Back-and-forth

In the 12th game of the World Championship Nepo was already on a win and would have needed only a draw for the title, but in a dramatic back-and-forth, in which both players made serious mistakes, he gave the game away and lost - incredibly bitter for him. Ding, on the other hand, managed to equalize at 6½ : 6½.

This constant back-and-forth is exhausting my patience.

After months of bitter disagreements and legal back-and-forth, he had finally given up and struck out on his own, but he'd met with a string of bad luck—a client who refused to pay, a flood, a false insurance claim—and he'd had to shut up shop; now he was working for a big construction firm as a gun for hire and telling anybody who would listen what a rotten hand he had been dealt.