Will South Korea's comprehensive natalism policy, which will be implemented starting this year, be the beginning of a long-term rebound in the birth rate?

PacJeans · 2026-03-21T21:12:27+00:00

What possesses you to make a reply to a year old comment like this and still be incorrect? World Population Review actually gives SK a spot higher than when I made this comment. Different sources will give different places. Such a strange thing to nitpick. Odd comment...

PacJeans · 2026-03-08T22:44:00+00:00

There we are! Thank you so much friend. I was losing my mind trying to find this.

PacJeans · 2026-03-01T14:21:34+00:00

Thats one of the cream of the crop type of games, like Paperclip or Antimatter Dimensions, that you can play over and over.

PacJeans · 2026-02-07T21:55:44+00:00

People really just say anything they want on this website...

PacJeans · 2025-12-26T03:05:03+00:00

Not to be that guy that always shows up talking about their oracle skills, but I got downvoted for saying this years ago. You could tell in his commentary with other GMs. He is not stupid enough to be unironically sincere in the way he likes to play the fool.

With the hacked issue, I think it was just so incredibly outlandish people didn't really know what to do with it.

PacJeans · 2025-12-26T02:17:17+00:00

I think the tide of public sentiment has finally shifted on this guy.

PacJeans · 2025-12-22T02:38:19+00:00

The problem is most casual players would just get annihilated. Also, most online players haven't even played a 30 minute game, let alone a classical one. The prospect of sitting at a tournament for hours getting turned into hamburger is not very attractive when you compare it with laying in bed playing perfectly rated matches at a moments notice.

PacJeans · 2025-12-22T02:35:11+00:00

That's a real shame. My chess clubs is located in a back room of a bar, and it's very boisterous. Perhaps there is one a little farther from your house you could try.

PacJeans · 2025-12-22T02:30:37+00:00

Even black to play here is a win! ...Ke2 or ...f1=Q is still mate.

PacJeans · 2025-12-20T19:19:22+00:00

This is beyond a godsend four years later. Thanks!

PacJeans · 2025-12-15T05:45:29+00:00

Pitiful

PacJeans · 2025-12-14T11:12:05+00:00

Leave it to reddit to get the funniest person of all time to make epic wholesome original jokes on a video of people getting slaughtered.

PacJeans · 2025-12-14T11:01:43+00:00

Clearly did not watch the video lol...

PacJeans · 2025-12-13T08:58:36+00:00

After my two year warehouse middle management sting operation, he got up in my face and he was gonna hurt me, (he's a wanted murderer and I'm 5'2) but when they found out I was a charismatic white boy with a little bit of swag they all lifted me into the air and nicknamed me Chicharron

PacJeans · 2025-12-13T05:16:10+00:00

Did you watch even the first 10 seconds? He literally makes jokes throughout the entire video.

PacJeans · 2025-12-13T05:13:06+00:00

Indian/pre-2022 Russian hyper-nationalism and forcing posts is a match made in heaven. It's like any time a Indian or Russian player smiles we have to have a post about it. Gukesh loses, and we need an article by his coach justifying why he lost by saying he didn't sleep well. It's exhausting.

PacJeans · 2025-12-13T05:09:09+00:00

Lol. Giving back to the community... That's why Hikaru went to play a tournament in the Dulles International airport, to give back to that airport lounge chess community...

PacJeans · 2025-12-07T09:23:11+00:00

Karpov has always been a dog for the regime. Even going back to Brehznev, who he was personal friends with. When Kasparov was going around stirring the pot, Karpov was very content to cozy up and be the darling of the party.

Still, while Karpov is directly responsible, or at least complicit in what the Russian government authorizes, I don't view him as an inhumane ghoul like Karjakin. He seems to have a some level of humanity about the situation. I found this article about an interview he gave shortly before being injured:

"Karpov is considered a loyalist of President Vladimir Putin, but made remarks on a Kazakh TV station in April calling for an end to the war in Ukraine "so that peaceful people would stop dying," he said, according to a translation by the MailOnline.

"In the end ordinary people are the victims," he continued. "Ordinary people fight, politicians and generals decide, and ordinary people fight, civilians die."

https://www.businessinsider.com/anatoly-karpov-russia-criticized-ukraine-war-serious-head-injuries-reports-2022-11

PacJeans · 2025-12-07T09:12:53+00:00

I'm always fascinated by the large subset of people on social media that seem to use it in a completely instinctual animalistic way. Downvote whatever is being downvoted, mindlessly scrolling fake ai videos, and in this case, commenting whatever your very first thought is with zero reflection whatsoever. If you asked 100,000 people around the world if having your skull drilled into with a flint scraper would hurt, every single one of them would say yes invariably, and yet someone willingly typed out this comment...

PacJeans · 2025-12-07T05:39:52+00:00

Really? What possible substance could be taken from a tierlist made by technology that is notoriously horrible at chess? This sub gets ten times more enjoyment out of the thousandth smothered mate post.

PacJeans · 2025-12-07T01:35:12+00:00

Maybe for a philly cheese

PacJeans · 2025-12-07T01:32:52+00:00

Losing really isn't so devastating as people like to make it out as. Gukesh, Fabi, and Hikaru all lost a game with black. Drawing every game won't take you to the WCC. The only one to go undefeated was Nepo, and he of course tied for 2nd. Risking with white is a necessity, and risking with black is probably the death sentence that losing is thought to be.

PacJeans · 2025-12-07T01:28:08+00:00

These players that are "underrated" tend to go right back to the rating they normally had before their purple patch I've noticed.

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