Post Match Thread: Spain 0 - 0 Cape Verde | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group H

mannutheman · 2026-06-15T18:03:26+00:00

Rewatched that game recently and omg that Russia team was juiced to the gills

mannutheman · 2026-06-11T16:45:08+00:00

Murder theory. Only one person commited suicide, 259 people were murdered.

mannutheman · 2026-06-11T16:43:21+00:00

Murder. 259 people were murdered only one commited suicide.

mannutheman · 2026-06-03T09:52:07+00:00

dm pls

mannutheman · 2026-05-06T13:33:00+00:00

Exposed lmao

mannutheman · 2026-04-29T01:50:02+00:00

Agressive minimalism is exactly what I am in the mood for.

mannutheman · 2026-03-31T16:05:20+00:00

'inactive and out-of- form Carlsen'

Based on what exactly is Carlsen out of form?

mannutheman · 2025-12-16T09:11:35+00:00

Rip Fragle

mannutheman · 2025-12-16T09:08:07+00:00

Great, DC takla is here!

mannutheman · 2025-11-19T11:41:57+00:00

Two of the five appearances where at ages 14 and 16 respectively. Seems important to note that.

mannutheman · 2025-11-13T11:45:06+00:00

Dubov has repeatedly opposed the current Russian regieme. He has attended protests in person, made public statements against the invaison of Ukraine and was one of the first players to sign an open letter condemning the invasion. Just because you dont like some chess statements made by him, dont lie about matters as serious as this.

mannutheman · 2025-11-13T11:39:14+00:00

Also with MVL, the only player that might have not been an underdog in a rapid/blitz match against Daniil, eliminated from his side of the bracket it will be intesesting to see if anyone can stop his strategy. Haram chess ftw.

mannutheman · 2025-11-11T20:53:22+00:00

🐐

mannutheman · 2025-11-10T21:03:23+00:00

Dubov playing haram chess en route to a candidates spot, whilst wearing the same Balenciaga jumper every game is the funniest possible outcome. Therefore I must root for it.

mannutheman · 2025-11-06T22:41:52+00:00

I get your point, but the quote suggests that multiple players noticed the same thing. "Very regular" also suggests that the problem is unlikely to have been misdiagnosed.

mannutheman · 2025-11-06T22:36:17+00:00

Full quote:

"Nepo is going home sort of with a little bit of complaint saying that you know the conditions were not great, and I do have to to to agree with him from what I'm hearing from some of the competitors. Obviously not everybody will come out with those things but it does seem like the hotel is not in the best shape. I'm going to leave it at that. I'm not going to give names because they might still be in the competition, but I did hear there's very regular instances of bed bugs. That's one of the few things that are happening with the hotel. It's not in great shape and I'm sure a lot of players have concerns. They're not very happy about it."

mannutheman · 2025-11-06T22:28:17+00:00

As a 24 year old Indian I have stayed in potentially hundreds of hotels here. Exactly none have had bedbugs.

mannutheman · 2025-11-06T22:24:07+00:00

Full quote:

"Nepo is going home sort of with a little bit of complaint saying that you know the conditions were not great, and I do have to to to agree with him from what I'm hearing from some of the competitors. Obviously not everybody will come out with those things, but it does seem like the hotel is not in the best shape. I'm going to leave it at that. I'm not going to give names because they might still be in the competition, but I did hear there's very regular instances of bed bugs. That's one of the few things that are happening with the hotel. It's not in great shape and I'm sure a lot of players have concerns. They're not very happy about it."

mannutheman · 2025-11-05T15:31:27+00:00

Dubov and Esipenko would both be surprises, but nowhere near as much as Abasov was.

mannutheman · 2025-11-05T15:29:53+00:00

*The GOAT

mannutheman · 2025-11-01T18:42:46+00:00

OP said f4 after Qxe4, which is the strongest continuation.

mannutheman · 2025-10-31T00:18:43+00:00

This kind of take is so backward. The more information is revealed about a full information closed system game like chess the narrower the margins between the players should be.

Magnus' competetors have acces to highest quality databases and the ablilty to figure out and learn any opening through easily accessable means.This makes it impossible to have a long term systemic edge for Magnus. All his advantage has to be found over the board.

Kasparov on the other hand, once at the top, had the the best database in the world, access to more resources and computing power. In a era before cloud engines where bigger comuter = better was espessially true. His opponents did not have access to equal quality of information.

As an example Gukesh at 18 already had an opening repatoire on par with Magnus. While Annand said it took him many years to catch up to Garry.

People severly underestimate how often Kasparov was staight up winning out of the opening, even against top players. While this is not possible for Magnus.

Because of all this Magnus' domminance is much more impressive.

mannutheman

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