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Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Unless you follow chess, youprobably missed the news that Hikaru Nakamura, the most talentedplayer America has produced in a generation, lost a game inBilbao, Spain, the other day when he overstepped the time limit.

Chess is played with a dual clock, and each player has aset amount of time to make a given number of moves. If you do sobefore reaching what is known as the time control, you get moretime to make more moves; otherwise you lose. Nakamura, believingthat he had reached the time control in his game against a less-talented opponent, left the table to get an orange juice.Unfortunately, he had made only 39 moves, not the required 40.He returned to discover that his time had run out, and thearbiter had declared the game lost.