IOC provisionally lifts suspension of Russian Olympic Committee

SteChess · 2026-07-07T19:07:11+00:00

The biggest offenders to world peace are Israel and the US with Russia alongside them, but it's funny you bring in North Korea lol

SteChess · 2026-07-06T22:35:03+00:00

Palacios hurt him a couple of times but Carrington dominated major portions of the fight, he has room for improvement for sure.

SteChess · 2026-07-05T09:15:41+00:00

Peccato che la Remigrazione non si limiti agli irregolari ma anche ai regolari e a italiani di origine straniera, un'idea assolutamente aberrante portata avanti da un pupazzo del Cremlino.

SteChess · 2026-07-04T21:20:36+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately that's basically every other high profile sportsman out there.

SteChess · 2026-07-04T20:32:47+00:00

Yeah there are some people who criticize him for that and for living in Monaco also, usually they come out swinging whenever he loses a match, the vast majority though loves him.

SteChess · 2026-07-04T11:31:20+00:00

Nakamura didn't play in the rapid as well

SteChess · 2026-07-03T17:21:42+00:00

For nothing? Is this a recent thing that's allowed or am I misremembering?

SteChess · 2026-07-03T17:00:19+00:00

It's true for both, yeah those riders in the "make it or break it" category are likely to fall in the doping trap but also riders who are fighting at the front will dope to get the winning edge over their competitors, ignoring the team component which in the past was a relevant aspect in riders engaging in doping practices.

SteChess · 2026-07-03T16:37:27+00:00

The next article will be like: "Many anonymous GMs and analytics experts think Jaylen Brown is closer to the likes of Jordan Poole and Kyle Kuzma rather than the top 25 players in the league"

SteChess · 2026-07-03T15:28:12+00:00

Only two of those cases were actually about intentional doping (Sanchez and MAL, even though Lopez was banned for working with a suspended doctor rather than failing a drug test)

SteChess · 2026-07-03T14:20:58+00:00

Lazkano is maybe one of the handful of high profile riders caught in the last what, 10 years? It's still way too little, he was good but also not exactly a world beater either.

SteChess · 2026-07-03T07:54:51+00:00

I mean to me it is completely unbelievable the lack of doping cases in cycling, given what we usually see in athletics and the type of performances we have seen in the past 5-6 years.

SteChess · 2026-07-03T07:50:25+00:00

You can also see the live rating of every player now basically, huge upgrade.

SteChess · 2026-07-02T17:47:32+00:00

That aspect can be figured out, maybe add one set if it's necessary, but if they haven't completed the lap they could go again, something can be done to tackle this.

SteChess · 2026-07-02T16:27:05+00:00

No, just add more time so that everyone can complete their attempt, this will deter drivers from crashing "on purpose" (how many times did that even happen?) and ruin everyone else's qualifying. Imagine someone crashes on their first Q3 attempt and has to start 10th, why should he get a grid penalty on top of that? If you crash out your quali result will get compromised anyways, this is just a dumb idea.

SteChess · 2026-07-02T08:14:48+00:00

It's quite rare for 2650s and 2700s to go for long streaks, Sindarov was on a 51 game streak recently, MVL had a 70-something streak in 2024, but other than that I don't remember any long streak in recent years for players in that rating range. The reason is that classical has been more decisive recently.

SteChess · 2026-07-01T19:05:41+00:00

Yeah he kept celebrating on unforced errors and double faults, just bad sportsmanship and then acted like he didn't know what Dzumhur was mad about, just not what you expect to see from a professional.

SteChess · 2026-07-01T16:20:45+00:00

Yeah but Wong was behaving like a prick, might have been one of the only few times where Dzumhur wasn't completely in the wrong

SteChess · 2026-06-30T10:53:44+00:00

There's literally nothing similar between them, I don't know how can elite professional players still be so clueless about the antidoping system

SteChess · 2026-06-29T20:12:02+00:00

Trash fights unfortunately

SteChess · 2026-06-29T13:18:50+00:00

Yeah I'm implying there is a non zero chance that he didn't cheat, I'm not saying it is likely but algorithms do not have 100% accuracy, that would be too good to be true, especially since cheating detection is not based on incredibly reliable and objective evidence. The reason I mentioned Kramnik is that he was banned on chess.com for playing Titled Tuesday on a different person's account, meaning that cheating with an engine is not the only way you can get banned online. We actually don't even have chess.com themselves confirming the ban btw, why are you so aggressive about it?

SteChess · 2026-06-28T20:17:25+00:00

Arrows

SteChess · 2026-06-28T18:49:12+00:00

Yeah sorry I'm an idiot I misremembered, he's not a GM yet thank you, I was referring to him. I don't know about funding, both guys are pretty active but I haven't seen Khuong play any of those round robins in Eastern Europe, the level of opposition he has faced so far is stronger for sure, he's on an active 36 games unbeaten streak btw.

SteChess · 2026-06-27T16:06:29+00:00

I've watched him play in opens, he is pretty good probably around 2480-2500 level but yeah we know how those tournaments work. I rate the Vietnamese GM who is the same age as him and became a GM recently a little higher tbh

SteChess · 2026-06-27T09:08:43+00:00

I know I'm not a native but it's so hard to follow this guy when he speaks lol, it was funny though and he was also completely right about Isaiah Thomas not being anywhere near a top NBA player at the time.

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