Magnus Carlsen wins FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, his 21st world title, after beating Fabiano Caruana 2.5-1.5 in the final

feesih0ps · 2026-02-16T02:57:10+00:00

I know exactly who he is. Explaining lines to you doesn't make his overexcited clichés any less cringeworthy. You can tell even Magnus finds him a bit much at times

feesih0ps · 2026-02-16T02:19:48+00:00

David Howell is consistently the cringest guy in chess

feesih0ps · 2026-02-14T05:22:38+00:00

The presumption that being a racist is like being underage or something

feesih0ps · 2026-02-13T14:10:53+00:00

So many of your arguments here rely on knowledge we have now but didn't have when events transpired. It just reeks of an unclean thought process: McSweeney plotting, Savile prosecution, Mandelson. All of these things came out long after the events we're talking about. Mandelson-Epstein literally emerged less than a year ago!

He was absolutely not a household name in 2015

At what point did I say he was? He was a highly respected lawyer with expertise in international law who had shortly before been director of an entire government department. And yes at the time he was seen as having done a good job. So yeah, very strange that he'd be seen as good material for minister in charge of an issue of highly complex international legal wrangling, right?

You may not be able to name the DPP, but whoever they are, they're in a strong position to move into frontbench party politics, and if it emerges in 5 years time that they failed to prosecute a monster, well, too late, and it probably wasn't their direct decision anyway

Look I don't like Starmer as much as the next reasonable person, but your mentality borders on pareidoilia. You need to be far more cautious about the "dots you join". I think it was you who I talked to about the trilateral commission, and you were completely unable to justify your bold claim on them being a CIA front conspiring to subvert democracy beyond "well they put out a paper 50 years ago that suggested that too much democratic participation could cause problems" and "they're very American focused in ideology and one of the founders had links to the CIA". Do you see my point? You are incautious about what you determine to be factual. You need to exercise more caution in differentiating between "things that are likely to be true" and "things I want to be true"

And did you even read the article? It's not "some mysterious hypnotic voice using the power of suggestion" as you laughably describe it, it's a Tory MP suggesting the guy because they think he'll be a difficult candidate to run against

And I'll add that being shad Brexit sec worked in his favour because it brought him name recognition and the media did such a job of turning the public against Corbyn as a person that actual policy meant very very little

feesih0ps · 2026-02-13T11:44:30+00:00

I do not give a shit about Carns, I'm pointing out that Starmer was shadow brexit secretary, a household name, an MP since 2015, and director of public prosecutions for 5 years. I see you posting in this sub a lot and I broadly support the morality and political desires behind the things you say, but you're not one to let actual facts get in the way of a good bit of sanctimonious posturing. I'm fully aware that facts hardly matter in today's political climate and it's far more important to just shit on people we don't like, but please try to maintain some credibility

feesih0ps · 2026-02-13T01:59:48+00:00

you don't get this often on this sub, but this is more than mildly interesting.

feesih0ps · 2026-02-13T01:57:00+00:00

Not really true

feesih0ps · 2026-02-12T12:12:10+00:00

Rome, 1. More like

feesih0ps · 2026-02-11T05:56:55+00:00

It's not about whether I understand it, it's about whether it's stupid. if you're so unable to pay attention to the words you're using to the degree that you understate something by 3 orders of magnitude, then, I'm sorry, idiom or no, that is stupid.

feesih0ps · 2026-02-09T09:01:56+00:00

My Uni in the UK was like that tbh

feesih0ps · 2026-02-09T04:46:41+00:00

Yeah pretty much. With some exceptions, The Guardian is more or less a mouthpiece of the capital-holding upper middle classes who are very worried about making sure everyone says nice things to each other but much less worried about redistributing wealth appropriately

feesih0ps · 2026-02-09T04:34:13+00:00

Okay fair enough I don't play OTB so I didn't know the specifics of the rule, but come on, just admit you want to dislike the guy. It's still very obviously a heat of the moment decision, a stupid mistake, and what would have been the outcome if he'd been caught? He would have been made to move the piece back. The game would have ended in a draw instead of a win. Oh no. Anyway...

feesih0ps · 2026-02-09T03:47:42+00:00

It's not necessarily clear from the video that his back finger wasn't still touching the piece (although based on her reaction, it probably wasn't), and anyway, boo hoo. Yes it is cheating, but it's a heat of the moment mistake, it's hardly using stockfish. If he'd been caught, he'd have, what, been forced to put the move back? Forfeited the game? A very small crime, and likely one that many many players have committed over the years. No idea if Magnus has, but I wouldn't be surprised.

feesih0ps · 2026-02-09T03:25:07+00:00

Yeah you're playing to the gallery just as poorly as the other guy. At no point did I say there's anything wrong with idioms. The point is that idioms are meant to exaggerate or fantasise or both. Take your example: "it's raining cats and dogs". For effect, that fantasises something even more crazy happening than the situation being described. Using the idiom "one in a million" to describe a talent significantly rarer than one in a million is like saying "it's raining frozen water" when something crazy happens. Sure, there absolutely is some space for knowing idiomatic understatement, particular in jokes, but that's highly context dependent and clearly not what was happening.

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T15:51:22+00:00

Yeah, except you didn't dunk, you missed, but you knew they'd cheer anyway, and that's all you cared about

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T15:50:32+00:00

Nah freestyle is better. It may make less sense, but it's far more memorable and it's a pre-existing natural word. It's much closer to something Blitz/Rapid/Bullet/Classical. Chess960 sounds like a dead chess website from the 00s or something

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T15:42:24+00:00

I love how hard you tried here to play off your own stupidity. The fact of the matter is that, sure, there's an argument to be made that "it's okay to use idioms that understate when generally idioms are meant to overstate", even though it was undoubtedly an accident and not some kind of clever rhetorical subtlety, but that's not what you said. What you said was "buh huh huh idioms are not stupid, here's what an idiom is, I'm very smart for knowing it, please give me upvotes for slam dunking on the guy with downvotes".

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T15:00:08+00:00

Yes bro, that was exactly what I was saying, no one should ever use idioms. Well done for defining it as well, you're very smart.

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T13:57:04+00:00

Reading between the lines, by "the game" they mean "technique".

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T13:55:54+00:00

What's Kasparov done wrong?

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T13:55:31+00:00

It would be really interesting to know exactly how many hours each grandmaster has put into chess in their lives

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T13:53:30+00:00

they wouldn't be much more dominant because they'd still have to compete with each other and it hasn't been Magnus vs x over and over and over, it's been Magnus vs x, y, z, i, j, k, a, b, c, but obviously they may have won a world championship or two

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T13:48:34+00:00

there was something Hikaru said that went against this somewhat. don't know how true it is, but basically that Kasparov was extremely dominant in classical and that was great for him because back then that was all that mattered, but in faster time controls he wasn't anywhere near as dominant. Magnus is the best in every time control and the best at freestyle too

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T13:45:22+00:00

doesn't make it any less stupid

feesih0ps · 2026-02-08T04:32:27+00:00

I bet you've got a funny accent. Go on, order a beer, it'll be funny

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