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Huxley posted:I was about to come say the same thing. She's so blunt about things. of course he cares. you dont make the candidates without caring about results along the way
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Apr 6, 2024 10:54
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I'm retired from chess you guys *plays 12 hours of bullet on stream*
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Apr 6, 2024 16:25
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I was looking for a gif of Hikaru's face from yesterday but found this instead. Now you have to see it too. 
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Apr 6, 2024 17:31
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fart simpson posted:of course he cares. you dont make the candidates without caring about results along the way The whole point of the "Literally don't care" thing is that when his primary source of income was chess, pressure to perform was much much higher. Big difference between "If I flub this event, things are still great" versus "If I flub this event, my income is going to be low this year and maybe I'll not get invited to prestigious events, and..." It was never about not wanting to win. It's about how little money there is in chess, and how much easier it is to control your nerves when it's just a board game and not your income source.
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Sub Rosa posted:The whole point of the "Literally don't care" thing is that when his primary source of income was chess, pressure to perform was much much higher. i must have missed that when he was dropping this line after a run-of-the-mill online blitz match
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Apr 6, 2024 20:14
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I think Sub Rosa is talking about this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4rllkmoYM It comes across in a dickish way when he says it because he's Hikaru, but his point seems to be that he's successful (chess and income-wise) enough in other ways that the stakes of the WC don't feel as high to him. That said, I agree with Huxley that he's also at least partially trying to play a psychological trick on himself. Dude obviously cares about winning, because again, he's Hikaru.
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Apr 6, 2024 20:23
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Can't stand that guy. Mind-boggling that he has fans.
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Apr 7, 2024 22:47
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Nice game from Ian today. Link goes to the end position because I am not smart enough to figure out how to link the opening. https://www.chess.com/events/2024-fide-candidates-chess-tournament/04/Nepomniachtchi_Ian-Vidit_Santosh_Gujrathi
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I thought today was a rest day so I missed it, but what on earth was Vidit's idea with 26...Rb3? Did any commentators have any speculation? It looks hideous to my patzer eyes but the engine seems to think so as well.
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khazar sansculotte posted:I thought today was a rest day so I missed it, but what on earth was Vidit's idea with 26...Rb3? Did any commentators have any speculation? It looks hideous to my patzer eyes but the engine seems to think so as well. Computer says c4 is the only move and I guess that is hard to find. Plus he's down to 22 minutes at move 26. Apparently any move but c4 was ~ +0.6 I would have played Rd8 but it's not any better lmao
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Apr 8, 2024 01:52
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I would never have found 26...c4 either, but I guess we could just push the same question back a couple of moves. Why 24...Ra5 instead of 24...Rad8 (which, in addition to being preferred by the engine, is way more natural IMO and almost certainly what I would have played)? Clearly he was seeing something in shoving his rook into that crevice, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it was.
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Magnus: "This year is Hikaru's best chance to win candidates" Hikaru: 1.5/4
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Apr 8, 2024 09:04
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pragg is in his loving prep BAG today. asking some *tough* questions, at 1:52 left on clock while nepo is under an hour. engines saying he has only a tiny advantage but it feels like Ian is going to need to continue to find only moves for a long time to draw
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Apr 9, 2024 20:55
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That broke my heart a little, but Ian is really impressive. Him and Fabi tomorrow will be a cool battle. Pragg and Gukesh, though. So crazy good.
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Apr 10, 2024 01:49
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That has to be psychologically intimidating af, your opponent just busting out moves in seconds while you're almost an hour down on the clock and spending minutes calculating before your every move. Huge props to Ian to not just whither away under that pressure.
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Apr 10, 2024 06:35
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the mystery of ian being unbreakable in candidates and then going to pieces in the championship
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Apr 10, 2024 10:07
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Oh my god Gukesh v Alireza
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Apr 11, 2024 23:47
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That alireza checkmate during the time scramble was bruuutal. Poor Gukesh
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Fuckin wild. Alireza makes time control with the mate, Gukesh had to hold for just one more move that was absolutely insane. I’ve never actually seen mate on the board at this level but you know the only reason is because Gukesh literally had two seconds on his clock.
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butros posted:Oh my god Gukesh v Alireza
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Apr 12, 2024 00:21
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This is what everyone was briefly worried was going to happen to Vidit yesterday lol.
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Incredibly brutal finish omg. Hope this brings alireza back from the brink of tilting the whole tournament.
