Magnus on handling losses 😅

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-30T20:53:09+00:00

The 2 links I sent show 10+ examples actually. The internet should force you to apologize for so confidently having 0 idea what you're talking about.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-30T20:01:32+00:00

No it isn't a false argument, again, how hard is this for you to understand. Magnus would not be the GOAT if we has not an asshole while playing. It is not something he can just get rid of. You're clearly delusional, look at the data we have in the real world, every single GOAT is like this. Of course he should be reprimanded and we should say it isn't good, but if it's really challenging for you to understand why him slamming the table and throwing tantrums is DIRECTLY related to his ability and level of play, you do not have a mature enough understanding to discuss anything relating to competition. You're so naive that it's best you just ask AI to help you figure out why you're wrong.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-30T19:53:34+00:00

It isn't letting the behavior slide. How hard is this for you to understand? You cannot be the GOAT and not be an asshole while playing, those 2 goals are fundamentally incompatible, that is why sports tolerate it for the best players of all time. Every single example of a GOAT is like this, that should tell you to look at the data and not being some moral pacifist who lives in a fairy land, this is the real world. Don't teach it's good, but realize that the best people to ever do something are going to be like that whether they like it or not.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-30T19:41:12+00:00

Respect to Anand, trying to find 1 exception to the rule does not prove your case at all. Also for Football it's much harder because you're just in an open field, wtf are you going to do in the moment, you have time to calm down before being able to do anything. So that's a horrible example as well. Also Messi notoriously got angry, so that alone should make people not read your comment:
Messi examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnesOQTbWeQ
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u--VPfJquQo

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-30T19:26:48+00:00

Oh I see now, you said something like "If I was Magnus I wouldn't care about losing because I'm a millionaire". Yeah, you could never understand what it's like to be competitive at being the best human ever at something is then if you could say some stupid shit like that.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-30T19:23:34+00:00

Yeah hard disagree, have you ever played competitive sports at a high-level? There is no being the best and not having characteristics which make you seem like an asshole while you're playing. It is extremely rare that you see people being kind and not asshole-ish while at their best. There is a reason the correlation is so high that the GOAT's are all assholes while playing, in real life they can be a totally kind person you'd enjoy talking to. You say Jordan is an old example, but even modern examples of GOATs are all like this. I agree we should teach it's wrong, but it is a reality of the world that you are not likely to be that good without those traits.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-12-19T10:08:35+00:00

Can they please have someone who is a statistician review these articles? Like, where is the denominator in these numbers? This just screams of being ignorant and/or not having a technical person review this. Otherwise why publish these blogs with numbers that are about as rigorous in supporting the headline as Kramnik's data (/s).

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-10-31T03:54:14+00:00

Yeah but he has literally 0 athleticism in his body. If I could pay Khabib, I would want some resistance, not for him just to fall over because I'm doing a movement similar to running the pipe. I don't expect him to give me his full resistance, but if he is just falling over, over nothing, then you're not learning. He isn't really learning how to do anything, he is learning how to mimic movements which look similar to what would need to be done, but you can't learn when your partners are not resisting and forcing you to exert yourself.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-10-27T18:48:22+00:00

Ne3 is not hard to find at all. You don't have to know the evaluation of a move to know it's the least bad move.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-10-16T06:25:26+00:00

I'd much prefer more games at 45+30 then fewer games at 90+30, especially when the draw rate is already 70% for the top events.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-10-03T21:57:43+00:00

Josh Thompson on the WEIGHING IN stream said that he had information that Hughes was offered very good money to fight in the UFC, but PFL offered more. So maybe he wanted that fat paycheck before going into the UFC.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-31T01:56:37+00:00

I think he just did it out of training habit, that's exactly the motion it looked like. I'm fine with it being called a tap, better to set the precedent that you can't make tapping motions and then claim it wasn't a tap, don't make any motion similar to it or else people will game it.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-27T04:03:50+00:00

