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New mini-series on Netflix The Queen’s Gambit detailing the story of a female chess prodigy as she struggles throughout her life with addiction, mental illness, genius, trauma, sexism, and ambition.
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Harbour Dog
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It's on my list!
Apparently the reviews have been very good so far as well. And they hired Kasparov to choreograph the chess games and make sure it stays true to the game. Something I appreciate very much; most times a chessboard shows up in a show or movie, it's set up wrong or in a nonsense position.
Just waiting for the gf to decide whether she wants to watch it me, but I'll be digging into it soon!
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One of my favorite openings, the Halloween Gambit #YOLO
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5?! Nxe5 5. d4 Ng6 6. e5
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5?! Nxe5 5. d4 Ng6 6. e5
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It’s very true to the game. And the actress is awesome.
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I read an article on this opening a while back. It's obviously not good for white, but it's still been played at the GM level like a couple dozen times!
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I bet it’s fine for white at lower levels. Catches your opponent off guard. Castle queenside, now we’re getting nice and weird.
This is against 1700 computer:
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Harbour Dog
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That is a crushing attack!
I'd say it would be fine at lower levels too. There's something about drastic gambits like that, that mess with the other player's mind. They start feeling like they have to convert and push a bit too hard.
If you come in with it well-prepared, I bet you'd catch people falling into similar traps.
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The King’s Gambit. Honestly I don’t see a lot of people play that these days.
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Is it just me or do the picture and the headline not go together?
Polish Player Suspected Of Cheating Gets 2-Year Ban
No, that's right. I read the article this morning; she was pretty blatantly cheating using a second phone.
Harbour Dog
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I meant that she's happy in the photo.
Lmao, oops.
It's a wonder that she hadn't been caught earlier. One of her opponents actually tried playing moves the engine wouldn't expect, and a grandmaster opponent had a sleepless night, the night before their game.
With the rise in popularity of online chess, it seems that cheating controversies are popping up more and more frequently.
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It was very politically correct for the political climate of our time, female empowerment and all that political crap that is forced into a story (I wrote political three times, that's how ridiculous I think the movie climate has become), but in this case I didn't mind it at all. Because they put it in the right setting and didn't overblow it at all. The story came first, so it was great to watch. The growth of the character, the respect of chess, the molding of quirks from different grand masters in a main protagonist, I can absolutely not complain. I'm usually so against politically correct series (because they drown the story in their message), but in this case I have to applaud it. It was a joy to watch. It was done the right way and it was splendid. She wasn't a Mary Sue. She had to grow and overcome herself. That seems to be a difficult recipe for Hollywood to learn.
It's one of the best TV series I've ever seen IMO.
Anyway:
If you want to become great at chess, you need to be able to play blind chess. That will bolster your skill like mad. Then you can hard calculate any position and see any position better. But I'm lazy, I don't burn for chess. I was more promising in my youth, now I just play for fun, because now I just see chess as a fun game with no randomness. Join a club if you want to become better, you will learn so much from that and get to know other chess players. They're usually quirky, but smart. And you will gain perspective.
My biggest tip for anyone wanting to become really good at chess:
1) learn the annotations of course.
2) learn to visualize the board in your mind and keep practicing at that. That will also help you in other ways you cannot imagine. Your brain will develop. You will learn strategy, tactics and to handle small problems before they become big in this circus we work in as well. Even without blind chess it helps to be good at chess, to gain perceptiveness and compare.
3) Join a club. Trust me on that. They all have their flaws as persons. So do you. But you will learn from them.
I'm about a 1900 btw. I don't strive for excellence, but I think I know the game pretty well.
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"Kramnik Wins Razuvaev Memorial
"GM Vladimir Kramnik still got it. On Friday the 14th world champion won the Razuvaev Memorial blitz tournament as he defeated GM Evgeny Tomasheveky 1.5-0.5 in the playoff final. Among the participants was French GM Joel Lautier, who retired in 2009. The Razuvaev Memorial, a joint effort of the Russian Chess Federation and Chess.com, was an eight-player round-robin tournament with 5+3 blitz games on Friday, November 6. The players that were invited were all, to one degree or another, a student of the legendary author, player, and coach Yuri Sergeevich Razuvaev, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 67. The day before the tournament, an online opening ceremony was held. Among the guests were the tournament participants as well as the widow Natalya Petrovna Razuvaeva, son Alexander, and friends and colleagues of the Razuvaev: Anatoly Vaisser, Boris Gulko, Boris Zlotnik, Mikhail Krasenkov, Sergei Makarychev, Gennady Nesis, Dmitry Plisetskiy, and Boris Postovsky, among others." Kramnik Wins Razuvaev Memorial Blitz"
I'm semi-retired from posting about speed chess, but this is Kramnik.
