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Harry Potter on Ice
Nov 4, 2006


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Love Yasser, hate chessbrahs, go magnus!

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Harry Potter on Ice
Nov 4, 2006


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so much for magnus winning it easily

Harry Potter on Ice
Nov 4, 2006


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Hand Knit posted:

Grischuk: "You know, on a weak engine this is the first line."
Giri: "Hey, you got a weak engine."
Svidler: "This is the highest complement I've been paid in a while."

Lol

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Nov 4, 2006


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Democratic Pirate posted:

From my perspective of knowing next to nothing about competitive chess, it seems frustrating that you aren’t forced to play out the board.

Do draws also bother you in chess? Have you heard of endgame tablebases?

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Nov 4, 2006


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vyelkin posted:

In case anyone's curious just how good Carlsen is at fast time controls, here's a video of him playing 30-second games in a 1-minute bullet tournament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTEj4moaay0

I hope he talks like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY27lgnPKWI

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Teddybear posted:

God, that three weeks of chess could be decided by one missed move...

The only way it could end at this point

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