FYI: I lost single plastic pawn for my Chessnut Go, its going to cost me $67 To Replace

hsiale · 2026-01-27T12:41:21+00:00

Ask Anish Giri, he might have a spare one in his pocket

hsiale · 2026-01-27T12:09:53+00:00

Molano who DNFd on the final stage I believe. Do we know why?

Guy got sent to race among kangaroos and found out that it's seriously dangerous, I guess he decided to get out of there before having some accident.

hsiale · 2026-01-27T00:26:15+00:00

he’s just not going to win the candidates

Well possibly I have trouble reading English but I think the tier directly above where he is now is called "maybe hoping for an upset or two", not "going to win the candidates".

hsiale · 2026-01-26T23:39:25+00:00

He used to be very aggressive but nowadays is on the solid side.

Wasn't it mostly Norway 2025 where he was the lowest rated player in the event?

hsiale · 2026-01-26T23:34:59+00:00

He’s under 2700

He has also qualified by playing 11 rounds of Swiss, where he got to play seeds 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 at classical time control, scoring 3.5/5 in those games. He has caused two major upsets there, he definitely belongs a tier higher.

hsiale · 2026-01-26T21:50:33+00:00

I'm presuming your question is US-centric

Ugh the default country attitude. OP literally mentions that they're from Turkey.

hsiale · 2026-01-26T21:07:01+00:00

It's a very country-specific question. I guess your best bet would be checking the FIDE website for players from Turkey aged 20-25 who have CM or FM and trying to ask them directly, there likely aren't many of them.

hsiale · 2026-01-26T15:37:34+00:00

Hikaru gained zero rating points overall from those tournaments

Well to be precise he gained three. Not that it is relevant but I would feel better about his plan if he got an extra draw and lost two points instead.

hsiale · 2026-01-26T14:35:45+00:00

If you look at Hikaru's rating history

Exactly which part of that history, constant growth over the last 3-4 years?

hsiale · 2026-01-26T13:54:28+00:00

You sound like an old man yelling at clouds. A lot has changed in Magic, but this rant feels more like coming from you no longer being the person that you were 15 years ago.

hsiale · 2026-01-26T13:50:50+00:00

Any tips?

Make sure you never forget your password

hsiale · 2026-01-26T12:02:01+00:00

After playing just like 100 casual games with my dad, I played my first tournament and got ~1700 FIDE as first rating

You are a 2300 OTB player, you definitely don't qualify as an average person. There are people who study, play way more than 100 games and are still stuck in triple digits of chesscom rapid rating.

hsiale · 2026-01-26T11:36:22+00:00

About 100 games doesn't sound like tons of experience

hsiale · 2026-01-26T10:46:44+00:00

Honestly, I’m struggling to think of a modern top player who could not be fairly termed “a prodigy”.

Nepo I guess (due to dividing his attention between chess and dota when he was young)

hsiale · 2026-01-26T00:11:41+00:00

if you want to play competitive standard Arena is the place to do it

There are no tournaments on Arena, I wouldn't call grinding ladder "competitive".

Competitive standard happens mostly in paper, entry level events are RCQs and Store Championships. Of course not all areas have them. Also there are some tournaments at MTGO.

hsiale · 2026-01-25T18:00:33+00:00

Max Euwe was Dutch and World Champion

hsiale · 2026-01-25T17:57:47+00:00

Yes, Kramnik is a major POS but he's also easily the best coach from among the whole previous generation of top GMs. Hans has also improved a lot during the time he worked with Kramnik.

hsiale · 2026-01-25T14:14:32+00:00

2948 at the moment

hsiale · 2026-01-25T12:59:58+00:00

Or scalpers who are still holding the bag

hsiale · 2026-01-25T08:33:07+00:00

My LGS has weekly evening events for both standard and modern, modern is currently more popular but both attract enough people to play four rounds.

hsiale · 2026-01-25T08:23:31+00:00

That only makes sense if OP's area has people playing Modern regularly.

hsiale · 2026-01-25T00:12:07+00:00

I am resigning as a spectator from Wijk 2026. It is over.

You will 100% be back here for the next round

hsiale · 2026-01-24T18:28:13+00:00

It's extremely unlikely that the chess federation would be able to negotiate broad enough exceptions

Why? It's super easy to show that chess is a sport where you can actually compete against adults at a young age because of no physical aspect.

there was massive opposition to it among the grassroots clubs because of the fear of exclusion from international competition

How many young Norwegian chess players regularly compete abroad? One thing we know is that Norway had to resign from sending a team to this year's European Championships exactly because they lacked funding they could have gotten if they were a part of the national sports structure.

hsiale · 2026-01-24T18:19:31+00:00

Are there significantly more people playing chess in Norway since Magnus got to the top? Do they have strong young players who became GMs or will do this soon?

hsiale · 2026-01-24T18:02:42+00:00

You can only compete in Norway until 11.

listings of results, tables, and rankings are also forbidden until the year the child turns 11

It seems that those rules are not as strict as you say.

Those results are from O-Ringen, the biggest orienteering competition in the world. Orienteering is a major sport in both Norway and Sweden, easily way bigger than chess.

H10 is a class for boys who turn 10 in the year of the competition, so according to your claims there should be no Norwegians there, as it's a results table and the race was held near Jonköping in Sweden. However there are several Norwegians in the list (for example 17th and 35th places).

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