clock is also agreeable Chucky is a force majeure.
I soooo hope your mom can grab a win before the end of the tournament. Good luck Pia! She is such an amazing player, but like you said, just lost track of time at the end. Let's go!
It's interesting how Anna gets to wonder where Pia's time went. It's like watching herself without realising it. Now we know where Anna gets her time issues from, and judging from Pia's performance as a former GM with years of experience, they are unlikely to go away.
Pia, and Anna have the need to play the "best" move in every position in classical, because they feel the longer game demands it. Unfortunately, whenever they have lower confidence in a position, even when there is only one or two possible moves, they get stuck analysing, hoping a "best" move will appear. And it's hard to break out of that since not the "best" move feels almost like loosing, and you are negotiating with yourself that "there is still time, if i can just discover the move". Its only when there really isnt any time left that you can get over that awful feeling. But in every case you dont find the "best" move, yet spend all that time, the opponent has analyzed and knows what to play and quickly its your turn again, and you are still in the same state of confidence as the last move, and you get stuck again :( Playing more blitz will help with moving pieces quickly, and getting better at blitz. However, we know from Pia's commentary that she has a very quick, sharp mind, and finds complex lines with ease; so playing more blitz likely wont make a difference, because it's a psychological thing in longer games. The best thing to do is work on strategies or make up some hard rules of what to do in these situations. Take the decision to act away from the decision making part of the brain, and move it to the instinctual, routine driving part of the brain. It takes training and time, but its the only way to get out of your own head :)
White lost a tempo with move 15. Qf2, taking two moves to move the queen from e1 to f2. At that point, it was as though black had moved first, and black had the better position.
The fatal mistake is never where you're looking! She didn't make a single mistake on the board, but the danger wasn't on the board, at all. The bright side is she won't do that again.
I'm new to chess and this is so cool to watch. I which your mom the best and I'm currently bench watching your video. So much fun, thank you for the awesome content.
Anna, I respect you so much. I am a board gamer, and "Analysis Paralysis" is a term we nerds use as well. We all experience this when our brains go into the abyss. Thank you for being so beautiful.
I don't really understand this time collapse, because she looked at the clock several times in this final phase. Regrattable. One could see Wenjun breathing a sigh of relief after the handshake...
I didn't find Nc5, I was thinking about Pawn G5 to block the white pawn. The thing I didn't like about Nc5, it's because it's a 'if' move. You play it as a trap, but if the opponent don't move what you want, you are still in bad position for the king... Like Lord Verstappen once said : ''if, if, if... if my mother had balls, I called her dad''
Just have fun with the remaining games. You've played an amazing tournament so far and some brilliant moves. Removing the added pressure of wanting a win, might be what you need to get one! 💜
In competition.... It is AlWAYS best to see yourself winning before the game begins... (no matter what happens during the play itself... or who you are competing against... ) (David did not go up against Goliath thinking he was not going to win..)
It was a difficult, dangerous position and her opponent was very strong. It's not surprising she ran out of time. If she'd have made the wrong move she'd have lost anyway.
That Pia did so well to get so close, had she had some more time I think she could actually have won. An amazing move that she played and you have to consider who she's playing, I'm just sorry that she hasn't won yet. She's done so so well it seems such a shame for her to come last it really does just reflect the field she's playing so well.
I strongly believe that if we still lived in the age of correspondence chess, where players literally think about games for weeks, go on walks, live their lives, all of that stuff, and then mailed their move to someone a hundred miles away who has the opportunity to do the same, Pia Cramling would be considered one of the most transcendently brilliant minds of the game. And for that reason alone, without the obvious considerations for why else that might be the case, that should still be considered true. And without the benefit of that she's still doing pretty goddamn good.
@johnp515 I understand your point, but at her level and in serious tournaments, there are gracious but still extremely strict time controls. I just like the idea of waiting for a letter from the nicest lady you've ever met, and the contents of it are a move so devastating that you throw your board out the window and have to go buy a new one to continue. And I believe she is that capable a player. And like at the risk of a boring rant, I'm not making of case of like "brilliant when compared to this player or that player". I just mean in her own right.
she basically outplayed the world champion in both games if you look overall at the lines. I don't think it's a clear victory for Ju at all and she probably feels that way too.
