For all those disappointed with the new record. Becoming GM with the greasiest beard still stands at a manageable 24 yrs, 11 months and 26 days. An unbiased committee at
@chessbrahTV
will judge any applications. Game on!
I find that poker players often don’t grasp this statement. Chess players are so bounded by our ability to calculate that 1/10th into the “true” decision tree we just go off vibes (intuition). Poker players apply game theory and probability (ranges) in these spots. 1/7
It's awesome that 2 Dutch players are finishing first this year in Wijk. But honestly horrible rules if Alireza can't play in the tiebreak in case he wins his last game. All these other points ( Sonnenborn-Berger etc) are pretty meaningless in a round-robin.
#TataSteelChess
It's been a (very) slow climb but I've finally made it onto the global top 100 live rankings! Semi-retired but still going strong 😎
#chess
#milestone
#ratings
@2700chess
Behind the scenes
@PHChess
has put together a task force to collect as many FIDE delegate votes as possible. The fate of the chess world depends on them.
and that's it kids. If there's one takeaway from today, it's that ur chess teacher does not know what he's talking about when he says you're playing too much bullet.
@Ricardo31256815
China was on very strict lockdown for an extended period, preventing him from playing. He also didn’t need to gain rating, he just needed games to get active status. Absolutely not comparable
First Saturday type tournaments is where IMs go when they’ve given up on getting their norms the normal way. The groups Abhimanyu played in are (notoriously) tailored for easy norms. All criticism about these events is fair & it would make sense to adjust rules a bit bcs... 1/2
Here is a list of the opponents of
@lachesisq
and
@ChessMishra
for their respective GM norms. Nepomniachtchi made his norms in Wijk aan Zee C (2006), European Championships (2006) and World Youth Stars (2007). Mishra made his norms in GM-norm tournaments in Budapest.
Summary of the discussion:
1. If you're defending Alireza's tournament because integrity = follow the rules&laws, we don't agree on anything in life.
2. If you think it's all fair because 6/6 is statistically unlikely. All good, I just want the other side of all your bets.
Two observations from trip home 🇳🇱
1. Amsterdam still the best/most beautiful city in Europe
2. Dutch sales tax is so high that it put my Canadian gf off from doing any shopping the entire trip 💪
playing 23xx GMs is silly.
That being said, he probably lost a lot of time that could have been used to break the record the normal way due to covid. I hope he makes some more norms in regular events this & next yr to take any doubts away. 2/2
@romain_edouard
The rules have been something along these lines for forever and nobody ever dared to do something this pathetic. I'm definitely blaming the people violating the spirit of the rules. I agree there's better picks than Fedorchuk though, not too late to change that!
FWIW, they are both great games, but poker puts you into the mindset to exploit an edge, whereas chess doesn't. This mindset translates well to trading, sports betting, etc. The learning curve to go into these areas is bigger for chess players. 7/7
@chess24com
can you please fix your UI and actually show the most relevant tournaments (i.e. Riga GP today) in the Watch dropdown? Your platform is still by far the best to watch livegames on desktop, but I can never find what I'm looking for.
The lived experience is nothing close to a game of perfect information; in practice luck is not determined by the information content in the game but by the ability of the players to process said content, and we’re nowhere close to processing it all. 6/7
Official! Finishing 2017 with the GM title and a live rating of 2501 feels amazing. It's been a long journey since I became an IM in 2013 and the support from everyone is noticed and appreciated. Beard shaving stream is on NYE - don't miss it 😎
@SunwayChessOpen
@chessbrahTV
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Script for the recaps: Fabi's game pretty straightforward. 29...f6 obvious lethal mistake, just a matter of bringing your K to h5, giving up all your Qside pawns right before time control,some queening on both sides and then win the remaining endgame up a pawn
You may calculate moves that your opponent missed entirely, Only to see them stumble into a resource that remains hidden until you are 4-5 moves into a line you calculated. "Hey you had no idea you had this move after I out-calculated you there". Yes it happens. 3/7
Make sure to add “The signal and the noise” by
@NateSilver538
to your reading list if you haven’t read it yet. One of the best books I’ve read, covering sports betting, chess, poker etc. Can confirm the chess section is 👌👌
This helps to narrow decisions down. In chess you calculate or use intuition. Calculating 1-2 moves deeper than your opponent consistently is an edge, but if there’s increasing variance in your ability to correctly evaluate the position x moves out…. things get messy. 2/7
Is Arkady Dvorkovich close to the Kremlin?
"I was before 2018, but not after that. I can call, but I don't use it. I only used it for the Chess Olympiad when it was scheduled for Moscow & the World Cup in Sochi"
Full interview with the FIDE President:
3/ Using Avalanche’s subnet technology and lightning fast transaction speed, FIDE can build on-chain products to calculate official player ratings, publish tournament data, power game explorers on-chain, and create non-fungible trophies and other digital collectibles.
@TarjeiJS
Isn't it kind of odd that the top 5 in the blitz automatically got an extra white? I expected them to get the option to choose what color they prefer considering the armageddon format.
Canadian telcos are just so awful. Rogers is down in Ontario and with it half the financial system. But hey, let’s make sure there’s no competition in the space at all.
Then, there's your short term memory for engine-assisted analysis. Sometimes you get a chance to play an opening variation where you remember everything and your opponent gets confused. The same game would've gone a different way if it had occurred 2 months later. 5/7
There is no easy way to mitigate this, sometimes you have to calculate deep & accept the diminishing ability to evaluate things correctly. No time to probability-weigh the correctness of your calculations, you're just trying to cover enough ground to make a decision. 4/7
@GMjtis
I think g6 Qg4 Kh8 was missed. Maybe he even saw the move but figured it's bad since there is Bxg6 Rg8 Qf3! (ie he missed Qg7 missed, which is -/+)
Instead, bxa4 Bxh7+ looks too scary, so he figured out he can go c3 first. The thought process makes sense to me
@romain_edouard
@21dicks
Sry but if you are low enough to play some last minute games against dgebuadze you are 1000% capable of juicing your rating all year by hosting events like this throughout the particular year you need a high ELO. This is on Firouzja and his team and nobody else
Any NLHE tourney crushers interested in swapping some chess/poker lessons? No min chess level needed, I’m a total beginner. Dms open
#WSOP
#WSOPMainEvent
@bp22
In all seriousness, let's say a low 2700 player's time is worth $200 an hour. Odds of beating it are like 0.001% in classical. Shorter time controls are significantly more hopeless. 100k + jet is way too little considering the time investment
While Firouzja is stuck kicking himself for going for the most naive, seemingly winning line with plenty of time on the clock, I might still escape from this by retweeting memes until my predictions are out of sight.
@_SeanDavid
Isn’t this entirely driven by chip shortages? You can’t get a PS5 or Xbox anywhere. Oculus isn’t a more popular device, it is just available.