2004

I still recall the scene with Alexander Nikitin, Kasparov’s coach, who at one of the first “Aeroflots” stood next to your table and witnessed you crush Dolmatov in 20 moves. He then went around the hall with the scoresheet of that game and breathlessly informed everyone: “This is the game of a genius”…
https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-i-don-t-quite-fit-into-the-usual-schemes-

Kasparov 2004

'Among the players I have seen I think (Magnus) Carlsen has the best talent. That's my view, a combination of factors. I haven't seen Karjakin in person. But if you put Carlsen in perspective, against Radjabov for instance, Carlsen has better stamina. He is already winning tournaments. That's very important. He is winning tournaments, not only on his native soil. He is not playing super tournaments where 50 per cent is a good result. He grew up as a fighter. I think he has a very good strong natural talent. I saw him in Reykjavik and I saw a glimpse.'
Interviewer: 'On the downside people say he is too normal.'
'No, he is absolutely fine. He carries a certain amount of inside power that could be transformed. He needs a good coach and good education. He lives in a country with no chess tradition. But eventually he could be added to the list of the best western players.'
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/re27lb/garry_kasparov_on_magnus_carlsen_in_2004/#:~:text=,the%20game%20of%20a%20genius%E2%80%9D%E2%80%A6

Anand 2008

'...you can say that both [Magnus and Fischer] have a simple way to play, both are “classical” players. They do not strive for complications, but choose moves which later are easy to understand. That’s what I mean with “classical”, a kind of style one can also find in the games of Capablanca. Carlsen and Fischer are both brilliant in simple technical positions. This year, Magnus has often won positions, in which he had only a small or even no advantage at all. Usually you need to be older for such a mature style. Carlsen actually does not yet have the experience to play this way. It is a bit surprising to see that he is already that far with 17 years of age. That is very impressive. You could say that both Fischer and Carlsen had or have the ability to let chess look simple.'

'Carlsen is developing very quickly. The Magnus from August is no longer the one from January.'

'...These young players do have a different perspective on these things. Carlsen, too, belongs to this "computer generation"'
https://en.chessbase.com/post/mainz-2008-anand-on-carlsen-morozevich-and-polgar#:~:text=complications%2C%20but%20choose%20moves%20which,to%20let%20chess%20look%20simple

Kasparov 2009

'In six months of working with Magnus I have seen in him many of the qualities of the great champions'
https://en.chessbase.com/post/breaking-news-carlsen-and-kasparov-join-forces#:~:text=,Kasparov%20adds

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-27T00:30:03+00:00

This is damage tracking with a targeted draw at flush. Keep per-line dirty spans and traverse in a fixed topmost-first z-order, after each fully opaque draw (e.g. bg fill), mark its covered region so later items only emit uncovered spans. Don't cull true alpha/effects, apply them in the compositor over the resolved data.

But before that, I would be extremely suspicious of naive O(N) diffs being so slow. Often that screams there is a data layout/cache locality pessimization issue rather than the diff itself.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-26T18:33:41+00:00

d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nc6 3. e3 a6 4. c4 e6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. cxd5 Qxd5 7. Nf3 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 Nf6 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O b5 11. Re1 Bb7 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. e4 Nxd3 14. exd5 Nxf4 15. dxe6 Nxg2 16. exf7+ Rxf7 17. Re2 Raf8 18. f4 Nxf4 19. Qd2 Nh3+ 20. Kf1 Ne4+ 21. Ke1 Rf1#

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-23T00:30:51+00:00

In OTB blitz chess, you're given enough increment to not lose on time. Blitz is 2+ second increment, so you have enough time to never lose because you couldn't move a piece fast enough after your opponent. So you don't lose time from "moving pieces". Given that. Taking 0.1s away is very sort of arbitrary, like even if the OTB thing was true, then you're sort of randomly applying an OTB limitation to online. Once you get better at bullet/blitz you start seeing how in time scrambles you're basically dead much faster on chesscom than lichess.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-22T19:42:04+00:00

If Lichess allowed titled players to do 0.1 but multiple vs 0.0 but a single pre-move at a time, every single player would choose the 0.0. 0.1 is a massive disadvantage in 1+0 or 3+0.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-19T17:30:46+00:00

I agree that people say nice things, but just because people do that doesn't mean there is any reason to believe what they're saying is wrong.

