@lichess Carlsen has been on fire this tournament. Pragg will need to secure a clear advantage in the middle game if he wants to win. Super excited to see him in the Candidates Tournament next year though!
Forgot about the chess with one thing and another, only catching up in the second half of the penultimate game. It's definitely a tense one. Is Black’s centre a target or an asset. That will be the issue here
Looks like we have a new Australian Chess Champion. Rishi Sardana drew his game today, but his nearest competitor, Frederick Lichfield, lost which leaves an unassailable 1.5 point gap with only one game to go.
Sardana has dominated the event and is a worthy winner.
Thanks to @lichess for providing the broadcast of the event.
More general than #Chess question - when there is an activity with no known gender correlated advantage (other than disadvantage based on #sexism) what are gendered categories for?
@grantdenkinson if nobody knows then there is no issue. However if anyone knows then it fails. Nobody knows doesn't mean an actual secret, just that it is not mentioned and so it is unlikely anyone finds out.
A big upset in #QatarMasters as Alisher Suleymenov defeats Magnus #Carlsen in style!
Last time Carlsen was defeated by a player rated below 2520 was in the Norwegian Championship 2006 (2480, Berge Ostenstad).
@blueberry He's a beginner & lost his first 2 games. But he didn't just bail. After the 2 no-shows he won his final match against a higher ranked opponent so it was a fun time all around. 😊
Ok, so that's the end of Facebook for me. A real shame as I built a great community, but the algorithm is just too annoying and I'm seeing less and less posts by my friends and family.
Anyway, I'm starting a blog instead mainly to keep in contact with those people on Facebook that are special to me, and the community of friends I've built up in the world of chess. New friends are welcome too, though I intend to make this a happy space and not cross post from my blog much.
Very frequently I find myself have forgotten about why I did a particular move and what was the response I had in mind to different resulting variations 🤦♂️
That means I have to spent the time and energy to analyse the situation all over again 😕
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Ideally, my analysis should be attached to the game so that no matter the device I use, I can resume what I was working on before.
If you play 1... e5, you've run into the King's Gambit at some point. And if you're anything like me, the positions make absolutely no sense once you get about 5 moves in. So let's talk about it. What defense do you play against the King's Gambit? What are the main ideas for black? How do you survive when White is throwing...
FIDE is FIFA light, chess.com accused Niemann of cheating with no proof on the back of Carlsens accusation.
FIDE fined Carlsen 20000 euros but not for his baseless accusation, but for refusing to play and withdrawing from the event.
And now there's a scramble for the last couple of Candidates places with tournaments being created ad hoc to enable players to gain points and FIDE changing the rules to not allow these tournaments, or some of them at least.
If #Chess is so simple, how come #Musk never advanced beyond rudimentary, basic ranking? If it's so simple, how come he never made #grandmaster level? How come he never won any notable tournaments?
Only applies to full classic chess games. There's Fischer's random chess.
There's no better way to find out which one of two is better than put them face to face. Unlike real life, Musk couldn't cannibalize on others' work in chess.
Most hilarious one since, this is coming from a spoiled son of an emerald mine owner during apartheid.
Musk's chess views are not straightforward, they are narrow minded.
@slcw also, IIRC Musk only commented on chess when he had an argument with Kasparov, he doesn't give a shit about anything chess for real. Most likely he was just trolling
Share your best https://lichess.org game of June (only from June - only standard and not variant games and only one game per player - additional games will be ignored!) until June 5th by a comment of this post! The winner will be mentioned in a Lichess blog post with a commentary by a titled player of the game. Good luck! #chess#contest
@lichess I want to nominate https://lichess.org/wNOZEVrh which is a very beautiful attacking game by my bot caissa-test. The funny story is I've been generating opening books using #jja and BOT games from lichess database and in this game the opening book line ends with an evaluation of +5.71!! I am willing to provide more information on the opening book and the game if you people find it interesting. Thanks lichess! #jja#chess
Looks like a great Tasmanian fast chess championship. Congrats to young Will Rumley picking up the Rapid title to add to his share of Tas Junior Championship and Tas Open Championship this year. He's my vote for Tasmanian Chess Player of the Year.
And it was a Hobart Chess Club double, with Zach Lim taking the Tasmanian Blitz Championship with a superb 9/9.
Well done to all involved with organising and playing. I hope to be able to make it next year to see if I can test the youngsters a bit.
I have over 50 feeds from #Chess-related news sources in my RSS Reader, but maybe I've chosen some very mainstream or very conservative ones: not one mention this morning of the fact that #FIDE is implementing very transphobic regulations.
Like, anyone who's been following the chess world in the past century knows that FIDE is far from an institution to be proud of, but come on...
@MisuseCase The historic FIDE separation of mens' and womens' chess (significantly lowering the ELO rating of women GMs) was already nonsensical and insulting enough. This new step is just too much, and is crossing the red line into violence.
@acousticmirror@AnarchoNinaWrites It doesn’t even take much to explain that the only reason there’s a women’s category is because chess is full of misogynistic sex perverts and rather than fixing that all the institutions decided to create a separate women’s category rather than civilize the men.
I can sort of understand the concern about males and females not competing in physical sports as it would give an unfair advantage usually to males but I can’t see why there is even a male and female split in chess at all.
Transphobic exclusion is wrong in all sports, period, regardless of the balance of physical and cognitive demands
Be careful not to give people promoting hate our "sort-of" understanding for one part of their agenda, even just as a contrast with another: they will try to drive a wedge into the slightest gap in our solidarity.
Hey everyone, just wanted to share a small improving player's victory (well, stalemate). I was horribly behind, allowed a knight to fork my rooks (something I'm terribly prone to ugh) and generally losing ground the whole game. Rather than resign after a devastating piece loss, I decided my new goal was just "stay alive as long...
I’m not sure why men’s chess and women’s chess exist as separate categories in the first place – probably male insecurity – but it seems it’s a great opportunity for the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to be transphobic 😳
@lauravivanco@transponderings maybe... but historically every time (potentially literally) that there's a gender separation in competition it's been because some woman kicked the ass of some man, and guys got butt-hurt about it and split the competition by gender.
they say nice things like "representation" and "fairness" but the reality is generally "guys don't like being beaten by girls and guys make the rules"
@masukomi@transponderings But women were not beating the men + there is still nothing stopping people from any of the specialised groups from competing in the world championship as long as they qualify. My impression is that the Women's World Chess Championship is like affirmative action, designed to help women reach higher rankings + play professionally. See https://theconversation.com/why-theres-a-separate-world-chess-championship-for-women-129293 If that's so, excluding trans women is about not giving them visibility etc.
