Chess
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Follow-up to the news story I posted earlier:
Stavanger, Norway Withdraws 2020 World Champs Bid After Carlsen Pressure
Stavanger, Norway Withdraws 2020 World Champs Bid After Carlsen Pressure
Stavanger, Norway is officially out of the bidding process for the 2020 world chess championship, organizers announced.
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A bonus for winning. Yea. Doesn't have to be a 'score' bonus that effects your standing. Maybe a cash prize per win. Or a blowjob from Alexandra Botez.
https://i.imgur.com/NhrOPco.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NhrOPco.jpg
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You'd think grandmasters would play on better boards. I suppose those are for the novice.
In other news
https://www.newser.com/story/277771/che ... -mind.htmlChess Grandmaster Busted Cheating in the Bathroom
Igors Rausis says he 'lost my mind'
(Newser) – One could be forgiven for never having heard of Igors Rausis—probably until the 58-year-old chess grandmaster got himself busted cheating in a tournament with his smartphone in a toilet stall. As the Guardian reports, the International Chess Federation says it caught the Latvian-Czech player "red-handed using his phone during a game" on Friday, and has since suspended him. The ICF says that Rausis was long suspected to be a cheat—his ranking has miraculously shot up in recent years—and that the bust is "merely the first shot" in its fight against cheating.
I'm expecting agadmator to comment on it.
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I've been watching this Fischer random chess thing on agadmator's channel.
I think I might even like this more than regular chess.
It's Carlson vs Caruana. Wesley So and Ian Nepo are also involved. Top rate players all around.
I actually found the move at 8:20. Kinda surprised myself. I usually pause the video and try to find a good move when he promps it, but I'm pretty hit-or-miss at that. But I found this one.
I think I might even like this more than regular chess.
It's Carlson vs Caruana. Wesley So and Ian Nepo are also involved. Top rate players all around.
I actually found the move at 8:20. Kinda surprised myself. I usually pause the video and try to find a good move when he promps it, but I'm pretty hit-or-miss at that. But I found this one.
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Want to take a minute to remember Shelby Lyman. I watched this guy for the whole match. He would get excited "Oh Boy, what a move!!!" etc etc.
I was sad to see that he died recently. Actually my bro and I did. God, must have played 100 games during that match. I lost all of them as I recall.
https://images.dailykos.com/images/7095 ... 1566358667
I was sad to see that he died recently. Actually my bro and I did. God, must have played 100 games during that match. I lost all of them as I recall.
https://images.dailykos.com/images/7095 ... 1566358667
RIP Shelby.Shelbourne Richard Lyman (October 22, 1936 – August 11, 2019) was an American chess player and teacher known for hosting a live broadcast of the 1972 World Chess Championship for the PBS television station Channel 13 in Albany, New York, New York. This broadcast became the highest-rated public television program ever at that time, far surpassing viewership expectations. He was also taught sociology at the City College of New York for three and a half years.[1] Shortly after the 1972 World Championship ended, he began writing a syndicated column about chess for Newsday; at its peak, this column was published in 82 newspapers around the world.[2] He later hosted a two-hour broadcast covering the World Chess Championship 1986. This segment was recorded at WNYE-TV in Brooklyn and aired on 120 public television stations.[3]
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Hikaru Nakamura is a Youtuber now and he's pretty good at it too.
He's also on Twitch, but that's for the kids.
One of the best, maybe even the best at rapid formats like blitz. That's 3 minute time limit. It's chess at lightning speed, but he is able to explain what he's doing. I can't follow his explanation because my brain doesn't work at that speed, but it's still interesting to watch.
He's also on Twitch, but that's for the kids.
One of the best, maybe even the best at rapid formats like blitz. That's 3 minute time limit. It's chess at lightning speed, but he is able to explain what he's doing. I can't follow his explanation because my brain doesn't work at that speed, but it's still interesting to watch.
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That was fucking impressive. I suppose Sergey figured it would be an easy win and played a well known opening fools-gambit only to gave it shoved up his ass.
On the other hand, the Cosmonauts have easy access to a few million petaflops of processing power back at Roscosmos on which to run an instance AlphaZero ... if they so chose ... not saying they would ...
On the other hand, the Cosmonauts have easy access to a few million petaflops of processing power back at Roscosmos on which to run an instance AlphaZero ... if they so chose ... not saying they would ...