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Because I had a slow work day and we're at the turn, here's opening stuff, men's and women's together. Record is 12-36-8. 1. e4 is 7-25-4, 1. d4 is 5-10-4. The Spanish is 2-7-3 while the London/Jobava/Colle is undrawn and unbeaten. I did all this by hand and counted it just now in my head so there's a non-zero chance I boofed something. ALSO a USEFUL thing I learned today playing Daily on Chessdotcom. On your phone you can enter a conditional move order but it doesn't activate until you save it. On desktop, if you are poking moves in, they're 100% live from the minute you make them. So if you are fiddling around with something and your opponent moves, it'll just fire off whatever you happen to have in the queue. There's no safety button like on mobile. I had this position:  White to move with Bf1 essentially forced. So I have conditional pulled up fiddling around, and put in a5 after Bf1 to get the Bishop to a6. I look at it again and go, "oh no that's dumb it just hangs the game to Rxa5, duh." So I went back to delete the line, which I hadn't saved yet, except saving lines apparently isn't a thing on desktop. Opp played Bf1 just as I went to kill it and it played a5. I put in a ticket requesting a Confirm button on the Conditional page, hopefully we get one eventually. But in the meantime, if you're a Daily player be careful trying out lines in the Conditional page.
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you can play conditional lines on daily games??? this would save me so much time playing against non-euro peeps
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jesus WEP posted:you can play conditional lines on daily games??? this would save me so much time playing against non-euro peeps yeah, but like the op said its easy to mess up; the daily équivalent of a mouse slip. I use it when the opponent isn't resigning despite obvious ladder mate or similar, but its bit me too many times when using it in less obvious positions. Also in totally my fault ways where I didn't visualize properly how the position changed but probably would have seen it if I'd played out each move.
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Conditional moves can also be good for swindling. When you see conditional moves being played it makes you feel like you should also be playing fast. Example: I swindled a draw from the lost position below by playing 1...Kh7 and inputting 2.Qh5+ Kg8 3.Qe8+ Kh7 4.Qh5+ Kg8 5.Qe8+ as a conditional line. I'm positive my opponent would have found f4 eventually if they'd taken time to think. 
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from 5m blitz... stockfish found a winning tactic in this position. can you? white to move! it's not Re1, which is what i played code:
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Helianthus Annuus posted:from 5m blitz... stockfish found a winning tactic in this position. can you? white to move! Is it something like: Nxd5 exd, e6 attacking the bishop and rook?... black plays Rg7, exd7 Bxd7 and then...king is exposed but can get covered up. So that doesn't feel super great I guess. Re1+ Be7 and it seems even?
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CubicalSucrose posted:Is it something like: that first move is right, but black has other responses, and in the line you went down, white has other continuations. your line isnt the computer one, so white could be even more winning. but even here, blacks king is on an open file, and he will never be able to castle after white plays Bf6. then Re1 is coming, and black is in big trouble. EDIT: black can castle, but has to sacrifice a bishop to do so. Helianthus Annuus fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Spokes posted:the road to World Champion Gukesh starts today, get your tickets for the D Train while they're cheap CHOOOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Apr 14, 2024 01:05
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Judit Polgar owns, she should do commentary on every chess tournament
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multistability posted:Judit Polgar owns, she should do commentary on every chess tournament Did you just see her in the spot where black was threatening a King/Rook fork on f2 and Hess was like, "All your moves preventing Nf2 are tough to swallow, let's just turn on the computer and see what it thinks ... oh WOW that is such an insane, inhuman thing to play!" And Judit was like, "oh it's obviously f4 letting them have the fork [next six moves in the line that ends up with white just fine]." And both the other commentators were jaws on the floor at her. Like, she showed the extent to which she's "discussing different options" just for the sake of putting on a good show.
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Huxley posted:Did you just see her in the spot where black was threatening a King/Rook fork on f2 and Hess was like, "All your moves preventing Nf2 are tough to swallow, let's just turn on the computer and see what it thinks ... oh WOW that is such an insane, inhuman thing to play!" That's what inspired me to make that post lmao. What a legend
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Apr 14, 2024 21:33
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If you get a link to that moment I'd love to see it
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silvergoose posted:If you get a link to that moment I'd love to see it https://m.twitch.tv/clip/PiliablePiliableWombatTheThing-WHmA30KNJJIAVUnH
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owns, thanks
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I can hear myself saying "holy poo poo I just won the exchange against Judit Polgar".
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I have a feeling we're watching Alireza's supervillain arc kicking off
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More like his dad, yeah? What a nuts interview.
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