Looking forward to see what they bring to the table for this first round. I think most eyes will be on Firouzja and Nakamura, but it will be very interesting to see if Ding can put together some good games and finally get his chance to challenge. Besides Caruana, Ding seems to be the player with the most prestige in this tournament.
Matches:
Duda vs Rapport
Ding vs Nepomniachtchi
Caruana vs Nakamura
Radjabov vs Firouzja
Streams:
Fide (Hess, Skripchenko, Naroditsky, Rensch):
Levitov Chess (Kramnik): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__UAcEBk9o
Chess24 (Polgar, Gustafsson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgD9BPdpzhE
ChessBase India (Shah, Mokal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKmYsq9WtNc
Chess.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg6aLwwO4vY
Ben Finegold: https://www.twitch.tv/gmbenjaminfinegold
Anna and Pia Cramling: https://www.twitch.tv/annacramling
Unfortunately, Levitov Chess World have not listed a stream as of yet, and I can't find any streams with based Svidler. Also, Chessnetwork doesn't seem to be streaming, but hopefully that might change. Add any good streams if I missed them.
Analysis boards:
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-tournament-2022/round-1/LsFeKWZU
I'm not sure if Sesse will be running (I doubt it), but if someone has any other supercomputer analyses, then post them.
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A Magnus vs Naka match would be the most fun.
In the same way Magnus vs Ian was fun maybe.
IT'S CHESS TIEM BOYS, R U READY?
CRAZY SACRIFICIES, UNSOUND GAMBITS, UNBELIEVABLE BLUNDERS
I WANT IT ALL
*blocks your path*
>2...d5
nothing personnel
I hope you started with 1. f4 e5 anon
>polgar/gustafsson
Where is svidler or leko
They're probably seconds.
I miss the Svidler/Grischuk/Giri streams back in WCC 2018.
>this was 4 years ago
It feels like yesterday wagecucking realy did a nomber on my time perception
>levon didn't make it
>ding is going to choke
who cares
>ding is going to choke
who knew?
Ricsibros Rapport in, WW@?
He's Romanian now.
yeah, and Alireza is French...
too soon anon
Sorry, but Rapport is Romanian.
I'm sorry too.
Too soon.
delet
I'm looking forward to his games. The winner takes all high stakes format will surely encourage him to play some really interesting stuff.
for me, its ding
You would Chang
THERES SOMEONE NAMED DING
technically his name is liren
They got rid of those regal chairs from last Candidates lol.
LET'S GO BOYS!
Thank God, he plays the Sicilian and not one of his meme e5 garbage.
Duda is playing some weird line though.
>challenging the boss of weird lines in a weird line
>ruy lopez
that's enough slurping for one day
>berlin
fabibros
naka is such a fricking killjoy. he complains about how chess isn't fun nowadays on his stream because of all the opening theory and chess engine stuff then goes and plays the berlin. what a penis.
He’s fricking right though.
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do not bump soijaks
Ding game the most interesting.
why aren't there any african american players?
you know why
Why doesn't Hikaru just castle? lol
>Why doesn't Hikaru just castle?
8... a5 is better to prevent 8. Na5
damn he did play Na5
it's over
What's the fun of Chess these days when computers can play like much better than the best Chess player?
What's the fun of running when a car can just go much faster than the best runner?
Because running and driving are two different things? If there was a robot that could run faster than the fastest man then yea, it would render running useless.
Another false equivalence. Lifting weights have health benefits to the body.
why lift weights when you can just use a crane?
Why run a marathon? There are jets.
What do you like about chess?
Black goes second
Why would that matter?
>If there was a robot that could run faster than the fastest man then yea, it would render running useless.
No it wouldn't.
Which stream have the best commentators, didn't like everyone I checked so far. Anand and that girl from last time was the best.
Anand and Muzychuk commentary was better than the games. She was trying so hard to make conversation and based Vishy just wouldn't have any of it.
Sadly, I don't think there are any really good streams. No Svidler, no Leko, etc. I think the best is probably the Russian stream on Levitov Chess with Kramnik.
isnt narrowditzy supposed to be on chess.com commentary later? hes usually fairly good
hope my wife anna does some commentary
Other Anna is doing coverage with her mom who's a sweetheart.
Bd3 has never been played before in Duda vs Rapport. We've got a novelty, boys.
Any backgammon lads here?
>The Panamanian likes backgammon.
Interesting.
I like chess too, but backgammon is better when I don't want to think
It just has a bad reputation. I haven't played it since I was little, but it was always good fun.
>It just has a bad reputation
QRD?
Not anything to rundown. A lot of people just don't like it, probably partly because of luck being a considerable factor. Also the rules are probably a little complicated for a game that on the surface looks less interesting than other games.
that's true, some games you get crushed and can't do anything because the other guy keeps rolling doubles and perfect combinations. It's just that kinda game where you need a bit of momentum on your side.
