Dear rgcm:s,
I thought you might enjoy this:
++++
The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid Championship
and has also chosen to withdraw from the World Blitz saying
‘it became a matter of principle’ Leonard Barden Sat 28 Dec
2024 00.57 CET First published on Fri 27 Dec 2024 09.00 CET
159
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from the
World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code
violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous
warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which
starts on 30 December.
Fide explained their decision in a statement while Carlsen
said: “I said I’ll change tomorrow … but they said you have to
change now it became a matter of principle for me so here we
are! Honestly I’m too old at this point to care too much. If
this is what they want to do I’ll probably set off to
somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer.”
At the time of his default, Carlsen had scored 5/8 and was a
point and a half behind the leaders, with little chance of
retaining his title.
After eight of the 13 rounds, Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland),
Arjun Erigaisi (India) and Alexander Grischuk (Russia) led on
6.5/8. Nine players on 6/8 include Russia’s 18-year-old
Volodar Murzin, who beat the No 2 seed and US champion,
Fabiano Caruana, and the world No 3 and speed specialist,
Hikaru Nakamura. Chess 3952 3952: Albert Sandrin v Pal Eros,
Pula 1972. White to move and win.
The early rounds of the 11-round Women’s World Rapid were a
triumph for the rising US star Alice Lee, 15, who won all her
four games and was the sole leader. However Lee, who burst
into prominence last year, lost to the top seed and reigning
world women’s champion, China’s Ju Wenjun, in a crucial
fifth-round pairing.
After six of the 11 rounds Ju had 5.5/6, half a point ahead of
Alexandra Kosteniuk (Switzerland) and Kateryna Lagno (Russia),
with Lee in the chasing group on 4.5/6.
The field of 182 for the World Rapid/Blitz includes 30
Americans while China has the top three seeds in the Women’s
World Rapid/Blitz, which has 113 entries. The total prize fund
is $1m for the open Rapid and Blitz, with $428,500 for the two
women’s events.
This is the first time that the popular speed world
championships have been staged on American soil, let alone at
the centre of international finance. Rapid is defined as 15
minutes per player per game, plus an increment of 10 seconds a
move from move one, while Blitz is three minutes per player
per game, plus a two seconds per move increment.
Carlsen has already won five world rapids and seven world
blitzes in his illustrious career, and captured both titles in
2022 and 2023. The list of his lifetime victories is
impressively long, and underlines the task ahead for the new
classical world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, as the Indian
18-year-old, who is not competing in New York, aims to match
the Norwegian’s achievements.
Carlsen’s chess curriculum vitae lists 64 major titles, all
but nine of them over the board. Gukesh so far has just six –
one world championship, one Candidates, three Olympiad golds,
and one Fide Circuit, albeit with a 16-year age advantage.
Rapid is now Carlsen’s favourite format, and he scored again
in last week’s Champions Tour, where most events were held
online while the eight-player final pool was staged across the
board in Oslo.
It ended up with a final between Carlsen and his old rival Ian Nepomniachtchi, who he defeated in their 2021 world title
match, where their 136-move sixth game was the longest in
world championship history. This time there was a much faster
outcome, as Carlsen won 4-1 including a 23-move crush in the
final game.
Carlsen is always alert to new developments, and his 7 a3
repeated Gukesh’s novelty against Ding Liren from game 13 of
the Fide world title match in Singapore, a drawn encounter
where the teenager overlooked a win.
Nepomniachtchi varied from Ding by early castling, but he
missed the power of the rook lift 17 Rh3! This is an ancient
and strong strategy against the French, which I recall the
shock of experiencing as Black at London 1948 against Oliver
Penrose. Here, White’s attack on the king quickly proved the
irrelevance of the Russian queen excursion on the opposite
flank, and Carlsen’s final 23 Qg6! created the unanswerable
threat of Ng5 and Qh7 mate. Gukesh Dommaraju poses with the
trophy during a ceremonial parade in Chennai after his win in
the world chess championship Chess: Gukesh and India celebrate
after win but new challenges are emerging Read more
The World Rapid started on Thursday, and continues at 7pm GMT
on Friday and Saturday. You can watch free, with grandmaster
and computer commentary and assessments, on lichess.org and
other major chess sites.
In between the three-day, 13-round Rapid on 26-28 December and
the two-day Blitz on 30-31 December, Fide has organised the
Wall Street Gambit, a conference to explore the fusion between
chess and finance.
Its highlight will be a keynote address by the renowned
economist and GM Kenneth Rogoff, who will speak on chess, AI,
and economics. Caruana and India’s former world champion Vishy
Anand will be present. Standard tickets cost $1,000, while VIP
tickets at $5,000, which include a blitz game and selfies with
Caruana, are already sold out.
