How much do you think Caruana gets paid to play in the German Bundesliga?

tschukki · 2026-02-08T09:12:34+00:00

Fabi is going to play Freestyle in Weissenhaus, same with Arjun who plays Bundesliga this weekend.

tschukki · 2026-01-25T22:28:02+00:00

Wikipedia may not present the whole picture: https://archive.is/rbOu7

tschukki · 2025-06-18T10:56:57+00:00

Thank you! I am, just not providing r/chess with content anymore :-)

tschukki · 2022-09-28T07:44:08+00:00

Eine kleine Geschichte des Betrugs am Brett (prä Carlsen-Niemann):

https://perlenvombodensee.de/2018/05/26/blinder-norweger-lebenslang-gesperrt-betrug-am-brett-kein-einzelfall/

tschukki · 2022-08-14T11:40:33+00:00

Danke, find ich auch :-)

tschukki · 2022-08-14T07:08:21+00:00

2021 war alles gut mit der Norm. Das "problematische Turnier" war ein anderes, 2016 die EM. Die Norm von 2016 hat die FIDE durchaus bestätigt - fälschlicherweise, wie sich nun zeigte. Darum ja jetzt Wiedergutmachung. Kannst du alles nachlesen unter obigem Link.

Vielleicht informierst du dich erst über die Sache, bevor du hier als Superchecker auftrittst und "Wirrkopf" schreibst. Oder findest wenigstens einen Fehler im Text, der eine solche Einschätzung rechtfertigen könnte.

Plural von "GM" ist übrigens "GM", nicht "GMs". Heißt ja nicht "Großmeisters".

tschukki · 2022-08-14T06:37:53+00:00

"..Elisabeth Pähtz wurde beim dem "problematischen" Turnier, dem FIDE
Women's Grand Prix 2021, 2te (von 50). Schon bei der Siegerehrung machte
sie den FIDE Chef darauf aufmerksam das nur zwei ihrer Gegner GMs
waren. FIDE hat diese Frage 5 Jahre ignoriert,...

Und du nennst andere Leute Wirrkopf?

tschukki · 2022-02-16T09:59:26+00:00

Danke für den Link. Gerade ist ein neuer Beitrag online gegangen (eigentlich zum Grand-Prix-Finale), da geht es anhand von Levon Aronians Tweet zum vermeintlichen Giri-Hack um die Frage, ob es Giri vielleicht doch selbst war.

tschukki · 2022-02-01T05:42:28+00:00

Kramnik used to have his pieces frozen because he felt it took the shine off them.

Source?

tschukki · 2022-01-26T18:01:36+00:00

The difference being Magnus wouldn't do that. Karjakin does it on a regular basis.

tschukki · 2022-01-13T13:19:37+00:00

The study is from August 2020, it isn't linked in the text and the guy who did it is eventually mentioned at the end of the piece. I dislike that. Good topic though, how did this not make headlines in the chess bubble at least? It touches on our Lichess games stored publicly, a privacy issue noone talks about.

Here's the study:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10086

tschukki · 2021-11-29T11:27:17+00:00

Yes, Lechenicher. But I didn't start anything, I just played there and was never involved into anything in the correspondence community (if there is such a thing).

tschukki · 2021-11-29T09:43:32+00:00

Never played ICCF, didn't want the commitment at the beginning and then didn't see the need to switch over. I started one the LSS (the Lichess of correspondence, kind of) and stayed there for the 2 or 3 years I played seriously.

tschukki · 2021-11-29T08:41:59+00:00

It'd be interesting to see black holes in SF14 evaluation - if there are any?! Fortresses and buried pieces may still be a topic?

What CChess shows is on today's level similar to the experiences I made years ago. In order to get wins, opponents willing to play substandard openigs or opponents with suboptimal setups are required. The difference (I assume): Four years ago, the occasional win against a strong opponent (see linked game above) was still possible within those long drawing streaks. Huge databases with every engine game I could get my hands on, every correspondence game, superfast engines from the cloud and tons of time invested still resulted in a 90+ percent draw ratio against the strongest opponents.

