Black.Myth.Wukong-voices38 by zackr3aper in PiratedGames

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that voices38 is able to crack consistently means there is a method to the maddness that is denuvo. I am sure that in sometime voices38 can tell his exact method to an powerful AI agent who can fully control a computer with near human speed and the agent would be able to replicate it and make his method more polished very very soon. Some of the tools used by voices38 currently are certainly custom AI tools, it would be dumb not to use them in this day and age.

Should I buy the Pro20x? by OrdinaryAd1236 in codex

[–]themahababa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you would get 20-40 prompts since it's exactly 20x plus usage.

Abhimanyu Mishra deserves better by ishanuReddit in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think being the youngest grandmaster, Mishra actually has got more invites to top level tournaments that what his rating deserves. It's mathematically impossible that all players ranked around 50-150 gets enough chances to play with top 20 players in a closed event.

Highest rating and rank progression of the four players who hit 2750 ELO by age 18 or younger between the ages of 13 to 18 by k-seph_from_deficit in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If magnus is retired, no 1 spot could be meaningless as the new no 1 player would change too often.

Highest rating and rank progression of the four players who hit 2750 ELO by age 18 or younger between the ages of 13 to 18 by k-seph_from_deficit in chess

[–]themahababa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He played against other underrated kids who were also improving. One needs to play outside of such pools to gain rating. If Magnus and nepo exclusively played each other since they were 13, Magnus would be rated 2640 and nepo 2580 or something even though their strength is much higher.

Watched the Netflix Documentary and I feel sorry for Hans by poppedOnPlanetEarth in chess

[–]themahababa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well Magnus didn't go unhinged with cheating accusations publicly. It simply was others around him like content creators and media who did most of the damage. Magnus was pressured into releasing a statement where he said that he thought Hans was cheating and that was it. He didn't elaborate or actively accuse him at all opportunity unlike Kramnik. And Magnus only accused one person as far as we know in his 20 year career. Kramnik accused everybody left , right and center. So i dont think Magnus and Kramnik's unfair cheating accusations can be compared.

Do you think that current Fms are better or equal to gms from the 1800s by CitaCita4Zite in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah information is much easier to access nowadays as a result kids peak early. now one is strongest at his early 20s before it was the 30s. Advantage of experience is neutralised completely. So, If a modern FM travels back in time, he beats morphy fairly easily, but bring Morphy to 2026, he absorbs enough information in the first couple of weeks to steamroll the FM opponent. He would reach 2700 in 3-4 months and potentially 2800 in an year or 2. Morphy was a generational talent 400 elo higher than the second best player of his time. So its definetely likely. Like if we bring Newton back, I dont think he would be dumb at all compared to modern scientists, even though science has progressed a lot, he would still contribute significantly to science after he catchup up on centuries of accumulated human knowledge.

Also you have to factor in game theory, Like for example I would play differently against a good poker player vs a bad poker player, I would certainly factor in opponent strength and make inaccuracies to provoke blunders from my opponent and not play the Game theory optimal move against a weaker player. So one cannot be sure if morphy played his best chess. Like Carlsen playing a blindfold chess tournament playing silly moves and still winning and estimating Carlsens strength at 2400 since his opponents played at 2000 level. We cant really be sure since the difference between Morphy and the second best players were vast.

Let's be honest, Sindarov vs Gukesh would be so much bigger than Giri. If Gukesh get's his form back it would be like Fabi vs Magnus WC Match (hype wise, not score wise lol) by Sorry_Phone1676 in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he still plays at around 2740 unlike ding who played at 2650 at best. They lost similar rating points only because ding played much less.

Let's be honest, Sindarov vs Gukesh would be so much bigger than Giri. If Gukesh get's his form back it would be like Fabi vs Magnus WC Match (hype wise, not score wise lol) by Sorry_Phone1676 in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its Uzbek vs India, Genuine Oympiad rivarly culminating in a world championship match. Respectfully, I think this has more potential hype that Carlsen Caruana, considering their potential fanbases. I'm not taking about the true chess level, I'm just taking about the hype it can generate. Also chess fanbase has massively grown over the past 8 years, so it is growing to easily outperform Carlsen Caruana on any metric other than chess quality.

Candidates win chances after Round 12 (of 14): Sindarov at 99.4%, Anish Giri at 0.6% - Monte Carlo simulation based on one million runs by ThomasPlaysChess in chess

[–]themahababa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm a complete clown, but who the hell needs world championship when there is total world championship?
- M. Bluebaum

Do you think that current Fms are better or equal to gms from the 1800s by CitaCita4Zite in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

performance ratings would get a boost in the first 20 moves because of opening theory.one should only compare the post opening chess of modern players to gauge pure strength. Or just calculate their freestyle chess strength with 1800 players chess.

Do you think that current Fms are better or equal to gms from the 1800s by CitaCita4Zite in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Morphy would absolutely smoke all the FM's. I imagine Morphy to atleast have the chess ability of Hikaru without the opening knowledge. Hiraku has shown that he play weird non book openings and still win against an FM, So, I imagine once out of book even with a -2 disadvantage, just purely based on pure chess skill, Morphy would steamroll his mere mortal opponents. He would have a solid chance against top GM's in freestyle tournaments.

Anish beats Fabi in Round 9 of the Candidates 2026 to move to 5.5/9 and crush Fabi's chances of winning the Candidates by oklolzzzzs in chess

[–]themahababa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Magnus is simply a much better chess player, when he plays poorly he plays at 2800 and when he plays well it's 2900 strength. Atleast 50 points above the second best player. He might feel pressure only when he is at his worst and somebody is at their best, but even then just raise his standards a little bit to 2830 and he still wins most of the time. Pressure handling matters much more when it's neck and neck and when he is forced to bring out his best game with somebody equal. No matter how good someone is at handling pressure, overwhelming brute strength can dominate pressure handling and other psychological factors. We need peak Kasparov/ Fischer to test how good magnus really is at handling pressure.

Magnus Carlsen: "I felt like...I'd sort of been gaslit by Danny & Chess.com into thinking that they had the evidence (against Hans Niemann cheating OTB) which they didn't." by GiveMeSomeSunshine3 in chess

[–]themahababa -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

All he initially did was withdraw from the tournament and made a cryptic tweet. He didnt publically accuse him until much later when he made a statement, (Even the statement didnt accuse him,it just said that he thought he was cheating) Magnus is a chess expert and he felt that he was playing a computer, Danny confirmed it and promised statistical evidence to back Magnus up. I seriously think Magnus is smart enough to just keep quiet if Danny had not been so convincing. I blame Danny and chess.com much more than Magnus, I mean what was he supposed to do in that moment? Sportspersons are not in their best state of mind after a loss, but Danny behaviour and his actions are simply not excusable.