COME ON ALI YOU SCRAWNY SANDNIGGLET, MAKE US PROUD
>Frenchie flag
What happened to MVL?
He shat the bed
Now we have to rely on this motherfricker.
He looks French to me, Mon Ami.
just when I thought the quintessential geek was Caruana, in comes this absolute stereotype.
Apologize.
incredible zoomer power stance
based. hope he dunks on those boomers.
Fabi only looks like a geek, but he actually carries himself like a chad
Alireza is a total nerd
My God, his arms are so thin ompared to his fat face (just like me!)
why have sex with your wife when you can purchase and assemble a frick machine
Why do they keep putting this imbecile on commentary?
He literally sounds like a troglodyte.
Do you think they're on performance enhancing drugs?
Of course? Everyone there is on at least Adderal.
This Brazilian is so bad at trolling.
Fabi is such a boring c**t
Fabi is the spirit of Chess.
It has nothing to do with him being boring. The Americans are playing a prearranged game.
Does anyone else think Ian is going to ensure that he doesn't win this tourney due to the embarrassment of his WCC?
He probably wants to redeem himself and he's the only Russian player in the field. The Russian federation desperately want another Russian world champ.
I meant the Russian chess federation. I doubt Putin cares about chess because he has bigger things to worry about at the moment.
who else rootin for putin
It's pretty awful that Karjakin can't play.
only has himself to blame, all he had to do was not run his mouth
>what did you say about the neoliberal war machine?!?!
i don't really care that much about the morality of the situation, but if he cared about playing chess then he'd have the brain to work out that FIDE having someone championing the Russian invasion would bring all sorts of bad press on them, which understandably they've chosen to avoid.
Ian kept his mouth shut and consequently had no problems, so hard to have sympathy for Sergey here.
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whos /ourguy/ and whos reddit
Our guy is Fabi and Nakamura is reddit
reddit hates nakamura though
why?
Rapport and Naka respectively.
based
Im really hoping hes not gonna choke
I can't see him winning, but I think he can put up a solid tourney.
richard rapport = /ourguy/
Fabi, Nepo, Liren, Radjabov are Reddit.
Rapport, Naka, Firouzja, Duda are Fhite.
Nakamura is /ourguy/
Timur "women belong in the kitchen" Radjabov is our guy
caring about nakamura one way or the other is reddit
Caring about what is reddit and what is not IS reddit.
Truer words have not been spoken.
What is the story behind this picture?
I want Nakamura to win because that would be funny. If it makes me reddit, so be it.
Especially funny would be if he wins and Magnus opts out of the WCC.
>le meme chat? chat? man
>not reddit
He threw away his best chances at world championship to pursue full time streaming so that he could use the "I never really tried" cope.
He's sitting in a far preferable position for the world championship now than if he'd been a serious chess player. The lack of stress he now has is what allowed for his classical revival.
>wastes his talents so he can live in a permacope world of delusion
how is he not /ourguy/
Today I will remind them that Eric Hansen beat the dogshit out of Naka.
Do you guys agree with Karjakin not being allowed to play?
no
get a load of that schnoz
Yes, because Slava Ukraini!
All he needed to do was not be a moron and stop tweeting about the invasion. So yeah, no sympathies from me. We got a better player as replacement anyway.
why should he have to
If you're being an inflammatory cretin and cheering for more dead bodies in the middle of war, you must be prepared that other people and governing bodies might find it distasteful.
you're being willfully obtuse. Those are not the only options.
lets not be obtuse here, if it was an american supporting an american war there would have been no blowback whatsoever
its not because of supporting a war
this
And because they can't refute that, they will play the "whataboutism" card on you...
maybe. There's no way to know. America is more into proxy wars and hiring private mercenaries these days. I don't see them deploying troops in Taiwan or Iran.
You are a homosexual and profoundly stupid. There were zero consequences for American players when we bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, etc. They literally banned Karjakin from a major tournament for having the wrong opinion. Wouldn't expect a backwards shitskin like you to understand the importance of freedom of speech however
>Those are not the only options.
You're the one that wrote
>stop tweeting about the invasion.
