You're getting older GM Jon Youth’s carefree days are now long gone. Even for a chess Grandmaster Now you’ll find that time goes faster. Stop the clock, stop the clock Slow down every tick and tock Every chess player now admits Life’s not just a game of Blitz Although that’s now the modern norm It can’t compete with the Classic form. The computers said it was a draw That wasn’t what Magnus Carlsen saw As the match went into a second day He stubbornly continued to play Although there wasn’t a win in sight He continued what seemed a futile fight. A hundred moves were reached and passed It seemed the final die was cast What are they battling endlessly for When the computer says it’s a draw? And as well as the electronic soothsayers It would have been obvious to the players. One slight slip through player exhaustion Eventually sealed the challenger’s fortune. The eternal truth like a flash of lightening A draw’s not a draw if a player keeps fighting Stop the clock, stop the clock Slow down every tick and tock