Anna is beautiful, talented and seems like a very cool person. Could you imagine her talking to you about anything, nevertheless a chess game? Very cool, people like her and family exist.
May God protect your mother. You are a professional. Thank you. I learned a lot from you, and thank God I stayed at the top level (3676) thanks to your channel.
i am not sure whom i feel more sorry for :( seeing your pain in your face because of your mom or for your mom who is playing so brilliantly in all the games and not getting the results she wants to get and deserves :(
The game was insane. It was one of the best if not the best of all the games in tound 8! Of course one could've hoped Pia converts it, but even though it didn't happen the fact that Pia can play on this level against the current World Champion makes it clear your mother is not only a lagend, but a monster! I wish both of you don't get discouraged, keep up delivering more chess madness! P.S. the next opponent of Pia is my fellow Ukrainian GM Anna, so I would have a mental battle deciding who I want to win. Much love from Ukraine!
Modern chess tournaments have quite a few quirky new things. Takes time to adjust. Never to old to learn. Practice makes perfect! Pia- Onwards and upwards!!
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This is officially Pia's channel
i dont wana like bcuz its at 69 likes :)
Im ok with that ❤ Pia 🙌
I love Pia and I am here to watch for sure! what an inspiration and she is a wonderful person.
❤Pia
Channel for pia ran by Anna
I wish Pia to win a classical game. A legend who was the Nr 1 female chess player 40 years ago and still can fight against these youngsters. Anna and Pia, you are lucky to have each other.
Well it makes you wonder about Judith Polgar at least. She could just come back any day she wanted.
@@plywoodcarjohnson5412 Judit might the best female still.
There were some people with mean comments. They probably hardly know how to set up the pieces.
There are very few people in the world who would be about equal for about 4 hours against the best woman in the world and Pia did just that, an almost perfect game for about 4 hours against the world champion.
I'm amazed how Anna dealt with her disappointement, how she explained things and how quickly she turned her disappointment into something positive.
Yes, I hope Pia will play Titled Tuesday 🙂
Thanks for the spoiler. No reason for me to watch now
@@kramermccabe8601 Strange, I usually watch first and then check comments.
At least I saved you almost 20 minutes, but I can recommend you to watch anyway.
@@kramermccabe8601if u didnt want spoilers dont go to the comment dumbass
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It's beautiful to see how Anna & Pia are each other's best friend.
Pia is simply incredible. She is almost twice Ju's age and we all know younger players will always be stronger... so to play so well against the current Female World Chess Champion is amazing. Truely an inspiration!
yeah but couldn’t you say that older players have more time to learn and more wisdom? So kind of an advantage
@@annymp theres a saying "chess is a young man's game" probably bc as people age, most experience declines in memory and cognitive abilities. although knowledge and wisdom hold significance, chess primarily revolves around skill. eventually, even the most skilled players at their peak can see their abilities diminish
She played really good, it's tragic when everything just collapses at the end
I was going to say like mother - like daughter... Your mum is a superstar - and you Anna - you have a talent for making chess so much fun and so approachable. You really do have a great Family! Thanks for your great efforts popularising. Analysis paralysis is a thing - before we called it the Hamlet Syndrome. The longer you sweat the position the harder it becomes sometimes to see the move. And of course - once you have moved - you see what you should have played immediately...
Pia is amazing! To be able to play at the highest level in 2024 is nothing short of incredible. I'm cheering for you!
now you see what she feels when you spend so much time thinking!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Regardless of the results, how alive you must feel when your prime was 40 years ago, you get invited to face the very best in a very very small tournament and you give ALL OF THEM a really hard time. So inspiring and moving.
Good luck Pia! No matter what happens you are a winner. You raised a beautiful daughter and you have a loving husband. You are truly blessed.
At 11:36, I’m surprised Anna didn’t say “ And Ju did not want to enter into these shenanigans”, perfect opportunity to use her favorite word lol
shenanigans is such a funky and cool word, i love it when i get an opportunity to use it :D
The fact that Pia can play at a grandmaster level many years after she first earned the title is awesome. She doesn't necessarily focus her entire life playing like younger players as Pia has a life outside of chess. She has a home with a loving family, she's married (to a fellow GM, the only GM/GM married couple BTW), and of course, her lovely daughter Anna. Such a full life that also includes chess - what a blessing! Losses are certainly a disappointment, but she handles every win or loss with quiet grace. It's fun to watch how Annas parents play against each other - Pia is calm, quiet, and stealthy - Juan has a fiery personality, going head on into battle. Anna has a video of them playing against each other - just watch how they push the clock button!