No UK players have travelled to the World Rapid/Blitz due to
the high cost and the low chances of a prize. For England’s
experts, the annual 10,000 Caplin Hastings Masters from 28
December to 5 January is the event of the moment. More than
100 entries range from at least seven 2500+ grandmasters to a
long tail where over half the field are rated below 2000.
England’s youngest ever GM, 15-year-old Shreyas Royal, is the
top home seed, while a likely candidate for an international
title is 21-year-old FM Alex Golding, who already has two IM
norms and a 2400+ rating and has just won the traditional
Richmond pre-Christmas blitz at Orleans Park School from an
entry of over 100.
3952: 1 Nh6+ Kf8 2 Nf5! (threat 3 Rh8 mate) g6 3 Qh6+ Kg8 4
Qh7+ Kf8 5 Qh8+! Bxh8 6 Rxh8 mate. Black can sacrifice his
bishops and queen at g2 and f2, but this only delays mate.
++++
Personally I think this is just a symptom of his motivation
issues. If winning is your 100% all consuming goal, a trifle
such as changing pants, will not stop you. If you feel you
have nothing to prove, are not interested, or are looking for
an excuse to get out since you feel that perhaps you're not as
hungry as the competition, yet, while having a legacy to
protect, these are just the kind of things I would expect.
"At the time of his default, Carlsen had scored 5/8 and was a
point and a half behind the leaders, with little chance of
retaining his title."
This confirms it to me.
D wrote:
Dear rgcm:s,
I thought you might enjoy this:
++++
The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid Championship
and has also chosen to withdraw from the World Blitz saying
‘it became a matter of principle’ Leonard Barden Sat 28 Dec
2024 00.57 CET First published on Fri 27 Dec 2024 09.00 CET
159
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from the
World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code
violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous
warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which
starts on 30 December.
Fide explained their decision in a statement while Carlsen
said: “I said I’ll change tomorrow … but they said you have to
change now it became a matter of principle for me so here we
are! Honestly I’m too old at this point to care too much. If
this is what they want to do I’ll probably set off to
somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer.”
At the time of his default, Carlsen had scored 5/8 and was a
point and a half behind the leaders, with little chance of
retaining his title.
After eight of the 13 rounds, Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland),
Arjun Erigaisi (India) and Alexander Grischuk (Russia) led on
6.5/8. Nine players on 6/8 include Russia’s 18-year-old
Volodar Murzin, who beat the No 2 seed and US champion,
Fabiano Caruana, and the world No 3 and speed specialist,
Hikaru Nakamura. Chess 3952 3952: Albert Sandrin v Pal Eros,
Pula 1972. White to move and win.
The early rounds of the 11-round Women’s World Rapid were a
triumph for the rising US star Alice Lee, 15, who won all her
four games and was the sole leader. However Lee, who burst
into prominence last year, lost to the top seed and reigning
world women’s champion, China’s Ju Wenjun, in a crucial
fifth-round pairing.
After six of the 11 rounds Ju had 5.5/6, half a point ahead of
Alexandra Kosteniuk (Switzerland) and Kateryna Lagno (Russia),
with Lee in the chasing group on 4.5/6.
The field of 182 for the World Rapid/Blitz includes 30
Americans while China has the top three seeds in the Women’s
World Rapid/Blitz, which has 113 entries. The total prize fund
is $1m for the open Rapid and Blitz, with $428,500 for the two
women’s events.
This is the first time that the popular speed world
championships have been staged on American soil, let alone at
the centre of international finance. Rapid is defined as 15
minutes per player per game, plus an increment of 10 seconds a
move from move one, while Blitz is three minutes per player
per game, plus a two seconds per move increment.
Carlsen has already won five world rapids and seven world
blitzes in his illustrious career, and captured both titles in
2022 and 2023. The list of his lifetime victories is
impressively long, and underlines the task ahead for the new
classical world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, as the Indian
18-year-old, who is not competing in New York, aims to match
the Norwegian’s achievements.
Carlsen’s chess curriculum vitae lists 64 major titles, all
but nine of them over the board. Gukesh so far has just six –
one world championship, one Candidates, three Olympiad golds,
and one Fide Circuit, albeit with a 16-year age advantage.
Rapid is now Carlsen’s favourite format, and he scored again
in last week’s Champions Tour, where most events were held
online while the eight-player final pool was staged across the
board in Oslo.
