In chessgames chat , people are suggesting b 5 for Karjakin . Would anyone be interested in explaining why this pawn sacrifice would be advantageous for him ? Thanks ! <| sep |> Haifa is a city of coexistence . Jews and Arabs here have gotten along since before Israel ' s inception , and most Arabs in Haifa consider themselves Israeli . Don ' t talk shit about stuff you don ' t know . <| sep |> It ' s a tendency of mine to Italicize and Bold titles of moviesgamesetc . <| sep |> First of all I really like the fact that I get to discuss with people on this topic ! Thanks D There is also a comment I made a bit below on this post which has raised some discussion if you wish to contribute to it Now on to the nitty and gritty ! For starters you correctly raise the topic of emotional investment which plays an important role to the grief that builds up when someone loses a person they are emotionally invested to . I certainly know that my grandmother will never properly surpass my grandfather ' s death since she shared a life with him for 40 years , 40 years ! Yet she hasn ' t given up and tries to live on as good as she can to honor his memory but it has been 5 hard years for her without him , she has lived more than 23 of her life with that person . On the contrary Braham should be about 20 years now by the Guild Wars 2 timeline where for those years Eir had totally abandoned him with his father for the sake of adventuring when he was still an infant I think ! Few people even knew she actually had a son we even had gotten no mention of a son during the events in Edge of Destiny ! Even more so Braham hated her for not staying with his father even though he didn ' t even know her really ! The most you can say Braham had any emotional investment was probably during his adulthood for like 1 month ? 2 months ? Not sure . Yes it was cut short and that leads to much pain but it has also been about a year since Mordremoth ' s death . Braham had a sliver of emotional investment compared to the other members of Destiny ' s Edge even . In my opinion , by now Braham should be properly honoring the memory of the mother he never hadNow as for the Norn lore I did not mean the manliness of the Norn , but the connection they have with death and glory . The Norn grieve but revel also at the remebrance of those who have fallen for a glorious cause , they wholeheartedly believe that the dead ones keep living through their legends and as long as the skaalds sing of them they are still alive , even in memory . That is their MAIN way of grieving . Braham on the other hand , even though a Norn , is none of that . In his and Eir ' s relationship his mother was totally at fault , yet Braham had the wisdom to forgive her because he understood what she was doing , saving the world from the dragons , even felling one of them , what more noble and glorious cause than that ! The Norn will remember her the same way they do Asgeir Dragonrender and Jora , that ' s how big her legend is right now ! Even though he forgave her according to his Norn standards right now he is no longer properly honoring her passage , the Norn way . That ' s another reason I believe that Braham ' s character has broken . He doesn ' t need to be the manly Norn because that ' s not what they are mainly known for in the first place , he should be the person that has learned from his mother ' s mistakes of hunting legends but also honor her for what she was in the end for that is the true way of the Norn .