Grischuk & Lagno as well
Your mom did so well she is a good competitor and was playing a top chess player. Best wishes to your mom ❤❤
Congratulations, Anna! Your commentary on your mother's games is fantastic. It's wonderful to see such a talented and passionate family sharing their love for chess with the world. Keep up the great work!
She had the actual world champion by her kness but she realized that she was so low on time to late ... Ju wen jun was Lucky for that she was lost till Pia spent time searching the winner move. Amazing level by pia, what a legend.😮❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 A Lost that taste a victory
I love your relationship with your mom, how much you admire her and how much you support each other. It's beautiful to watch. Your passion for chess is inspiring.
That was brutal at the end. GM Pia is playing so well against the players with higher ELO but the results are masked by (in my opinion) Armageddon All those draws she had only to lose because of another draw (with white pieces) in Armageddon
She played so well, it's so sad how it ended but she has gone toe to toe with the best players in the world and lost nothing, head up Pia you are an inspiration 💜💜
I do love that Pia is playing tournaments too
Watching Annna commentate this full game on Anna Cramling Extra is probably the most exciting match I’ve ever seen.
Always good to remember that this doesn't mean she played bad, she actually played incredibly. It just means that our female world champion is even stronger and she really attacked like a beast in this game.
It is heartwarming to see how Anna is beautifully defending her mama an showing great empathy and understanding. This is way more important than the rank in a chess tournament. Congratulations to both of you for having each other!
It is so nice to see the joy in both Anna and Pia narrate each other’s game
I love the way your mom plays, and your commentary makes it so much easier to understand whats happening!
Ahh this made me cry a tear. I find it impressive how invested you can be in chess. The psychological aspect of this game was crazy. Very impressive, thank you for this video specifically! Very interesting. Warm greetings!
I like how you both mother and daughter supports each other . Great Pia she showed a very high calibre no matter what is the result
I didn’t like how disrespectful some people were when Anna's mom was in her last minutes. The chat section was flooded with comments like “MOVE!”, “Just take a piece and put it elsewhere”, “This is already over”, “gg”, and so… Some people are both completely lacking in empathy and trapped in a bubble of delusion. They can’t seem to grasp the tension of an OTB game and think if it was them in that situation they would fare better. Why don't you first beat Korchnoi and then tell Pia Cramling what to do?
To be honest it's not disrespectful.
Anna was doing literally the same.
Since 13:46 till end
And well, they were right. Mistake of bad time management.
Pia is a great player, but she can make these kinds of mistakes especially because of age.
I don't see it as disrespectful.
people are just stupid, cope with it.
It because they are not champion Pia Cramling has a champion Spirit, so competitive... She want to be the clear winner not flagg her opponent she wanted to find the winner move.
@@DelfTv Don't be an idiot.
Welcome to the internet, people are rude and antisocial.
Honestly your mom/dad are so cute that they deserve their own channel!
I have no idea how to play chess but still find myself watching your videos for some reason….. very strange but love seeing you support your mom!
Anna.. Mama Cramling is a boss thank you for bringing this Queen to the next gen ❤❤I'm rooting for Pia everyday🤘🤘
Pia reminds me of my favorite player Ivanchuk. He is inclined to get involved in a position. It is simply his love of the game. He finds a deep sequence but there is problem that needs solving. He will find the solution but his clock is in another universe and his elegant solution can only be explained later. But when the clock is also agreeable Chucky is a force majeure.
I soooo hope your mom can grab a win before the end of the tournament. Good luck Pia! She is such an amazing player, but like you said, just lost track of time at the end. Let's go!
Your mom might have lost that game But she is winning a lot of hearts. Best of luck Pia.
I’m no chess expert but I know that when anything is played at top level ,winning or losing can be down to one mistake or act of genius
TIME Control is the BEST thing that ever happened to modern Chess.
