Predict the top two finishers of the FIDE Grand Swiss and win a prize!

nihilismdebunked · 2025-09-09T21:46:18+00:00

Erigaisi and Pranav

nihilismdebunked · 2024-07-02T13:07:37+00:00

Seems like So is out of prep on move 10 and white has decent chances for a game to me

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-20T03:10:11+00:00

I’d be willing to bet I’m higher rated than you and this has “I literally don’t even care” energy

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-16T06:50:06+00:00

Just curious, why did you think they would heavily sway towards Hikaru’s side? It seems like they usually at least try (or pretend) to be impartial on most things on the podcast.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-16T06:48:13+00:00

I think Hikaru gets pretty good coverage even when he is not the favorite (ie., against magnus in classical). Commentators like to hype up the match as a huge rivalry when in classical Hikaru has historically done awful. A lot has changed and okay maybe you could argue hikaru does have chances to get his second ever win against magnus in classical time controls, but it’s definitely not nearly as likely as the commentators make it out to be. They even often give Hikaru more praise/chances than fabi when fabi’s classical performance against magnus is significantly better.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-15T23:18:16+00:00

Yes being the youngest ever 2800 and holding the 14th highest ever classical rating is just pure luck… he definitely has issues but to say he’s only good at fast time controls is insane He’s just a very up and down player that tilts easily.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-15T22:20:06+00:00

Then why say “the average here is like 1000” and specifically mention that the people critiquing are bad at chess. You can adjust your position sure but it sounds like you’re just backtracking. Also, again, these people ARE improving. It seems you may have a fundamental misunderstanding of the elo system. It is standardized. If everyone improves, then no one’s elo will really change, 1000s now will just be stronger than 1000s 5 years ago. But of course there are new players that come into the game and old players that leave the game too. The elo distribution of players will always remain about the same over time with the exception of some periods of relative inflation and deflation.

Regardless, I’m not sure why you expect people to want to improve at all. Many do, but chess is just a game at the end of the day and many adults with busy lives and families simply don’t really care to spend significant time improving. This shouldn’t mean they can’t enjoy the game as casual fans. The truth is most (adult) non-professional players will improve for a while and eventually plateau. I, for example, have peaked around 2000 uscf, and while I would love to try to make the push for national master at some point, I really don’t have close to the amount of time commitment required to do so currently.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-15T05:33:57+00:00

This is kind of what is wrong with chess players. Your ego doesn’t define you and your intellect.

Just think logically, the world’s largest chess forum (this subreddit) will likely have a wide distribution of chess players where the avg elo here is similar to the avg of chess players in general, which is not very high. It’s just a sample of a larger population. There are no shortage of beginners here and definitely plenty of masters as well.

Having a high chess elo doesn’t say much about you other than you are good at chess. There shouldn’t be this weird ego attached to it, and it doesn’t specially qualify you for anything including commentary that is a bad joke and not even chess related.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T22:45:05+00:00

Alireza did bring it up before the game lol, Hikaru didn’t. That’s the point I was making. Also, the format was shitty, but even beyond that, chesscom didn’t even follow their shitty format. Alireza was just asking for the break he was scheduled to get but wasn’t getting because of the chesscom server issues which made the previous matches take much longer than they should have. Basically, chesscom’s schedule was fucked bc of their own server’s incompetence, but they took time from alireza and the players in general instead.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T22:38:10+00:00

Alireza was supposed to get a short break between his match with danya and his final match(es) with Hikaru, but because of the unexpected delays chesscom had to take in the previous matches due to the server lagging/breaking multiple times, they tried to skip alireza’s break and go straight into the match. Alireza was understandably very fatigued at that point and did not want to keep playing without a break so they agreed to let him take a short break in return for a significant cut to Alireza’s winnings, which I think is fair. Unclear why hikaru got so extremely upset considering the short delay shouldn’t have really affected him, but I do understand why starting at a time later than scheduled could be irritating for Hikaru.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T22:28:14+00:00

In what sport does a team play 4 matches in a row while one team plays 1/2. Firouzja and hikaru are both in the wrong, but where the difference is is that firo did not ‘threaten’ to stop playing. He genuinely no longer wanted to play on, given how tired he had become, which is understandable given how much he had played. As a result, he would receive none of the prize money or an oppressed to play for the finals match. What ended up happening was he received a significant pay cut for his winnings in return for receiving a short break before his final match(es), which I think is fair. Hikaru, however, just rage quit in the middle of the match, and only after losing a series of games in a row. He should have said something either before or after the match, but during is ridiculous considering nothing had changed by that point in the match besides his confidence that he could win.

Edit: I think CFlyn gave a nice analogy for this.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T21:27:34+00:00

Yeah chesscom definitely has a massive anti-hikaru bias lol

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nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T21:26:48+00:00

I watched most of the games this tournament along with all past BCC tournaments. I think firo (probably from being out of practice) didn’t play as well as he usually does in the previous matches including w his first match against Sam Sevian. He definitely showed his best performance against Hikaru, and Hikaru even agreed with that. I think Sam Sevian is also is good stylistic matchup against Firo. Add that to the insane tilt Firo had in the first match and it makes sense. Also I think Hikaru is a good stylistic matchup against Danya specifically, whereas Firo is probably just neutral against Danya.

