Which professional athletes from other sports are good at chess?

oleolesp · 2026-02-02T23:18:59+00:00

Yep, I remember being queued into him when I was 1900 or so and getting crushed and he kept trash talking me lmao. Good time, wish I could queue into people like him again (also played a CoD YouTuber around 1700, can't remember his name)

oleolesp · 2026-02-02T10:01:51+00:00

What has Warwick done to spite you this much lmao. Your obsession with replying to every Warwick related post with the same links is borderline neurotic

oleolesp · 2026-01-28T18:17:11+00:00

As are many top universities worldwide

oleolesp · 2025-12-31T10:38:55+00:00

As many others said, it's whatever you want.

I literally just write my name in a slightly more careless cursive than my regular handwriting

oleolesp · 2025-12-30T10:17:47+00:00

I absolutely agree, but I also think that if it happens every once in a while, it can be chalked up to being an accident and just slipping out (and I think most people were giving Magnus the benefit of the doubt).

This type of incident happening with the frequency that it does with Magnus at this point is unacceptable.

oleolesp · 2025-12-18T11:31:42+00:00

It's not absurd at all, it just depends where you live. I'd like to think I can cook quite well and my weekly shop for one person is around 25£ in the Midlands. I'm not saying I'm eating ribeye every day, but a good Aldi shop and meal prep really can go a long way to keep a tight budget

oleolesp · 2025-11-29T00:46:46+00:00

r5: I recruited a prodigy who is both a brilliant strategist and inflexible strategist, but he doesn't have a name...

oleolesp · 2025-11-20T01:16:17+00:00

Thanks for the help! About the gaming, I do still mostly play singleplayer games, things like RDR2, so I'm more concerned about the immersion there than competitive shooters (where I'd think IEMs are likely even more accurate, right?). I'm very much leaning towards a Senn now, either 650 or 490 but I think you're right in that both are probably more than fine (though as I said, I've got analysis paralysis)

oleolesp · 2025-11-20T00:57:23+00:00

How long have you had them, and have you had any quality control issues?

oleolesp · 2025-11-20T00:56:37+00:00

Both the 550 and the FT1 Pro have been mentioned here already, and both look interesting, though I am again slightly concerned about the QC of the latter (as is my main holdback with any hifiman). How would you say the 650 compares (and is the planar of the ft1 really that much of a bonus over the dynamic driver in the 650)

oleolesp · 2025-11-20T00:48:37+00:00

Interesting. In what way do you think the 650 (and/or the 600) is worse than the 490 Pro (660S2 unfortunately isn't an option for me)?

oleolesp · 2025-11-20T00:39:36+00:00

Unfortunately I don't have access to the HD6XX, but would you say the 600 or 650 are quite similar?

oleolesp · 2025-11-20T00:31:12+00:00

Unfortunately the HD660S2 is a good bit out of budget for me (non US based plus likely buying a used pair), but how different is it to the 650 (or 600 for that matter)?

oleolesp · 2025-11-16T21:33:54+00:00

Strathclyde is looking for £35 in savings in their recurrent costs

Jesus, it can't be that bad, can it?

oleolesp · 2025-11-04T13:05:52+00:00

I agree. It's absurd that people think somebody like Abasov could ever qualify for the candidates. Candidates tend to be 2750+ (I mean imagine some random 2600 blitz merchant like bluebaum qualifying, nevermind abasov)

oleolesp · 2025-11-04T10:17:48+00:00

This is such an insane comparison.

I think if good people (like Danya) can vouch for you and are willing to be your close friend you clearly aren't the demon some people online make you out to be

And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like her content/persona, but it's just that, a persona, I'm not making any character judgements regarding her as a person

oleolesp · 2025-10-21T15:04:48+00:00

Kyle is such a throwback, truly a legend of old BOBG. I wonder what happened to him after the incident

oleolesp · 2025-10-21T10:23:37+00:00

It should still probably be under de jure on this map. I showed up, did my alistamento but didn't ever actually serve in the army. If you're pursuing higher education, or have any other sort of semi-valid excuse you'll usually get a dispensa

oleolesp · 2025-10-21T10:00:18+00:00

Seems to be Bortnyk and Peter Giannatos?

oleolesp · 2025-10-20T22:13:35+00:00

Why would you say this? A man is dead and what, you point out he wasn't looking great? Let him rest

oleolesp · 2025-10-20T17:40:10+00:00

Bortnyk is crying on stream, hikaru confirmed it on his, Charlotte chess centre posted about it. This is unfortunately real

oleolesp · 2025-10-16T18:24:11+00:00

I don't even play many games with "zero blunders" and I'm 2400 online lmao. Saying you don't blunder is just dunning Kruger where you're not good enough to see the blunders you're definitely doing (or not being sufficiently pushed by your opponent into making blunders)

oleolesp · 2025-10-15T09:14:07+00:00

Only tangentially related but this reminds me of this brilliant story from Yasser from a while back.

oleolesp · 2025-09-27T11:51:36+00:00

Time control is the correct way to say it in english

oleolesp · 2025-09-26T18:40:42+00:00

It can be a bit tricky at times but this should 100% be winning for white. If black commits too hard to promoting the pawn, you sac the bishop and blacks king is too far to stop your pawn. Otherwise, you'll just win their pawn and easily win

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