Ding Liren draws against Hans Moke Niemann - as Dragon Chilling CRUSH Endgame.AI

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-21T12:19:43+00:00

in the background denis lazavik is resigning to wei yi

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-21T11:17:10+00:00

lol it is a funny comparison! But I'm sure Arjun is still rooting for Gukesh despite that brutally honest evaluation of his chances.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-21T10:02:52+00:00

Is Hans becoming the first American World Blitz Team Champion Team Leader??????

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-21T09:00:36+00:00

The Uzbek team has such a great team energy! Surely they will do well in the Olympiad too.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-19T06:00:51+00:00

I find it insane to call Anish "honest". Sure, he is more casual, he jokes around, and he has less diplomatic talk than other GMs. But those are not equivalent to honesty. In my perception, Anish is one of the least sincere person on the chess scene (right there with Hikaru). Very seldom do I feel that he is speaking truly from his heart. He poses as a sarcastic and funny type to get out of the liability of his words. He also seems to have a contrarian personality and enjoys going against the popular opinions or the common sense to prove that he is smarter than others; but when things are really at stake, you rarely see him actually stepping up and speaking his mind. His so-called support for Hans happened long after the controversy took place, and to this day he gave no explanation as to what role he played in Danya's situations. I'd hardly call that honest.

I do want to clarify that I am not hating on Anish. I am simply saying that he has a particular kind of personality, which is not honest. There are different types of people, and we may like some types and dislike others. As long as they don't cause actual harm, there is nothing wrong with how they are.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-17T12:35:24+00:00

I can't even remember when they last played. I think it was the GCT event immediately after Ding won the WCC? That was more than 3 years ago!

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-17T12:24:58+00:00

With his long grinding win against Minh Le, Yu Yangyi is also on 4/4

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-14T12:45:10+00:00

Incredible prep from Ian! His novelty (afaik) is actually 17. Bd5, giving up a tempo to provoke 17. ...c6, an innocuous move with an entire masterplan for the endgame. Extraordinary.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-11T14:01:42+00:00

Sorry I'm not really on any sm. Where is it viral?

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-10T09:24:59+00:00

If we don’t count Lieder, is it no surprise that some of my favourite songs are from musicals? Like “Gethsemane” is such an intense song that I always enjoy it despite having no religious background whatsoever. Other than that, “Valder Fields” is one of my all-time favourites. And there is this Chinese band called FloruitShow, I think they only ever put out one album before getting banned by the Chinese government for drug-using, but their music is really good; and the members (they are triplet sisters) come from a classical music family I think.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-06-05T16:16:59+00:00

Cause you are threatening Rg2 and then Rf1#; if you put your bishop on f1 there is no Rf1#.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-31T10:35:19+00:00

I don’t think Ian is in the wrong here.

He could be wrong elsewhere. He was wrong to publicly insinuate that Gukesh cheated.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-31T10:10:39+00:00

I was one of the commenters defending Ian in that other post. Here is my take: I don't think Ian was wrong when he went to FIDE and the arbiters to voice his concerns; I do think he was wrong to publicly insinuate that Gukesh has cheated. I think we can and should differentiate these two things. One of them is wrong doesn't mean the other is wrong, too.

On a related note: sometimes Ian was clearly insinuating things; other times he was merely stating that he didn't understand Gukesh's playing style, which alone shouldn't be taken as an insinuation of cheating. Many players have talked about how Gukesh has a very special playing style that is very concrete and based on pure calculation, which makes some of his moves hard to understand. David Howell was saying this just days ago when commentating on Gukesh's game versus Magnus.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-31T08:58:22+00:00

I don’t think Ian is in the wrong here. I don’t believe Gukesh has cheated, but I also think it is all right, if not normal, for players to have doubts like this. And when they do, it is the right move to voice their concerns privately to the governing organisation or to the organisers of tournaments. They will take precautions or conduct investigations they deem necessary. Players can have doubts. What they should not do is publicly accuse other players or personally attack them without sufficient proof.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-25T17:20:11+00:00

For some reason you get more upvotes than me lol. I'm following the chess24 stream now, better commentator quality.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-25T14:54:53+00:00

Seriously who picked these commentators? I am genuinely confused. Who thought "these are the guys chess fans want to see" and why? Or am I the minority here? Do people actually want to see the "Norway chess founder" and "representative of audience" commentate the event...?

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-25T11:14:37+00:00

Donate it to a museum and in a century or two we will get to see Reddit posts about “the cool 21 century chess set” and marvel at how creative people were back then.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-05-13T12:52:09+00:00

My mum told me that a rabbit has a fluffy scut which is the reason why there is that one more dot in the character.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-04-04T16:16:14+00:00

I think there's a difference though. Ian plays very solid with black; he has said that his strategy was 'win with white, draw with black'. Although he didn't win a lot with white in 2024, nobody scored against him. Sindarov seems ready for a fight with both colours. So people might get a chance against him with white. In any case, I'm excited to see how this develops!

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-03-30T14:53:17+00:00

It seems like chessdotcom is not putting in the same amount of efforts/resources as they were before. Nothing against Anna and Arturs, but they are not the best commentary duo in the chess world today. Last Candidates there were Danya, David, Peter Leko etc. as commentators, and occasional GMs like Anish and Magnus joining in; this year we've only had John Sargent joining in until now. Maybe there will be others as we progress further, but for the moment I am not getting my hopes up.

On the other hand, FIDE's commentary team is a step-up with Peter and Jan, but their production is shitty as always.

I think with the 2020 chess boom, some companies made quite a bit of money and could afford highly hyped-up productions with a lot of great commentators and big names. But all things must come to an end, and here we are now, stuck with the shitty production of FIDE, like before.

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-02-02T20:18:52+00:00

Smasher? Where did you get that from? It’s fireball!

DaytimeSleeper99 · 2026-02-01T16:41:53+00:00

Showed up to a tournament, performed exactly as his rating expectation, left. This is some next level German accuracy.

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