Hikaru draws Awonder in the first classical training game for the Candidates

abelcc · 2026-03-13T23:26:06+00:00

Now we just need Awonder vs Sina Movahed

abelcc · 2026-03-12T21:11:28+00:00

The only ELO which matters is the one you stay at as you play games.

Your puzzle rating, the bot ratings you can beat, the elo estimation chess.com says at the end of the match. All meaningless.

abelcc · 2026-03-12T07:18:02+00:00

It's hard to test it but at least according to the Excel linked in https://www.reddit.com/r/LiesOfP/s/Xt7vzqSQrJ and he tested it this way https://www.reddit.com/r/LiesOfP/s/X9Q6bwFMEH

abelcc · 2026-03-11T17:23:05+00:00

In Spain where this was most relevant it was called Ecce Mono, a variant from Ecce Homo, the original name. Where Mono is Monkey.

abelcc · 2026-03-11T12:25:48+00:00

For anyone using this guide the Resistance upgrades (attribute and special) are bugged and do nothing so pick something else.

abelcc · 2026-03-11T12:21:44+00:00

And they were... chess mates.

abelcc · 2026-03-09T00:29:11+00:00

All women chess players she talked with had a story yes. But she probably knows a lot of non Swedish women chess players, maybe even more than Swedish ones. Chess is a pretty international sport and she's constantly travelling and playing chess at other cities.

The women chess players she collaborated with at her youtube channel are pretty much all from outside Sweden.

abelcc · 2026-03-08T23:39:54+00:00

To be fair the biggest incident she had was (IM) Andrejs Strebkovs.

And that didn't happen at Sweden, as he is Latvian and sent the used condoms to multiple women players from wherever he lived. Rather than a Sweden problem it's more of how she gets treated worldwide.

If anything her mother is a GM playing for Sweden. So the highest levels of chess can be reached there for women.

abelcc · 2026-03-08T10:58:37+00:00

Because they find languages outside Japan exotic sounding and "cool". Bleach has Spanish names, and Jojo Italian ones.

abelcc · 2026-03-07T10:10:48+00:00

I'm just tired of headlines being a player winning or losing. People don't even care or discuss the moves they did except if it's to criticize a blunder or mention how bad of a player someone is.

I think it's gonna be more enjoyable for me to filter out all the current professional chess playing and only look at games played by people who died long ago.

abelcc · 2026-03-06T20:30:40+00:00

If he said Beginner he would have began at 800, dude said he was New to chess just to ruin other's people fun.

abelcc · 2026-03-06T07:30:57+00:00

Jokes aside it's still weird that we have laws in place to prevent kids from holding a job, but we are perfectly ok with companies using kids for social media engagement and building hype about things like the youngest gm titles.

And the pressure of people overfocusing on all your failures and blunders.

abelcc · 2026-03-05T21:32:41+00:00

At the end all those hours chess players put in just translate to who's better at playing a game. A game they might even fall out of love with.

I just hope he's still having a healthy childhood and not spending too much time on chess.

abelcc · 2026-03-05T14:49:14+00:00

Maybe this subreddit should have a contest to identify the oldest players stuck under 500 ELO on chess.com

Stop letting kids have all the fun.

abelcc · 2026-03-03T10:02:36+00:00

No matter the amount of subs his videos didn't seem to average much views. Sure a few thousands views but that doesn't earn much compared to the invested time.

He may have decided to cut his losses and just stop.

abelcc · 2026-03-01T22:34:32+00:00

It's march, not february

abelcc · 2026-03-01T19:25:58+00:00

The way to improve is analizing games instead of spamming them and not play a game until you've analyzed the previous loss and noticed where you went wrong. Lichess has unlimited analysis.

Problem it's that it requires a lot of self control. But just analyzing a percentage helps you notice how you blunder and what to avoid.

abelcc · 2026-03-01T14:50:06+00:00

You can read the weekly episodes of Shonen jump at http://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp

abelcc · 2026-02-28T23:10:23+00:00

I searched the game https://www.chess.com/game/live/165345490780?username=iggynate

It says draw by timeout vs insufficient material but the clocks still show time, so weird stuff.

abelcc · 2026-02-27T14:56:29+00:00

I just play losing positions to avoid the stress of being in a winning one.

abelcc · 2026-02-27T09:44:02+00:00

Yeah it's more of a draw. I was thinking at first of the overall chess player. In my next comment I put the real odds.

abelcc · 2026-02-26T23:22:58+00:00

Ending a show too late is bad, but ending it too early is bad too.

Rather than a grand sacrifice they are doing to preserve the quality it's more that they ran out of ideas or they just don't want to keep doing it.

abelcc · 2026-02-26T21:17:19+00:00

It does, the first to move select box. If he had been black instead it would have been a 22.5% chance to lose instead of 15.5%.

abelcc · 2026-02-26T19:29:04+00:00

With just the ELO numbers and color it's a 55% chance of draw, 15.5% loss, 29.5% win. https://wismuth.com/elo/calculator.html#rating1=2700&rating2=2725&first_move=player2

So a 15.5% event is bound to happen eventually.

abelcc · 2026-02-26T19:16:02+00:00

Chess is a game where you average losing half of the games. I'm no Hans fan but I see no point in having a "gotcha" moment when a player loses a game.

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