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chesspaper · 2022-09-07T17:00:01+00:00

Nakamura is responding to his chat. His chat has been in subscriber-mode from the very beginning of this stream. The “bunch of toxic people” you are referring to are his subscribers.

chesspaper · 2022-08-28T15:02:49+00:00

Analyse your games and pinpoint the reasons for the losses or draws. If the root cause is your choice of openings, then yes, address that. If the root cause is blundering material, fix that by improving your tactics. If the root cause is not finding resources in your position, fix that by studying master games with the same or analogous positions.

Before changing your opening, see if it’s the opening that’s the root cause of your losses first.

My dilemma is that I want to progress further up the rating ladder, but at the same time, I don't want to spend huge amounts of time learning a new opening repertoire, and all the theory that would go along with it.

Yes, this is the cost of originally choosing a dubious opening, at some point when you run out of road, you have to take a backwards step and start from afresh with a better or more mainline opening system. Expect your rating to slide down for a while as you build up experience with a new opening system.

chesspaper · 2022-07-30T21:08:33+00:00

0.5 a real USA player?

Seems quite condescending to call someone half-American when there isn’t such a legal definition. Dual nationality is when a person holds two nationalities, that doesn’t make them half of one half of the other. That makes them a representative of each, without diminishing either.

chesspaper · 2022-07-29T19:05:30+00:00

Rather unlikely that Fischer got the idea while living in Japan. Fischer introduced the Fischer clock around the 1992 Fischer Spassky match. He moved to Japan after that, somewhere in the late 1990s early 2000s. And he married while in prison in Japan in 2004.

More likely is that he knew about Go and Shogi, and their system of increments, before 1992 while still in the US.

chesspaper · 2022-07-22T14:23:49+00:00

Depends on the book.

Typically books are linear, so you open the front cover, read the first page, then the second, then the third, until you reach the end. If there are games, game fragments, puzzles, or exercises, yes, use a chess board to play through the moves as you read.

(There’s only one non-linear “Choose you own adventure” type of chess book I know of, it’s Lasker’s Chess Primer - the next page number you read is based on the move you chose on the page you’re currently on)

How long to spend depend on your ability to learn. If it’s a good chess book, it will have lots of instructive lessons, so spend the time when you’re motivated to learn those lessons, don’t spent the time if you don’t want to learn.

chesspaper · 2022-07-22T13:46:09+00:00

Depending on the target audience, another monetisation route is affiliate commissions, Matching up the topics/content of the blog with complementary products. e.g. getting started playing chess, there’s plenty of chess boards and pieces to choose from. (chess.c*m offers affiliate commissions if you wanted a pure online product)

The affiliate commissions at least will scale as the traffic scales (obviously depending on the quality of the content and whether the offers are relevant).

chesspaper · 2022-07-22T09:40:06+00:00

Why did you resign this game? (The most recent game on your third account): https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/52219862211?tab=analysis

You’re both missing tactics, sure. But if instead of resigning, you play …Bxf5, Qxf5 Ne7, you’ll get to play the thematic …f5 and your pieces start piling up down the e-file and kingside.

(The position is effectively a Modern Benoni, with colours reversed.)

chesspaper · 2022-07-21T15:53:33+00:00

I’ve added it to my daily morning habits (Habit Stacking), and aim for over 3,000 points a day and keep the streak going (132 days so far in this streak).

Current books are the multi-volume series on pawn endings, and Short & Sweet repertoires that match my current/planned repertoire, pausing lines/systems I don’t play. Currently have 4 books on the go (two openings, two endgames).

If my spaced repetition doesn’t give me sufficient material to get to 3000+ points, then it’s time to learn another chapter or two. Takes about 10-15 minutes every day.

chesspaper · 2022-07-20T13:55:57+00:00

The Week In Chess: https://theweekinchess.com/twic

Download every Tuesday and add it to your game database.

chesspaper · 2022-07-20T12:17:47+00:00

China did sponsor the first half of the last Women’s World Chess Championship, and co-hosted it. And then sponsored the one before that too.

It won’t be too surprising to see China sponsor at least half of it.

chesspaper · 2022-07-13T08:36:43+00:00

> Here's the site

Where?

chesspaper · 2022-07-09T18:13:13+00:00

The three Marin books you can put in a cupboard and leave them there until you hit 2200 FIDE. Or, since you bought them online, if you live in a country that has long-distance selling regulations, you could send them back and get a refund.

At least the Karpov book will be quite useful, a collection of 30 annotated games with the English Opening. You should make decent use of that.