>stop tweeting about the invasio
But if he was tweeting about it, and he would have said he was opposing it, it would had been fine...
exactly right. people talk about radjabov being a draw-lord... all karjakin can do is try and hold on while showing zero fight. that's what he did during the WC match. ding is on an entirely different level
>Tier two: the dark horses. Firouzja and Nepomniachtchi belong here
never let it be said that carlsen is a mean guy... there isn't a single GM in the world who believes that shit he just sold lol. nepo is literally the most exposed player in the history of top-level chess. it's hard to put his mental collapse into words. he got a WC match as a result of russian tampering (been going on for 100 years) and then proceeded to get trashed while spending 50% of his time in the bathroom. if i had done that in a team tournament as a 12-year-old my coach would have left me there. he's someone with zero fight in the context of a fighting game. before the match i kept posting this video over and over again:
that's who he is. a prep-monkey that blitzes out garbage lines while not even trying or giving his opponent respect. then he finds out he's in a lost position and pouts
what's the difference between magnus and nepo? one digs in and stares at the board when he's down... the other b***hes out and stares around the room or goes to the bathroom
>no tweets since may 27
>suddenly...
https://twitter.com/SergeyKaryakin/status/1537656959175884800
he mad
kek hes right too, all the globohomosexual efforts have done is make russia and china stronger and shoot themselves in the foot
martsharter cope incoming
>its another "germany tries to expand into ukraine but runs out of fuel" episode
how unoriginal
Nepo is the reddit candidate. They love him because of how “gentlemanly” he was while playing the most moronic, brain dead, frick stick, chess ever to be seen, essentially humiliating the entire chess world. If he had any honor, he would have unironically committed suicide. Instead in the press conferences he just wiggled his fat jowles around and said “no I didn’t see that it trapped my bishop” and reddit swoons going woooooowwwe he’s taking his loss so well ! He should be dead right now if he had any manhood
Nepo was no "gentlemanly", if he was he would have given up rather than playing a losing game, but absolutely cringe comment
Imagine killing yourself because you, being one of the best players in the world, lost against one of the best players of all time
ali has managed to get himself into a really, really weird situation against radja. don't know why the commentators were so excited about that exchange sac'
>Instead in the press conferences he just wiggled his fat jowles around and said “no I didn’t see that it trapped my bishop
can't tell you how much it triggered me when the entirety of reddit, tg and twitter were on about "how dare those reporters ask such insulting questions! do they not understand how difficult it is to play in the WC! they should try it sometime!" lol
guy deserved to be asked after every single game "what the frick was that shit? why are you in the bathroom all game? do you have any respect for the WC? can you at least guarantee you'll stay at the board next game?"
he will do it again and make everyone seethe
>why are you in the bathroom all game? do you have any respect for the WC
He had enormous respect for the WC, that's why he spent so much time there.
He should have just shut up
Not a big fan of Russian invasions or people who attention prostitute on instagram over politics, but I wouldn't have banned him if it were up to me.
Yes.
Yes. Not because of politics but because of his style
Yes, Putin
yes
>down by half an hour by move 8
>plays an incredibly dubious move
>there's no way hes outplaying Duda in time trouble
Rapportbros, I dont feel so good...
He's underdeveloped and his dark squares look weak on the kingside. Damn, Rapportbros... Maybe he's Hungarian after all..
Sírva vigad a magyar!
Why duda play such a weird line if he is already out of prep lol
Are you high anon?
>Fabi Cuchitini
nepo will win and shit himself again
Magnus will not play him again for sure.
both outcomes would be hilarious
Frick these guys are all younger than me. Guess it's too late to start a GM grind
I see my boy Dudaz already dabbing on Rapport, 2 easy 4 him
low key Rapport is kinda mid tho fr, Duda is bussin today no cap fr fr
Magnus about the Candidates
>In terms of chances to win the whole thing, I would divide the players into three tiers. Tier one: the favourites. In this tier I would put Caruana and Ding. To me, they are the best and most consistent players in the field, and I would bet on one of the two winning against the field.
>Tier two: the dark horses. Firouzja and Nepomniachtchi belong here. Neither of them have the consistency to be in the top tier, but they both have a ceiling which gives them a smaller, but still quite realistic chance of winning.
>Tier three: the rest. I see a slight chance Rapport could make it if everything works out for him, but it feels very unlikely that he will survive seven black games against such opposition, even if he wins a few.
>Nakamura will probably have a decent event, but I don't see him winning enough games to have a real chance. Duda and Radjabov I just don't think have any shot.
Magnus seething that Duda ended his unbeaten streak. And he’s right, cuckjabov is going to leave half way through because his 8th cousin has a runny nose
Gifting drawjabov a candidate spot for nothing was stupid, someone more desrving like So, Giri or Aronian could have qualified.
They gave it to him because he virtue signalled about the fake and gay virus. Agreed those players are all more deserving and would have a chance to win, cuckjabov has zero
Rapport will be dead last won't he
Fabi and Alireza are the only ones that has a chance against Magnus
ding dong too
Yeah ding dong to
>Caruana
>Aronian
>So
>Dominguez
Who can stop them at they olympiad?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Only China is close with Ding and Wang + yi/yu/bu
God damn, Rapports game looks like one of my first forays into the Sicilian, hes just getting killed. On top of that hes also burning all his time. Not looking good.
Is Leko his second?
No. On a different note, there's a good chance that there will be more decisive games than draws which is quite interesting.