I can only dream being as good as GM Pia.
At my best, I would not be her equal even when she is at her worse.
big fan of how proud you are of your mom.
im not even 1300 in classical and 2000 are very inspiring like including you anna and your mother pia
It's interesting how Anna gets to wonder where Pia's time went. It's like watching herself without realising it. Now we know where Anna gets her time issues from, and judging from Pia's performance as a former GM with years of experience, they are unlikely to go away.
Pia, and Anna have the need to play the "best" move in every position in classical, because they feel the longer game demands it.
Unfortunately, whenever they have lower confidence in a position, even when there is only one or two possible moves, they get stuck analysing, hoping a "best" move will appear. And it's hard to break out of that since not the "best" move feels almost like loosing, and you are negotiating with yourself that "there is still time, if i can just discover the move".
Its only when there really isnt any time left that you can get over that awful feeling.
But in every case you dont find the "best" move, yet spend all that time, the opponent has analyzed and knows what to play and quickly its your turn again, and you are still in the same state of confidence as the last move, and you get stuck again :(
Playing more blitz will help with moving pieces quickly, and getting better at blitz. However, we know from Pia's commentary that she has a very quick, sharp mind, and finds complex lines with ease; so playing more blitz likely wont make a difference, because it's a psychological thing in longer games.
The best thing to do is work on strategies or make up some hard rules of what to do in these situations. Take the decision to act away from the decision making part of the brain, and move it to the instinctual, routine driving part of the brain.
It takes training and time, but its the only way to get out of your own head :)
White lost a tempo with move 15. Qf2, taking two moves to move the queen from e1 to f2. At that point, it was as though black had moved first, and black had the better position.
The fatal mistake is never where you're looking! She didn't make a single mistake on the board, but the danger wasn't on the board, at all. The bright side is she won't do that again.
I'm new to chess and this is so cool to watch. I which your mom the best and I'm currently bench watching your video. So much fun, thank you for the awesome content.
It's a really tough tournament, keep fighting Pia!❤
It’s Pia’s world and we’re all just living in it 🙌 ❤
Anna, I respect you so much. I am a board gamer, and "Analysis Paralysis" is a term we nerds use as well. We all experience this when our brains go into the abyss. Thank you for being so beautiful.
Your mom is awesome. To bad it ended this way. I hope she wins the next classical game.
Still so impressive! Well done Pia!!
Great game and comments! 4hrs? Amazing!
I don't really understand this time collapse, because she looked at the clock several times in this final phase. Regrattable. One could see Wenjun breathing a sigh of relief after the handshake...
Anna, your positive mood inspires and gives energy!)
I didn't find Nc5, I was thinking about Pawn G5 to block the white pawn. The thing I didn't like about Nc5, it's because it's a 'if' move. You play it as a trap, but if the opponent don't move what you want, you are still in bad position for the king... Like Lord Verstappen once said : ''if, if, if... if my mother had balls, I called her dad''
Amazing play by Pia, that move was something else.
Just have fun with the remaining games. You've played an amazing tournament so far and some brilliant moves. Removing the added pressure of wanting a win, might be what you need to get one! 💜
I love you Anna ❤ you are pure light ❤
You win some, you lose some. She’s still a very strong player and will keep playing great games like this one. Saludos a tu madre Anna.
i find it amazing that a GM's losing game is still like a ten thousand miles ahead of us. i had no idea what was going on
Shows that brilliance and idiot, are separated by a very fine line.
Don't let your opponent get well ahead of you on time. Just play a move that will improve King safety if you can't think of anything else.
What’s your rating?
@@johnp515 Why is that relevant?
In competition.... It is AlWAYS best to see yourself winning before the game begins... (no matter what happens during the play itself... or who you are competing against... ) (David did not go up against Goliath thinking he was not going to win..)
It was a difficult, dangerous position and her opponent was very strong. It's not surprising she ran out of time. If she'd have made the wrong move she'd have lost anyway.
Please pass on this message Anna: Good luck in the next one Pia, lots of love from your biggest fan in New Zealand.
That Pia did so well to get so close, had she had some more time I think she could actually have won. An amazing move that she played and you have to consider who she's playing, I'm just sorry that she hasn't won yet. She's done so so well it seems such a shame for her to come last it really does just reflect the field she's playing so well.
