A Weather Report from Dortmund
Yesterday's round in Dortmund was extremely disappointing, and generally speaking the tournament has been marred by an excess of short draws. It turns out there's at least a partial reason for this:
The city of Dortmund has been struck by a heatwave. Problem is you do not have much air-conditioning – in Germany you need it for just a couple of weeks per year. All of the players in the Sparkassen GM tournament seemed fazed by the temperature and all three games ended in more or less rapid draws. (From this ChessBase report.)
Let's hope for cooler weather!
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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Sunday July 5, 2009 at 4:56pm