He needs to play to his strengths, he would get murdered anyway playing stale lines against guys like this
most autismo candidate?
virgin walk
Autismus walk.
have to agree with this one, his interviews all feel very odd as well
>enters thread
Based virgin walking
this is what a very high power level looks like irl
How do they stop competitors from taking chess engines into the restroom?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
A short statistical sample derived from the camera recordings in the rest room during the third game shows:
15.54 – Kramnik plays move 15
15.55 – Goes into the bathroom
15.56 – Goes out of the bathroom
15.57 – Goes into the bathroom
15.59 – Goes out of the bathroom
16.03 – Goes into the bathroom
16.04 – Goes out the bathroom
16.07 – Comes out for move 16
The behavior of Mr. Kramnik is very similar to the above during all games played so far.
The logical question arises: How many times during a game does a player need to go to the bathroom and with what regularity? The logical answer is: between 5 -10 times at the most, but not 50 as the statistics from the games played so far shows.
We would like to once again remind you that the bathroom is the only place without video or audio surveillance.
that's just kramnik's way of messing with topalov
>have ankylosing spondylitis
>snort coke in the bathroom to relieve the pain
>some bulgarian brat pretending to be a champion accuses you of using stockfish on the shitter in 2006, possibly by putting custom cartridges into your nokia n-gage or some shit
voting for nakamura
Fire for sure
Firo *
Rapport is busted on Move 12. Wtf moron. Why would you play a variation you don't know enough about?
siciliangays btfo!
>virgin walk
>Autismus walk
What happened here?
loool what's his problem
Hammer is frickin drooling man. Trash commentary team.
Chess24 stream with gustaffsen and polgar
Danny Rensch is unbearable
brain damage from coaching andrea botez
ATTENTION: there will be a /tg/ vs Fhite chess event tomorrow. More information will be posted soon.
we'll shit all over those weaklings
I'm pretty sure this thread is mostly /tg/ posters.
"I'm seein' double here, eight israelites!?"
/chess/ stays on the winning board
that would be a fun stake, but Im afraid ultimately its up to the jannies where /chess/ goes
/tg/ jannies are the worst though
Worse than spee somehow
>Fhite
>winning
pick one
>/tg/ vs Fhite chess event tomorrow
trust no one not even yourself
1400 Rapid reporting in.
>Queens are off
Whew, now theres some hope hes gonna save this. Also Alireza is a beast.
Most kino standings
8th- radjabov - 0
7th - Nepo - 2
6th - Duda - 7
5th - Rapport 9
4th - Fabi 11
3rd - Ding 12
2nd Nakamura 12.5
1st Alireza 14
Kino would be Nakamura coming in last
the funniest would be if nakamura finishes in third 0.5 point behind #2 which removes the hope of playing the match if magnus decides not to play.
not ez pos 4 ding
Richard Raportescou equalized
Nope. Duda fricked up by allowing Queen exchange. 13. Qc2 followed by 14. Rd1 would be much better.
Chinky Dingy blunders Neposisters !
and Nepo returns the favour
How significant is a +1 advantage for someone like Duda?
Significant but not game over
at this level anything around +/- 1 is pretty much still a draw
Why did Nakamura castle now, when he didn't want to do it before?
Karu's analysis on his youtube channel is thorough.
Bad opponent for Ding bro in Round 1. Nepomniachtchi is too sharp. He needed a jobber to gain his footing.
Playing nepo in the first half of the candidates is bad luck for anyone. Much better to play him once he tires himself out and falls back on getting new haircuts.
>go into the match with a man-bun
>cut off the man-bun due to desperation
worst of both worlds. there are guys that would make the first mistake but not the second
It gave us the hilarious samurai question at the post-game interview, so I'm not complaining.
>Playing nepo in the first half of the candidates is bad luck for anyone.
... You realize Candidates is a double round-robin tournament?
When are the Botez sisters playing?
Women make me sick
hopefully this first round isn't indicative of anything because ding is very likely to lose to nepo
Black's got a ready-mate attack with ...Rg6 and ...g5 while White doesn't really have anything
I wish we had this studio and commentary doing the candidates. Howell is based.
>no chess notation allowed: the studio
yeah chess notation makes newbs like me confused
I'm suprised that chess24 use two studios for their chess tour and only one for the Candidates which is way more important and prestigious event.
i guess they don't do the howell commentary for classical matches? chess tour is rapid/blitz
Thank you. It bugs me out.
>Magnus Carlsen is in the endgame stage with his hole for the night
>He needs to find the critical move in this position
>Magnus Carlsen finds the move, moving his moving his rook over 2 squares into her open file
>Look at that, her eval bar has gone to +100
They've been using notation since the end of the first season. Why are chess autists so against bringing in a more casual audience through simpler explanations and cute hosts?
