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I feel bad for Anish Giri. I didn’t watch a lot of the later games, but it kind of felt like he had a hard time watching Nepo perform so badly. I’m sure he’s thinking about how he would have played in the challenger’s seat instead.
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I’m a big fan of Ben Finegold, personally. He’s a chess educator and used to teaching kids, so his lectures are both interesting and easy to watch. I know some folks don’t enjoy his persona, though. I’m not sure watching him has really improved my game much, but honestly I don’t think you can expect much improvement from videos, and there are a few things I’ve picked up.
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I enjoyed Queen of Katwe. I would not call it a great movie; it's definitely a Disney sports movie and it doesn't really succeed at making chess cinematic. But the depiction of life in a Ugandan slum was interesting and enjoyable.
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I’ve seen some people theorizing that maybe Carlsen thinks Hans stole his prep. This doesn’t really make sense to me (and as far as I know nobody beyond random Redditors is suggesting it), but it got me wondering; why would that be unethical, anyway? It seems to me that if players don’t want their prep stolen, they can always just do it themselves.
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Sep 6, 2022 18:40
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The thing is, this isn’t really a case of “Should Niemann continue to be allowed to attend over-the-board tournaments, or was Carlsen wrong and should apologize?” The two are basically separate questions. Magnus could have easily raised the big question about cheating in chess without ruining the Sinquefield Cup, but he chose to put his own anger and embarrassment over the interest of the other competitors in having the round-robin event occur as planned. Carlsen has the right to refuse to attend tournaments where known online cheaters are playing if he wants; as with his decision not to contest the World Champion title, the “George R. R. Martin is not your bitch” rule applies. But that doesn’t make his recent behavior appropriate.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:10
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Sub Rosa posted:Okay, so tell us what other, legally clear, east way he could have raised the question of cheating. It’s difficult to say the best way Carlsen could have gone about this, but it’s not at all difficult to come up with a better way. If nothing else, he could have withdrawn from the Sinquefield Cup before it started, allowing the organizers to find a replacement player. Similarly, he could have withdrawn from the tournament going on right now. e: I suspect Carlsen could just say he refuses to play in events where Niemann is playing in the future, but I don’t know for sure if that’s allowed under FIDE rules. I can’t find anything banning it. And, well, what he did in the Sinquefield Cup isn’t allowed either. nrook fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sep 22, 2022 19:43
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Ben Finegold also plays bridge, a superior game to the topic of this thread, so he is always right
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Sep 26, 2022 23:18
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I feel all this focus on cheating has distracted the chess community from the real enemies in their midst: people who play 1. d4.
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Sep 28, 2022 15:14
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Chess.com may be a malign actor, a parasite, and the enemy of free chess, but they're still more trustworthy than Niemann or most of the other people accused of cheating.
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Oct 1, 2022 01:34
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You can just disable takebacks in your settings on lichess, if you’d like to escape the weird ethical dilemma of deciding whether to allow them.
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Oct 3, 2022 20:50
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The only big surprise is how stupid Hans was about cheating. Running the engine on the same computer? Really?
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Oct 4, 2022 21:02
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Honestly, the main reason I’m skeptical of Niemann cheating in OTB games is that this would require he have a friend to help him out
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Oct 5, 2022 07:14
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Chess.com definitely acted like douchebags, but it’s not illegal to act like a douchebag. If it was, Hans would have been in real trouble before this whole kerfuffle!
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Oct 21, 2022 23:20
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Hand Knit posted:Here's a position from my game last night. When I was playing I thought that I'd hosed up and was maybe lost, but on review it looks like I actually played it pretty accurately and was ahead the whole time. Even the move I thought was terrible was apparently the only way to play for an advantage. So that's cool. I'm not succeeding at calculating it all the way, but I think that f4 seems good? I would play f4, then follow it up with Rde3 and Re7, like: 1. f4 h5 2. Rde3 Kh7 3. Re7 Rxh8 4. Rxf7 Rxf7 If Black plays 1... Rxf4 that sacrifices a rook, and since I still have the threat of checkmate I think there's no attack; the Queen can't go anywhere unless it's check.
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Hand Knit posted:You've got the idea that I was thinking of: I really want to double the rooks so I can play Re7, which wins. Of course, black gets a say in the matter too: 25.f4 can be met with Bg4, attacking the rook on e2 which stops you from playing Rde3. There's no sacrifice on f4 for black, but there are ideas of cracking open the f-file by playing g5 at some point. I figured I could just move the attacked rook down to the first rank if Bg4 was played. I thought about the d file too, but I was worried about a discovered attack from the bishop if I put a rook on d7.
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Jan 11, 2023 21:32
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Hand Knit posted:I played around with this a bit. It looks like black has the idea of h5 and Qh7, forcing white's bishop to retreat. White maintains a positional advantage but you still have to be careful on defence against both g5 and h4 ideas. Ah, yes, Qh7 is a move I didn’t see.
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Better than me! I saw Bxf6 Nxf6, and figured the trick of the position was to figure out a way to play Bxh7 without Nxh7 following, so I did… [Variant "From Position"] [FEN "r1b2rk1/ppqnbppp/2p1pn2/3p2B1/2PP4/2NBPN2/PPQ2PPP/R3K2R w KQq - 0 1"] 1. Ne5 Nxe5 2. dxe5 Qxe5 3. Bxf6 Bxf6 4. Bxh7+ And that's all well and good, this is a reasonable continuation, I didn't misread the board. But the problem is my goal was totally wrong— this position isn't actually good for White. I knew there would be no immediate attack, but I figured it was a persistent weakness. But the computer seems to figure there's not actually a weakness there, so White just brilliantly traded a center pawn for a rook pawn for no reason. Whoops.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i need a toggle between sober and drunk competitive play so i can calculate exactly how much elo i lose slamming the play button a few drinks in having a drunk alt is a strategy endorsed by the strongest player alive
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Salt Fish posted:Spent 20 minutes trying to solve a puzzle on the lichess app only to realize it was an analysis board showing a random position. this is one of my two chess related hobbies. the other is trying to solve endgame puzzles without labeled coordinates and getting the direction the pawns move in wrong
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