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Hand Knit posted:The teams will be secret until the end of the tournament, but the absence of Jan on chess24 might also just be from them breaking out the big guns for the finals. He's an accessible commentator, but that's maybe less important when they've split the commentary teams into a beginners cast (Howell and Houska) and a serious cast (Polgar and Giri). Saw some speculation going that Carlsen using the Marshall Defense against Nepo is a hint that Marshall expert Jan is in his prep team
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It's bad news for my future tournament career that I can only focus on someone else's game for 30 minutes, with expert commentary to help, before needing a break.
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 Sf eval on this position was 0.0, which I'm not sure I understand - black seems at least a little better. Guess I'm not taking up the Catalan any time soon. rollick fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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Nov 27, 2021 16:28
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This is my first time following a WC live, and honestly I'm surprised at how thrilling a draw can be. It means that both players performed extremely well over an entire game in response to a very tough opponent -- maybe the highest quality of outcome possible.
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ha yeah, we'll see. If it's a Ruy Lopez every time Nepo has white, I can see things getting stale too.
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Doctor Malaver posted:I recommend anonymous unrated play. No rating change, no history of losses, just throwaway games. Your opponents will be completely random, which can be fun by itself. One game, someone sweeps the floor with you, another game, they disconnect after failing scholar's mate, third game, pretty equal, etc. This was really helpful, thanks. I forgot that losing could be fun.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/1548240 I think the rating of the second one might be inflated from people falling for the red herring of the rook capture and not seeing the obvious winning move
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They should be a version of those garden chess sets where each piece weighs over 20kg. edit: haha looked up the heaviest one I could find and whoa  quote:MegaChess 72 Inch Teak Giant Chess Set specifications rollick fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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NY Times profile of Daniel Naroditsky. He's starting a weekly chess column for them.
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Second place prize last time was $500,000. I don't think Nakamura makes that in a year on Twitch, unless he has great sponsorship. Seems like it would be worth the hit. I know Magnus spent a lot of money on his team last time, but could be someone like Rex Sinquefield would bankroll Naka's seconds for him?
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The leak covered August 2019 to October 2021, which I thought was peak chess boom? Here are his viewer stats for the past five years: According to Twitchtracker he had 12k subs by June 2020 compared with 3.2k subs right now. I don't know what his baseline would be outside of the Candidates, but this graph doesn't look too promising:  Also it was actually $800k for second in 2021, not $500k, sorry. So I still think it would make sense to go for it from a financial perspective. But maybe he is making >$1million p.a. with those stats, idk.
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This kind of puzzle on lichess kills me, because even after I go through the engine line, I still don't really get why I got it wrong. The first set of moves is straightforward enough: 1. ... Qxe6+ 2. dxe6 Rxf1 3. exd7 and you're up a bishop. But what's the last move? Obviously you want to prevent the d pawn from queening, but you can do that with either Rf8 or Bf6. And one of them is -3.2, and the other is +0.6, and it's not really clear to me why - at least not as clear as I'd want a puzzle at the 1400 level to be.
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It starts with Kg2 to chase the black rook off the f file, then goes Rh6. After Be7, it goes Rxd6, or with Bd8 it goes Re6, with the threat of Rd8
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There's video from that round on YouTube. No PGN or live board, but you can see in these shots the game did progress further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KatbqNKrwGk  
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This was the statement from Rensch and chess.com last week:quote:Dear Chess Community, so one unanswered question is what exactly is in that dossier of "detailed evidence" they sent him and if anyone is tempted to leak it. rollick fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Aronian said in interview yesterday that his suspicion of Hans made him more doubtful, and play worse. That also seems to be what happened with Carlsen and Firouzja in the Sinquefield Cup. So just having a reputation as a cheater is enough to give you a psychological edge at top levels.
