Daily Rome Shot 768

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Meanwhile, Magnus, is notorious for being either last minute to the board or even late.  Today, in the second game of the Semifinal – Round 7 Game 2 of 2 (players switch colors) Magnus was there but his opponent, Azerbaijani home-favorite Nijat Abasov not!  So, here’s Magnus, visibly perplexed as the official start time comes. He makes an air-handshake and starts the clock.

FIDE rules require a handshake (pace Victor and Anatoly).

In their 1978 war Champ Karpov refused to shake hands with challenger Korchnoi before their 8th game, which the very upset Korchnoi would lose. Korchnoi’s aide afterward said that it was factor in his loss.   Perhaps the nastiest match ever between two men who detested each other.  Korchnoi saw Karpov as a lapdog puppet of the Soviet state, while Karpov and the Soviets saw Korchnoi as a traitorous dissident defector.

On the other board in Baku today: Fabi and Pragg.  At the other boards are the women, Aleksandra Goryachkina and Nurgyul Salimova for all the marbles and in the third-place playoff Anna Muzychuk against Tan Zhongyi seeking a seed in the Candidates Tournament.

White to play and win.

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Big thanks to CG for tools for household chores from my wish list and CF for stepping up with a new keyboard.

I’m presently working from an old generic I pulled from a storage box (’cause I tend not to throw old electronics). I tried to fix my rather expensive old keyboard but no joy. It’s the space bar. I think I know what the issue is, but I am not sure about replacement parts.  Logitech K800 (920-002359).   Love this keyboard.

You see, in the middle, a rubber plunger (damaged) which is over the sensor that gives the space command.  The sensor works.  The rubber plunger works with the white clips like a spring.  When the underside of the spacebar gets close to the sensor, the plunger being depressed, the signal for the space is sent.  The plunger has to be non-metallic, it seems.  So… how to replace that plunger, which is damaged?

First, how to get one, then, how to get it in place… which I suspect will require disassembling the case and pulling the “mother board” (if that’s what these things have).  I experimented with cuttings of rubber bands on either side, but no joy.  The distances are too precise.