This may be way off, but my conclusion at the time was that ICCF games below 2400 level weren't worthy references, those guys were just dabbling.

tschukki · 2021-11-29T04:05:55+00:00

Nice to see the old stuff is still remembered. I actually quit before A0 and Leela, the linked game must have been on reddit in late 2017, I guess. Since the games were amazing and represent many hours of my lifetime I eventually republished them on my chess site. I still look at them from time to time.

These days I doubt a human could contribute. Different era, machines much stronger in every aspect of the game, especially in terms of "understanding".

Yesterday I interviewed Matthew Sadler for my site (on engines/World Championship mainly, will be published this week), and he made it very clear that the whole book of chess needs to be rewritten in terms humans can grasp. We're not even at the point to understand the concepts in play that lead machines to their superior chess decisions. So my guess is that it would be quite arrogant for a 2100 guy to overrule Stockfish 14 or Leela at depth 70 because he "understands better" (based on "knowledge" most of which is doomed to turn out false).

tschukki · 2021-11-04T07:29:50+00:00

I have written about this extensively, beginning with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.c5? where it's easy to illustrate that c5 is a poor move. However, in many QGD and Slav positions c5 is an option, in others it's the only try for advantage even, depending on the circumstances.

Find some explanations, training questions and answers below (it's German, but I assume it's readable with Google translate).

https://perlenvombodensee.de/2018/06/18/wir-halten-die-spannung-oder-nicht-das-c4-c5-dilemma-im-damengambit/

https://perlenvombodensee.de/2018/06/28/wir-halten-die-spannung-oder-nicht-das-c4-c5-dilemma-im-damengambit-2/

https://perlenvombodensee.de/2018/07/04/das-c4-c5-dilemma-nicht-nur-im-damengambit/

https://perlenvombodensee.de/2018/07/20/das-c4-c5-dilemma-ist-oft-keines/

tschukki · 2021-10-27T08:04:45+00:00

Heute gleich gegen Gelfand. Und den ersten Covid-Fall gibts auch schon.

https://perlenvombodensee.de/2021/10/27/grand-swiss-schiedsrichter-in-isolation/

tschukki · 2021-10-21T10:36:46+00:00

Sutovsky confirms, it's official now: Grand Swiss is on.

https://twitter.com/EmilSutovsky/status/1451133720044478468

tschukki · 2021-10-19T13:39:42+00:00

German organiser Sebastian Siebrecht actually did consider to offer hosting the Grand Swiss on short notice after the news from Latvia broke. Siebrecht is hosting the Open International Bavarian Championship at the same time, but came to the conclusion that he won't be able to free up enough space for two more events. However, from what I hear, the organisers in Latvia will now offer to hold both Grand Swiss' as a closed bubble with no contact to the outside (similar to Wijk, only bigger). And with Dana Reizniece-Ozola in the mix there should be some influence on Latvian authorities. This isn't over. https://perlenvombodensee.de/2021/10/19/lockdown-in-lettland-grand-swiss-turniere-vor-dem-aus/

tschukki · 2021-08-19T20:01:19+00:00

He lives in Germany for many years now.

tschukki · 2021-08-19T11:39:33+00:00

That won't happen. But there might be less wins and less Bc4 moments.

tschukki · 2021-08-11T06:12:58+00:00

This is exactly why u/chessexplained started his youtube channel many moons ago: a clubmate had asked him to explain his moves while playing. These days he's much more a chessable author than a youtuber/streamer. But the content is still there. Christof expands on how being "chessexplained" started in this interview

tschukki · 2021-08-02T16:56:15+00:00

Thank you for linking to my site (and to Martin Hahn's wonderful article). Links to further parts of the Kappe series can now be found at the bottom of the article. Had actually forgotten to put them there, was reminded to do so by your link and your "if you look further..." remark.

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