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Will Anand Win a Game? This poll is closed. |
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| Putin has managed to become a threat to both Russia and World Peace because Obama is not a strong leader like Ronald Reagan |
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Khorne posted:This game is the coolest one so far. It was this really cool technical game and then Anand just blew up. Very disappointing. e: This match is decided by two very bad blunders. Very much "what could have been." Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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Nov 23, 2014 16:33
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Oh well, only 2 years to the next match.
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Nov 23, 2014 22:50
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PGN of the deciding game. Anand self-destructing is really tragic because I thought he played and absolutely fantastic game up to that point. This was ultimately a very good match on the whole, the best since Anand-Kramnik. Despite defending, Magnus looked very mortal in it and could have easily lost both games 6 and 11. Now he has two years before his next defence where he will play... Caruana? Aronian? Grischuk? White: Carlsen Black: Anand 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.h3 Bd7 10.Nc3 h6 11.b3 Kc8 12.Bb2 c5 13.Rad1 b6 14.Rfe1 Be6 15.Nd5 g5 16.c4 Kb7 17.Kh2 a5 18.a4 Ne7 19.g4 Ng6 20.Kg3 Be7 21.Nd2 Rhd8 22.Ne4 Bf8 23.Nef6 b5 24.Bc3 bxa4 25.bxa4 Kc6 26.Kf3 Rdb8 27.Ke4 Rb4 28.Bxb4 cxb4 29.Nh5 Kb7 30.f4 gxf4 31.Nhxf4 Nxf4 32.Nxf4 Bxc4 33.Rd7 Ra6 34.Nd5 Rc6 35.Rxf7 Bc5 36.Rxc7+ Rxc7 37.Nxc7 Kc6 38.Nb5 Bxb5 39.axb5+ Kxb5 40.e6 b3 41.Kd3 Be7 42.h4 a4 43.g5 hxg5 44.hxg5 a3 45.Kc3 1-0 And now, to tide us over for the time being, we have a match between Aronian and Nakamura. The London Classic starts up in a week and a half, with the headliner event featuring Caruana, Anand, Giri, Nakamura, Kramnik, and Adams. All six will also play in the giant single-section rapidplay which is looking pretty drat sexy.
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Nov 26, 2014 00:32
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Giri is doing a Caruana at the Qatar masters. 6 from 6. Up against Kramnik next.
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Dec 1, 2014 21:13
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V for Vegas posted:Giri is doing a Caruana at the Qatar masters. 6 from 6. Up against Kramnik next. He's thrashing people, too. He won rounds 4 and 5 (against Oleksienko and Mamedyarov) in a combined 39 moves.
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Dec 1, 2014 22:47
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V for Vegas posted:Giri is doing a Caruana at the Qatar masters. 6 from 6. Up against Kramnik next. and doesn't win another game. Is beaten by Kramnik who wins 6 from 6 who is beaten by... Yu Yangyi... who wins the tournament.
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Dec 4, 2014 14:04
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Vishy wins the London Classic. Life in the old dog yet.
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Dec 15, 2014 06:46
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Tata Steel starts on the 10th. Masters section: Carlsen Caruana Aronian Giri So Vachier-Lagrave Wojtaszek Radjabov Ding Jobava Ivanchuk Hou Van Wely Saric Newest US GM Samuel Sevian is playing in the challengers section.
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Jan 8, 2015 09:49
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Looks like a quick draw in Giri-Magnus, but some interesting opening play from black. Also, a Modern in this game and a Pirc in another. e: The computer found a wonderful shot in Saric-Aronian  24. c6!! Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Rxd1 26.cxb7 Rd8 27.Bxb5 +- That's the proof of the line. Black is merely worse after 24...bxc6. Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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Jan 10, 2015 15:26
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Edit: Nevermind, my proposed move loses a Rook. Ha.
Aggro fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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Jan 10, 2015 17:15
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Round 3 and it took 15 moves for Jobava to be lost against Liren. Meanwhile, Wojtaszek, who was one of Anand's seconds, has an advantage against Carlsen in the opening. Caruana, with the black pieces, just sacrificed an exchange against Giri. Looks like a good round so far.
