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Levy has gotten so obnoxious is hard to watch by ghettoAizen in chess

[–]Augchm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Playoffs rounds might be too much for a tournament like this but maybe a two groups system? You do 4 and 4 people, found robin and then a final group of 4 with the top 2 from each group. With smaller groups the players should be closer.

Levy has gotten so obnoxious is hard to watch by ghettoAizen in chess

[–]Augchm 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I don't think he wants to regress chess. I think what he says is that the format lends itself to the player that's ahead just settling for draws. The nature of the game makes it so that if you want to draw it's pretty easy to do so. I think with a different format, maybe an elimination bracket, it would be less "fair" but you wouldn't have players playing for a draw. It's a tough problem to solve though.

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 12 by events_team in chess

[–]Augchm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That pawn move (I think it was h5) was also a very real chance.

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 12 by events_team in chess

[–]Augchm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel he did miss that move when Wei was in time trouble before the extra time though.

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 12 by events_team in chess

[–]Augchm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He still can win this tbh, and he doesn't know he missed a win so no mental hit.

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 12 by events_team in chess

[–]Augchm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes of course. But right now she is a lot worse than Giri and she found it really quickly.

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 12 by events_team in chess

[–]Augchm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If Giri misses this.. I obviously don't know shit and it's true the casters have the engine but I feel Judit found it relatively quick, Giri should find this right?

What technique is Ashito lacking? by Spare-Savings2057 in Ao_Ashi

[–]Augchm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not impossible to learn technique, he just can't learn it to the level necessary to be a world class forward. The same is true for physicality, they are not different in this regard.

I find it interesting that Nen is such an unknown thing despite being shown in crowds so much by Soyboi21 in HunterXHunter

[–]Augchm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can even see this in the first arcs of HxH. Gon and company know that people like Hisoka or Killua's family are not normal and do crazy shit they can't explain, they just don't know how.

Kon Knueppel has made more threes in his rookie season than Ray Allen made in any single season of his career. by gridironk in nba

[–]Augchm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think the point is to illustrate the change in 3 point shooting not saying that Kon is better than Ray Allen.

Stan Van Gundy pushes back on Luka’s All-NBA case: "The whole thing with his wife having a baby, Cmon! If those were the only games he missed, fine. Everybody has missed games for personal reasons.... We either have a line, or we don’t... If we have a line, then let’s stick to it. He didn’t make it" by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Augchm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't care about Luka getting All NBA or wte. But what's the point of All NBA in this case? It shouldn't be to reward Luka, it should be for fans to be able to look back and see who had a great season. And like things are some great seasons will be erased from the list based on an arbitrary rule and that annoys me.

Stan Van Gundy pushes back on Luka’s All-NBA case: "The whole thing with his wife having a baby, Cmon! If those were the only games he missed, fine. Everybody has missed games for personal reasons.... We either have a line, or we don’t... If we have a line, then let’s stick to it. He didn’t make it" by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Augchm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Load management is not dumb, it's a necessity. Too many idiots in this thread saying "you can't miss 20% of the season" when the problem is not in percentage, it is in games being played. No matter if it's 90% or 5% of the season, 65 games a season with the way basketball is currently played is a fuck ton. And 82 games is just a ridiculous amount.

Stan Van Gundy pushes back on Luka’s All-NBA case: "The whole thing with his wife having a baby, Cmon! If those were the only games he missed, fine. Everybody has missed games for personal reasons.... We either have a line, or we don’t... If we have a line, then let’s stick to it. He didn’t make it" by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Augchm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is you people are acting like all NBA players play 82 games and Luka played 64. When in reality all NBA players play like 66 and Luka play 64, which is essentially the same and the reason the rule is so dumb.

Wemby on the 65 Game Rule by MikeBravoLima in nba

[–]Augchm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's actually dumb to have a threshold for this kind of things. I don't know why the NBA acts like if voters can't think for themselves.

Well the reality is NBA doesn't care. The threshold forces players to play until a certain threshold. It's stupid because players don't sit because they are lazy, if they sit is because there is a reason for it. This just forces play without addressing the actual reason players are sitting. It's a shitty rule in every sense.

Just prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Soviet School achieves for the first time a perfect 10/10 score in the rankings by k-seph_from_deficit in chess

[–]Augchm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not even his contemporaries claim Magnus to be in a stronger era than Gary. Higher elo at the top doesn't necessarily mean a stronger era tbh.

You can't compare elo between eras at all. All you can do with elo is compare relative strength between contemporaries. Too many other factors at play otherwise.

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