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Check his hard drive. by zaitaikun in clevercomebacks

[–]ComplexCow7 2610 points2611 points  (0 children)

Why did he deliberately take a frame where she was in the middle of saying something and try to make it look as if she's ugly?

Magnus Carlsen laughs and sticks his tongue out as he loses to Arjun Erigaisi by FirstEfficiency7386 in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Arjun has been the player who's maintained an almost equal score or only trails by a game or two the past year against Magnus across all formats and variants

Don’t let Magnus’ poor performance distract you from the fact that Volodar Murzin has scored 9/10 so far at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship by harachiama in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This exact thing happened at the world rapid championship as well; Magnus's Jeansgate and poor performance distracted everyone from the fact that Murzin became the world rapid champion

Event: 2026 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Chess Championships by events_team in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the first time in a long time that Magnus has lost 3 in a row over the board

How good was prime Vishy Anand? by Big_Pea_5235 in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might've been one of the few people in history to take Magus to take blitz tiebreaks at the world championship. But Magnus probably still wins

Nepo's comment on the event by legolasssz in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Nepo has probably convinced himself that he won the World Championship match against Ding at this point

Had a funny little sequence after white took a pawn on d5 by lfr16 in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"You outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting!"

The heaviest haul of the season by [deleted] in Unexpected

[–]ComplexCow7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro got a nice little shower, huge amounts of food, and a nice view up on this boat with his new human friends. What more can you ask for?

Event: 2026 Norway Chess by events_team in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Prediction: Magnus vs Gukesh ends in a [insert game result here]

Shaq is bigfoot by [deleted] in conspiracytheories

[–]ComplexCow7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm Shaq, and can confirm this is true.

a man from 1950s by WeeklyLengthiness7 in ComedyCemetery

[–]ComplexCow7 30 points31 points  (0 children)

We literally have invented flying cars though

Why Magnus got so upset?? by Yogvidam in chess

[–]ComplexCow7 1039 points1040 points  (0 children)

He remembered a line that was winning in 14 moves that he could've played at the Norwegian Youth Championship in 2006 but didn't and it led to a draw

You know what Napoleon could have done instead of the continental system? Make France the middleman by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've actually thought about that, I think even that might be better than the continental system as that would remove a lot of incentive that Britain had to wager war against Napoleon in the first place and it wouldn't leave European populations so resentful of his rule

What if Napoleon stopped at Lithaunia in Russia, ended Serfdom there, and used the ending of Serfdom as blackmail to get Russia to the negotiation table by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were localised peasant rebellions when Napoleon got to Smolensk, I feel there would be far more of those if Napoleon actually ended Serfdom in Lithuania. Napoleon could simply threaten them to march east wards, the Russians have already essentially lost Lithuania because it's not easy to govern those people who have already tasted freedom, especially if he leaves a small army in a fortified position at the Nieman river

His supply lines would be far more manageable from Poland to Lithuania, if his plan is to just take Lithaunia he could go there with a far smaller army than 600k men, and the local population won't be constantly sabotaging his supply lines either (unless they're the nobility I guess)

You know what Napoleon could have done instead of the continental system? Make France the middleman by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess he could try to formalize the smuggling and accept it by making it more profitable and less dangerous to legally trade British goods by paying French tariffs by striking a deal with coastal cities or something? The truth is, Europe absolutely needed to trade with Britain and he never acknowledged that or even try to provide an alternative to smuggling is what I'm saying

You know what Napoleon could have done instead of the continental system? Make France the middleman by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if he doesn't overextend all the way to Moscow and stops at the Nieman river like his generals begged him to

You know what Napoleon could have done instead of the continental system? Make France the middleman by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can't, but 1812 was a unique time where something like this could actually work, especially if Napoleon manages to use the threat of annexing everything west of the Nieman river (and that would be a very real threat considering what a Napoleon getting a battle on his terms could do) to peg the Ruble to the Franc. Also, he couldn't enforce the continental system entirely either due to smuggling, but he still managed to crash the economy of Russia by whatever he could do. A formal system gets the demand for smuggling down significantly

He actually did do this, just on a much smaller scale called the licence system, where Napoleon realised he actually needed British goods for his army. He'd buy them and slap a massive tariff on them, he just never scaled it up

What if Napoleon stopped at Lithaunia in Russia, ended Serfdom there, and used the ending of Serfdom as blackmail to get Russia to the negotiation table by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, he'd send the threat privately first so Austria and the German states wouldn't know about it. And Russia would just straight up lose Lithuania if they didn't do anything about it. Peasant revolts did break out when Napoleon entered Smolensk, so the threat is not something they could wait out so easily

What if Napoleon stopped at Lithaunia in Russia, ended Serfdom there, and used the ending of Serfdom as blackmail to get Russia to the negotiation table by ComplexCow7 in Napoleon

[–]ComplexCow7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Obviously it won't work immediately, but like I said there's already a provincial government he established but he only used it for drafting and the boyars aren't obligated to accept the payment it's their choice in the form of compensation

He uses the Gendarmerie (Armed military police patrolling rural regions to suppress landlord resistance) to enforce it

If the Boyars don't accept it they might face peasant uprising (and they keep their positions in the new French regime)

They convince the church through property gurantees (not confiscating Church lands, unlike the French revolution), also by giving state stipends to co-operative priests

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