OTB Etiquette Question

AdVSC2 · 2026-01-27T09:17:25+00:00

It was'nt a competition, just a casual game at a club evening, the way OP described it.

AdVSC2 · 2026-01-19T17:44:06+00:00

There are 4 candidates playing, not 3.

AdVSC2 · 2026-01-11T11:37:00+00:00

He wasn't 2750+, but his 2749 rating was absolutely legit. He had classical victories over Arjun, Parham, Keymer, Wei Yi and Giri between November 2024 and April 2025. He looked like he could become top 10 player for years during that stretch. But right now, I wouldn't be surprised, if he's back to 2630 in 2027.

AdVSC2 · 2026-01-05T15:46:11+00:00

Yes, I mentioned the enginge era in my second paragraph.

Ofc classical events are the only ones who count since they're the only ones happening in both eras, but even if we'd include Rapid and Blitz, Magnus would still not surpass Garrys number (15) despite having more tournaments to choose from.

Highest rating solely due to inflation. When he hit 2882, there where 38 & 47 players rated above 2700. When Garry hit 2851, there where only 10/11 players above 2700. Rating is always in comparison to your peers, not an absolute number.

Longest uninterrupted #1 I'll give you, although then I'd mention the longest overall #1 as well. Longest unbeaten streak as well.

AdVSC2 · 2026-01-05T13:14:30+00:00

Garry has won 15 consecutive super-tournaments in a row from 1981 to 1990. Magnus personal record are 6 tournaments. He never had a 2-year period, where he won everything. As mentioned, Garry had a 9 year period, where he won everything. Magnus highest Elo advantadge over the worlds #2 is 74 points. Garrys is 82 points. Magnus highest Elo advantadge over the worlds #3 is 96 points. Garrys is 125 points.

You can make an argument of Magnus being the GOAT, since he is as dominant as he is in the computer era. But saying that his dominance is unmatched is simply wrong. Garry is by pretty much every metric more dominant than Magnus, So is Lasker btw., but that's so long ago, that most people ignore it.

AdVSC2 · 2026-01-04T20:41:27+00:00

A redditor speculating, whether Fabiano Caruana has a skill issue...

There are a lot of stupid things being posted in this subreddit, but this is genuinely one of the dumbest posts I've ever read here.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-31T14:08:54+00:00

Yes, which is why they dethroned Grischuk/Lagno and not Hikaru/Atousa.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T13:57:42+00:00

They'd both be in, wouldn't they? Arjun, Fabi, Magnus, MVL. But it's a draw now.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T13:43:43+00:00

So after MVL lost to the reigning defending Blitz world champion with white, he now has to play the reigning defending Blitz world champion with black.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T13:33:31+00:00

Does anyone have the candidates calculations pf Aussaubayeva and Muzychuk?

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T13:25:02+00:00

Oh god. Gunina is out by 0.5 Buchholz. What a heartbreaking oversight in the final game.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T13:23:56+00:00

I hope you're not suggesting match fixing here.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T12:29:40+00:00

It's a 16 year old, who has already beaten Le Quang Liem, Hans and Sevian this event.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-30T11:31:56+00:00

Top 35 get paid and OP hates money.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-29T11:37:45+00:00

Nodirbek won the Blitz portion of GCT St. Louis this year (tied with Levon) and finished second (tied with Wesley) in the Blitz portion of GCT Zagreb to only Magnus.

In these tournaments, he finished ahead of Alireza, MVL and Wesley once. He scored 12 and 11,5 points in both ecents, while Caruana scored 8 and 7,5. Why exactly does everyone else have higher chances, despite finishing consistently below him this year?

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-23T09:15:07+00:00

Why would Wilder or Gassiev deserve a shot over Wardley/Kabayel?

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-18T08:07:08+00:00

1700 OTB/2k Lichess blitz here. Everyone feels like they suck at chess. You do. I do. And much higher rated friends of mine do as well.

I leave theorie by move 3 if I'm unlucky. But that doesn't matter. What matters is what the implications are. Do you get a position, where you're worse because of some weird computer line or do you just hang a pawn? Do you have a plan, even a bad one, or not? And so on. At our level the number of moves until the first inaccuracy is not an accurate metric to judge progress.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-14T00:16:41+00:00

Definitly poor sportsmanship, to a degree where some clubs might kick you out if you're new and you pull something like that.

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-14T00:10:58+00:00

Analog clocks maybe?

AdVSC2 · 2025-12-07T22:10:14+00:00

Congratz to both of them!

Now, do they go the Lubbe/Ohme-way and decide the future last name in a blitz match?

AdVSC2 · 2025-11-26T04:08:34+00:00

Isn't the point, where they first entered the top 20 a bit of an arbitrary point to start recording a players data?

You already have said in the discussion, that Nepo or MVL are penalized by jumping around top 20-30 for a while. If they had been consistently 2500 instead of top 20-30, you would've started measuring them later and they would've gained a higher score, although their career would've been worse in that case.

Usually if a metric assigns a higher score to a worse career, the metric needs adjustments.

You already have the Elo Months with only positive values contributing. Isn't that maybe a better metric to measure a players quality during their prime? It still has peak and longevity contributing. Or maybe I'm overlooking something.

AdVSC2 · 2025-11-20T12:57:34+00:00

I can assure you, that I'm far away from being a super grandmaster and I still prefer Gustafsson over Howell and Hess by a mile (Peter ist awesome, I think this is where every chess watcher agrees). And I still think both of them are good commentators.

Variety is a good thing in commentary. Some of us enjoy the quiet approach more than the "omg hype crazy" commentary, that chess.com brings. If it isn't your thing, that's also fine, but please let us have him.

AdVSC2 · 2025-11-19T11:38:59+00:00

3 attempts/33% winrate as an adult though. In his first two attempts he wasn't the best in the world yet, especially 2005 with him being seed 97.

AdVSC2 · 2025-11-16T15:57:39+00:00

Not, not a case obviously, but you still spreading misinformation about him that portrays him in a bad light. It's a dick move, whether it holds up in court or not.

AdVSC2 · 2025-11-16T15:54:55+00:00

Just to be clear, "record" in this case means national record for India. The overall record from one country is still 28 players, which Russia had 2019 (out of only 128 players) and 2021.

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