It ended up with a final between Carlsen and his old rival Ian
Nepomniachtchi, who he defeated in their 2021 world title
match, where their 136-move sixth game was the longest in
world championship history. This time there was a much faster
outcome, as Carlsen won 4-1 including a 23-move crush in the
final game.
Carlsen is always alert to new developments, and his 7 a3
repeated Gukesh’s novelty against Ding Liren from game 13 of
the Fide world title match in Singapore, a drawn encounter
where the teenager overlooked a win.
Nepomniachtchi varied from Ding by early castling, but he
missed the power of the rook lift 17 Rh3! This is an ancient
and strong strategy against the French, which I recall the
shock of experiencing as Black at London 1948 against Oliver
Penrose. Here, White’s attack on the king quickly proved the
irrelevance of the Russian queen excursion on the opposite
flank, and Carlsen’s final 23 Qg6! created the unanswerable
threat of Ng5 and Qh7 mate. Gukesh Dommaraju poses with the
trophy during a ceremonial parade in Chennai after his win in
the world chess championship Chess: Gukesh and India celebrate
after win but new challenges are emerging Read more
The World Rapid started on Thursday, and continues at 7pm GMT
on Friday and Saturday. You can watch free, with grandmaster
and computer commentary and assessments, on lichess.org and
other major chess sites.
In between the three-day, 13-round Rapid on 26-28 December and
the two-day Blitz on 30-31 December, Fide has organised the
Wall Street Gambit, a conference to explore the fusion between
chess and finance.
Its highlight will be a keynote address by the renowned
economist and GM Kenneth Rogoff, who will speak on chess, AI,
and economics. Caruana and India’s former world champion Vishy
Anand will be present. Standard tickets cost $1,000, while VIP
tickets at $5,000, which include a blitz game and selfies with
Caruana, are already sold out.
No UK players have travelled to the World Rapid/Blitz due to
the high cost and the low chances of a prize. For England’s
experts, the annual 10,000 Caplin Hastings Masters from 28
December to 5 January is the event of the moment. More than
100 entries range from at least seven 2500+ grandmasters to a
long tail where over half the field are rated below 2000.
England’s youngest ever GM, 15-year-old Shreyas Royal, is the
top home seed, while a likely candidate for an international
title is 21-year-old FM Alex Golding, who already has two IM
norms and a 2400+ rating and has just won the traditional
Richmond pre-Christmas blitz at Orleans Park School from an
entry of over 100.
3952: 1 Nh6+ Kf8 2 Nf5! (threat 3 Rh8 mate) g6 3 Qh6+ Kg8 4
Qh7+ Kf8 5 Qh8+! Bxh8 6 Rxh8 mate. Black can sacrifice his
bishops and queen at g2 and f2, but this only delays mate.
++++
Personally I think this is just a symptom of his motivation
issues. If winning is your 100% all consuming goal, a trifle
such as changing pants, will not stop you. If you feel you
have nothing to prove, are not interested, or are looking for
an excuse to get out since you feel that perhaps you're not as
hungry as the competition, yet, while having a legacy to
protect, these are just the kind of things I would expect.
"At the time of his default, Carlsen had scored 5/8 and was a
point and a half behind the leaders, with little chance of
retaining his title."
This confirms it to me.
At a guess I'd say this was about more than a pair of jeans...
Magnus Carlsen has played this tournament many times (and many
other FIDE tournaments obviously) so he would have known in
advance what the dress code was. So if he chose to wear jeans,
even after being told that it wasn't acceptable, then it looks
like he's pushing for a fight... or trying to make a point about
something. Either way, I'd be very surprised if it was 'just'
about jeans!
D wrote:
The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid
Championship and has also chosen to withdraw from the World
Blitz saying ‘it became a matter of principle’ Leonard
Barden Sat 28 Dec 2024 00.57 CET First published on Fri 27
Dec 2024 09.00 CET 159
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from
the World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code
violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous
warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which
starts on 30 December.
At a guess I'd say this was about more than a pair of jeans...
Magnus Carlsen has played this tournament many times (and many
other FIDE tournaments obviously) so he would have known in
advance what the dress code was. So if he chose to wear jeans,
even after being told that it wasn't acceptable, then it looks
like he's pushing for a fight... or trying to make a point
about something. Either way, I'd be very surprised if it was
'just' about jeans!
Blueshirt wrote:
At a guess I'd say this was about more than a pair of
jeans...
Magnus Carlsen has played this tournament many times (and
many other FIDE tournaments obviously) so he would have
known in advance what the dress code was. So if he chose to
wear jeans, even after being told that it wasn't acceptable,
then it looks like he's pushing for a fight... or trying to
make a point about something. Either way, I'd be very
surprised if it was 'just' about jeans!
