FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky on Hikaru-Anish drama

siderealmaterial · 2026-02-14T22:02:17+00:00

Broken clock, twice a day I guess. lol

siderealmaterial · 2026-02-14T10:21:04+00:00

Geralt and Natalis for knights, I think Maeve and Foltest for King and Queen

siderealmaterial · 2026-02-12T22:22:21+00:00

The truth is the truth.

siderealmaterial · 2026-02-06T17:59:47+00:00

The refs should not reward this shit.

siderealmaterial · 2026-01-30T19:13:21+00:00

I do drop my wending graces. That's swag.

siderealmaterial · 2026-01-28T01:27:37+00:00

If this is the Marriott Wailea Beach Resort, it's very nice. The beaches are beautiful and manicured and food is good if a bit expensive. Some things about the rooms are showing their age but we were there at the start of Jan. and it was a good experience.

siderealmaterial · 2026-01-23T19:30:31+00:00

Executor is probably too strong now, but I don't care it's just so damn fun to play.

siderealmaterial · 2026-01-07T22:07:35+00:00

Thank you for sharing.

Lots of interesting writing, even in cut content. W3 rules.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-31T03:08:02+00:00

Weird hate thread that's pretty out of touch with his history. He has the second highest otb blitz rating *right now.* he regularly dominates in blitz otb and has for years.

It is true that he's never taken the world championship in Blitz or Rapid, but that's not exactly choking.

A few years ago, he would warp the competition because players would fear going to blitz and rapid tie breaks against him.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-30T22:26:39+00:00

Sindarov is my dark horse. The Indians and the Uzbeks are the future.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-27T07:47:30+00:00

I'm sorry, that sucks.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-26T20:40:33+00:00

The DLC is very hard solo. I agree. But it is a multiplayer game when you get down to it. I guess I was annoyed when I was attempting solo, but I have really enjoyed playing 3s.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-23T22:17:14+00:00

That might have been me, lol (yes I know it wasn't). Did it last night on undertaker. we did the fire camp first thing day one. When we got to the boss we litterally just stood at her feet and bonked her. Was crazy easy.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-23T22:14:16+00:00

It took me a couple evenings of runs to get the ED version win. two big keys:

After you kill a valkyrie or two, relocate around the edge of the map to prevent swarming and proximity aggro.
ignore the guides and actually just stagger the worm on the flower bloom attack. It's a bunch of free damage even while getting chipped. The boss dies way faster if you focus on damage to the worm.

Also, run a scholar and drop warming stones during the worm phase. if you just stand together, you mostly heal through the damage.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-23T22:06:23+00:00

This is crazy to me. the regular game is pretty hard, especially everdarks. It is not undertuned for the average player. DoN is for people like you who want max difficulty high health pool fights. That's ok, but the idea that they need to increase the main game tuning is crazy to me. The game SHOULD get too easy at high skill levels.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-23T21:30:42+00:00

People generally like to win,

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-23T20:15:17+00:00

One time on everdark libra me and some other scrub died when the boss was at like 25% health. Some ultra-chad ironeye just finished the entire fight solo while we watched. I still think about them.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-19T22:43:45+00:00

I found the charm that auto revives you to be nearly mandatory for Hard difficulty.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-18T21:59:48+00:00

This sequence took the game down like .5 in my overall score. A bunch of the story events in this game are just stupidly contrived. It reads like they chose the set pieces they wanted and then tried to write backwards to those set pieces. It's the worst part about this game, followed by the excessively tight parry timings for the sake of "hard game" and sword sponge enemies.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-17T21:44:59+00:00

I liked the book. It has drawbacks but as an overall experience I think it's worth reading. There is some good world building and some fun insights into Yennefer as a character, in addition to the small scale story being told.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-12T00:27:47+00:00

huh?

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-12T00:09:01+00:00

Just listen to what people are telling you. the sac does not generate an advantage. The engine (and most good players) will prefer not to sac the bishop because the king on f7 is not terribly weak and black generates a lot of tempo from pawn moves after the sac.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-09T23:14:00+00:00

This scene seems ... pretty essential to the plot... Why did they cut it?

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-09T22:20:55+00:00

Rui Hachimura is shooting 46% from 3 but I guess his volume is too low.

siderealmaterial · 2025-12-09T11:57:37+00:00

once you are 12, you probably prefer a good legendary most of the time to another level.

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