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mihajovics
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but man, 100 elo... that's a 64% chance that Carlsen wins... | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
On November 05 2013 15:14 LittLeD wrote: I really hope Jerry covers this like he did last year. Will definitely try to follow this! Jerry just announced that he will stream the whole thing live on twitch. | ||
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ne0lith
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Chewbacca.
United States3633 Posts
On November 08 2013 05:26 ne0lith wrote: Who's Jerry? Seinfeld? I think he means this guy: http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork Although if Jerry Seinfeld was commentating I'd probably watch it... | ||
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
Anand has the bigger serve, and Carlsen is more of the baseline, persistent player. Carlsen in particular just has an indomitable will to win. He aims for quiet positions where nothing seems to be going on and says, 'Well, nothing's going on, but you're going to lose. | ||
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Risen
United States7927 Posts
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mdb
Bulgaria4058 Posts
from chessbase In a surprise move, World Champion Viswanathan Anand announced his team of seconds at the opening joint press conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chennai on November 7, 2013. He does this in response to a question (by Ashok Venugopal of the New Indian Express) at around 7:30 min into the the official video – the firt one – above. It is interesting to watch Magnus' reaction at 7:35 min into the video. "I am not returning the compliment," he said. In the last few years it has become a practice for the players not to reveal the seconds or trainers until the match is completed. Anand broke that news that he was being assisted by Krishnan Sasikiran, Sandipan Chanda, Peter Leko (Hungary), and Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Poland). The latter two have worked with Anand before. Leko had played for the world chess title and lost the title match to Kramnik. Anand trained in Germany for this match.. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
I follow tennis (but not chess that closely), but that caricature of both players seems very suspect lol. Wasn't that the quote from some financier who dabbled in chess? The quotation itself seems overtly flashy and rather contrived imo, again I don't follow chess that much and don't have too much knowledge, but it seems sort of off. | ||
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HaXxorIzed
Australia8434 Posts
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schaf
Germany1326 Posts
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capu
Finland224 Posts
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Arevall
Sweden1133 Posts
On November 08 2013 17:46 Aerisky wrote: I follow tennis (but not chess that closely), but that caricature of both players seems very suspect lol. Wasn't that the quote from some financier who dabbled in chess? The quotation itself seems overtly flashy and rather contrived imo, again I don't follow chess that much and don't have too much knowledge, but it seems sort of off. I think the quote might be alright in this context, but why use an analogy to describe it worse. edit: I don't think he meant it to be demeaning in anyway. Rogoff didn't just dabble in chess though, he is a GM and according to wiki he dropped out of high school to try and become a professional chess player. | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On November 08 2013 17:42 mdb wrote: Wow that's really surprising. Leko might be very valuable, I think the general consensus is that he's a greater chess player than he's been able to show over the board recently. | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7028 Posts
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On November 08 2013 21:22 Arevall wrote: Rogoff didn't just dabble in chess though, he is a GM and according to wiki he dropped out of high school to try and become a professional chess player. So that's why he doesn't understand basic statistics? | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
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gm.tOSS
Germany898 Posts
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-Kaiser-
Canada932 Posts
On November 08 2013 17:46 Aerisky wrote: I follow tennis (but not chess that closely), but that caricature of both players seems very suspect lol. Wasn't that the quote from some financier who dabbled in chess? The quotation itself seems overtly flashy and rather contrived imo, again I don't follow chess that much and don't have too much knowledge, but it seems sort of off. I think it's a good analogy for non-chess players. Anand is a preparation monster, and most people are expecting him to reach midgames in good or at least equal positions to Carlsen, who is regarded as pretty lazy with his openings. Carlsen has a reputation for grinding out games into wins that other grandmasters would agree to a draw in. | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
IM Tania Sachdev IM Lawrence Trent GM Susan Polgar GM Ramachandran Ramesh ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/7Np0lg1.jpg) (Kasparov will drop by on the third day) More than 500 million people will be tuning in tomorrow... | ||
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