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neaden posted:I'm really sceptical of this one since it's claiming that Hans is cheating every move, or at least a large proportion. Whenever someone talks about how they would actually cheat it would only be for one or two important moves in a game, not something they would do the whole time. Maxim Dlugy notably said a version of this after Borislav Ivanov was caught cheating: quote:If I had this gadget I would be killing people left and right, and nobody would know. This is the real danger, because if a 2600 player has this thing, he knows exactly how to behave, he knows exactly when to think, and he doesn’t to use it more than four times during a game. That’s plenty to destroy anyone. At the critical junction you switch it on and find out which way do I go: oh, this little nuance I didn’t see, okay, fine, boom, goodbye! That’s it. But when he got banned from chess.com it was after a string of clumsy Stockfish blitz games. Basically the chess version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oECsGvS9gc4
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The most divorced GM of all time
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busalover posted:Hikaru is currently reading a new Vice article on stream, apparently new stuff? Who knows. I don't know how many viewers chess got back in the Kasparov-Karpov days, but funny that it's been eclipsed by Hikaru Nakamura slowly reading magazine articles out loud for money
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 Anand back in the top ten by live rating, at the age of 52. Nobody else above the age of 40 in the top 20.
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Play Magnus is a group that owns other brands like Chess24 and Chessable, which are probably more valuable than the app. e: from Wikipedia, never knew this: quote:Users earn points by playing chess, or can purchase points for money. Points can be spent on querying the engine for move suggestions, and on the undo function (the cost of this is higher at the higher levels). With a large points balance, it used to be possible to win a chance of playing Magnus in person[10] but this is no longer mentioned by the app. I wonder if anyone ever cashed that in
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Hans snapping at his lawyers not to make him look mad in the lawsuit
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can't believe someone with "Elo" and "NM" in his name wouldn't want to get into chess. the gamer pride part of it reminds me of David Sirlin's Chess 2: The Sequel to Chess
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Are computer chess boards still a thing? My father wants to start playing chess again in his retirement, and asked me to look into finding one for him (he doesn't want to play on a screen, so online is out). The only options seem to be €500-€1000 for DGTs, which look way overkill, or random no-name brands on Amazon for €50-€100. Any recommendations? Older brands on Ebay?
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jiggerypokery posted:how do opponent moves work on those things? Yeah the computer tells you its moves either on a little LCD screen or by lighting up the origin and target squares. Then you make the move for it. The fanciest ones move automatically now, I think. When it's your turn it detects the move by weight or by a hard press. I found this buying guide which looks pretty useful. Maybe a midrange Millennium would be the way to go. https://www.chesshouse.com/pages/comparison-guide-for-electronic-chess-computers edit: actually the DGT Centaur looks like the ideal option, except for the price. I might club together with some other family members as a gift. Or start with a Millennium to gauge the actual interest, then upgrade later. rollick fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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kumba posted:there exist boards whose pieces move automatically via magnets below the board This is cool tech but the ad is so frustrating -- I just want to see the drat pieces move, and there's too much "Chess: a game with a thousand year history..." poo poo to wade through
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Rooting for Ding I guess, just because it makes a better story.
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Wondering if he'll somehow manage another visa + jetlag fuckup at the last minute
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Looking back over a game, it's amazing that the Borg defense (1. e4 g5) is somehow +2.4 on move 1. Is there a worse move on the board?
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I think it's that the rapid pool is weaker overall, because most 2000+ players don't really play rapid online. But it's still anchored to the same midpoint (1200 on chess.com, 1500 on lichess.org). So you rank relatively higher, because Elo isn't an objective measure of strength, it's relative to the other people in the pool?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9tL1XijM0 Rooting for Ding this week, but if I had to bet I think my prediction is (1) a bunch of safe draws, (2) Nepo ekes out one close win as white, then (3) a bunch more draws til Nepo wins overall.
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Those ones happen sometimes because there's another move available that also looks kind of good, like winning a rook for a knight, and enough people go for it to make the rating higher than it should be.
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Ding is just setting up a classic underdog comeback -- a great showman. Looking forward to the anime adaptation.
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I want a board that's the kind of thing you get in books and newspapers and I can't find a good one on any site
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VictualSquid posted:You can get pretty close: Yeah, that's what I've landed on and it's fine, not ideal. CubicalSucrose posted:Bishops can do whatever they want when the board is rotated 90 degrees. haha that was just the first google image result, but looking at where I got it from, it turns out part of the puzzle is to figure out the board orientation and the last move by black. rollick fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Nepo throwing away a pretty much match winning game. Must be soul destroying in the moment.
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