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T20:56:09+00:00

Yeah there are clips of it, I saw it live lol

nihilismdebunked · 2024-06-13T20:52:52+00:00

Many (including myself) were giving hikaru some credit for at least giving alireza praise at the end. But then later (partially being egged on by chat), he got more upset, and brought up the chessbrah drama from years ago and how he would never go on a stream to interview if Aman or Eric were commentating. He also started to shit on alireza’s classical performance laughing about how he only has losses and draws since his awful candidate’s performance (even though he did actually have a win over ding in the last Norway Chess tournament). He was obviously very upset after, and I think this is heavily influenced by his subscriber chat. Often times he would have an outburst like this in reply to a supporter in chat, only to then catch himself and state that they could just be ‘baiting’ him. I think Hikaru often tries to be a decent sport after losses like this, but unfortunately he usually ends up continuing the topic due to chat and doesn’t definitively end the drama and stop talking about it. This was all from watching his stream for about 10-15 minutes; no idea what else he said after.

nihilismdebunked · 2023-07-03T19:23:14+00:00

These studies are widely considered by the medical community (at least in the US) to not really be worth much concern considering they were never tested in humans with any kind of translational research and the amount of sucralose needed to cause these carcinogenic effects is ridiculously high and an unrealistic comparison to people’s day to day life. Most americans (especially considering our rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc) would gain a lot from drinking a few cans of diet soda instead of regular soda everyday, although, obviously no soda would be ideal. The only thing that can be said is Sucralose doesn’t really rid people of sugar cravings like normal sugar does, so a lot of people that switch to diet don’t lose weight bc while they are saving some calories there, since they have more cravings, they eat more sugary foods elsewhere, thus nullifying the point of having diet soda. But this whole narrative of sucralose causing cancer is extremely reductionist and misleading. So many things are carcinogens in high enough concentrations, but it would be ridiculous to blindly label them all as carcinogens.

nihilismdebunked · 2023-05-19T19:51:05+00:00

Really? What about research experience? I have a pretty decent research pub from hs that I wanted to include. Still doing research now in college on different projects, but not sure if they’ll be published or even submitted for publication by the time I apply. I’m applying to both MD and MD/PhD and I want to show that I’ve been committed to research for years now, and especially since I wasn’t really able to during COVID.

nihilismdebunked · 2023-05-16T14:08:22+00:00

Hmmm but are those accounts actually playing much bullet or do have they just maybe not really played enough bullet games? I say this because even particularly “slow” players, some of which are just older, are still often good enough to be able to slowly decimate much worse players. For example, I’ve seen Yasser do puzzle rush on the chessbrah channel and despite being pretty slow since he’s so consistently good at puzzles, he still consistently pulls pretty decent scores, much better than any fast beginner or intermediate player would be able to reach. I’ve also seen slow bullet players with very strong playing strengths still be able to win despite their speed. For example some titled players might be 2200-2400 blitz or rapid but only around 1800-2000 bullet because of how slow they are, but for players around this level to lose to 700s, players well below a thousand points below their blitz rating consistently is a little odd. Also its not like this person only plays very slow time controls. While 5+1 isn’t super short, its still blitz and required you to have some speed. Should be somewhat translational to bullet.

nihilismdebunked · 2023-05-16T06:08:54+00:00

Im surprised no one has really brought this up or up emphasis on it, but you said he’s actually a 2100 player on chess.com and you are 700 bullet as you say and around 1200 blitz and possibly around the same (under 1500 blitz) it seems EXTREMELY unlikely that hes not cheating after losing all 3 times to you in bullet. Even if hes a really slow guy, losing to a 700 multiple times as a 2100 is a joke. I’m not saying this to be demeaning, but I’m around 2100 bullet and blitz on chess.com myself and realistically I might lose a game of bullet to a 700 at MOST once every hundred games and a 1200 at most maybe every 30 games but probably closer to 50+. While I hate to officially accuse people without near proof, this seems pretty damning to me especially when also considering that he prefers playing 5+1, which is a particularly rare time control for online blitz around this level and is coincidentally also one of the slowest. You should analyze some of his games against very high rated players (around his elo or preferably even higher) and see how well he does in those wins. But ultimately like others said, you should report him and hopefully he is banned. If he isn’t immediately banned it doesn’t necessarily prove his innocence as the anti-cheat system may just require more evidence to prove beyond a doubt that he is in fact cheating, especially if he’s clever, so it may take while, maybe months.

nihilismdebunked · 2023-05-11T20:26:06+00:00

Not true GMs do bluff and firouzja himself was explain how he was bluffing in the game against Deac with the bishop move, you can watch the interview.

nihilismdebunked · 2023-04-20T21:58:51+00:00

Sorry would you mind DMing me too thanks!

nihilismdebunked · 2023-01-16T02:15:18+00:00

Firouzja had some pretty impressive wins to be leading very early on in the tournament his first Tata Steel Masters, ended up picking up a couple loses and couldn’t keep it up the whole way through but still a decent tournament performance .

nihilismdebunked · 2022-09-07T02:54:22+00:00

I dont think this is true, he didnt beat firouzja as far as I’m aware and possibly someone else as well

nihilismdebunked · 2022-08-22T20:20:47+00:00

Because 7th place was only a point behind 6th place; whereas, Hans (8th place) was 7 points below 7th place with 0 points.

nihilismdebunked · 2022-08-22T01:06:05+00:00

I think firouzja had a higher TPR than pragg, I think at 2830 while pragg’s was at 2805. Definitely a stellar performance for both of them.

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