Maybe the dress code is too harsh.
Sometimes I want to wear a beard, but
that is probably against the dress code.
++++
Personally I think this is just a symptom of his motivation
issues. If winning is your 100% all consuming goal, a trifle
such as changing pants, will not stop you. If you feel you
have nothing to prove, are not interested, or are looking for
an excuse to get out since you feel that perhaps you're not as
hungry as the competition, yet, while having a legacy to
protect, these are just the kind of things I would expect.
"At the time of his default, Carlsen had scored 5/8 and was a
point and a half behind the leaders, with little chance of
retaining his title."
This confirms it to me.
At a guess I'd say this was about more than a pair of jeans...
Magnus Carlsen has played this tournament many times (and many
other FIDE tournaments obviously) so he would have known in
advance what the dress code was. So if he chose to wear jeans,
even after being told that it wasn't acceptable, then it looks
like he's pushing for a fight... or trying to make a point about
something. Either way, I'd be very surprised if it was 'just'
about jeans!
Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:
The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid
Championship and has also chosen to withdraw from the World
Blitz saying ‘it became a matter of principle’ Leonard
Barden Sat 28 Dec 2024 00.57 CET First published on Fri 27
Dec 2024 09.00 CET 159
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from
the World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code
violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous
warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which
starts on 30 December.
At a guess I'd say this was about more than a pair of jeans...
Magnus Carlsen has played this tournament many times (and many
other FIDE tournaments obviously) so he would have known in
advance what the dress code was. So if he chose to wear jeans,
even after being told that it wasn't acceptable, then it looks
like he's pushing for a fight... or trying to make a point
about something. Either way, I'd be very surprised if it was
'just' about jeans!
IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) gives us his views on JeansGate...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf6f_I_oLYM
Dear rgcm:s,
I thought you might enjoy this:
++++
The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid Championship
and has also chosen to withdraw from the World Blitz saying
‘it became a matter of principle’ Leonard Barden Sat 28 Dec
2024 00.57 CET First published on Fri 27 Dec 2024 09.00 CET
159
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from the
World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code
violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous
warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which
starts on 30 December.
D wrote:
Dear rgcm:s,
I thought you might enjoy this:
++++
The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid Championship
and has also chosen to withdraw from the World Blitz saying
‘it became a matter of principle’ Leonard Barden Sat 28 Dec
2024 00.57 CET First published on Fri 27 Dec 2024 09.00 CET
159
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from the
World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code
violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous
warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which
starts on 30 December.
Following a peace agreement Magnus Carlsen has returned and will
play in the World Blitz Championship part of these holiday chess
festivities in New York today... and as a matter of principle he
said he'll be wearing jeans!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fzUE2cKoikQ
If I was Levi or Wrangler I'd be getting on this and marketing
some Magnus/GOAT branded jeans for 2025! (His agent is probably
already on the case.)
Blueshirt wrote:
Following a peace agreement Magnus Carlsen has returned and will
play in the World Blitz Championship part of these holiday chess festivities in New York today... and as a matter of principle he
said he'll be wearing jeans!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fzUE2cKoikQ
If I was Levi or Wrangler I'd be getting on this and marketing
some Magnus/GOAT branded jeans for 2025! (His agent is probably
already on the case.)
Hmm, I think he had a sponsor contract with G-star or something like
that,
many years ago.
On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:30:52 +0000, D wrote:
Blueshirt wrote:
Following a peace agreement Magnus Carlsen has returned and will
play in the World Blitz Championship part of these holiday chess
festivities in New York today... and as a matter of principle he
said he'll be wearing jeans!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fzUE2cKoikQ
If I was Levi or Wrangler I'd be getting on this and marketing
some Magnus/GOAT branded jeans for 2025! (His agent is probably
already on the case.)
Hmm, I think he had a sponsor contract with G-star or something like
that,
many years ago.
Levis & wrangler's are way too common for Magnus - g-star would be a
brand more up his street.
The rumour floating around is that Magnus has a new contract with g-star
to star in some adverts for them in 2025.
Money, money, money, always sunny, in a rich man's world.
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024, Silver Skull wrote:
Levis & wrangler's are way too common for Magnus - g-star
would be a brand more up his street.
The rumour floating around is that Magnus has a new contract
with g-star to star in some adverts for them in 2025.
Money, money, money, always sunny, in a rich man's world.
This is good inspiration! If we can improve our chess enough,
then we can also get good sponsors and earn lots of money! =)
Have Levis returned from woke-land yet? I heard people boycott
them because they are too woke.