"GM Vladimir Kramnik still got it. On Friday the 14th world champion won the Razuvaev Memorial blitz tournament as he defeated GM Evgeny Tomasheveky 1.5-0.5 in the playoff final. Among the participants was French GM Joel Lautier, who retired in 2009. The Razuvaev Memorial, a joint effort of the Russian Chess Federation and Chess.com, was an eight-player round-robin tournament with 5+3 blitz games on Friday, November 6. The players that were invited were all, to one degree or another, a student of the legendary author, player, and coach Yuri Sergeevich Razuvaev, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 67. The day before the tournament, an online opening ceremony was held. Among the guests were the tournament participants as well as the widow Natalya Petrovna Razuvaeva, son Alexander, and friends and colleagues of the Razuvaev: Anatoly Vaisser, Boris Gulko, Boris Zlotnik, Mikhail Krasenkov, Sergei Makarychev, Gennady Nesis, Dmitry Plisetskiy, and Boris Postovsky, among others." Kramnik Wins Razuvaev Memorial Blitz"
I'm semi-retired from posting about speed chess, but this is Kramnik.
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No. 2 (July 1991), 2787 (October 2007)
"Throwback Thursday: Ivanchuk triumphs in Havana
11/20/2020 – Since 2005, fan favourite Vassily Ivanchuk has played ten times at the Capablanca Memorial. Playing in Cuba seems to bring out the best of the Ukrainian genius, who won the event no fewer than eight times, including the most recent edition in 2019. We look back on his two most dominating performances, in 2005 and 2007, when he scored +6 and +7 respectively." Throwback Thursday: Ivanchuk triumphs in Havana
"Nakamura and Firouzja complete the lineup of the Skilling Open
11/21/2020 – The $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour, a series of ten online tournaments featuring elite players, kicks off November 22 with the Skilling Open. The 16 participants will first play a single round robin to decide who moves on to the knockout stage. World champion Magnus Carlsen and Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour runner-up Hikaru Nakamura will both be playing in the 9-day inaugural event. ...
Champions Chess Tour competition dates include:
- 22-30 November: Regular ($100,000 prize)
- 26 December - 3 January: Major ($200,000 prize)
- 6-14 February: Regular ($100,000 prize)
- 13-21 March: Major ($200,000 prize)
- 24 April – 2 May: Regular ($100,000 prize)
- 22-30 May: Regular ($100,000 prize)
- 26 June – 4 July: Major ($200,000 prize)
- 31 July – 8 August: Regular ($100,000 prize)
- 28 August - 5 September: Regular ($100,000 prize)
- 25 September – 3 October: Final ($300,000 prize)
Thankfully this wasn't a huge part of the story. A few times this was brought up but it was an appropriate amount. If this was a huge storyline I'd be extremely annoyed since I'm not trying to watch a political drama. The fact that they mentioned it though shows how people eat that shit up nowadays.
Anyway, great series. I really enjoyed it.
Team A January 1996: Kasparov, Kramnik, Karpov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Anand, Gelfand, Topalov, Shirov
Team B January 1996:
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[/TBODY]Harbour Dog, if all of these players were born the same month as Kasparov and they played a team tourney in January 1996 where every player on Team A played one game against every player on Team B, what would happen? Who would win, why, and out of a total possible 81 points what would the final score be? I'll post my reply after yours. Happy Thanksgiving! 
Team B January 1996:
| 1 | Carlsen |  | 29 |  | |||
| 2 | Caruana | | 28 | | |||
| 3 | Ding Liren | | 28 | | |||
| 4 | Nepomniachtchi | | 30 | | |||
| 5 | Vachier-Lagrave | | 30 | | |||
| 6 | Aronian | | 38 | | |||
| 7 | Grischuk | | 37 | | |||
| 8 | Mamedyarov | | 35 | | |||
| 9 | So |
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I would add...
* Study endgames. Big time !!!! It's boring as sin but it will help you win many games.
* Study tactics.
* Do NOT over-study openings - it's FUN but it's a rabbit's hole and can be a waste of studying time.
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She kept running to the bathroom after every move - and she can't even blame it on prostate issues. At a high end tournament, I'm surprised she was allowed to (continually) leave the board on her move.
From what I understand, when confronted / accused of cheating, she'd get emotional - which would make MOST guys back off.
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I just wish the tournament play was more realistic during the series. Having said that, it would make for boring TV.
A few other quibbles 3 episodes in...
She talks about breaking 1,800 in the future after winning a bunch of tournaments and being on the cover of a magazine. That made no sense.
When she played the guy in the cowboy hat, she hesitates when he plays the Caro Kann (IIRC) - like she'd never seen it before. That made no sense.
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ORRFForever
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I play the Grunfeld, too. Provides a dynamic game with lots of drawing opportunities for black.
In many of the openings above, Black's white B is a pain in the a$$ to develop.
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Didn't Magnus say besides AlphaZero, Dubov was one of the few players he felt he could learn from?
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