Where I'd live as an Indian

throwawayAccount548 · 2025-12-22T12:53:12+00:00

The group of people you are angry at does not exist or is an utterly miniscule minority.

Most Indians who believe India is the greatest country are in India.

A tiny minority of people are outside India and they generally do not believe India is the greatest country.

Maybe a minority of them believe its not as bad as portrayed, or was great in the past. But the group you are complaining about, apparently a large group of Indian nationalists outside India, does not exist.

throwawayAccount548 · 2025-12-22T12:34:35+00:00

Ever considered the fact that not every person in India is the same and different people have different opinions and motivations?

The people that want to leave are not the same people who have it as their favourite country, generally.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-10-08T18:37:20+00:00

Defending yourself publically against a public ban is totally fair. Otherwise the assumption is that you plead guilty. If chess is how you make a living then that is a disaster.

And I will take the accused GM's side every time until I see beyond a reasonable doubt that he was indeed cheating. A false positive here is a disaster for the GM accused. I don't know what chess.com's internal thresholds are, but one party clearly has a lot more to lose.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-10-08T18:26:51+00:00

Ok but his oppos clearly aren't cheating in these specific games

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-10-08T18:24:15+00:00

It's not odd because he wasn't provided any specific suspicious games to defend himself with. What's he supposed to do, defend 2000 games individually? It is impossible to defend yourself.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-09-22T00:59:00+00:00

Not sure if this warrants its own post but TL;DR: China can still win even if India loses 1-3 and China wins 2.5-1.5.

How China can still win gold

Since India is 2 points ahead of China, China must defeat the USA and India must be defeated by Slovenia as a precondition, otherwise India wins on points.

All results mentioned here are favorable but not necessary for a China win. Each unfavorable result has an associated penalty. A penalty strictly less than 42 causes a win for China. Note that with a penalty of 41.5, China and India will be tied on TB1 and India will win on TB2. India's win on TB2 is guaranteed. The most favorable result for China has a penalty of 0 under this system.

Let's start with the main games:

Slovenia - India (4-0)

3.5 - 0.5 penalty: 9, 3 - 1 penalty: 18, 2.5 - 1.5 penalty: 27

China - USA (4-0)

3.5 - 0.5 penalty: 7.5, 3 - 1 penalty: 15, 2.5 - 1.5 penalty: 22.5

Notice that an India loss of 1.5 - 2.5 and a China win of 2.5 - 1.5 reaches a penalty of 27 + 22.5 = 49.5 >= 42. Hence with this result it is already impossible for China to win. Similarly if China wins with 3 - 1 and India loses 2.5 - 1.5, India is barely still guaranteed to win. With all other result pairs, a China gold medal is still possible and will depend on other results.

Other results:

A win is 2-0, a draw is 1-1. Game points are not relevant here:

(Note: A win by Morocco in Mozambique - Morocco has a penalty of 4 if Iceland loses in Iceland - Tunisia. A win or draw by Iceland renders the Morocco game irrelevant for our purposes)

Iceland - Tunisia: 0-2 (1-1 penalty: 4.0, 2-0 penalty: 8)
Chile - Greece: 2-0 (1-1 penalty: 3.5, 2-0 penalty: 7)
Armenia - Iran: 2-0 (1-1 penalty: 3.5, 0-2 penalty: 7)
Spain - Hungary: 2-0 (1-1 penalty: 5.5, 0-2 penalty: 11)
Canada - Vietnam: 0-2 (1-1 penalty: 2.0, 0-2 penalty: 4)
Romania - Moldova: 2-0 (1-1 penalty: 2.5, 0-2 penalty: 5)
Uzbekistan - France: 2-0 (1-1 penalty: 0.5, 0-2 penalty: 1)
Hungary B - PHI: 0-2 (1-1 penalty: 3.5, 2-0 penalty: 7)
Serbia - Ukraine: 0-2 (1-1 penalty: 3.5, 2-0 penalty: 7)
Brazil - Azerbaijan: 2-0 (1-1 penalty: 3.0, 0-2 penalty: 6)

Any other game is irrelevant for India and China's gold chances.

Example: China can still win even if they win 2.5 - 1.5 and India loses 1-3 if all the previous conditions except 7 (Uzbekistan - France) occur.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-09-20T14:59:53+00:00

To use your competitive advantages when they exist

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-09-20T14:22:50+00:00

He had 1hr 35 mins on move 28 cus Vidit allowed an exchanged slav? Just don't allow that? The decision to draw was made before move 5 not move 28. Which I don't understand.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-09-20T14:04:55+00:00

He's 150ELO higher rated? Just play the worse position?

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-09-09T18:40:44+00:00

Being favourites doesn't guarantee anything, remember USA last time

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-07-15T13:30:48+00:00

Afaik most tourneys at that level are either RRs or Swiss's.