If I was Levi or Wrangler I'd be getting on this and marketing
some Magnus/GOAT branded jeans for 2025! (His agent is probably
already on the case.)
Hmm, I think he had a sponsor contract with G-star or something like that, >many years ago.
Call me a Debbie Downer but I suspect none of us here will
improve our chess enough to get big sponsorship deals and earn
lots of money!
We will never have enough 'power' in the chess world to make
FIDE change/bend/amend their rules for us either...
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 13:52:51 +0000, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
wrote:
Call me a Debbie Downer but I suspect none of us here will
improve our chess enough to get big sponsorship deals and earn
lots of money!
We will never have enough 'power' in the chess world to make
FIDE change/bend/amend their rules for us either...
Give me another 800 points or so and that might change.....but then I
would have been in Singapore!
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the
hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum.
I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 13:52:51 +0000, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
wrote:
Call me a Debbie Downer but I suspect none of us here will
improve our chess enough to get big sponsorship deals and earn
lots of money!
We will never have enough 'power' in the chess world to make
FIDE change/bend/amend their rules for us either...
Give me another 800 points or so and that might change.....but then I
would have been in Singapore!
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum. I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
D wrote:
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024, Silver Skull wrote:
Levis & wrangler's are way too common for Magnus - g-star
would be a brand more up his street.
The rumour floating around is that Magnus has a new contract
with g-star to star in some adverts for them in 2025.
Money, money, money, always sunny, in a rich man's world.
This is good inspiration! If we can improve our chess enough,
then we can also get good sponsors and earn lots of money! =)
Call me a Debbie Downer but I suspect none of us here will
improve our chess enough to get big sponsorship deals and earn
lots of money!
We will never have enough 'power' in the chess world to make
FIDE change/bend/amend their rules for us either...
Have Levis returned from woke-land yet? I heard people boycott
them because they are too woke.
I boycotted Levi jeans a few years ago because they were too
expensive!
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 13:52:51 +0000, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
wrote:
Call me a Debbie Downer but I suspect none of us here will
improve our chess enough to get big sponsorship deals and earn
lots of money!
We will never have enough 'power' in the chess world to make
FIDE change/bend/amend their rules for us either...
Give me another 800 points or so and that might change.....but then I
would have been in Singapore!
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:29:55 -0600, Peter Steele <snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the
hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum.
I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
And this surprises you because?
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:29:55 -0600, Peter Steele
<snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the
hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum.
I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
And this surprises you because?
I would expect that learning new stuff would raise my score rather than
lower it.
Peter Steele wrote:
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:29:55 -0600, Peter Steele
<snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the
hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum.
I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
And this surprises you because?
I would expect that learning new stuff would raise my score rather than
lower it.
The problem is that chess is 99% tactics. If your tactics get even slightly worse while you are focusing on new ideas, your results will suffer. It may take a while to integrate the two.
Once in a physics class the professor explained what a Lagrangian was, then used the Lagrangian method on a complex problem - but not so complex that it couldn't be done otherwise. After working out the Lagrangian for the system, applying the relevant equations, and finding the solution he left the class. One student spoke up:
"You know, I used to be able to do that problem".
William Hyde
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:29:55 -0600, Peter Steele <snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the
hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum.
I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
And this surprises you because?
(Several authors have published collections of "Mate in ___ moves" -
my favorite one is Polgar's
On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 8:08:44 +0000, The Horny Goat wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:29:55 -0600, Peter Steele
<snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I just learned an array of cool stuff to use in the game, but the
hodgepodge I have collected has me down to 1265 from my 1490 maximum.
I've got to retain all the former tips I've learned.
And this surprises you because?
(Several authors have published collections of "Mate in ___ moves" -
my favorite one is Polgar's
'The Art of the Checkmate' by Renaud & Kahn is a good book for learning patterns.
Patterns and tactics are the way to go.
I'm pretty sure I figured out the problem. I was taking what I
considered the best move but never really weighing two options against
each other like I used to. Making these decisions are the difference
between taking a pawn with the bishop or taking a pawn with the bishop
after stopping to check the king out of his castle in between etc.
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 04:03:39 -0600, Peter Steele <snakesbloodpussycat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm pretty sure I figured out the problem. I was taking
what I considered the best move but never really weighing
two options against each other like I used to. Making these
decisions are the difference between taking a pawn with the
bishop or taking a pawn with the bishop after stopping to
check the king out of his castle in between etc.
I'm pretty sure nobody will be moving their bishops to corner
squares after Ding lost a world championship specifically by
doing so (check out game 14 if you don't know what I mean)
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