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Subject: chess
Any chess fans here? :-)
I never imagined Id watch and play chess. Just randomly opened some yt video and now im addicted :P Ive been watching chess videos and streams for 2 years.
There are many great lectures [Ben Finegold/Yasser] and channels [Eric Rosen, Hikaru Nakamura, chess24, agadmator], but chessbrahs and John Bartholomew are the best :-)
best yt channels ->
Plus Eric looks like Firmino :P
how can you not love these guys?!
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I never imagined Id watch and play chess. Just randomly opened some yt video and now im addicted :P Ive been watching chess videos and streams for 2 years.
There are many great lectures [Ben Finegold/Yasser] and channels [Eric Rosen, Hikaru Nakamura, chess24, agadmator], but chessbrahs and John Bartholomew are the best :-)
best yt channels ->
Plus Eric looks like Firmino :P
how can you not love these guys?!
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Not really watching any livestreams, apart from tournaments. Hansen has too much annoying music for me. :p But I like agadmator as well. Where do you play?
I have an account at lichess. Playing mostly blitz and bullet these days, which is not helping my chess abilities I think :)
I'm really surprised Radja beat Ding, sensational win.
In my opionion Ding is the only player who can dethrone Magnus.
Generally world cup is a great tournament, best time controls not to long not to short :)
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In my opionion Ding is the only player who can dethrone Magnus.
Generally world cup is a great tournament, best time controls not to long not to short :)
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Today Ive found out Leela beat Stockfish in the TCEC final.
TCEC are championships for chess engines.
May sound boring, but it's not
Here is the recent game from Allie [another NN engine] - very entertaining ! :)
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TCEC are championships for chess engines.
May sound boring, but it's not
Here is the recent game from Allie [another NN engine] - very entertaining ! :)
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all you need is a chess game
yes that's why I follow computer chess, many creative ideas. :)
here you can read interview with an author [authors actually] of allie stein if you're interested.
http://www.chessdom.com/alliestein-the-new-neural-network-entering-tcec-s15/
last video on agad's channel is also great. very interesting game as well
here you can read interview with an author [authors actually] of allie stein if you're interested.
http://www.chessdom.com/alliestein-the-new-neural-network-entering-tcec-s15/
last video on agad's channel is also great. very interesting game as well
it's easy to cheat
it's not that easy to cheat for a long time. algorithms on chess.com are pretty sophisticated [chess24 is a different story] I dont know any unrated players on top of the list.
there were many cases of cheating on live chess as well, here's a ridiculous example :P
A visually impaired chess player has been permanently banned by the Norwegian Chess Federation (NSF) after having been caught red-handed with an earplug glued to his palm during a game against a nine-year-old girl. Norwegian chess reporter Tarjei J. Svensen tells the story.
The player, 52-year-old Stein Tholo Bjørnsen, was caught just two months after he had completed serving a two-year ban for prior cheating.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/life-time-ban-visually-impaired-player-for-cheating
Of course on top tournaments thet have detectors and gates. But even at the highest level were suspicious incidents. Like well-known case involving Kramnik
The match came to a halt after Silvio Danailov, Mr. Topalov’s manager, accused Mr. Kramnik of consulting a computer in the bathroom. The organizers locked the bathroom, whereupon Mr. Kramnik forfeited a game and refused to continue unless the bathroom was unlocked. It eventually was; he went on to win the match, and the incident went down in chess lore as Toiletgate.
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The careful study of the video recordings from the rest rooms done by the technical experts of the Bulgarian team revealed the following facts which we would herewith like to bring to your attention:
After each move Mr. Kramnik immediately heads to the rest room and from it directly to the bathroom. During every game he visited the relaxation room 25 times at the average and the bathroom more than 50 times - the bathroom is the only place without video surveillance.
Unlike Mr. Kramnik, the World Champion Veselin Topalov spends his time mainly at the playing table. The average number of times he visited the rest room and the bathroom is 8 and 4 respectively.
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it's not that easy to cheat for a long time. algorithms on chess.com are pretty sophisticated [chess24 is a different story] I dont know any unrated players on top of the list.
there were many cases of cheating on live chess as well, here's a ridiculous example :P
A visually impaired chess player has been permanently banned by the Norwegian Chess Federation (NSF) after having been caught red-handed with an earplug glued to his palm during a game against a nine-year-old girl. Norwegian chess reporter Tarjei J. Svensen tells the story.
The player, 52-year-old Stein Tholo Bjørnsen, was caught just two months after he had completed serving a two-year ban for prior cheating.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/life-time-ban-visually-impaired-player-for-cheating
Of course on top tournaments thet have detectors and gates. But even at the highest level were suspicious incidents. Like well-known case involving Kramnik
The match came to a halt after Silvio Danailov, Mr. Topalov’s manager, accused Mr. Kramnik of consulting a computer in the bathroom. The organizers locked the bathroom, whereupon Mr. Kramnik forfeited a game and refused to continue unless the bathroom was unlocked. It eventually was; he went on to win the match, and the incident went down in chess lore as Toiletgate.
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The careful study of the video recordings from the rest rooms done by the technical experts of the Bulgarian team revealed the following facts which we would herewith like to bring to your attention:
After each move Mr. Kramnik immediately heads to the rest room and from it directly to the bathroom. During every game he visited the relaxation room 25 times at the average and the bathroom more than 50 times - the bathroom is the only place without video surveillance.
Unlike Mr. Kramnik, the World Champion Veselin Topalov spends his time mainly at the playing table. The average number of times he visited the rest room and the bathroom is 8 and 4 respectively.
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