I don't like the sideshow zoomer entertainment shit either, but putting charisma vacuum notation spam spergs like Svidler and Leko, or unlikeable smarmy douchebags like Grischuk or Gustafsson on your main streams is going to kill any potential new viewers.
think we all know what commentator would bring in a new audience
Ding in shambles
damn Ben is shitting on Radjabov, why is he the only one with no chance to win this?
Radjabov has been playing shitty drawish chess lately and overall hasn't been having great results.
He's a old man who makes quick draws to not lose rating. He didn't earn his spot, it was handed to him because he was the most scared of the covids. He paid homage to the neoliberal demon and was rewarded, as karjakin blasphemed it and was dropped
sweetheart, you're not understanding who radja is
karjakin was a "look how young i am with with my GM title!" prodigy... radja was a "watch me trigger the best player in the world into a coma" prodigy... there are levels to this
we're talking maybe the greatest expert in the king's indian ever. it was very bad luck for him that his pet line ended up being pseudo-contradicted by the bayonet attack
this shit predates pol zoomer memes by 20 years
Funny because sōyjabov was also the muh youngest gm of all time. Kasparov has a seizure like that any time he is losing. And he's not even top 5 for kid players of all time, Fischer and kasparov are in another league with that opening, bronstein, geller and tal contributed 10x more to it than him and nakamura and ding have created greater games. Sorry pal he's got nothing
bookies gave 15x odds for nepo to win the tournament which is very good value but i couldnt bring myself to root for nepo to win.
This is good timing for a candidates spee chess thread. There's literally no other sport on worth watching.
>foreigners not respecting our national pastime
ameribros…?
some one please ban australia
I would like to play with the orangutan opening on botez
how many events did chinks organize so ding could play? lmao
Ding bro has to make 15 moves in 15 minutes. Dingbros, I don't feel so good.
I'd be more concerned with his losing position than the time
aaaaand it's over.
it's gonna be Carlsen vs Nepo again, isn't it
nepo should've been kicked from the candidates after his wc performance.
Man makes mistakes
Nepo is severely underrated due to his choking
how is ding -7.0 in this match?
he's losing a bishop and close to getting mated.
Now he's -60.
after Na5 you just need to play ...R8e7 to protect the b-pawn
Just because he's so good at choking, people forget how good of a player nepo is when he's in form
>magnus bantering nakamura
why can't the GOAT in every sport be like this
JUST
If only you knew how bad things really are.
>all this training just to lose to the funny fat DOTA man
Ding's game looked like mine if I try playing anything other than Scotch kek. Especially the English Opening.
People playing shit like this as white deserve to lose every game tbh
everytime i try to bring two different matches in lichess in different tabs the evaluation bar stops working in one of them
fricking sucks
Manbun bros we did it
The absolute state of chess if Nepo wins this tournament again
I'll take it if we get a Rocky 3 training montage.
caruana is weaker after the opening but not that weak ffs
naka in a lot of trouble after a totally fine opening
When will /ourguy/ be invited to the candidates?
>/ourguy/
>Shankland
Our guy is very clearly Ding.
our guy is /tigranpetrosian/
i gave up on him back in 2018
Ding is Reddits choice. Shut the frick up seppo
r*ddit hates china and are accusing him of playing rigged games to make it into candidates
>he doesn't hate china
china is the 4th reich, the reinvention of national socialism
full support
Ching chong bros....how did great leader let this happen?
Rapport bros...
I unironically saw Carlsen on the subway like two months ago
does he get recognised?
is he really famous in norway?
Yes he's really famous and gets recognized all the time I'm sure but that time he just sat by himself and no one bothered him. Maybe it was because most people just look at their phones so no one noticed him and I was also really surprised because it was so unexpected to see him just sitting on the subway like a regular person
Are you sure it was him?
I met Carlsen at a Orange Julius back in 2017. He was busy on his phone and didn't want to bother him. Then this homosexual who looked like a fat James Rolfe stopped and was like. Woah, your Magnus Carlsen. Without looking up his phone was like. Yeah...I AM! He then asked if he would sign his shirt. He replied that "he really doesn't sign things for people" dejected the homosexual waddled off without saying a world. Finally he got his Orange Julius and as he was paying for it I cut a foul smelling fart that made him gag so. OHHHH MAH GAHD. He glared at me and put his shirt over his nose. And snapped "what's your deal, kid" I told him to nicer to his fans. He scoffed and said Yeah...your nopt my agent. And left. What a fricking norwegian b***h. Glad his career is soon to be dead.
interesting
i thought magnus would sign things for fans
At an open tournament my coach was playing hikaru on board 1 so i left mine to go watch for a few mins. he starts staring right into my eyes with this psycho angry look and i stare right back at him with a smirk for what must have been 3 minutes. every time i'd pass him after that he'd stare me down. just a complete weirdo of a human being
Every video of him outside the house is pure autism
getting a tiny bit of deja vu from this position
Oh well. I was rooting for rapport but he made too many inaccuracies throughout and now finally blundered. Hopefully he feels better for tomorrow's game
Ooof what happened to Ding?
