Ben is right (as usual), both are wrong. But that's living in the 'social media age' for you...
The Fabi/Christian via Nakamura Video...tend to side more with Naka's numbers.
Which reminds me, if anyone saw Danny Rench's STATE OF CHESS broadcast yesterday, he talked a LOT about cheating. He gently eviscerated that world renowned statistician named Kramnik, for falsehoods (my word there) he is throwing around. He actually fell on the Nakamura side of that Titled Tuesday 'debate', but said even his numbers are too high. As a side note to that, I mentioned to Kramnik in his new blog, that Chess.com does indeed tell how many titled players accounts are closed each month...he said that was news to him and asked someone to show him that. This...from the guy who made a blog on chess.com SPECIFICALLY to go off on all the cheating he feels is going on and chess.com is...basically covering up. Priceless.
Anyway, wasn't in Madonna who famously said a few decades ago: 'I don't care what they say about me as long as they are talking about me' ? Something like that anyway. It's here - welcome to the future.
Ben is right (as usual), both are wrong. But that's living in the 'social media age' for you...
The Fabi/Christian via Nakamura Video...tend to side more with Naka's numbers.
Which reminds me, if anyone saw Danny Rench's STATE OF CHESS broadcast yesterday, he talked a LOT about cheating. He gently eviscerated that world renowned statistician named Kramnik, for falsehoods (my word there) he is throwing around. He actually fell on the Nakamura side of that Titled Tuesday 'debate', but said even his numbers are too high. As a side note to that, I mentioned to Kramnik in his new blog, that Chess.com does indeed tell how many titled players accounts are closed each month...he said that was news to him and asked someone to show him that. This...from the guy who made a blog on chess.com SPECIFICALLY to go off on all the cheating he feels is going on and chess.com is...basically covering up. Priceless.
Anyway, wasn't in Madonna who famously said a few decades ago: 'I don't care what they say about me as long as they are talking about me' ? Something like that anyway. It's here - welcome to the future.
You know I met Ben in my early twenties many years ago on trip I took to New Orleans, when I was living in Houston, TX. Today he lives somewhere in Roswell, GA. I think (Not Sure) he works with Kid Chess which is located in that area. I remember taking my middle son Malcom there for Chess Lessons many years ago also. Who knows, I may take my youngest son (Ian) over there for some chess lessons and a chance to meet him, since we now live in the same state.
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
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Ted Summers
Ben is right (as usual), both are wrong. But that's living in the 'social media age' for you...
The Fabi/Christian via Nakamura Video...tend to side more with Naka's numbers.
Which reminds me, if anyone saw Danny Rench's STATE OF CHESS broadcast yesterday, he talked a LOT about cheating. He gently eviscerated that world renowned statistician named Kramnik, for falsehoods (my word there) he is throwing around. He actually fell on the Nakamura side of that Titled Tuesday 'debate', but said even his numbers are too high. As a side note to that, I mentioned to Kramnik in his new blog, that Chess.com does indeed tell how many titled players accounts are closed each month...he said that was news to him and asked someone to show him that. This...from the guy who made a blog on chess.com SPECIFICALLY to go off on all the cheating he feels is going on and chess.com is...basically covering up. Priceless.
Anyway, wasn't in Madonna who famously said a few decades ago: 'I don't care what they say about me as long as they are talking about me' ? Something like that anyway. It's here - welcome to the future.
You know I met Ben in my early twenties many years ago on trip I took to New Orleans, when I was living in Houston, TX. Today he lives somewhere in Roswell, GA. I think (Not Sure) he works with Kid Chess which is located in that area. I remember taking my middle son Malcom there for Chess Lessons many years ago also. Who knows, I may take my youngest son (Ian) over there for some chess lessons and a chance to meet him, since we now live in the same state.
It's a small world indeed.
You mention New Orleans. I once dated a lady from there who lived in the Garden district....owned a....well, I'll just call it an interesting business for women which took her around the country . Anyway, I would take a quick Southwestern flight there every few weeks for about a year; but of course that did not last.
On one trip my girl (who had seen my trophies on her visits) had me stop and pay the $5 to play Jude Acers....don't recall, it was maybe a 10 or 15 min game. Of course I beat him. He immediately switched colors and said '"Lets play another one". I obliged. After a bit, it struck me that he was playing fast and I looked at the clock...and he had set it for 2 min each side!!! Never told me he had done that. I speed up and immediately blundered.
Anyway, (girl aside) that was a double fun memory - beating him (went to my car and wrote down the moves afterwards before I forgot them)...and then having him pull a fast one on me. It didn't bother me...in a strange way I felt honored that he did that.
