One thing I noticed recently was that once again we had to be the oddballs of the world using descriptive notation until the 80s when pretty much everyone else had been using algebraic notation for a very long time.
Nice move
Haha! That’s a great GIF for it. You wriggled your way out of the first fork setup quite nicely. I think I may even come out behind after this clash.
6 for me.
I can recommend the puzzles on lichess. I am currently between 2200 and 2300 … if you get a move wrong, you lose like 20 pts, if you get all moves right you get something like 10-20 points. so going down is much faster. But they are really good puzzles from acutal games.
It definitely feels like you lose points at a greater clip :). Part of it is the rating of the problems as well. Currently just over 2300 there. Chess.com’s rating system is a mess, and there is horrible inflation there. Currently about 2950 puzzle rating there. I’m not sure if the problem is that you can gain rating points while getting the problem wrong, or what is happening. The top of the leaderboard is someone with a 65k puzzle rating. Chesstempo probably has the most difficult problems, but they’ve added the ability to choose between different difficulty problem sets at some point.
I see Dubov forfeited a game today because the TataSteel organizers wanted him to wear a mask. I wonder how these guys would’ve survived back when you had people people chain smoking in your face if wearing a mask is too much to handle.
disappointing and selfish. Someone in his inner circle got infected, Dubov declined to wear a mask out of principle. In our chess club we are required to wear ffp2 masks, I just played a 3 hrs game on thursday. It was okay. Looks like I have other standards and principles
It is okay. I have a lot of experience in this in different functions and as a player. My team mates tell me there is a difference between FFP2 masks and the thinner blue ones though. They prefer the latter while playing.
Regarding Dubov: I think this is going to hurt him in the long run. The organizers will remember this, and other organizers will take note. The professional chess businees is small. People know each other. Word gets around who is easy to work with and who isn’t.
and Dubov is out of Tata Steel after testing positive via PCR test. That guy I-don’t-wear-masks-out-of-principle finally cought it out of principle, I suppose. Since somebody in his staff tested positive last week, it took a while for principle-guy Dubov to catch it.
Dubovs last opponents were Grandelius, Van Foreest and Duda. I hope he did not infect them out of principle. This mess was easy to prevent, by wearing a mask. Hopefully the tournament can come to an end without more positive cases. 3 rounds to go.
Top 3 players Carlsen, Rapport and Giri all got a Dubov-Free-Point out of this, so it should be fair.
I think Dubov makes some pretty good points, like if he had covid and was sitting next to another chess player for 7+ hours will the mask really stop the transmission? He said he still wears a mask normally, just doesn’t like the experience of wearing one for an entire chess game. He also tested negative via self test several times before and after the positive result came in.
The argument holds little water since he was willing to play Anish without a mask at the time
/closes bunker door
What does yellow mean?
The right move in the wrong order.