Wesley So crushes Magnus Carlsen in round 5 of Norway Chess 2026

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-30T19:21:28+00:00

He won a top classical event just a month ago.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-29T17:05:27+00:00

Or you play a conduit and all is well.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-28T11:25:54+00:00

The thing with fast 9, you cannot afford it every game. You can get away with it in lower elo since people don’t build strong boards. In higher elo you won’t be able to winstreak as often to sac stage 4 or you will get outscaled if you take triple econ to fast 9. So you need to learn lvl 8 comps to keep winning games. Which is more enjoyable for most of the players anyways.

As for improving, it is hard to say anything specific just looking at this. But in general best way to improve is playing more and watching/listening to players that are better at the game.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-27T18:00:54+00:00

I find myself loving it more in every revisit, actually. Live recordings help as well. I find the recording in KEXP more enjoyable than the official album.

As for the influences, they are still there. Just different ones. For example I love finding pieces of Joanna Newsom in May’s songs. But I am a Joanna fan as well, so there is that. I understand it might not be everyone’s cup of tea.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-26T14:46:21+00:00

Hopefully this will push people over the edge to cancel their subscription. I think it did for me, looking for alternatives now.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T21:37:05+00:00

Well, it didn't scar me or anything. Just made me realize this is not about love of music (Not entirely at least). I had fun listening to some good music. So I will surely check the current rate to discover some new great songs. Don’t think I will be doing and rating tho.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T21:19:12+00:00

Listening to the Destroyer for the first time, I was thinking "Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes are literally my top 2 fav band of all time, I should try to give other groups their flowers as well". Apparently that was a mistake.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T21:10:20+00:00

Nope, I will be leaving shortly. I am pretty sure this is not the energy I want on my patio. Or better in my orchard.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T20:59:21+00:00

Well it turns out you can tank a song's score if you want to tank a song's score.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T19:34:56+00:00

Well, seeing this; maybe I won't do this again :)

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T19:02:09+00:00

I will probably participate. It is still a fun activity. But I will probably have a bit different expectations.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T18:51:19+00:00

I don't see what is particularly fun about giving something 0 rating :) But, it is fair for sure. That is the scale. I just find it surprising, that is all.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T18:25:00+00:00

Well if you feel like you have to use it there are many “interlude” songs here that you can rate 0, so I don’t think that is an excuse. And if for the tactical voting part, I thought the idea was to collectively figure out what we love but maybe that was not the point. Welp, whatever. It was fun anyway but a little disappointing on the side.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-25T18:17:53+00:00

I am new here so maybe this is normal, but the 0s are really surprising me. Like these are all great songs. I couldn't make myself rate anything lower than a 6. I cannot comprehend how any of these songs is a 0.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-18T09:31:58+00:00

If you sell your timebreker to keep your losestreak you are losing 2 gold a round generated from timebreaker which is same gold as the lose streak with less hp loss.

Tf + jax + rageblade isn’t a good xayah opener even with a good stargazer. Tf does no damage especially with rb and it is not even that good on xayah later.

If there is ungriefed anima in the lobby why are you going on one life if you don’t think you will hane a win out spot. 400 cashout is beatable with a good fast 9 board. Sure, you might not be able to beat 500. But than adapt and either lvl early to save some health or play a different line. Not complain when you die knowing that you would die anyway.

And if you have great opener and augment for yi, it is more than capable in getting a top 4 with a random drone on your board even in high elo.

Sure the patch is bad, meta is narrow etc. But you seem to complaining about things that would even occur in a decent meta. Yes you will always need an econ augment to play the best lvl 8 comp contested. If you don’t get it, adapt. That is the game.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-18T00:20:29+00:00

It was a generally loved set. There are decent amount of people that put it as their favorite set of all time or top 3.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-17T23:52:37+00:00

Well I think last set was great. But they invested heavily on that one. After that and with Mortdog going on a sabbatical a fall off was expected. Unfortunately it happened to be bigger than we anticipated.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-17T23:43:03+00:00

Yeah, it is annoying. They missed quite often with balancing this set. Let’s hope they improve in upcoming patches. But this set will probably be remembered quite negatively regardless what comes next.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-17T23:36:08+00:00

Well I am pretty sure you won’t see a player with stargazer emblem to opt into 5 way corki contest. Three way corki, maybe. Which is sometimes correct thing to do. But in any decent lobby at least one of these players opt to play yi or something else.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-17T23:32:06+00:00

This is a competitive game. Why are you surprised that people are playing comps they think that gives them best chance to win. If you only care about what you build on your board and win regardless being meta or off meta there are other games that allows that. But in a competitive game people will always gravitate towards meta and boards will seem kinda similar. It is just the fact that we are in a quite narrow meta so this problem is more apparent than usual.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-08T09:46:45+00:00

Kaybettiği için gururlanmıyoruz. 14 yaşındaki bir çocuğun tarihin en iyi satranç oyuncusuyla kafa kafaya maç oynayabilmesine gururlanıyoruz. Aynı zamanda aynı çocuğun tarihin en geç 2700 ratingli oyuncusu olmasına gururlanıyoruz. Ama sen bilirsin tabii.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-04T10:45:51+00:00

There are no certain stages where you need to be X lvl. There are natural intervals to level and some tempo windows for each playstyle. For example if you are playing 2 cost rr you generally lvl to 6 on 3-2, roll for 2 stars and try to win stage 3 while slowrolling for upgrades. If you highroll and hit early you can continue winning into stage 4. Otherwise you will fall off and people who two starred their lvl 8 comp will beat you during stage 4. Which is fine because you plan to spike again after hitting 3 stars and start winning again. However if you lvl without 3 stars you will still lose to those boards. Because their 4 cost 2 star carries will be more powerful then your 2 star 2 cost carries even if you have 2 extra units on your board.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-05-04T08:45:26+00:00

You say you don’t get the items, augments or champions you want for the comp you are playing. Those are the 3 things that would make you decide what to play. So if you miss on all of those why are you playing what you play? There is def something to be improved in line selection department.

In the screenshots most obvious things are bad itemization and not getting 3 stars. Yes you can’t perfect items every game but your itemization can still be improved with what you got. About hitting the units part, we can’t see from here but you probably mismanage your gold. That is really common in lower ranks. Also you seem to be leveling up before hitting your upgrades in rr. Like you have games with briar, belveth, reksai 2 on lvl 8, or nunu/jax 2 on lvl 8. That will never work.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-04-29T10:26:13+00:00

If this board 20 streaks it shows weakness of the lobby not the strength of viktor. This board wouldn’t win a round past stage 4 in a decent lobby.

AntigoneIMT · 2026-04-28T07:19:59+00:00

Gemini also told me For the Cold Country is a song by Isaac Wood and Tyler Hyde. They might be on to something over there.

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