Great how hard you root for your mother. Love it.
I'm just here to see Anna be excited for her mom.
Great commentary. If only I could understand it! I love this girl.
I hope there is at least a draw in Round 10. Then had Pia no 0:6 loss in Stavanger.
This is heartbreaking, but also shows that if it would not be about time, your mom could have maybe won !
It is ironic that you would scream at your screen don’t forget the time when you always forget it.
Wow. What a video. Thanks! Cool game and great delivery.
Good game she is powerful to sustain that stress and play with the best of world and be head to head at that age .God bless her
I strongly believe that if we still lived in the age of correspondence chess, where players literally think about games for weeks, go on walks, live their lives, all of that stuff, and then mailed their move to someone a hundred miles away who has the opportunity to do the same, Pia Cramling would be considered one of the most transcendently brilliant minds of the game. And for that reason alone, without the obvious considerations for why else that might be the case, that should still be considered true.
And without the benefit of that she's still doing pretty goddamn good.
It’s not about the age we live in. There are no time limits in over the board classical chess, which obviously is still played.
@johnp515 I understand your point, but at her level and in serious tournaments, there are gracious but still extremely strict time controls.
I just like the idea of waiting for a letter from the nicest lady you've ever met, and the contents of it are a move so devastating that you throw your board out the window and have to go buy a new one to continue. And I believe she is that capable a player.
And like at the risk of a boring rant, I'm not making of case of like "brilliant when compared to this player or that player". I just mean in her own right.
She played phenomenally! With more time, she would have won, for sure. I hope Pia keeps playing in other tournaments. The game was fire!
Good Luck Pia! 🍀
she basically outplayed the world champion in both games if you look overall at the lines. I don't think it's a clear victory for Ju at all and she probably feels that way too.
I want Pia to play the champion with no time limit! I think Pia would prevail. Thanks for sharing your mom with us!🌸🙏😎
Analysis paralysis is not just a chess term nor does it originate from chess.
Instructive game. Thanks for sharing. Good luck for you and your mom
That is a stunning reversal of fates, thus proving that Pia is the real Female Champ!
Good luck, Pia!
She was giving you a taste of your own medicine, how you make her stress out cuz you think to much 😅😅😅
Anna is beautiful, talented and seems like a very cool person. Could you imagine her talking to you about anything, nevertheless a chess game? Very cool, people like her and family exist.
I love your passion for chess and your mom haha it’s great
May God protect your mother. You are a professional. Thank you. I learned a lot from you, and thank God I stayed at the top level (3676) thanks to your channel.
The way she looked at your mother at the thumbnail ❤
9:51 I was thinking on Kc5. Trying to put a knight on e4 or just open the diagonal with check and taking back the piece
14:52 this how we feel watching your games sometimes 😅
anybody else not a chess player but just like listening to her talk? lol
I found the move 😃
Just let her have fun, You guys put smile on my face every time I see you. Best of luck
i am not sure whom i feel more sorry for :( seeing your pain in your face because of your mom or for your mom who is playing so brilliantly in all the games and not getting the results she wants to get and deserves :(
Come on mum. We support you Anna and family!
It's called the Paralysis of Analysis! You got it backwards.
Don't type long words just type pia is da 🐐
Goat
Love watching you and your mom play chess.
But poor time management seems to run in the family.
Too bad.
Hi Anna, thanks for this exciting wrap up. Can you interview or have the female world champion in your youtube?
Give your Mom a hug and let her know we're all pulling for her. Never give up, never surrender!
That hair is LEGENDARY!!
The game was insane. It was one of the best if not the best of all the games in tound 8! Of course one could've hoped Pia converts it, but even though it didn't happen the fact that Pia can play on this level against the current World Champion makes it clear your mother is not only a lagend, but a monster! I wish both of you don't get discouraged, keep up delivering more chess madness!
P.S. the next opponent of Pia is my fellow Ukrainian GM Anna, so I would have a mental battle deciding who I want to win. Much love from Ukraine!
Modern chess tournaments have quite a few quirky new things. Takes time to adjust. Never to old to learn. Practice makes perfect!
Pia- Onwards and upwards!!