EXTREMELY low interest in human chess in talkchess.com

[gerold]

To many draws in these games. They are afraid to make a wrong move because they are to dump to see far ahead. I watch all the games later when i have time. I do enjoy the games they play serious for a win.

Best,
Gerold.

[Harvey Williamson]

The live commentary was utterly necessary for me to even understand (a bit) what's going on.

I am heading to London to run the VIP commentary room at The London Chess Classic soon. I get to combine Hiarcs with GMs Hodgson, Speelman, Nunn, Short, King etc...

One thing to me is clear that when watching/listening to these commentators you learn a lot more when you switch your engine off and just listen to these guys. Sure they can not beat the current engines but they can all beat you. They can teach you in a few hours what you will never learn from your engines.

[gerold]

To many draws in these games. They are afraid to make a wrong move because they are to dump to see far ahead. I watch all the games later when i have time. I do enjoy the games they play serious for a win.

Best,
Gerold.

More of the same in game 12, quick safe game. What a bummer these games have been. Not world class chess to me.

[AdminX]

The live commentary was utterly necessary for me to even understand (a bit) what's going on.

I am heading to London to run the VIP commentary room at The London Chess Classic soon. I get to combine Hiarcs with GMs Hodgson, Speelman, Nunn, Short, King etc...

One thing to me is clear that when watching/listening to these commentators you learn a lot more when you switch your engine off and just listen to these guys. Sure they can not beat the current engines but they can all beat you. They can teach you in a few hours what you will never learn from your engines.

[Ras]

One thing to me is clear that when watching/listening to these commentators you learn a lot more when you switch your engine off and just listen to these guys.

Right - even if they suggest the same moves as the engines, but the engines won't tell you why.

[Henk]

World Championship Draughts starts at 3 december

[Ponti]

You mean Carlsen x Defenceman ? I´m really not as interested as I was in Karpov - Korchnoi. That was really fun !

I think Carlsen - Caruana would be a much more interesting match.

[Sean Evans]

Everyone now has a better-than-world-champion inside their computer. Nobody is willing to put-up with fallible, petulant super-GMs anymore just to see top-level chess. They can do that looking at tournaments run in some guy's basement.

Well said

I notice that people are still interested in watching humans run the 100 metres at the Olympics and watching dragstrip cars race at much faster speeds than humans could ever run.

Do you not think there can be room for both human chess and bot chess?

Cordially,

Sean

[Luis Babboni]

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Wrong! People still watch humans run the 100-metres at the Olympics when they know a motorized vehicle can win.
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[MikeB]

Would be great for stuttering people if Kajarkin wins. Seen Kajarkin stuttering during these press conferences.

Other well known people who stutter:

former basketball player and basketball annoucner Bill Waltom
singer Carly Simon
former US Vice President Joe Biden
actor Bruce Willis
actress Julia Roberts
singer Marc Anthony
golfer Tiger Woods
song writer Gerry Coffin ( former husband of Carole King)
actor James Earl Jones
actress Nicole Kidman
opera singer Robert Merrill
actress Marilyn Monroe
singer Elvis Presley
actor Charlie Sheen
actor Jimmy Stewart
former baseball player Johnny Damon
former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
multi-sport All Star Bo Jackson
and many many others - it's ok to stutter and there is no shame in stuttering