On a rainy Thursday Viktor found "The Last Game" — not its real name, but that’s how he thought of it. It was a correspondence match from 2022, played on incremented time controls, with nine pawn moves that felt like conversations. The annotations were meticulous: an International Master noting "insidious zugzwang," a computer line showing a surprising rook lift, and a line penciled in by an anonymous user: "I lost sleep over this endgame."

On a rainy Thursday Viktor found "The Last Game" — not its real name, but that’s how he thought of it. It was a correspondence match from 2022, played on incremented time controls, with nine pawn moves that felt like conversations. The annotations were meticulous: an International Master noting "insidious zugzwang," a computer line showing a surprising rook lift, and a line penciled in by an anonymous user: "I lost sleep over this endgame."
