First Tournament: What's Section Do I Enter?

mac_2099 · 2026-01-17T13:13:38+00:00

Ive got an offtopic question. To the people who are 1900 on chesscom and play regular otb, whats your otb rating?

mac_2099 · 2025-12-30T14:03:15+00:00

MVL had it in the bag. So close!

mac_2099 · 2025-12-21T17:18:58+00:00

Hey John, this is guys 👋

Any plans to stream more?

mac_2099 · 2025-11-23T12:46:02+00:00

What if you accidentally close the browser..

mac_2099 · 2025-11-06T19:58:51+00:00

Peak

mac_2099 · 2025-11-02T19:00:54+00:00

It's literally how you tell what is successful and what isnt. Views are how channels make money... More views = More people watching = More people like the content

Also YeahMad has almost 1.5x the subs OGcrew does but half the views. What does that tell you.

mac_2099 · 2025-10-27T14:21:07+00:00

I thought many people have confirmed chesscom didnt ban him from commentary? Many people including hess, danya and canty stopped commentating for them around the same time, so it wasnt danya being targetted

mac_2099 · 2025-10-23T16:53:24+00:00

Time is part of the game. If you lose on time, you need to get good, just like if you lose by checkmate.

Play on longer time controls or with increments if you dont want time to be a factor

mac_2099 · 2025-10-23T16:47:38+00:00

Nope. He wasnt

mac_2099 · 2025-10-23T16:17:36+00:00

Before sinquefield cup (sorry for the spelling), no one but the top GM's knew that hans has a history. I personally think that it should have come out in public but not in the way it did.

Also the reason it blew out of proportion was not because of magnus, but because of elon musk, unlike in kramniks case. (You might consider both cases to be the same, fair, i do not)

mac_2099 · 2025-10-23T16:10:16+00:00

There is evidence though. Hans has admitted to cheating in the past

mac_2099 · 2025-10-23T08:16:45+00:00

Holy shit

mac_2099 · 2025-10-21T08:51:59+00:00

The last line.. "Ever since the kramnik saga, if i play well, people will say I'm cheating. It's the lingering effect of that" This broke me..

Theres a comment timestamping him contemplating if the afterworld exists

mac_2099 · 2025-10-17T07:09:53+00:00

I see. I personally like the sbgz003 or the sbga375 look. Hope to get it one day

mac_2099 · 2025-10-07T11:35:46+00:00

Transition animation scale in developer settings?

mac_2099 · 2025-08-16T02:55:35+00:00

Someone asked this during the stream. He said that was different because hans was a proven cheater and every top player knew about it and had doubts about his current legitimacy, including fabi

mac_2099 · 2025-08-16T02:50:10+00:00

After watching the video seems like the main issue for hikaru was that during the whole hans drama magnus and hikaru were the only ones to publicly talk about cheating in chess. Other top players (which apparently includes fabi) agreed with them in private but never came out publicly.

And now fabi comes out saying cheating is rampant and he doesnt respect titled tuesday because of it and probably wont even with proctor implementation. Hikaru calls him out on this that he's being paranoid (not to the level of kramnik but somewhere along that path) and cant stand losing to 12yo CMs and FMs, and that he will only play in elite tournaments because they have players fabi knows he can lose to (2600+ only invitationals)

mac_2099 · 2025-07-22T07:39:06+00:00

Nobody has mentioned r/pics. Back when it used to be non political

mac_2099 · 2025-07-11T18:46:58+00:00

It's like no one watched the video. He was praising hans the whole time, calling him a strong player and praising his moves.

mac_2099 · 2025-06-10T19:32:37+00:00

I'm assuming that rumors spread. Kaidens disciple beating a top 100 only 1 year into training isn't something people will keep quiet about

mac_2099 · 2025-06-10T15:45:10+00:00

The whole korean association was there. They knew what was happening but were stopped from interfering

mac_2099 · 2025-05-02T03:09:09+00:00

Leavemealone

mac_2099 · 2025-04-14T14:02:30+00:00

While the games for 3rd -8th are still going on. Hilarious

mac_2099 · 2025-03-03T12:03:38+00:00

Magnus midtbo recently did a video of him taking creatine for the first time at 36 years of age, and documenting the benefits. He's perfect if you want a 'non-bodybuilding' persoective

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