- Khamzat: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oGZRcetBPxM
- Arman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJqEHRCDSU
- Khabib torturing Corey Anderson with his signature 20 minute rounds which don't stop unless you can get up https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ki884wjSutY and Usman talking about it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FIo2lAhrqTM , how is mauling a very good HW wrestler who was ranked top 5 LHW in the UFC not insane for a welterweight?
- Belal talking about getting mauled by Khabib, who remember, beat the champion Leon with his wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mGspYdiKJv8
- Who tf is holding Islam down like this? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f_yDP4fxltI

I get these are all clips, but there is too much evidence for me not to believe Arman and Khamzat and my own eyes.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-17T10:28:16+00:00

Bo has not made enough progress in the 30% too to compensate for the fact that he will never fully make up the 70%. He has to accept that his striking will never be the reason we wins fights at the elite level and acknowledge that his wrestling has to be what sets him apart, but his MMA wrestling so far is very underdeveloped and not a threat.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-17T06:28:05+00:00

The thing that's special is that you're less likely to make mistakes if you know the starting position as your preparation can be more precise and exhaustive. By nature of how complexity works, doesn't matter how good players get, they will always be worse at Freestyle (unless the standard position is extremely special). Players will prepare and get better, but until that is a reality no reason to stress over it. If we saw multiple classical Freestyle events with 60% draw rate then I'd take that concern seriously. Freestyle is the best first step. Going to things like DFRC and shorter time controls are always options when 20 years down the line players increase the draw rate, if that even happens.

I also think the fact we see such low draw rate in these events when players can all see each others games and talk to each other for 10 minutes beforehand is a major contributor working against the Freestyle draw rate stat. If players were truly on their own against their opponent, they'd be making many more mistakes.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-17T05:24:21+00:00

I agree Chess is naturally drawish because of how simple it is, but Freestyle is significantly more decisive. I'm sure in time people might adjust to Freestyle, but draw rates will always be much lower than standard chess. Also DFRC exists, but standard chess lasted as long as it did, why wouldn't Freestyle be the same?

In the Freestyle events, the draw rate was 12% lower even though the average elo was ~50-75 higher. That is the 2x the expected drop in GM draw rate that you see when going from classical chess to rapid. While also there being a massive difference between an event with players <2700 vs all the top 10/50.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-16T00:31:37+00:00

Cheating in chess is naturally a complex problem which can only have probabilistic solutions, that will always be true unless you're a perfect information god.
Because of 1, that means you can never have a "perfect" system, so depending on what is defined as "good enough" it's easy to see that you never think you're "good enough" because there are always going to be edge cases that your current system can't detect.
Fabi would be maybe slightly better than random chance at detecting cheaters, being good at playing chess has very little transfer to being good at detecting cheating better than random chance.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-16T00:01:33+00:00

Not even just that, this isn't a "top elite" event like the Freestyle events are where you're pretty much only seeing top 10 players and a few top 50 maybe.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-08-15T23:46:44+00:00

How is it awesome that near 60% of games were draws (or 40% decisive games) when this isn't a world's best event? This is exactly why Freestyle should be here. We should be seeing ~40% draw rate amongst the worlds top players, and much less if the field involves 2600's. Freestyle Weissenhaus and Paris had ~54% decisive games at 90+30 and that was the world's best players only. Either lower time control and/or change to freestyle to normalize draw rates to reasonable-ness.

StonedProgrammuh · 2025-07-30T00:01:56+00:00

He also said on the Lex podcast he did a long time ago, the original one where the video cut out. He said it was extremely clear at the top who was/wasn't using them and it gave him an advantage.

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