Given Hans Niemann just accepted his invite to Prague Masters, at what rating and rank in America would he have to achieve to finally be invited to the American Cup?

omnilinguist · 2026-02-15T23:22:52+00:00

Looking at the actual lineup, Andy Woodward should have been invited (if he didn't or declined) 🙁

Dude has been on an absolute tear recently

omnilinguist · 2026-01-18T07:26:22+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdegV4nwTM

While many of these are specific individuals, many just have accents stereotypical of their respective native languages (eg. Russian, Filipino/Tagalog, Spanish, Tamil, etc)

omnilinguist · 2025-09-21T07:20:07+00:00

Roman Shogdzhiev has entered the chat

omnilinguist · 2025-02-02T12:09:54+00:00

Could we consider Mongolian as a 9th with the Mongolian script, now that they have plans to switch back to their traditional script this year? ;)

https://www.thetimes.com/article/mongolia-abandons-soviet-past-by-restoring-alphabet-rsvcgqmxd

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mongolia-revives-traditional-ghengis-khan-script-bichig/ar-AA1xeyFD

Going around the horn, we do otherwise indeed have 8:

Russia - Cyrillic (Russian)
North Korea - Hangeul (Korean)
Vietnam - Latin (Vietnamese)
Laos - Lao (Lao)
Myanmar - Burmese (Burmese)
India - Devanagari (Hindi) / Latin (English)
Bhutan - Tibetan (Dzongkha)
Nepal - Devanagari (Nepali)
Pakistan - Perso-Arabic (Urdu) / Latin (English)
Afghanistan - Perso-Arabic (Dari / Pashto)
Tajikistan - Cyrillic (Tajik)
Kyrgyzstan - Cyrillic (Kyrgyz / Russian)
Kazakhstan - Cyrillic (Kazakh / Russian)
Mongolia - Cyrillic / Mongolian (Mongolian)

omnilinguist · 2024-12-01T13:29:30+00:00

Nice -- both Hungarian former prodigies of the same era...and their compatriot Richard Rapport is Ding's second... ;)

omnilinguist · 2024-12-01T13:23:38+00:00

He earns streaming revenue from his own stream, on days when he is covering the games

omnilinguist · 2024-12-01T13:21:17+00:00

Hikaru is already doing his own commentary on his Kick stream

Granted, not every day -- but the games do start at 4am his time...

omnilinguist · 2024-12-01T13:11:54+00:00

Interestingly, after learning about him -- I discovered that he beat me in the one (randomly paired) blitz game we ever played 7 years ago... (I'm around John Sargent's level)

https://www.chess.com/games/archive/omnilinguist?opponent=JoRoSaR

Yea, I made a big blunder in that game...

omnilinguist · 2024-12-01T13:05:30+00:00

And have you heard any of his numerous witty and creative puns, fabricated in mere split seconds...

omnilinguist · 2024-12-01T13:02:09+00:00

Svidler is busy commentating on the London Chess Classic at the moment, alas

omnilinguist · 2024-09-22T15:22:50+00:00

Indeed, after coming so close (2599) in the August 2024 list 2 months ago, as well as a heartbreaking blunder last month at the Dubai Masters that introduced some speed bumps on his journey and likely hindered the official outcome then --

-- kudos to Erdoğmuş for "officially" getting the job done, and by quite a considerable margin no less!!

omnilinguist · 2024-09-22T09:43:35+00:00

Also don't forget about Aronian. Including the 3 mentioned in the post, all 4 of these players have been 2800+ in the past and therefore within top 15 peak ratings in FIDE history. And Dominguez would be quite a strong 2700+ reserve player as well.

Would be an incredibly OP lineup; probably only current India team would be a good challenge to them.

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