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| Vishy Anand |
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3 | 2.26% |
| Magnus Carlsen |
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30 | 22.56% |
| Kirsan Ilyumzhinov |
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100 | 75.19% |
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V for Vegas posted:Daniel King Goddamn Gelfand, that is a nice hat.
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Jan 16, 2014 00:31
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I think my bet paid off, Vishy is going to be playing in the candidates.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:10
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singe posted:I think my bet paid off, Vishy is going to be playing in the candidates. Only half of it so far - there still needs to be the return to form. Also after the rest day (and a near-rest day before that) it looks like there's some pretty interesting stuff going on like Aronian in some trouble against Giri and whatever the gently caress is happening in Caruana-Rapport.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:13
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Nakamura just blundered into a midgame mating net against Harikrishna. Painful stuff, fell for the classic attack on a fianchetto bishop position. He's been poor this tournament.
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Jan 21, 2014 16:43
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Meanwhile my boy Dominguez just stuffed pieces down So's throat until he choked.
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Jan 21, 2014 17:11
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Brunello looked to have an extremely drawn game (0.00 for about 5 moves each) but now seems to have an attack going. We'll have to see where this goes, or rather wait another hour since they're about to hit the time control.
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Jan 21, 2014 17:22
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Flayer posted:Nakamura just blundered into a midgame mating net against Harikrishna. Painful stuff, fell for the classic attack on a fianchetto bishop position. He's been poor this tournament. Modrasone posted:Meanwhile my boy Dominguez just stuffed pieces down So's throat until he choked. Welp I suck
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Jan 21, 2014 22:36
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Modrasone posted:Meanwhile my boy Dominguez just stuffed pieces down So's throat until he choked. silvergoose posted:Brunello looked to have an extremely drawn game (0.00 for about 5 moves each) but now seems to have an attack going. We'll have to see where this goes, or rather wait another hour since they're about to hit the time control. When playing through the game I had to keep reminding myself that it was white who won. Then 42...Qe7 happened. Also nice to see my boy Yu recover from pissing away a great attack to finesse a win out of a drawn endgame.
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Jan 21, 2014 23:51
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Yeah I'm assuming that move was a blunder, what with the queen being what was keeping that pawn in check. Ha ha check ha ha.
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Jan 22, 2014 05:44
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Arkadij Naiditsch has had a pretty bad tournament and, by the looks of it, this game is going much the same way. Also Aronian looks to be in reasonably decent position to continue his perfect score with white.
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Jan 23, 2014 15:32
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Gads dang it, section B is off again. How can I cheer for my main man Brunello at this rate?  So what were the actual bad moves in the Naiditsch game thus far? Nothing jumps out at me. I mean, I can do so with the help of the computer, but that feels useless for actually recognizing why a move is bad.
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Jan 23, 2014 15:34
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silvergoose posted:Gads dang it, section B is off again. How can I cheer for my main man Brunello at this rate? Basically he played a weird poo poo opening and has had to follow it up by putting his pieces in all kinds of awful positions. Just looking through the game and using your intuition will get you a set of moves that pretty much match the ones the computer hates: Qe1, Be3, Rd2. Although it really hates f4 and Qe1, and is now spitting a -3.41 on move 15 so holy crap he's getting murdered.
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Jan 23, 2014 15:40
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Hand Knit posted:Basically he played a weird poo poo opening and has had to follow it up by putting his pieces in all kinds of awful positions. Just looking through the game and using your intuition will get you a set of moves that pretty much match the ones the computer hates: Qe1, Be3, Rd2. Although it really hates f4 and Qe1, and is now spitting a -3.41 on move 15 so holy crap he's getting murdered. Yeah I'm seeing weird flashbacks to when I tried to play the dragon and just smashed open the C file, which is what looks to be coming. Can't wait!
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Jan 23, 2014 15:42
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I know you just explained it Hand Knit, but I'm still shocked that a strong GM can be this lost by move 16.
