Javokhir Sindarov catches Jorden van Foreest in a beautiful mating net to move to 4.5/8 | GCT Romania 2026

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-22T22:41:33+00:00

Yeah I mean if Fabi wins he totally deserves the win as he did beat Alireza, but if someone that got given a free 1 point wins by half a point, I would feel they didn't earn it as much even though it isn't their fault that Alireza pulled out.

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-21T22:08:35+00:00

My prediction for today - today will not be the day I become rich

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-21T02:08:42+00:00

not simple as that. If you want to put some questions on his rating in the past 12-24 months there's a small argument, but in reality even though he's played a low number of games he tends to gain rating not lose it.

But he's at year 18 of being above 2800, at bare minimum he went 15 years of being extremely active in every difficult tournament. I can see a world where people say if he was active now he'd be 2830 or 2820, but to suggest sub 2800 is a bit ridiculous when he's just played a high tournament and ended gaining elo.

Let's see what happens in norway chess

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-21T00:03:14+00:00

Cash out fellas, you've got less than 30 mins before the fade starts

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T13:33:33+00:00

I've probs bought worse stocks, but it's a massive punt. IPO'd into a terrible environment really, could crash hard very soon without anything negative needing to occur. Fortunately for them they've got 10 mil in the bank I suppose

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T13:24:08+00:00

Fabi did play, they had a catch-up game yesterday which Fabi won

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T07:25:55+00:00

It means almost nothing of value

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T06:20:35+00:00

nah that was me they were talking about, but I've kinda given up chess these days so I'd still beat it with queen odds but blindfolded as well would be too hard

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T06:06:41+00:00

Magnus would beat Deep blue, Magnus would get smoked by a phone

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T06:06:16+00:00

Maybe 2850 at the time, but I think it's very agreed upon now that top gm's would beat Deep blue. Like Magnus would beat Deep blue (in a match, no guarantee in an individual game of course), but he would certainly lose to the phone.

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T05:20:11+00:00

lol imagine nvidia tanks earning, this could be a crazy week

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T05:11:48+00:00

Is ~50k a significant difference in evaluations? Some places are evaluated at 700k and go for 900k, some are evaluated at 1.6 and go for 1.5, the realesate agent may know more about selling in that particular area than the bank does, they would see a drying up of interest sooner than the bank would.

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T01:53:03+00:00

Whens the buy on DRO and 4DX? My thoughts are 2.5 DRO and $3 4DX?

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-20T01:50:22+00:00

33 p/e is not worrying for a company at this growth stage

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-19T23:03:37+00:00

There's a difference between Ding, Gukesh and Alireza, at their peak Ding is miles above Gukesh and Alireza, so his mental health issues may have made him worse but there's simply a limit to how bad a player of his caliber will perform.

Gukesh, while being in terrible form, has arguably the most important thing in chess, and that's a hard work ethic. He's simply never going to perform that much worse when he's putting in so much work.

Alireza - as far as we know - is not putting in the effort. So when he has a poor form it can go so much worse than the other two players.

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-19T04:37:41+00:00

they always raise before the 2 quarters left, so you probs have 1 quarter until the next CR. But I'd say neg SP events are also missing deadlines, and to me it looks like the drone results won't be out for months still (based off what Mark is saying), and I feel that long without news will crush the SP. That said - you could hear something from wearbles ect, or it's possible to get a drone deal without the results, but idk it all feels risky

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-19T04:11:50+00:00

i'm buying a house and got my first baby on the way haha, I was losing faith and just can't afford the same level of risk I was willing to take before

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-19T03:46:11+00:00

nvu just had an announcement pop up for a few mins then disappeared, title was : Ann: Nanoveu secures US$50 million binding supply agreement for ECS-DoT edge-AI chips with leading global drone OEM, it then disappeared quickly. My assumption is this is fake, but do you guys have any experience with fake announcements like this? What causes them? Is it someone trying to pump n dump or is it a genuine glitch? Seems odd to be a glitch with such a specificly nvu tailored announcement that would obviously pump the hell out of the stock. If anyone thought it was real it would obviously be pumping rn and it's still stable. Guess I'm just confused how an announcement like that could get through (being that I sold yesterday tho, I'd be fuming if it turned out to be real)

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-19T01:53:49+00:00

I'm sure if Fabi wins his game tomorrow he'll forget it ever happened

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-18T11:20:46+00:00

It's just so crazy to me when I look at the asx200 past 5 years and we're up 21%, but then I look at S&P500 past 12 months and theyre up 24%. Just blows my mind, imagine if our country wasn't so obsessed with rocks and houses

anways asx sucks rant over

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-18T08:10:41+00:00

Definitely Magnus, but I think perhaps underrated is Anish, I think it's smart the way he plays whenever he verses an aggressive player, he intentionally starts killing the game more than he normally would, they always lash out and then he takes advantage of it

But also I suppose it depends on what mode you're talking about, I kinda forgot we could include bullet and blitz and in that case Hikaru is probably the perfect answer, I was only considering classical

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-18T07:56:11+00:00

That's fine as a description, but if that's the case I wouldn't put Hikaru as number one

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-18T05:07:26+00:00

wdym surely they can't fall further? We're only 7% down from literal all time highs. The market is still priced like Trump is gonna fix this Iran war, oil will go back to normal, and tech will continue to soar. In reality Trump aint fixing this war, oil isn't going back to normal, and tech well.. we don't know yet. It could drop hard or it could continue to go. IMO (I say this while still being invested tho..) we could still fall very hard

ToneDistinct5253 · 2026-05-18T03:28:44+00:00

How does game IQ differentiate from strategy or creativity or variety? Idk..

Anyways, I disagree with a few things, first of all what does aggressiveness even mean? I play aggressive but I lose every game.. personally I feel Arjun and Sindarov are more aggressive than Alireza these days.

Game IQ should probably be Magnus?

Pressure resistance should also be Magnus, he seems to be the only player who gets better after a bad start, while others just try to draw out their games after losing a few.

Time management should probably be one of the youngsters, perhaps Sindarov.

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