While we're starting to draw to a close... I was trying to remember a favourite story about a chess match played a good few years ago. I read about it in a daily column... a review of a game between two GM's, but the review was brilliantly evocative. Wish I could do it justice...
It concerned a blunder by white on the back rank where white ended up losing his queen. And the review gave some reasons for it... it went into far more detail and nuance than I can remember now, but basically... the GM playing white was going through a pretty messy divorce at the time, and so therefore the writer surmised, his relationship with the female chess piece was hugely compromised. Also, it went on... the GM in question had rather short arms, so moving pieces around the furthest edge of the board gave him a disadvantage. There were other equally brilliant observations... but it was beautifully wrapped up. Very left field, pretty bizarre, but an utterly convincing explanation of why a game was lost. Would love to read that again.
Black is not winning this.