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Jan 12, 2015 14:49
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And down goes Carlsen. And So takes down Aronian.
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Jan 12, 2015 18:34
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Radek Wojtaszek, who was Anand's second during the last match against Carlsen, has now beaten both the world's #1 and #2 players. Beat Caruana today with the white pieces in a Dutch that I wouldn't be surprised ended up being the last time Caruana played the Dutch in a major tournament for a while.
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Jan 15, 2015 19:25
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For the first time since 1989 Judit Polgar is no longer the highest ranking women's chess player edit: hahaha, Kramnik has no fucks left to give (is also goddamn tall) 
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Jan 28, 2015 23:22
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Vlad did not look like he was having fun that weekend. He held a newspaper up to his face when walking around so nobody would bother him, and when he stalked into the middle of the elevator everyone else just kinda pressed themselves to the sides. The elevator was mostly full but there still managed to be a sort of halo around him.
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Jan 29, 2015 00:39
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I'd love to go to Armenia to hang out with Levon, he'd be a blast I reckon. 
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Feb 4, 2015 08:00
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A friend who has nearly the same rating as me (had going in, that is) is one game from an IM norm in Gibraltar 
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Feb 4, 2015 12:18
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Time to raise this thread from the dead to talk about how Wesley So was just forced to forfeit a game at the US Championship for taking notes (other than recording the moves) during play. He had apparently been warned twice before during the tournament, with the arbiter telling So after the second time that he would be forfeited if he did it again. And, well, he did it again. Apparently, So has a habit of writing himself words of encouragement during his games.
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Apr 11, 2015 03:34
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Sounds like there's some stuff going on behind the scenes during the championship that might've distracted So. Also I love that my local newspaper is covering chess.quote:Lotis Key and her husband, Renato Kabigting, took So, a 21-year-old Filipino, into their home last October after So decided to drop out of Webster University in suburban St. Louis, where he had a chess scholarship. He had just won the $100,000 first prize at the inaugural Millionaire Chess Open, and he wanted to pursue a chess career full time. http://www.startribune.com/local/299426421.html
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Apr 11, 2015 16:15
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Chess grandmaster accused of using iPhone to cheat during international tournament Nigalidze on the left - I would have been suspicious he was doing something else in the bathroom.
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Apr 15, 2015 04:45
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Um that's clearly an iPod Touch. So he should be found not guilty due to that technicality. Seriously though with wearable devices becoming more popular this is only going to become even more of an issue. Soon they'll need to hold tournaments in faraday cages and players will have to pass through one of those TSA machines before entering the playing hall. They'll need to provide porta potties with transparent glass walls that the players must use to go to the bathroom.
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Apr 15, 2015 04:51
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gret posted:Sounds like there's some stuff going on behind the scenes during the championship that might've distracted So. Also I love that my local newspaper is covering chess. The So stuff sounds phenomenally weird. Here's his mother and here's his facebook post. His parents are Toronto-based (at least last I knew) so I'm trying to see if anyone I know know's anything.
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Apr 16, 2015 15:03
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Just a sad situation. No wonder Paul Truong is in the center of it though.
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Apr 16, 2015 15:50
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I also just checked the live rating list and what?
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Apr 21, 2015 11:36
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Chess update: Garry Kasparov is still much better than Nigel Short. They just finished up a 10-game exhibition in St. Louis this weekend (two rapid games, eight blitz). Kasparov was already up 3.5-1.5 after Day 1, but won 5-0 on Day 2...just because he could. 
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Apr 27, 2015 06:51
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Fabiano Caruana is switching his federation back to the good old USA, giving us a top three boards for the next Olympiad of (in some order) Caruana, Nakamura, and So. Suddenly, with Robson and Shankland quickly improving, Gata Kamsky is going to struggle to even make the team. I think we might just have a shot at a medal in 2016! In all seriousness, this one isn't nearly as much an issue of "poaching" a player as that New York Times article a few weeks back made it out to be. Fabiano was born and spent most of his childhood in the United States - I even saw him at a scholastic tournament he worked at back in 2004 (at that point, we all knew he'd be good, but unlike a Nakamura/Carlsen, I don't think anyone was predicting he'd be this good). It's kind of natural for him to play for America, though I understand why he's grateful to the Italian federation as well.