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Jan 23, 2014 15:49
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gret posted:I know you just explained it Hand Knit, but I'm still shocked that a strong GM can be this lost by move 16. Well, as I said, it looks a *ton* like the Sicilian Dragon, with knight on c3, rook ready to go to c8 and sac there, white castled on queenside, etc. And unlike the Yugoslav attack, white isn't in a good position to actually punish black for anything. Note, black already has a pawn on d5, which is one of the main goals of the dragon. I'm seriously excited to see this.
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Jan 23, 2014 15:52
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gret posted:I know you just explained it Hand Knit, but I'm still shocked that a strong GM can be this lost by move 16. He's had a real poo poo tournament so he Tried Something and got slapped down. It's sort of a caution about cases where you play openings on the hope that your opponent doesn't understand them so you can get them in trouble - sometimes they understand the opening better than you and you just die. e: And Naidistch goes out with a splat, more or less mated on move 19. Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jan 23, 2014 |
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Jan 23, 2014 15:54
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What a disaster. My poor human brain couldn't really see why Qd1 was such a weak move but holy poo poo @ dxc5. That has to be one of the worst moves played in the last few years, it's blatantly obvious that white losing the Knight on c3 is game over.
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Jan 23, 2014 16:55
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My boy Harikrishna has had a pretty good tournament, only 1/2 a point behind second place. But that was a gift.
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Jan 24, 2014 00:01
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V for Vegas posted:My boy Harikrishna has had a pretty good tournament, only 1/2 a point behind second place. But that was a gift. He's played 52 total moves in winning his last two rounds  Also another good win by Aronian, this time against Karjakin. He's now +4 -0 =0 with white this tournament. Rc1 was a pretty sweet way to win a pawn (even if the computer says that black has some obscure way to sacrifice an exchange for repetition), and converting the endgame was incredibly direct and elementary in its technique.
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Jan 24, 2014 01:02
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Bill Gates... good at computers, not so good at chess. http://www.nrk.no/kultur/carlsen-knuste-verdens-rikeste-1.11490996
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Jan 24, 2014 13:21
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V for Vegas posted:Bill Gates... good at computers, not so good at chess. Not so tough without Deep Blue to act as his enforcer, now is he? In Wijk-B it looks like Timman is going to knock off Jobava, leaving Ivan Saric all alone in first place with 8.5/11, followed by Timman (8) then Jobava (7.5). Despite there being two rounds left, everyone other than those three and Anna Muzychik are mathematically eliminated. Meanwhile Etienne Goudriaan seems to be the person most suffering from the loss of the C-group, as he's currently 1/11 
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Jan 24, 2014 18:28
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Hand Knit posted:Not so tough without Deep Blue to act as his enforcer, now is he? Wait he got mated in a back line with no pawns advanced. No kidding. You know how they make you push a pawn, even if it doesn't really help you, just to avoid that? It's sometimes astonishing that very, very basic truisms come up in such prestigious events, too.
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Jan 24, 2014 18:33
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silvergoose posted:Wait he got mated in a back line with no pawns advanced. No kidding. You know how they make you push a pawn, even if it doesn't really help you, just to avoid that? It's sometimes astonishing that very, very basic truisms come up in such prestigious events, too. To be fair to him, he was already fried and just chose to get mated Nigel Short style. On the other hand, that's the sort of game I'd expect to play against a 1900.
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Jan 24, 2014 18:40
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Hand Knit posted:To be fair to him, he was already fried and just chose to get mated Nigel Short style. On the other hand, that's the sort of game I'd expect to play against a 1900. Honestly have no idea what you mean w.r.t. Nigel Short style. Was he known for that?
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Jan 24, 2014 18:43
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silvergoose posted:Honestly have no idea what you mean w.r.t. Nigel Short style. Was he known for that? He has been known to continue playing dead lost games for silly reasons, like setting a tournament record for longest game or getting himself mated in a particularly ridiculous way.
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Jan 24, 2014 18:47
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Aronian putting the finishing touches on yet another win. Ho-hum. Meanwhile, if you guys want to see an extended time scramble, check out Rapport-Nakamura. Naka sacrificed a knight on move 15 (which I see just now Rapport has declined), which has brought Naka to <10 minutes calculating the sacrifice and Rapport to ~25 minutes in deciding whether or not to accept.