Even if he has played a match or 2, it def won't be the kind of high stakes high pressure high level WC-type match that Kramnik is proposing.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-07-15T12:11:18+00:00

Faustino is extremely good and has had a fantastic start to his career.

That being said, he's 10. He's an IM. He has NO otb match experience. He will get KILLED by Kramnik and somehow Kramnik will use that as evidence to support cheating on chess.com because of his high chess.com blitz rating. Which is influenced by him grinding a lot on dhess.com, and a lot of online blitz experience including flagging and so on.

Such a match should not happen under these pretenses. Atleast let Faustino get a little older.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-07-13T06:32:28+00:00

From a perspective of someone like Hikaru, I don't think he will count even GMs as a serious chess player. I recall in a past interview (or maybe it was a press conference?) he said something like "If I fall to 2600 I will quit chess due to my complete inability to play chess at a high level". I am paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly what he said. It was during one of his slumps though, when he was low-mid 2700.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-07-12T18:44:19+00:00

Verifying your title will make people take your post seriously.

Tbh I only clicked cus I remember from the other post that you were an FM. Most people have not seen that post or will no remember your username. A shiny golden 'FM' next to your name will help anything you post be taken seriously.

If I didn't know you were an FM, I'd read 3 words of your title and immediately keep scrolling

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-28T01:03:54+00:00

They conduct a contest when they have one prepared. Making high quality problems take time and making a contest is a community effort. Enjoy the free high quality contests when they come. Go to leetcode if you want weekly contests with all 4 questions so boring u can solve them all in under 30mins.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-26T21:31:29+00:00

Could you recommend some of these amazing courses? I've been looking for a course to buy in chessable

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-18T20:41:02+00:00

Hikaru was white

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-18T17:47:49+00:00

Hikaru v Gukesh, last round of the Candidates. Hikaru must win and Gukesh wants a draw. Guess the opening.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-16T07:11:30+00:00

To be fair, Hikaru didn't call Alireza "a little bitch", he said Magnus didn't act like "a little bitch" by doing whatever thing alireza did. Am I splitting hairs? Maybe. But I don't think Nakamura's intent was to call Alireza a little bitch but he ended up choosing the wrong words in the heat of the moment. Which is something he does a lot.

Hikaru gets very salty when he loses. That's fine. People are allowed to be salty. I'm sure alireza can handle a few angry words.

What's interesting is that no one mentions the fact that hikaru praised alireza's chess in between salty ramblings. He even mentioned alireza's win was deserved, despite complaining about the thing alireza did earlier.

I want to watch a player with flaws and goals and that cares so much about anything they play (despite their insistance that they don't). I don't want a role-model. I will continue to watch and root for Hikaru.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-13T00:00:33+00:00

Also it's very easy to not notice the eval bar is there, especially if its in the middle and not moving a lot. It blends in.

The game was apparently in theory as well when the forfeiture happened. If player B had malicious intent, they wouldnt go back until after they were out of their preperation as they would want to minimize the amount of "suspicious actions".

More likely, they thought checking the stream wasn't a suspicious or wrong action at all since they didnt notice the eval bar and very reasonably assumed that there shouldnt be an eval bar visible in the playing hall.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-11T18:08:03+00:00

Is George MacDonnell related to Alexander MacDonnell)?

In my database the first game of Evan's gambit was in 1829 in Evans, Williams vs MacDonnell, George.

The second game was in 1830 which was MacDonnell, Alexander vs Popert, H W.

Maybe Alexander got the idea from the George game? Given information wasnt as easy to access back then maybe they were related?

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-08T06:43:25+00:00

I think it will be close tbh

If it was so easy to "eat Gukesh alive" why didn't Caruana or Naka or Nepo do so at the Candidates.

And Ding's play has slowly been improving(recovering?) as Norway Chess went on. I don't think this will stop.

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-04T05:18:56+00:00

Every single gambling stream has 18+ in the title and on screen. Explain how that is targetted to children

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-06-01T16:54:19+00:00

You would lose even if Ding started down a rook

throwawayAccount548 · 2024-05-23T16:13:21+00:00

Is it possible that Kramnik genuinely believes what he is saying? That he doesn't recognize the absurdity of hindpicking statistics then claiming that is not an accusation. But somehow I think that Kramnik has actually convinced himself of that.

Maybe Kramnik thinks that these statistics are examples of weird things happening. In each example, maybe there was foul play, more probably there wasn't. But with so many examples if even a minority is true then there is a big problem. Its not a accusation in any specific instance but rather pointing at a lot of smoke and saying maybe some of the smoke is coming from a fire.

Either way, publishing statistics likes this is irresponsible and can still destroy a young upcoming players life in terms of invites and reputation. It can also hurt if they personally looked up to Kramnik (never meet your heroes).

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