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Yes Charles, you are correct about these draws being exciting.  I watched
the the last 40 moves or so of the Round 3 Leko versus Gelfand live. Early
in the game Leko looked better, then Gelfand appeared to get the upper
hand.  The game went to move 100 and Gelfand had 37 seconds remaining on
his clock and  Leko had 3 minutes / 2 seconds remaining). It seemed they
may have been using Fischer Time because when they moved fast some bonus
time was added to their clocks.  For those last 40 moves I could not tell
who was going to win.  Gelfand was close to getting a second Queen... but
constant checking by Leko put a stop to that.  With about 20 moves left I
was expecting a draw or a time loss.

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