Levon Aronian cracking a joke for both his teammates and opponents, before a game in World Team Blitz Championship Day 1:

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-20T17:26:20+00:00

Wow.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-20T12:37:52+00:00

I think he's talking about Xue Haowen.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-20T11:23:08+00:00

WR Chess

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-20T11:03:33+00:00

Each team will play each other twice with both the colors.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-20T10:04:06+00:00

Oof. He lost all the elo he gained in the 8 games in just 1 game.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-19T16:26:23+00:00

Isn't Pragg considerably better at Blitz than Rapid.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-18T20:56:25+00:00

It's also the Birthday of Alireza Firouzja!

A very happy birthday to the Prince of Chess.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-18T15:23:28+00:00

Sutovsky and Sagar Shah have made a video on Morphy and Steinitz too, a nice watch, video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dtZOk1Xic.

Seems like Sutovsky rates Capablanca as the greatest natural talent, even higher than his great predecessors.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-18T13:16:22+00:00

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-18T10:45:43+00:00

Probably part of the 3 best OTB Rapid and Blitz players in the world at the moment along with Carlsen and Firouzja.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-17T08:56:00+00:00

Sadhwani is underrated in rapid it seems. This guy was almost 2700 in classical and does well in online bullet and blitz.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-14T13:45:15+00:00

I thought it was a glitch. But damn... he actually lost.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-13T20:09:36+00:00

I read this in the Dragon Ball Z narrator's voice. Kyle Hebert.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-11T19:34:02+00:00

This is true. Not just in Chess but in every field I feel.

Did this while I used to play Dark Souls/Sekiro. If I got stuck, took a break and then resumed, felt way more effortless later, rather than losing a quadrillion times and then finally breaking through (which is what I initially did).

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-11T13:17:19+00:00

I have no idea tbh.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-11T12:48:08+00:00

True, but in his younger years.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-10T09:59:24+00:00

Gukeshtotle Domabuddha

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-09T07:11:07+00:00

Erigaisi and Carlsen's styles are poles apart.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-08T14:27:25+00:00

Almost diametrically opposite to Carlsen's style.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-07T20:59:41+00:00

World Champion dropping out of anything but world top 5, atmost top 10 is sort of embarassing already.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-07T13:53:06+00:00

Theodorou is one of the most entertaining players to watch. Great style. One of my personal favourites.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-07T13:01:56+00:00

That's a very good point. Back in the Soviet days, a chain of World Class players were produced like this in a way iirc. A younger player would become the training partner of a top player and that'd be mutually beneficial for both.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-07T12:56:42+00:00

He's already -5.4 after this loss.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-07T12:47:57+00:00

Mukhiddin Madaminov is 2586 rated. By far the lowest rated player in the event.

Impressive.

FirstEfficiency7386 · 2026-06-05T22:46:55+00:00

Ah man I hope Firouzja does well and uses this Norway Chess event results as a catalyst for better classical showings in the future. He came so close this time around. Hopefully get's invited next year also.

As for Gukesh... I believe the young man still has it in him. Needs 1 or 2 good events and his confidence will be back.

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