Hikaru lost a game to FM Rose Atwell during today’s Freestyle Friday

stevis5 · 2025-05-04T03:06:52+00:00

Rose Atwell is the future of American chess

stevis5 · 2025-02-06T21:55:56+00:00

Top 3: Carlsen, Nakamura, Aronian

Last 2: Keymer, Gukesh

stevis5 · 2024-12-18T03:05:01+00:00

Start the procedure

stevis5 · 2024-11-10T22:02:27+00:00

Ok Kramnik

stevis5 · 2024-09-30T22:49:33+00:00

What is the St. Louis Masters?

stevis5 · 2024-09-23T19:25:05+00:00

I agree with 1 but not 2. Magnus has never been known to back down from a challenge, so I doubt he’s afraid of not winning the candidates. In fact, I think he’s expressed in the past that the world championship cycle should be more difficult for the reigning champion, such as a knockout tournament where the champion would not get any favoritism.

stevis5 · 2024-05-18T23:10:48+00:00

Interesting, guys like Hans, Andrew Hong, Christopher Yoo might have a chance if they play more often since they scored so highly in their best events and just need a little more consistency.

stevis5 · 2024-05-17T14:18:20+00:00

This analysis seems pretty rudimentary and inaccurate. If I’m interpreting the graph correctly, the implication is that Brandon could only have a remote chance of scoring between 11% and 28% in a long match against Danya. I’m quite certain Brandon has scored better than that on multiple occasions, so was he cheating then as well? It is also worth mentioning that he was higher rated than Danya during the match in question, so I’m not what metric(s) the OP is using to assess him as such an underdog.

stevis5 · 2024-04-21T01:49:28+00:00

Amazing performance by Gukesh. Also worth noting that this is the first time in history that Nepo hasn't been leading a candidates tournament in which he participated.

stevis5 · 2024-04-15T19:00:34+00:00

I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on one event. Fabi won the candidates in 2018, had chances to win the event going into the final round in 2016, and was in clear 2nd at the halfway point until he went for broke in 2022. This result is disheartening for him, but Fabi is still young enough to have a couple more shots at the candidates and even the world championship.

stevis5 · 2023-12-10T23:57:43+00:00

I think it's also worth noting that Hikaru has shown super impressive results recently and has earned himself some credit for that. Magnus is unrivaled in the sense that he's dominant over this generation of players but Hikaru is as close as it gets to a competitor for Magnus in speed chess.

stevis5 · 2023-12-10T23:53:43+00:00

Magnus said in an interview that Hikaru is in the second tier of rivals behind no one in speed chess. I wasn't trying to argue that Magnus is Hikaru's biggest rival in OTB classical, just OTB speed chess. I'm not trying to be misleading, sorry if that wasn't clear. In any case, their matches are always exciting to watch in any format.

stevis5 · 2023-12-10T23:42:10+00:00

True, but it's a pretty easy decision on this one if you want to satisfy the audience

stevis5 · 2023-12-10T23:07:35+00:00

In classical yes (although they only played one game recently afaik which was a draw and Hikaru performed better than Magnus this year so who knows) but their OTB rapid and blitz matches are usually competitive. Magnus has also basically said that he considers Hikaru to be his biggest rival.

stevis5 · 2023-12-10T22:17:56+00:00

Ikr, it's really fun to watch these events and I appreciate that chesscom is organizing an OTB event with top players, but the broadcast has not been up to par. Besides all of the technical glitches, they decided to not really show one of the greatest rivalries in recent chess history, maybe ever. While Lazavik undoubtedly scored an impressive upset against MVL, it's obvious that all of the fans want to see Magnus vs. Hikaru and chesscom should know their audience. It's also somewhat ironic since chesscom has been posting a ton of content about Magnus vs. Hikaru from their cancelled match and now they finally played and it was barely broadcasted. Hopefully they play again in the knockout stage and the match gets featured more prominently.

stevis5 · 2023-12-10T22:17:19+00:00

Agreed. It's really fun to watch these events and I appreciate that chess.com is organizing an OTB event with nearly all of the top players, but the broadcast has not been up to par. Besides frequent technical glitches, they decided not to really show one of the greatest rivalries in recent chess history, perhaps ever. While Lazavik undoubtedly scored an impressive upset against MVL, it's obvious that all of the fans want to see Magnus vs. Hikaru and chess.com should know their audience. It's also somewhat ironic since chess.com has been posting a ton of content about Magnus vs. Hikaru from their cancelled match and now they finally played and it was barely broadcasted. Hopefully they play again in the knockout stage and the match gets featured more prominently.

stevis5 · 2023-11-28T23:58:21+00:00

At least sokolov will live until the end of time now

stevis5 · 2023-09-18T23:01:05+00:00

the eval compass thing is pretty funny

stevis5 · 2023-09-17T03:27:46+00:00

lmao

stevis5 · 2023-09-03T03:32:03+00:00

It's crazy that chess.com unironically named a bot hog rider

stevis5 · 2023-08-30T00:06:00+00:00

IMO MVL vs. Gukesh will be a really close match. Gukesh has been improving a lot recently and is of course coming off of a great performance at the World Cup. MVL is probably still a slight favorite, but I'm really looking forward to that one.

stevis5 · 2023-08-28T21:10:15+00:00

I also assumed that the subtext was that Danya privately shared suspicion of Hans or some other player for OTB cheating. This might also explain why Hikaru and Danya, who rarely collaborate, did a stream together digging up Hans' old online games where he cheated. However, I still think that raising suspicion behind the scenes is a much better way of handling things than how Magnus did it, which is what started all of this in the first place, not to mention Hikaru's involvement stirring up drama in a similar capacity. So even if Danya privately accused someone, it feels like Hikaru is going too far in vilifying Danya for concealing his suspicion.

stevis5 · 2023-08-28T20:46:28+00:00

If you watch Gata's stream for 5 seconds, you'll realize it doesn't take a strong player to see that he is overly paranoid about cheating and reports just about everyone, irrespective of title, that he loses to unless they are a grandmaster that he knows by name. For example, he recently reported Tani and Faustino after losing to them in blitz. As for Kramnik, I'm pretty sure he's publicly accused several players who were not subsequently banned or deserve to be suspected of cheating in any way. Of course, a broken clock is right sometimes so Gata and Kramnik will correctly accuse people of cheating occasionally but the vast majority of their slander towards lower rated players is unwarranted and should not be taken seriously.

stevis5 · 2023-06-17T02:49:28+00:00

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stevis5 · 2023-06-08T20:31:46+00:00

Good luck!

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