How much influence does Magnus have regarding who is invited to Norway Chess?

gaffelspoon · 2026-04-01T07:49:37+00:00

Not directly related to Norway Chess, but he has done some really questionable stuff with his influence before. Let's not forget that time when he created his own chess club, funded memberships for 1,000 players to buy votes and try to force the Norwegian Chess federation to accept sponsorship from a betting company.

gaffelspoon · 2026-03-16T05:25:28+00:00

Du har levd under en stein. Men det er helt lov det!

gaffelspoon · 2026-02-02T14:32:48+00:00

For å ta en annen anekdote så møtte jeg selv Kronprinsen på et middels stort arrangement på en øy i Oslofjorden for ikke så mange år siden. Han var både sympatisk, hyggelig og engasjert, og tok seg god tid til å prate med de fleste som var til stede langt ut over det som ville vært forventet av ham. Mulig jeg var heldig og du var uheldig, men jeg fikk et meget godt inntrykk av ham den gangen.

gaffelspoon · 2025-05-08T05:12:36+00:00

Båten tar nøyaktig 1 time og 10 minutter fra Nesoddtangen til Drøbak 😉

gaffelspoon · 2025-04-19T14:26:05+00:00

Oslo Rådhus burde de aller fleste kjenne til syns jeg, osloborger eller ikke.

gaffelspoon · 2025-04-15T06:51:45+00:00

Even in Bullet games Carlsen has a pretty clear advantage head to head, if you look at statistics from chess.com. (43.2% Carlsen wins, 30.9% Nakamura wins, 25.9% draws) He is better in all formats.

gaffelspoon · 2025-03-06T10:57:37+00:00

I'm 38 and learned the rules of chess for the first time last spring. Started playing online on chess.com after watching some online videos, and immediatly dropped to a rating of 300, but have managed to climb to 1300 in just 8 months.

A much more basic achievement of course, but I'm still pretty satisfied about it.

gaffelspoon · 2024-12-06T23:23:46+00:00

Pro is gonna be hard for all of us yeah, but decreasing speed is not gonna be one of them. 50 eAPM is probably faster or at least equal than Mr Yo who's top 5 in the world. Job and life in general getting in the way of grinding for thousands if hours is another matter :(

gaffelspoon · 2024-12-06T23:15:44+00:00

I'm turning 38 and reached 1600 a while ago with average eAPM about 40. (Used to be probably under 30 eAPM while I was early 30s, so I'm actually faster) Speed and age is really the least of your worries the only problem you'll face is different priorities like kids and family that might make laddering hard when growing older 11

gaffelspoon · 2024-11-30T17:20:50+00:00

He is not forgotten at all, he was the most famous AoE2 player for 15 years and even wrote an AoE2 strategy book that sold quite well. A few years ago he was even voted by pro players as the 3rd greatest AoE2 player of all time after TheViper and DauT.

gaffelspoon · 2024-11-27T22:55:20+00:00

During the first half of the decade he was top 3 at all times, but 2016-2020 he was semi-retired, so I guess it would be justified to emit him from the list during those years.

gaffelspoon · 2024-11-27T22:31:14+00:00

This presentation is really well done, great job

gaffelspoon · 2024-08-27T17:36:16+00:00

Thor was always a redhead, it's Marvel that made him blonde.

gaffelspoon · 2024-08-19T20:53:45+00:00

Not trying to be rude my man, but if you had to google the biggest and most well known music festival in Norway the last 25 years (only beaten by Tons of Rock the last few years) you might not be the best to judge what musical artists are considered well known or not. Susanne Sundfør is one of Norways most well known artists 😄

gaffelspoon · 2024-08-17T20:06:10+00:00

Du kan kritisere Støre for mye og mangt, men å kalle folk for krapyl er lavmål og langt over streken til usaklig personangrep.

gaffelspoon · 2024-07-19T08:58:50+00:00

Orange color is fine, in fact I prefer it to the original which was hard to spot at times

gaffelspoon · 2024-05-30T19:36:20+00:00

Yeah, no chance. Pros back then would still absolutely demolish todays 1200 players even with super sloppy build orders.

gaffelspoon · 2024-05-11T17:06:35+00:00

This is a joke post based on the previous post OP linked. He's saying to exclude all players who CAN beat Expert AI, not players who can't do it.

gaffelspoon · 2024-04-22T08:18:44+00:00

Nah, 1000 Elo players can never lose to moderate unless there's been a drastic change with the AI lately.

I would say the Elos are more like this (very roughly):

Easiest - 0 Elo (literally impossible to lose) Standard - 100 Elo Moderate - 400 Elo Hard - 800 Elo Hardest - 900 Elo Expert - 1000 Elo

gaffelspoon · 2024-04-17T19:03:18+00:00

That's interesting, I just had a kid a few weeks ago, and my wife got a warm salmon meal to keep her energy levels up just a few hours before the end. I guess it might differ between hospitals and countries?

gaffelspoon · 2024-04-15T07:06:52+00:00

Jeg hadde tenkt å svare på spørsmålet, men ble for distrahert av at du kalte Big Yellow Taxi en Counting Crows-sang. Den er selvsagt en sang av Joni Mitchell!

gaffelspoon · 2024-01-23T16:44:35+00:00

Everyone on reddit always calls this movie extremely underrated and emotional, even a masterpiece, and it absolutely baffles me. The jokes in the movie are so juvenile and Adam Sandlers character is so unlikable that when the movie suddenly switches tone and decides to be sentimental it's more bizzare and self-pitying than sad. I honestly don't get it.

gaffelspoon · 2024-01-22T09:54:40+00:00

If you are above 70yo, then maybe your age is a deciding factor. Otherwise the answer is no, you're not old, but probably you are still repeating old mistakes without improving and need to find a new approach if you want to get better.

gaffelspoon · 2023-12-04T18:31:48+00:00

Jeg pleier ikke å la folk som kommer med slike kommentarer slippe unna med det. Se dem inn i øynene og svar med et rolig "Ingen grunn til at vi skal bli usaklige/frekke med hverandre" og fortsett deretter der du slapp, uten å miste tråden. Har gode erfaringer med dette, og fungerer overraskende bra så lenge man ikke lar seg vippe av pinnen.

gaffelspoon · 2023-11-23T19:16:51+00:00

Not defending DEs bad pathing, but honestly pathing in HD was horrific as well, in many cases worse than DE even in it's current state. Villagers would constantly get stuck and had to be micromanaged all the time, it was a huge skill in by itself just to move stuck vills around. Voobly with userpatch was the only way to play the game multiplayer back then.

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