NAKA WTFF?! Another one disgraces Great Leader Xi
Good on Rapport and Duda for representing the plebs. Both have no clue about what's going on.
RAPPORTBROS WE ARE BACK
Dog for lunch bros is Radjabov our last chance to have a Chinese man win today?
how is radja chinese
Azerbaijan is rightful Chinese clay, he is proud servant of Chinese party helping with the covid propoganda
do you ever bored of being a seething gay?
*get bored
1. No
2. It goes in the loo
Chinks lack the capacity of bordem. Need a soul for that dai
>shitty Crapuana
For me it's Coach.
naka trying to bail out hoping and praying fabi will go Qg3
hg3 bit of an inaccuracy since ...Rf8 comes and you don't have Rf1 on the board
If he had gone rf1 could've seen this position on the board. Winning for white but hard to convert.
can nakamura still draw this?
If there's anyone who's a threat to pull off some tricky swindly shit in time trouble it's Naka
i think it's very possible
Cariana missed about three chances to finish him off so it's certainly possible.
Polgar and Jan completely ignore the time scramble. Two drooling morons. Chess24 is doomed.
All 3 boards reached time control you dumb frick
Can't expect much of an indian
they stuck to one board dryly calculating lines and completely ignored the Nakamura game.
Jan is only entertaining when he has his bros on with him, svidler leko or grischuk. Otherwise his own dry humor has no personality contrast to make it interesting
Yeah these guys are dry as frick.
Jan is too redditcore
So Magnus withdrew from the 2010 candidates even though he was favourite to win (and world number 1) due to unfairness over the tournament format.
So he could have had ANOTHER world title had he just played. Crazy how he did that.
What was wrong with the format?
https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-drops-out-of-world-championship-cycle
He wrote an open letter to fide about why he dropped out.
Carlsen will retire if Alireza doesn't win Candidates yes or no?
i don't think so
think magnus is bluffing
not sure but it's weird that Magnus let his complants about the format deny him a world championship victory
I hate this semen slurping 'sport'
For "not dry" stream go watch the clown show with hammer and rensh lmao
What stream is Grischuk?
i love how judit polgar pronounces candidate
candy-date
How else would you pronounce it?
correctly
caan-dee-dut
in america? can-duh-dit
So can anyone explain why ding was chasing irrelevant pawns while nepo was throwing the kitchen sink at his kingside?
the chinese put a lot of stock in manpower advantages
It was not about the queeenside pawns, he was trying to rerout the knight to put pressure on the key black pawn on e4. He could't do it any other way because his queen blocked d2 square.
Thanks, anon.
chinese materialism
>caruana throwing away winning position because of the sheer chad autistic energy resonated by hikaru
>ding folding like a house of cards against ian "i've never spoken to a human before" nepomguhdfsjakghfi
>firouzja desperately trying to hold losing position against /misc/ shitposter radjabov
how much of a disadvantage are social skills in chess?
>/misc/ shitposter radjabov
??
he's repeatedly called armenia a terrorist state and said before a match against armenian levon aronian that he'd quit chess and join the army if the two countries ever went to war and he approaches the match in the same way. He's political often on twitter too https://twitter.com/rajachess/status/1259185244030337026?s=20&t=lwogqQI9sA6AbKOX9kNPWQ
to be fair armenia is responsible for attacking azerbaijan
I prefer to take the turkish approach and just simply not believe in armenia
>"i've never spoken to a human before"
Where is this came from?
have you ever heard his interviews? In 20 years we will look back at people like nepo and wonder how we didn't realise the machines had already infiltrated us
machines don't tilt
Nepomniachtchi speaks normally when he's talking in Russian. His weird inflections in English is more due to his unfamiliarity with the language.
Are you watching this interview
No. What happened? Did he start every sentence with "Ok but" like he usually does lol?
I don't respect Sicily as an opening or an island
>Caruana wastes 25 minutes
he's calculating all the way to mate ok
The amount of times he has thought for half his time and then played the wrong move this match is pretty infuriating. I was really looking forward to another i dont care performance from hikaru
fabi has 20 minutes less than naka
has fabi screwed this up?
he was +3 a few times before move 40, once hikaru found Bd7 it's a draw now unless hikaru blunders
>losing to hikaru
is it over for us fabichads
Magnus' new second
>twitch streamer wins the tournament
now that would be funny
so this palace in madrid is very classy
great place to host the candidates
>prepare the classy place for the players
>they look like
Apologize.
What is the move or sequence the engine has been screaming at caruana to play and he keeps missing?
