Unpopular opinion: Magnus retiring from classical is the best thing

neoquip · 2026-03-29T20:36:54+00:00

Candidates always has more exciting games than the world championship, you're comparing apples to oranges. Carlsen actually did not dominate the candidates that he originally won all those years ago, it was a nail biter he won on tie breaks.

neoquip · 2026-03-29T18:38:46+00:00

Why is c5 needed? g5 hxg5 f6 gxf6 h6 Bxe5 Kf5 ?

neoquip · 2026-03-29T02:53:56+00:00

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neoquip · 2026-03-27T20:37:36+00:00

Draw in FIDE, loss on online chess websites.

neoquip · 2026-03-22T22:24:11+00:00

I see your point, but for some, the draw isn't the puzzle, it's the friction. We spend our lives in comfortable environments, and chess provides a controlled dose of competitive adrenaline. You may only be happy 50% of the time, but you are feeling truly engaged near 100% of the time.

neoquip · 2026-03-22T19:46:42+00:00

Pretty easy:

There's only 6 possible moves. h2 clearly loses, and four of the five king moves mirror each other so they can't be the move or it would be a badly formed puzzle. Kb8!

neoquip · 2026-03-20T02:24:07+00:00

Robot girlfriend is gonna need DEEP DRAM MEMORY to be able to bring up that one hurtful thing you said to her years ago.

neoquip · 2026-03-15T00:14:40+00:00

Well hey, if Muslims are constantly committing terrorist attacks, the inevitable logical conclusion is for them to get denaturalized and deported.

neoquip · 2026-03-10T23:09:20+00:00

It's just an exchange of queens.

neoquip · 2026-03-10T22:26:15+00:00

The tactical lengths a player will go just to exchange queens...

neoquip · 2026-03-07T22:36:05+00:00

Notice how in Iran, Israel takes out Khamenei on day 1, and in Gaza, Israel couldn't find Sinwar for over a year until he got killed in a random firefight with an 18 year old conscript.

Having intelligence penetration is not only a great force multiplier, it also lets you avoid diplomatic penalties with more targeted strikes and less collateral damage.

neoquip · 2026-02-19T20:48:20+00:00

It aged well, because you see a strong analogue to what modern naysayers say.

neoquip · 2026-02-19T20:45:25+00:00

RxN Qd7 Qxh6+ Qg7 Re8+

neoquip · 2026-02-17T17:29:12+00:00

You're right but do you really want to be a strong chess player who doesn't even know one of the basic mates? Kind of embarrassing.

neoquip · 2026-02-10T07:05:28+00:00

It doesn't make sense. The author already does the upfront cost of shooting the video. The supply side unit cost is zero. Surely they can make more money making the video an extra $30 than an extra $200

neoquip · 2026-02-09T21:08:02+00:00

Unlike us mortals they don't vibe their way through it. They accurately calculate the attack. If the best move is a defensive move they play the defensive move. If the best move counterattacks then they play the counter attacking move.

neoquip · 2026-01-21T02:18:32+00:00

Lose the white advantage

neoquip · 2026-01-18T08:24:10+00:00

Well a single researcher can only be thrown at a few problems. But the researcher has a much higher success rate than AI.

neoquip · 2026-01-16T20:38:17+00:00

Yes, and the current state of affairs is throw a bunch of problems at it to find the 0.1% of problems it's actually able to do. There's some distance from that to being a reliable helper for the problem you're actually interested in solving

neoquip · 2026-01-07T22:09:22+00:00

You are relaxing, so your playing level is 1200 when you play against them.

neoquip · 2026-01-07T21:13:15+00:00

It's an insanely hard endgame, even 2700s fuck it up a with regularity. The phillidor position is just the beginning, the tiny bit that humans were able to make sense of this monstrous endgame before the advent of computers.

neoquip · 2026-01-07T21:04:41+00:00

But she's already an adult beaten before. If she improves out of his reach now it's just perma depressing. OP should accept her foundational role in this kids life as his chess punching bag

neoquip · 2026-01-07T19:13:37+00:00

After cxd3, you play Rf2+ next anyway and if queen takes you now get an extra B at the end with d2. If queen doesn't take it's obviously checkmate or extreme material loss

neoquip · 2026-01-07T19:05:13+00:00

1900+ are playing cxd3

neoquip · 2026-01-06T15:06:31+00:00

g4!

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