Ben is right (as usual), both are wrong. But that's living in the 'social media age' for you...
The Fabi/Christian via Nakamura Video...tend to side more with Naka's numbers.
Which reminds me, if anyone saw Danny Rench's STATE OF CHESS broadcast yesterday, he talked a LOT about cheating. He gently eviscerated that world renowned statistician named Kramnik, for falsehoods (my word there) he is throwing around. He actually fell on the Nakamura side of that Titled Tuesday 'debate', but said even his numbers are too high. As a side note to that, I mentioned to Kramnik in his new blog, that Chess.com does indeed tell how many titled players accounts are closed each month...he said that was news to him and asked someone to show him that. This...from the guy who made a blog on chess.com SPECIFICALLY to go off on all the cheating he feels is going on and chess.com is...basically covering up. Priceless.
Anyway, wasn't in Madonna who famously said a few decades ago: 'I don't care what they say about me as long as they are talking about me' ? Something like that anyway. It's here - welcome to the future.
You know I met Ben in my early twenties many years ago on trip I took to New Orleans, when I was living in Houston, TX. Today he lives somewhere in Roswell, GA. I think (Not Sure) he works with Kid Chess which is located in that area. I remember taking my middle son Malcom there for Chess Lessons many years ago also. Who knows, I may take my youngest son (Ian) over there for some chess lessons and a chance to meet him, since we now live in the same state.
It's a small world indeed.
You mention New Orleans. I once dated a lady from there who lived in the Garden district....owned a....well, I'll just call it an interesting business for women which took her around the country . Anyway, I would take a quick Southwestern flight there every few weeks for about a year; but of course that did not last.
On one trip my girl (who had seen my trophies on her visits) had me stop and pay the $5 to play Jude Acers....don't recall, it was maybe a 10 or 15 min game. Of course I beat him. He immediately switched colors and said '"Lets play another one". I obliged. After a bit, it struck me that he was playing fast and I looked at the clock...and he had set it for 2 min each side!!! Never told me he had done that. I speed up and immediately blundered.
Anyway, (girl aside) that was a double fun memory - beating him (went to my car and wrote down the moves afterwards before I forgot them)...and then having him pull a fast one on me. It didn't bother me...in a strange way I felt honored that he did that.
And this is why I will always love my memories of 'Street Chess'. I remember Jude also! When I lived in Houston back in the Eighties, I remember reading many issues of Chess Life. In one of the issues there was an article on GM Roman Dzindzichashvili. Anyway on a trip back home to visit family in New York, I decided to go down to Washington Square Park. It was early in the morning around 9 or 10 AM. He was playing a game with someone, however I did not recognize him. When it was over he looked up at me and asked me if I wanted to play (For Money of Course) I told him no but that his face looked familiar to me. It took me a while but then I recalled reading that issue of Chess Life, and I asked him wasn't he GM Roman Dzindzichashvili and had article on him in Chess Life Magazine. If you could have seen his face, he said no, no, no. Later some other people there told me that it was him, I laughed because I realized that I had accidentally outed him in the park and that he wanted to hustle me for some loot as well.
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
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Ted Summers
AdminX wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:37 amGothamChess Drama Explained by GM Ben Finegold
Just to into perspective, he says: "I didn't watch the video but..."
He gives his opinion about a video without having watched it. Then he calls his own video "Drama explained..." and refers to the other video as "clickbaiting". And at the end he says "I explained it well now". Well, he is a little too full of himself in my opinion...
AdminX wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:37 amGothamChess Drama Explained by GM Ben Finegold
Just to into perspective, he says: "I didn't watch the video but..."
He gives his opinion about a video without having watched it. Then he calls his own video "Drama explained..." and refers to the other video as "clickbaiting". And at the end he says "I explained it well now". Well, he is a little too full of himself in my opinion...
But...is he wrong? That's the only important thing. I mean, he's clearly aware of the video and what was said so...
I mean, I haven't read The US Constitution 'word for word', but I'm pretty familiar with enough of it that I can discuss it reasonably.
AdminX wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:37 amGothamChess Drama Explained by GM Ben Finegold
Just to into perspective, he says: "I didn't watch the video but..."
He gives his opinion about a video without having watched it. Then he calls his own video "Drama explained..." and refers to the other video as "clickbaiting". And at the end he says "I explained it well now". Well, he is a little too full of himself in my opinion...
But...is he wrong? That's the only important thing. I mean, he's clearly aware of the video and what was said so...