It was this position, line is top right, after Qd6 all stockfish lines ended in black being forced to give up the exchange and being lost. Caruana played Qh4, blundering a draw. He had this position or very similar with Qd6 on the board 3 times
finding Qd6 is so difficult in that position. even looking at the top engine line it's not clear exactly what you're doing
yeah it does make almost no sense, it's all about getting Qf4 and Nf5 without the bishop being on d7 to trade, it wins the rook for the knight in about 10 moves or something, but this is why the engine was so sure fabi was winning
yeah ...Bd7 stopping Nf5 isn't possible after Qd6 because of Qd5+
really simple stuff for someone like fabi to miss
its not Qd5+ after Bd7 because Be6, which does win the pawn but isn't quite as winning. It is a complicated line but fabi is 2770 so he should probably have won from this position
Before Rd1 it was trade off the minor pieces and get in a queen and pawn endgame with an extra pawn on G, after taking the E pawn during the trades
Is Nepo playing under the Russian flag or is he a child of the world?
R*ssian flag is disallowed
it'ss over hikarusisters...
Radjabov managed to make a draw from an advantage with white. Anyone surprised?
Lol lichess couldn't handle ding's loss
Why are they so upset?
the owner of lichess is ukrainian
Come on Caruana, finish that fat frick
looks like it's over for naka
That's racist towards the race of Americans
Italian-Americans are more American than Japanese-Americans
the flight crew of the plane that dropped the nagasaki bomb was mostly italian americans
now thats a spicy meataball
Lots of Pastamerican ww2 pilots
Fabi big winning now, will be so impressive when he finds a draw from here
I want to believe.
Oh look, these two morons still fixated on a single drawn board. Where are Leko and Tania?
WHy is fabi taking so long to win? My Dad is telling me its bedtime now but I want to see hikaru lose
you have to be 18 to post here
I'm turning 22 in 3 days
why is he telling you about bed time then
I wish u a happy birthday
happy birthday anon you can go to bed now
tell that basterd b***h to frick off
My Dad told me swearing is wrong so I don't swear
He doesn't like milk 🙁
Because he cares about me keeping a healthy sleep schedule
share your choccy milk with your dad to buy 5 minutes, if fabi finds rook F1 he is at least going up the exchange
based Dad
denying sadistic pleasure to his son
Sad that Carjackin went from this to a genocide supporting chud.
you will never be in nato
I hope so.
wish i could find the pic of him in his little ukrainian colors track-suit at an olympiad. guarantee there's a part of him saying "oh my god... i'm so young and they might ban me forever" despite all the bluffing
why would they ban him forever when he was just a kid?
Carjackin betrayed his real country: Ukraine.
haha yeah thanks that one
>they voted like 98% to join Russia
yes, and putin enjoys 99.9% support, we know, chud, thanks. if you want to talk identity politics you can go to tg
You guys are moronic. Karjakin is from Crimea, which is like 95% ethnic Russian and they speak Russian. Their entire history is Russian. In 2014 they voted like 98% to join Russia. This isn’t the own you think it is.
>In 2014 they voted like 98% to join Russia.
ah yes
the referendum at gun point
Guys, Ukraine is losing. When are you gonna accept reality?
if you say so, boris
> In 2014 they voted like 98% to join Russia.
Imagine believing this. You probably think that Russia, Sweden and North Korean are democracies too…
Imagine believing whatever bullshit the CIA is telling you about Russia/Donbas
Frick Westoids are truly the most moronic, propagandized people on Earth
sweden is a leading democracy
10/10 bait.
sweden is number 4 in the index of leading democracies
Nice list of the gaygiest countries not named Canada
You have eaten a lot of propaganda.
>which is like 95% ethnic Russian
>and they speak Russian.
These are incorrect and misleading respectively. In the case of the latter, a lot of Kremlin bots repeatedly spam "they speak Russian therefore they live in territory that belongs to Russia" - there is no hard link between ethnicity and native language. Even Zelenskyy's first language is Russian but he's Ukrainian.
Ukraine is a fake country. Like saying you're ottoman
define a "fake country"
Having characteristics or aspects similar to ukraine
Like Russia?
Mmm more like Czech Republic tbh tbh senpai
its slovakia that isnt a real country
Yeah well your tundra land is ruled by a lady in her 90s who lives on another continent.
Anglo man gloriously conquered this land by triumphing over savages and mercifully educating them before we found out they were morons. It was only destroyed recently from inside by kalergi globalists
>by triumphing over savages and mercifully educating them
You talking about the french?
Please don't use that word so rashly on a blue board, fr*ch will do
wales
>Their entire history is Russian
Sure, I guess so if 'history' began in 1945
>Boring stupid yawn inducing shit take and 2/10 troll comment.
Try harder.
>+68.0
knew naka was gonna have a rough time of this
thats just the percentage of how much he cares
Where were you when Hikaru was kill?
