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Lagrave-Gukesh 1-0
This win is pure fiction. Like, indeed, most of the games in this and every other tournament. Only a point for Lagrave and nothing else is obvious. Modern tournament chess has it that winning games are not justified in chess analysis. That is, a fictitious win. But this is what both organisers and chess players are content with. It is like a training game, and yet seriously, as the result goes out into the world. And there is virtually no solution in sight. How could this situation be fixed or cured.
Some alternative is Goldchess. Here, in tournaments from a given position and against a computer that can be played because it is not playing at 3000 Elo level, but 1500, in most cases such flukes and runaway wins do not happen. To win, you have to show extraordinary and effective chess. Of course, the computer also has its weaknesses and makes mistakes, but nevertheless, if one compares the two types of tournaments, traditional and Goldchess, the error rate in traditional is 90%, in Goldchess only 10%. This means that Goldchess is more correct and therefore more valuable as chess stricto sensu and more educational, in the full and proper sense of the word.