I mean, I haven't read The US Constitution 'word for word', but I'm pretty familiar with enough of it that I can discuss it reasonably.
Ben is right (as usual), both are wrong. But that's living in the 'social media age' for you...
The Fabi/Christian via Nakamura Video...tend to side more with Naka's numbers.
Which reminds me, if anyone saw Danny Rench's STATE OF CHESS broadcast yesterday, he talked a LOT about cheating. He gently eviscerated that world renowned statistician named Kramnik, for falsehoods (my word there) he is throwing around. He actually fell on the Nakamura side of that Titled Tuesday 'debate', but said even his numbers are too high. As a side note to that, I mentioned to Kramnik in his new blog, that Chess.com does indeed tell how many titled players accounts are closed each month...he said that was news to him and asked someone to show him that. This...from the guy who made a blog on chess.com SPECIFICALLY to go off on all the cheating he feels is going on and chess.com is...basically covering up. Priceless.
Anyway, wasn't in Madonna who famously said a few decades ago: 'I don't care what they say about me as long as they are talking about me' ? Something like that anyway. It's here - welcome to the future.
You know I met Ben in my early twenties many years ago on trip I took to New Orleans, when I was living in Houston, TX. Today he lives somewhere in Roswell, GA. I think (Not Sure) he works with Kid Chess which is located in that area. I remember taking my middle son Malcom there for Chess Lessons many years ago also. Who knows, I may take my youngest son (Ian) over there for some chess lessons and a chance to meet him, since we now live in the same state.
It's a small world indeed.
You mention New Orleans. I once dated a lady from there who lived in the Garden district....owned a....well, I'll just call it an interesting business for women which took her around the country . Anyway, I would take a quick Southwestern flight there every few weeks for about a year; but of course that did not last.
On one trip my girl (who had seen my trophies on her visits) had me stop and pay the $5 to play Jude Acers....don't recall, it was maybe a 10 or 15 min game. Of course I beat him. He immediately switched colors and said '"Lets play another one". I obliged. After a bit, it struck me that he was playing fast and I looked at the clock...and he had set it for 2 min each side!!! Never told me he had done that. I speed up and immediately blundered.
Anyway, (girl aside) that was a double fun memory - beating him (went to my car and wrote down the moves afterwards before I forgot them)...and then having him pull a fast one on me. It didn't bother me...in a strange way I felt honored that he did that.
And this is why I will always love my memories of 'Street Chess'. I remember Jude also! When I lived in Houston back in the Eighties, I remember reading many issues of Chess Life. In one of the issues there was an article on GM Roman Dzindzichashvili. Anyway on a trip back home to visit family in New York, I decided to go down to Washington Square Park. It was early in the morning around 9 or 10 AM. He was playing a game with someone, however I did not recognize him. When it was over he looked up at me and asked me if I wanted to play (For Money of Course) I told him no but that his face looked familiar to me. It took me a while but then I recalled reading that issue of Chess Life, and I asked him wasn't he GM Roman Dzindzichashvili and had article on him in Chess Life Magazine. If you could have seen his face, he said no, no, no. Later some other people there told me that it was him, I laughed because I realized that I had accidentally outed him in the park and that he wanted to hustle me for some loot as well.
Collingwood wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:27 am
In the last round, Niemann lost with the White pieces against Nesterov.
Nesterov is a 2575-elo GM, ....
The way I read the crosstable, Niemann had to win to get first because of the tiebreaks. If you look at that final game, Niemann spurred a draw by repetition and 'went for it'. I would have done the same - no one gets a "World Champion" title by finishing 2nd.
No. I believe it was already impossible for Niemann to get first even with a win. His TB score would've been too bad.
The two co-leaders played each other in the final round and drew; if either had won, they would have won the tournament outright. The tournament winner (i.e. the Champion) was among the leaders the whole tournament, which meant that he had the hardest opponents (that's how pairings work when it's not all-play-all), so his TB score was always going to be good. Presumably he was perfectly happy with a draw precisely for that reason: he knew it would give him the title.
Because he lost early to the 13-year-old IM, Niemann's opponents from then on were mainly badly performing players, so his TB score was bad.
Of course, it's possible Niemann didn't know that he could not win, if players had to work out TB scenarios themselves. But the bigger point is that everyone in the chasing pack was in the same situation as him. This is a common scenario in open tournaments, and no harder on him than on countless other GMs of his level.
Carlsen did NOT called this 2589 rated player a cheater, now there are too many players rated less than GM Hans that are either drawing or beating Carlsen. SIMPLY Carlsen is NOT the same as he was 2 years ago ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_uBZkdUHdw