>playing with black against Fabi
to be fair to Nakamura, this was the hardest game in the tournament
he played like trash though
he was playing well until he castled
I'm playing KOTOR 2 right now, I'm pretty confident that fabi is the most light side player in this tournament
So far both players who won are former Challengers. Coincidence?
Say what you want NATO shills.
Crimea is Russian.
Crimea has always been Russian.
Crimea will never bow down to the CIA puppets in Kiev.
didn't get to watch today but just dropping in to say SHITkaru CACAmura
Shouldn't Caruana rest and prepare rather than wasting time with Rensch?
I don't see Alireza holding this.
wow great prediction.
based and 700 elo pilled
We did it! Rapportescu came back!
Why is he chaning flags? Is it political or just a money issue?
>money issue
this
Does Romania have such a bigger market than you guys? Just throw him money. He is the best thing since Leko and tbh i like him a lot more than Peter. I may be biased(fanboying) but i ve thrown 50€ on him ending with 8.5+/14 AND winning the candidates. The dude impressed me so much two years ago at Norway chess. Pay up Magyar bros, he is worth it.
I think he has already decided to leave.
Yeah i think Judit said on stream it's a done deal
I see. I understand the dude completely, i just find it hard to believe that the romanians have that much more money to offer him or that chess is more popular over there. It's not like the mutts snatched him(which would be understanble)
>mutts snatched him
I wish they did...
A lot of people here hate Rapport for this. Nobody would care if he switched for US or France or anything. They would blame the government for not giving that much money for chess that they give for soccer.
But Romania... a lot of people are pissed because of this.
He had no sponsors lately. György Gattyán (owner of livejasmin) sponsored him for years, and that helped a lot but he stopped.
He was struggling, mostly because of money issues.
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I heard some Romanian businessman (who lives in Serbia, just like Ricsi) met him at the The Superbet Chess Classic Romania and offered him sponsorship but he has to switch flags.
Which is a shame.
when does alireza play?
Wtf I didn't know that Rapport is Romanian.
We neither.
What is he smoking?
chicken cigarette
SOVL overload.
Not a sport
Then tennis isn't a sport
Tennis isn’t a sport
>come home
>Rapport saved the game
Feels good to be a Rapportbro, real proud of him. Forcing the queen exchange was very clever and this draw is almost like a win.
Looks like Ding had 2 good years in which he peaked and that's it.
Nepo starts strong and then has a melt down half way through the tourny due to being a fat moron. Nothing unexpected so far
I don't care who wins as long as he's American. Maybe Hikaru played O-O to get Fabi up to the top
There aren't any American playing in this candidates
Every country belongs to America
fabi and naka
What happened to the mongoloid norwegian? Did he get dethroned yet?
no, but he's insinuated that he might not defend the title because he's a jackass
what are those bizarre corsets they're wearing?
I only care about chess when the Botez sisters are involved.
A woman with small breasts, very hard to be a 10
>search "chess" on utube
>it's all twitch thots now
I can't believe I ever preferred Alex. Andrea is so much better.
welcome home
Thank you for realizing this. Andrea is top qt
lol I understood that reference
dingbros... it was supposed to be our turn
CHESS IS A GLORIFIED MEMORY GAME
CHESS IS A GLORIFIED MEMORY GAME
CHESS IS A GLORIFIED MEMORY GAME
CHESS IS A GLORIFIED MEMORY GAME
CHESS IS A GLORIFIED MEMORY GAME
CHESS IS A GLORIFIED MEMORY GAME
Calm down Bobby, you're dead
so tomorrow Ding beats Duda with black and in the 3rd round outplays Fabi with white like he did last time and everything will be ok, right?
Chinks shook, it's over.
>mein führer...dinger...
mfw the two men who are tied for 1st are both israeli
>hikaru lost
lol
Who is /ourguy/?
Caruana
Carlsen
Anyone else find classical chess extremely boring to watch live? I prefer to watch the recap and postgame analysis.
There are people actually watching this?
No they're done for the night but I had it on all day at work
"Had it on" isn't quite what I meant.
That's why I responded both ways fren
I was asking if people just sat there staring at the games and commentary.
Yeah while I was eating or in the pisser
I'll never admit it in these threads or /chess/, but i only watch GothamChess recap however soi he is.
He's better at analyzing and makes better video than agadmator.
Who isn't better than agad? Dude analyses nothing and explains nothing, he just runs through the moves while saying his preset phrases. Levy was ok until realized hammed up zoomer reactions would get him more viewers.
just watch daniel king
This is still going on?
there's one match each day with some break days in between
>unironically watching gigaisraelite levy
>poo liren
Lmao
I hope Nakamura wins. Would be hype match
Come on
I want to see Ding vs Magnussen
SOON TIME FOR CHESS
when does it start
hour or so i think
15:00 CET
I was gonna bump this thread but we autosaging.
wheres new one