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| Vishy Anand |
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3 | 2.26% |
| Magnus Carlsen |
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30 | 22.56% |
| Kirsan Ilyumzhinov |
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100 | 75.19% |
| Total: | 133 votes | ||
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Grimble posted:It's mental. How do you win 6 in 6 in a tournament like this? Not sure but apparently part of the recipe includes beating up on Topalov.
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Sep 2, 2014 23:13
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Grimble posted:It's mental. How do you win 6 in 6 in a tournament like this? First, you win one game. Then you repeat until the desired result is achieved. (If only it were that simple.)
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Sep 3, 2014 15:27
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It's looking like 7/7 now. Insane.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:34
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Svidler is awesomequote:Caruana seems to have progressed from CMG to KCMG, and is now touching the GCMG heights.
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Sep 3, 2014 23:12
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Well, this is quite the performance. Fabiano story time! When I was working for the USCF in 2004, I worked a national scholastic tournament where Caruana (then a very promising junior, but nobody knew he'd be world class) was playing. A company was also demoing the computer game Majestic Chess, sort of a "learn to play" program wrapped into an adventure game where you had to solve a lot of puzzles and beat AI opponents along the way. Some kids were trying it out and were stuck on a tricky puzzle when Caruana came up and told them the answer after a second or two. He was tiny, though, so the other kids didn't listen to him. Me and another adult were like "uh, you might want to pay attention to this guy." After he left, they finally tried his move (which was correct, of course) a couple minutes later. I wonder if any of them still play chess, and if any of them ever figured out who that little kid was! OrangeKing fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 23:31
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With a draw tomorrow, Caruana will pass Aronian's 2835.5 for the third spot on the all-time best recorded rating list. e: 
Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 4, 2014 00:00
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He won again?! Holy poo poo.
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Sep 4, 2014 00:05
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Caruana was way better in today's game, too, but went wrong and will have to settle for a draw. The dream is dead! In other news, ChessBomb.com would be a great place for watching games if not for the chat. An analysis of the contents of the chat rooms there: 42%: People declaring moves as blunders based on computer evals 27%: People declaring a winner (or a draw) in lively positions based on computer evals 16%: People declaring that their favorite player will win (includes spamming 1-0 or 0-1) 15%: People declaring that their least-favorite player is a terrible patzer that they could beat
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Sep 4, 2014 23:25
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OrangeKing posted:Caruana was way better in today's game, too, but went wrong and will have to settle for a draw. The dream is dead! Sounds just like the ICC.
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Sep 4, 2014 23:37
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OrangeKing posted:Caruana was way better in today's game, too, but went wrong and will have to settle for a draw. The dream is dead! 0-0 is a bit of a turdy move, but it's hard to resist the 'safer' route when a draw clinches clear first. Also I want to go over Nakamura-Topalov closely. Getting thrashed by Topalov in a Berlin has to hurt the ego.
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Sep 5, 2014 00:29
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OrangeKing posted:Caruana was way better in today's game, too, but went wrong and will have to settle for a draw. The dream is dead! Sounds like online chat on every streaming service on the internet once the number viewers passes, like, 100.
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Sep 5, 2014 15:28
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Oh hey, millionaire chess is still a thing - in Playboy! "Although only about eight percent of the projected 1,500 competitors had entered by Mid-July" Um...
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Sep 23, 2014 06:01
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V for Vegas posted:Oh hey, millionaire chess is still a thing - in Playboy! They are doing quite a bit better than that now, and are up over 500 players. Even that surprises me considering that: * The $1,000 entry was only available until the end of July. It is now $1,500, and will be $2,000 on site. And to that your travel and accommodation expenses, and... * Even if you entered at the $1,000 level, only six players will make a profit in most sections. The Open section is a bit better about this, but there are a lot of $1,000 and $600 prizes that basically serve as partial refunds in every section. But as we talked about a while back, there's something to be said for doing this as a one-time chess vacation where you're also spending time in Vegas.
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Sep 23, 2014 19:23
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So while we all were recovering in the aftermath of Caruana's +7 in St Louis, Vishy Anand went ahead and won the slightly smaller Bilbao Masters with a +2, edging the very busy Lev Aronian by having more wins. While it's cool that he won a tournament, outside of his first win he didn't really seem to be playing particularly impressive chess, and certainly not a style that would get him by Carlsen.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:28
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Another tournament, more of the same. e: Holy crap, that's a beating. Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 17:45
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Has anyone been following the Baku Grand Prix? Caruana and Gelfand are back in the lead after round 10, both having had lost their games in round 9. Caruana's 9th round loss was a pretty interesting match. Grischuk went off book on move 4 and caused Caruana to spend 39 minutes over his fifth move. Baba Ganoush fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 14, 2014 01:25
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Live stream of the finale rapids match of the Millionaire's open between Wesley So and Ray Robson: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/10390538/events/3467799 Robson got an absolute gift from Yu Yangyi to advance to the finale.
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Oct 14, 2014 01:38
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Round three of the Tashkent GP goes today and I feel like Caruana at the very least needs a break. He started falling off hard at the end of Baku, and his first two rounds here have been really disappointing. Also, I am thinking of rebooting the thread for the world championship match, which begins 2 weeks from tomorrow.
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Oct 23, 2014 09:49
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Hand Knit posted:Round three of the Tashkent GP goes today and I feel like Caruana at the very least needs a break. He started falling off hard at the end of Baku, and his first two rounds here have been really disappointing. Sounds like a good idea. I had forgotten that it was only two weeks out now - time flies.
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Oct 24, 2014 07:51
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Yeah I say do it. I had also forgotten how soon it was, might be others out there in the same boat!
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Oct 24, 2014 10:46
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How is that new thread coming? There's already a crazy amount of coverage in the norwegian media before it's even started. I can't wait to watch this guy talk about chess for 10 hours every day, it was great last year. 
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I'm going to get it posted tonight, after work. Until then, please use this thread to talk about the Petrosian Memorial, inexplicably running against the Carlsen-Anand match.
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Nov 6, 2014 13:58
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Hand Knit posted:I'm going to get it posted tonight, after work. Until then, please use this thread to talk about the Petrosian Memorial, inexplicably running against the Carlsen-Anand match. Grischuk is looking quite likely to officially pass 2800 (and is already well over on the unofficial live list).
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