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Good for Ding  Radjabov's had a strong tournament, he must be pretty happy about his performance after being written off by most.
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Jul 4, 2022 19:09
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Redmark posted:Good for Ding He quietly put up a +3 across the back half of the tournament. Looking over the standings, it strikes me that the bottom three (Duda, Rapport and Firouzja in some order) are the three first timers.
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Jul 4, 2022 19:46
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rapport is the champion of our hearts
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Jul 4, 2022 19:49
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Hand Knit posted:He quietly put up a +3 across the back half of the tournament. Both Ding and Radjabov scored +3 in the back half. Ding likes to finish strong, he rattled off three wins to salvage his 2020-21 Candidates from being a total rout. Apart from Nepo pulling so decisively away from the field, this felt like a much more enjoyable tournament to casually spectate than the last one, where Alexeenko had zero business being there and Wang just brutally collapsed. Feels like Nakamura could have finished +4 instead of +1 but he got some breaks too.
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ding to challenge for, and win, the world championship? bring it home
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fart simpson posted:sorry but i just have a low opinion of mods. nothing personal I know I'm late but, ahem, turn on ur monitor
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jesus WEP posted:rapport is the champion of our hearts everyone says they want something to pry the game out of the cold iron hands of computer prep, but then no one shows up for the mass letter campaign to make rapport chess king for his willingness to just play poo poo
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Jul 6, 2022 06:03
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Oh hey, a chess thread, neat! Any chance I could get a code?
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Jul 6, 2022 13:40
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kalensc posted:Oh hey, a chess thread, neat! Try https://discord.gg/Q3yaz8Ep
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Jul 6, 2022 20:53
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 Hooray for sacrificing a piece into a winning attack, not being a hundred percent sure it was winning but it looked so promising that I was fairly confident I could at minimum win back the material or more, with a good chance of coming away with mate or way ahead in material.
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How do you decide whether an engine-unsound aggressive move was actually good? For example, in the Smith-Morra there's often a piece sacrifice with Nd5. Of course sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not good. In my last game I played it with success, and the engine classified it as an inaccuracy that moved the evaluation by 0.5. But that could mean "move bad against slightly better player" or "move bad against engine". I guess a heuristic would be, if the opponent has to find non-obvious only moves many moves in a row then it's likely good. But there's no easy way to quantify this without doing a deep manual analysis.
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Does anyone have opinions on smart boards? I'd kind of like to be able to play ten minute online games on a board but is the experience any good? They're a lot of money to just spend it and realize it's too clunky to enjoy.
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Jul 13, 2022 01:34
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T.C. posted:Does anyone have opinions on smart boards? I'd kind of like to be able to play ten minute online games on a board but is the experience any good? They're a lot of money to just spend it and realize it's too clunky to enjoy. There are pretty consistently relay errors with the highest-level games and tournaments. That was enough to nix the idea for me.
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Jul 15, 2022 02:27
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Sorry I didn't see this until now, my bad I would appreciate another invite 
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Jul 16, 2022 19:28
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Magnus will not defend his title!! Wow, I did not expect that.
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Jul 20, 2022 13:23
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lmao that hikaru was a rook trade away from being in the world championship
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Jul 20, 2022 13:26
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My prediction is that Magnus enters the candidates in 2024 to try and win his title back.
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jesus WEP posted:lmao that hikaru was a rook trade away from being in the world championship
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Jul 20, 2022 13:57
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my boy ding liren has this in the bag imo
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I am cheering for Ding, because he will have more cause to poo poo talk magnus for running away.
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Jul 20, 2022 14:18
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It would be cool if a Ding victory would cause a Chinese chess boom like with Anand and India. Personally I would bet on Nepo though.
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V for Vegas posted:Magnus will not defend his title!! Wow, I did not expect that. https://i.imgur.com/ohHDYTC.mp4
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I feel like I’ve seen that before, but what is it
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Jul 20, 2022 14:35
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its a person. hes named ian nepomniachtchi
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Hikaru said this morning that he thinks Magnus would have played if he was in 2nd.
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Magnus vs Vishy got me into watching competitive chess (and thru some miserable times) so drat. I fully understand his decision though.tanglewood1420 posted:My prediction is that Magnus enters the candidates in 2024 to try and win his title back. It would be funny if he destroys the candidates and just backs out of the championship though.
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I wonder how much he just specifically does not want to play Nepomniachtchi. From some of the excerpts I've seen it almost feels like he was insulted by Nepomniachtchi's collapse in the second half of the match.
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I'm really surprised, I would have bet real money that he would still defend the title. But I guess when you are just far and away the best and the competition isn't close, there's nothing to prove really.
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tanglewood1420 posted:My prediction is that Magnus enters the candidates in 2024 to try and win his title back. I had the same thought. And I hope he fails so that we see that smug superiority deflated.
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Obfuscation posted:It would be cool if a Ding victory would cause a Chinese chess boom like with Anand and India. Personally I would bet on Nepo though. Chess is already pretty big in China. There are 5 Chinese 2700 GMs. But yeah the PRC will make a huge deal out of it.
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Sub Rosa posted:Hikaru said this morning that he thinks Magnus would have played if he was in 2nd. Hikaru says a lot of things that aren't true.
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this was pretty slick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooiaaLk8bx0
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Lid posted:Hikaru says a lot of things that aren't true. Hikaru may well believe it. He's totally wrong, of course, but he may not be lying when he says he thinks that. And if I'd hosed up the last game of the candidates and blew my chance to play for the world championship, I'd prefer to believe that even if I'd won it wouldn't have mattered. Hurts less that way. 
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Hand Knit posted:I wonder how much he just specifically does not want to play Nepomniachtchi. From some of the excerpts I've seen it almost feels like he was insulted by Nepomniachtchi's collapse in the second half of the match. Do you know much about the details of the changes he asked fide for? I assumed it wasn't exactly personal against nepo more like frustration at the sheer effort you still have to put in long past the point that it is clear who the better player is in the world championship matches.
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It seems to me that WC matches are an ungodly amount of prep followed by endurance. Like last year it seemed like Nepo broke after the 140-move game that took 9 hours or whatever. Which is certainly a valid competition format but understandable if Magnus feels that it's not really representative of what makes the world champion of Chess.
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Naroditsky gave a 20 minute talk about the Magnus situation and his thoughts about it. Unfortunately he did it on the same twitch VOD that he later deleted because he had to perform a dance after losing a bet to the Botez sisters.
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Salt Fish posted:Naroditsky gave a 20 minute talk about the Magnus situation and his thoughts about it. Unfortunately he did it on the same twitch VOD that he later deleted because he had to perform a dance after losing a bet to the Botez sisters. Chess in 2022.txt
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Salt Fish posted:Naroditsky gave a 20 minute talk about the Magnus situation and his thoughts about it. Unfortunately he did it on the same twitch VOD that he later deleted because he had to perform a dance after losing a bet to the Botez sisters. what's the summary of his take on it?
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I saw an over one hour video on magnus' channel about his retirement. But I hadn't had time to watch it yet.
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