The Surreal Draw That Gave Me My 2nd GM Norm

In this video I show my last-round draw against GM Arizmendi from the Malaga Open 2005 — the result that gave me a tournament victory and my second GM norm. The story becomes stranger because all my games with Arizmendi had the same surreal pattern: I was lost, somehow survived, and even the same blunder, Nf4, appeared again in an oddly familiar way. The Method bundle (€49.99): my training protocols for intuition, calculation, and disciplined online play. Includes the PDF guide + annotated PGN database from the last three World Championship matches. Buy here: https://www.alexcolovic.com/TheMethod Check out Grandmaster Colovic's Chessable courses: https://chessable.com/colovic Join the Substack for weekly newsletters: https://substack.com/@gmalexcolovic Follow Alex here! Twitter: https://x.com/GMAlexColovic Instagram:   / alexcolovicchess   Website: www.alexcolovic.com #chess #chessanalysis #gmnorm #tournamentchess #chessgame #alexcolovic © Grandmaster Alex Colovic. Use of this video or its transcript for AI training or dataset creation is prohibited without written consent.