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May 14, 2015 01:22
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I think it's been widely reported that Kamsky retired from international team competition when he turned 40. I think with Robson and Shakland, not to mention Sevian, and don't forget Lenderman's great performance at the World Team this year, the U.S. won't have a problem finding a great 4th board and alternate to complement the big 3.
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May 14, 2015 02:20
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Great position from an analysis line in Jakovenko-Gelfand.  White leaves his bishop hanging to both of black's knights, but neither can capture without leaving a queening square undefended. Black is near-totally frozen so white has all the time in the world to march his king to a5. If black tries to reposition the one knight via e8 he loses to 1...Ne8 2.Bc6 Kf7 3.Bxe8+ Kxe8 4.f6 and now white will walk the king to capture on g5 before queening the h-pawn.
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May 24, 2015 16:13
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What a crazy ending to that game. Jakovenko walked into a stalemate.
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May 25, 2015 00:06
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gret posted:What a crazy ending to that game. Jakovenko walked into a stalemate. Both of the last two games went from wins to draws in fairly spectacular fashion as Caruana turned an evenish bishop endgame into a winning Q+P v Q endgame, then hung a perpetual.
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May 25, 2015 00:44
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And Caruana and Nakamura both qualify for the candidates tournament. If So makes it that would be 3 Americans. When was the last time that 3 Americans made the candidates (never mind that it's a tournament now instead of proper candidates matches)?
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May 26, 2015 17:24
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gret posted:And Caruana and Nakamura both qualify for the candidates tournament. If So makes it that would be 3 Americans. When was the last time that 3 Americans made the candidates (never mind that it's a tournament now instead of proper candidates matches)? Well, it was a tournament for a long time before it became matches, too - it's a pretty even split historically at this point, I think. In any case, the last time was never. We've had two a couple times: Fischer and Benko in 1959 and 1962, you could argue Robert Byrne and Fischer (since he was champion, that's at least as good as being in the Candidates) in 1974.
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Jun 9, 2015 21:40
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http://2015.norwaychess.com/ Norway Chess 2015 opened today with a blitz event. Magnus finished 3rd, he thinks he played a bit like Quackamura.  https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/610531981458296832
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Jun 15, 2015 20:56
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And he follows up by losing on time in a match he was winning. Apparently no-one on his team knew the tournament had weird rules and he arrived slightly late and missed the arbiter repeating them.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:57
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Zwachro posted:And he follows up by losing on time in a match he was winning. Apparently no-one on his team knew the tournament had weird rules and he arrived slightly late and missed the arbiter repeating them. ahaha wow. The swindle of a lifetime for Topalov, I guess. This might be the first time the sitting champion lost a classical match on time. e: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2clwhqlmYk Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 23:03
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Magnus lost again yesterday, giving himself sole possession of last place. His game against Giri today looks really exciting so far. The computer is fond of Carlsen's position, but if playing I would be really happy with either side. Anand-Grischuk is also the rarely seen elite-level Sveshnikov game.
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Jun 18, 2015 16:25
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Topalov is about to be clear first at 3.5/4. Carlsen is dead last at 0.5/4. I don't know what the gently caress.
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Jun 19, 2015 20:29
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Carlsen lost to Jon Ludvig Hammer. The last time that happened was in 2000, when Carlsen was 9.
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Jun 25, 2015 18:58
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All hail our new champion - Quackamura!
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For the first time since he passed it, Magnus is back under Kasparov's 2856. Meanwhile, Anand is back to #2 in the world, his 2816.1 inching past Topalov's 2816.0. Nakamura is close behind at 2814. I'm going to assume this is the first time we've had four players above 2810.
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