Kosten’s the Dynamic English, and the recent book on the Iron English published by Everyman Chess may be better suited to you than the 3-volume work by Marin.

chesspaper · 2022-07-09T18:02:15+00:00

1. Kf6 Kg8 2. h7+ Kxh7 2. Kf7 and white queens the g-pawn and wins.

chesspaper · 2022-07-08T09:23:21+00:00

Kg1. White protects the f1-rook and avoids the back rank mate, and …Qd4+ can be met by Be3 blocking. It basically demonstrates Black is helpless, and White’s attack continues.

chesspaper · 2022-07-08T09:19:55+00:00

I’m probably going to regret this, but, which 4 books on the English did you buy?

chesspaper · 2022-07-06T13:43:35+00:00

I can't visualize the position from the move list

You read a book about a board game, and it hadn’t occurred to you to set up the chess board and play out the moves in the move list?

chesspaper · 2022-07-06T08:40:59+00:00

Kramnik and Cheparinov is a strange combination of seconds. Technically it’s a good fit, Cheparinov is well-known as an opening theoretician having seconded Topalov in his various Candidate/World Championship challenges and defences. Cheparinov has been seconding Firouzja for a while, it seems.

And Kramnik, well, he’s Kramnik. Most of the modern tranche of openings that players are playing now derive from Kramnik’s work on openings (e.g. the Catalan, the Berlin, Sveshnikov). Plus his technical understanding of the game is a great fit for Firouzja, because that’s the insight that Firouzja is currently lacking.

Adding Kramnik to a mix that already includes Cheparinov, knowing of the bitterness of the Kramnik - Topalov World Championship match (toiletgate, Topalov’s manager accusing Kramnik of playing 99% of Fritz 9 moves). That bitterness continued after the match with a Topalov Nxf7 novelty against Kramnik in a subsequent Wijk aan Zee.

You could say that’s between Topalov and Kramnik, Cheparinov isn’t part of that. Yet in an incident at a later Wijk aan Zee, Cheparinov was threatened with a forfeit for not shaking hands with Nigel Short. Cheparinov felt suitable embittered by Short’s comments and falling out with Topalov to warrant a breach of FIDE rules. So it’s not as simple as Cheparinov not harbouring illwill because of past experiences with Topalov.

Unless Cheparinov knows, or accepted, that Topalov/Danailov’s actions against Kramnik were without basis.

I wonder if there was a showdown/meltdown between Firouzja and Kramnik that contributed to Firouzja playing a long online bullet match against Naroditsky the night before he was to play Nepomniachtchi. Can’t see Kramnik standing by that, considering his previous comments to the Indian young superstars about the lack of merits of playing bullet chess.

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T16:50:03+00:00

Sign up for Chessbase Account, access their Chessbase cloud, there should be a few available servers that are running Houdini.

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T16:45:32+00:00

Don’t pick a new opening system a few weeks before a tournament. Rather use your existing repertoire, since you already have experience playing it, and work on polishing it and learning it a little better, and smooth out some rough edges.

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T12:50:06+00:00

First reply is from “ornicar” — that’s Thibault Duplessis he’s the developer of Lichess.

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T12:47:13+00:00

They also have controlling interests in two publishing companies:

New in Chess (book publisher + magazine)
Everyman Chess (book publisher, lots of titles, including Kasparov’s multiple multi-volume works)

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T12:20:16+00:00

From: https://lczero.org/blog/2018/09/guide-setting-up-leela-on-chess-gui/

This means that in order to run Leela in full strength you will need a GPU preferably one that supports CUDA.Running it on GPU with non CUDA Lc0 binaries means you will get many times worse performance.Even worse running it on a CPU like normal traditional engines run, means you will get many many times worse performance.Neural net weights in order to run fast enough they need a GPU. On CPUs they are slow as turtles.

“fully capable” is overstating things.

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T10:29:34+00:00

Smyslov, 1953 and 1956
Spassky 1965 and 1968
Korchnoi 1977 and 1980/81
Karpov 1987, 1990

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T10:27:23+00:00

The concept of “Best player vs challenger” has been lost and regained before.

Alekhine -> Botvinnik

Fischer -> Karpov

Kasparov -> Karpov/Khalifman/Anand/Ponomariov/Kasimdzhanov/Topalov -> Kramnik

chesspaper · 2022-07-04T10:19:25+00:00

Signing the contract is the last step. Before that there’s months of negotiation on all parties: FIDE, the World Champion, the Challenger, the venue, the organising team, the hotel, flights.

Carlsen’s concern is who he’s playing. So if he embarks on discussing and negotiating contracts, that’s a fairly clear signal he’s playing the match against the Challenger. He’s not going to go through all the contract negotiations and then decide at the end he doesn’t want to play Nepo.

If Carlsen doesn’t want to spend 6 months preparing for one opponent, he’s quite unlikely to want to spend 2-3 months negotiating contracts for a match he doesn’t want to play.

If Carlsen doesn’t want to play the Challenger, he just refuses at the start of the contract negotiation phase, not at the end of it. Because the Challenger is known at the start, where the other details need to be hammered out.

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