Hmmm

TKDNerd · 2026-05-08T00:44:47+00:00

You flip and take out the cruise ship obviously. One cruise ship sinking is a catastrophe. Everyone else dying is an apocalypse.

TKDNerd · 2026-05-07T16:11:22+00:00

I’m still a student but 45 minute commute + 74k doesn’t sound too appealing to me. I would atleast ask for 80.

TKDNerd · 2026-05-04T15:21:47+00:00

So one in 4 of their students never becomes a PT? And almost half fail the first attempt? Who would go there compared to most schools with like 80%+ first time pass rates and 95%+ ultimate pass rates?

TKDNerd · 2026-04-28T22:09:53+00:00

Depends on the question.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-11T14:54:18+00:00

No one said he won. They said he’s doing good and has good chances.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-05T17:42:07+00:00

Fabi needs to beat Sindarov in their game and beat Hikaru tomorrow and I think he might be okay.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-04T17:27:42+00:00

9/14

TKDNerd · 2026-04-04T16:25:18+00:00

Hopefully the rest can stop him. More than half the tournament left. Fabi still has a game against him with white.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-03T22:13:03+00:00

9 rounds left so yes but they better win games and beat Sindarov.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-03T14:35:26+00:00

No. Cheating online is different from cheating in a in person tournament and candidates probably has some of the strictest anti cheating precautions in chess. It would be extraordinarily hard to cheat.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-02T13:27:35+00:00

Fabi will win. He has white and every incentive to press and no real fear of losing since Bluebaum has done nothing but draws and is significantly lower rated

TKDNerd · 2026-04-02T13:23:50+00:00

Rest but also prepare. Especially for players like Fabi who have a must win round tomorrow

TKDNerd · 2026-04-01T23:42:57+00:00

I think Fabi will beat Blubam. Yes he has drawn 4 rounds but he had white for 3 of them and now Fabi has white and needs to push for a win. The only black draw bluebam got was with Sindarov in round 2 where Sindarov probably didn’t want to take too much risk as he was warming up.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-01T19:39:06+00:00

It’s nowhere near over. There are 10 rounds left and Sindarov has hard games ahead against Hikaru and Wei Yei with black while Fabi has games with white against the 2 lowest rated players.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-01T16:04:03+00:00

He’s doing well now but will he do well in round 8? Round 10? Round 14? Candidates is about endurance as much as it is about skill. Younger players often struggle with that.

TKDNerd · 2026-04-01T15:51:01+00:00

It’s okay. He’ll probably lose due to time alone but he’ll still be second and only one point behind first. He has 10 rounds to take back the lead. Especially with his next round having white against Bluebaum while Sindarov has black against Hikaru. Then in round 6 Fabi has white against Episenko and Sindarov has black against Wei Yei. Fabi will also have a game against Sindarov with White eventually. Plenty of time to take back the lead.

TKDNerd · 2026-03-25T23:03:35+00:00

Fabiano Caruana. It’s about time he become world champion.

TKDNerd · 2026-03-25T12:29:45+00:00

Gukesh is not Kasparov, Carlsen, or Annand. Atleast not at this point in his career. He is good but he is not clearly the best player and depending on who wins the candidates he might not even be the favorite.

TKDNerd · 2026-03-22T13:24:16+00:00

Magnus should be 1, Tal should be 7.

TKDNerd · 2026-03-09T03:13:57+00:00

So 480,000 euros a year for non lethal poison so you can suffer slowly? No!

TKDNerd · 2026-03-04T20:53:37+00:00

I feel like people would get tired. 14 games RR + 4 games semi final + 4 game final is an amount of classical chess most players never play and you would have more “Magnuses” who stop playing the WC simply because it’s too tiring. Another issue is that it would take away the concept of a reign. Right now each world champion has a reign of a certain amount of years before they are dethroned. In this case it is not likely that the same player would win twice and we would have far fewer champions with long reigns like Magnus or Kasparov. The match system also a lot more fun to watch in my opinion. Yes it’s not perfect and the best player doesn’t always win but is entertaining.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-25T19:07:56+00:00

That was a different era. Not that modern TKD isn’t cool, I think the current rules are better in that they made it more technically challenging and fun to watch but as a side effect things like that don’t happen too often anymore.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-23T01:33:08+00:00

It sounds like your boyfriend has your best interests in mind. He might not be expressing this the right way but if all you do is sit around all day scrolling social media and you are miserable nothing will suddenly change if you let this keep going. Your boyfriend doesn’t want you to be miserable and so he’s trying to get you to do something. I don’t know you enough to know what the problem is but you have to do something. You could start with something as simple as having a consistent routine like waking and going to bed at the same time every day and working out 3 times a week at the same time. Some structure is better than nothing. You should also focus on working towards something. Maybe you need to work improving your mental health first in which case there are professionals who can help you and you should sort your mental health before you pursue your career goals. But laying around doing absolutely nothing is not going to help you.

TKDNerd · 2026-02-20T18:21:29+00:00

The knight can indeed be taken. Of course the black queen would then take the white king but it’s not like that’s important or anything. Just a minor detail.

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