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Jan 25, 2014 16:34
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Fantasy Chess Update! Now that Wijk aan Zee is over, we can have our first official standings update. Even though none of my players did particularly well, I've jumped into first because all four were playing there. Meanwhile, Hand Knit has taken second on the back of Mr. Levon Aronian, while Shoeonhead22 is in third. Standings Link OrangeKing: 19 Hand Knit: 16 Shoeonhead22: 11 V for Vegas: 8.5 Flayer: 8 gret: 8 singe: 6.5 silvergoose: 6 Modrasone: 6 supercrooky: 3.5 vyshka: 0 Aggro: 0 Two more tournaments starting up this week: the Gibraltar Masters and the Zurich Chess Challenge.
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Jan 26, 2014 23:06
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Aronian topped off his great tournament by hanging mate in the last round. Undercut what could have been a >3000 perf. Gibraltar starts Tuesday, and Zurich Thursday. Gibraltar looks quite nice, and I wouldn't mind playing it one day. e: OK - can you give another run down on how the waiver system works. Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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Jan 26, 2014 23:28
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I've got decent hopes for Vitiguov in the Gibraltar swiss. Caruana was a little disappointing at Wijk ann Zee, pretty middle of the road performance for someone of his calibre.
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Jan 27, 2014 03:08
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3/4 of my team members are playing at Gibraltar, so hopefully I should be able to gain some points. Peter Svidler needs to get off his couch and stop watching cricket and play in some tournaments already.
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Jan 27, 2014 05:34
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gret posted:3/4 of my team members are playing at Gibraltar, so hopefully I should be able to gain some points. Peter Svidler needs to get off his couch and stop watching cricket and play in some tournaments already. Reading the twitter stream of a Russian GM talking about cricket is pretty funny though.
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Jan 27, 2014 23:53
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I have 11 players in our fantasy league participating in Gibraltar. If I've missed anyone, let me know. My tally is as follows: Shoeonhead22: Cheparinov Flayer: Vitiugov, Navara OrangeKing: Zhao Xue, Rapport V for Vegas: Harikrishna gret: Adams, Kamsky, Muzychuk Aggro: Vachier-Lagrave silvergoose: Ivanchuk
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Jan 28, 2014 23:27
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Eljanov! e: Speaking of which, he came up against a Giuoco Pianissimo today (and crushed it). I bring that up because I saw it come up it Wijk (by Rapport?). Is there some new theory on this I'm unaware of or is this just chance (or a copycat)? Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Jan 28, 2014 23:51
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Hand Knit posted:Eljanov! I wonder if it's just more players trying to follow Magnus's trend of just getting a playable position out of the opening and trying to outplay your opponent from there versus the pre-Magnus strategy of playing some fashionable 25-move deep line that gets you a += at the end.
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Jan 29, 2014 00:40
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Though I'd think that playing 1.e4 2.Nf3 3.Be2 is such a big hit in development that it's more likely to be something with heavy prep than something white can casually play for an easy game.
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Jan 29, 2014 00:46
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Holy poo poo Anand was crushed by Magnus in Zurich. 21 moves! Poor guy. Magnus was pretty rusty too though, but is tied with Aronian for first now. Pretty exciting!
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Jan 30, 2014 10:36
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Spug posted:Holy poo poo Anand was crushed by Magnus in Zurich. 21 moves! Poor guy. Fortunately, that was just the blitz. The real chess is starting just now. Nakamura-Caruana looks the most interesting to start.
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Jan 30, 2014 15:28
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I reckon Nakas attack is busted and he'll now have to spend a couple of tempo getting his King to safety thus giving Caruana some chances.
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Jan 30, 2014 15:47
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Hand Knit posted:Fortunately, that was just the blitz. The real chess is starting just now. Nakamura-Caruana looks the most interesting to start.
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Jan 30, 2014 22:09
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Levon, you always look good.
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