I would like to try and find someone to play with that can help me get better. I would be willing to pay for some lessons.
Elena and Lizabeta sized one another up while scanning the board simultaneously. Lizabeta was watching the board to see the moves that Elena would come up with and Elena was reading the odd mind that was Lizabeta’s. The audience watched with a confused, silenced breath. Elena still had not made the first move.
After about half a minute of scrutiny, Elena could see that Lizabeta was aware of a limited view of the future. Elena saw that she had been using it to outplay her opponents during the entire tournament. At the same moment, Lizabeta’s power had gleaned that Elena could read minds in a potential conversation they would have hours from now. The two players looked to one another in shock, their eyes wide and their eyebrows raised.
“You cheated your way to this match!” Elena hissed, leaning forward in her seat.
“Yeah, well so did you!” Lizabeta whispered back sharply.
“I can’t see the future!”
“Well, you might as well be able to!”
“Is everything all right?” the proctor asked from the sidelines, not quite close enough to hear the conversation.
“Yeah, everything’s fine,” they said simultaneously.
“Ok, but Miss Elena has yet to make the first move. We need it to start the timers.”
“Don’t rush me!” Elena said, turning back to the board. “The nerve of that guy.”
“Well, he’s kinda right. Why haven’t you made your first move?” Lizabeta asked.
“Well, I thought about starting with King’s Gambit opening, but then found that you’d counter with a Sicilian and I hate opening with Sicilian Closed because of how limited I feel with the Knight I’ve activated.”
“Oh, okay, but what if I—”
“I see it,” Elena nodded as her mind’s eye caught the move. She began spinning her wedding ring in thought. “You’d change your move to Scandanavian. I guess that wouldn’t be as bad, but I’m not happy with the threads opened by the initial threat.”
“And Queen’s—”
“—Gambit you would never accept. You’d play the Indian Defense to that. Which I’m actually okay with,” Elena nodded to herself.
Lizabeta’s eyes widened slightly as she visualized that future scenario.
“Okay, I’ll take it,” Lizabeta said.
“Alright, sure,” Elena nodded, following Lizabeta’s mind to see the other moves coming.
“Oh, and you’d—”
“Yeah,” Elena nodded.
“A little unorthodox, since I’d—”
“Ah, right, yeah, I didn’t consider that angle,” Elena pursed her lips and Lizabeta’s eyes flitted across the still-untouched board.
The audience watched them confused as the stress lines began growing across
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Lets say on your 25th birthday you pull a thorn out of a genie's butt and he grants you one wish. You've never played chess in your life and don't have a rating or anything, so how long after gaining the ability of a 2850+ GM would it take for you to break into the elite chess circuit? You gotta start playing opens, getting norms, etc etc, what's the timeframe?
> Daniil Dubov will not be playing the 7th round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament today. Due to a COVID-19 contamination in his inner circle, the tournament organisation (after consultation with the chief arbiter) has asked Dubov to play wearing a face mask, in order to protect his opponent, Anish Giri. Dubov did not show for his match, which means that he has lost his game by forfeit. Dubov has indicated that he refuses to play wearing a face mask as a matter of principle. Dubov himself tested negative in a quick scan test. He has also undergone a PCR-test, of which the result is likely to come in this evening.
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>Hey guys, the news is out, the mask doesnt work. We knew that for over a year. >>I'd bet that your and most peoples idea of "news", let alone reliable news, has a very, very small overlap. >>>oh yeah! downvote me. in a few months ull be told from your msm gods that i am right
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>Very sketchy choice of words by the organizers, making Daniil out to be some kind of fanatic instead of stating his actual position. >>how? Him refusing to wear a mask "out of principle" in these circumstances is definitely pretty insane. >>>No. Making someone forfeit because they didn’t want to wear a mask for a 6 hour chess game when the rules say that they wouldn’t have to and dubov himself tested negative is insane
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>Selfish American who doesn't take Covid seriously, also cheats at chess and can't do basic math. Can't say I'm surprised. >>Lol. You mad bro?
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[I never thought dubov would be one of those idiots but I guess you never know. Imagine losing because you're afraid of a piece of cloth pathetic](https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comm
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It seems to be the season of repeating this common myth in the chess world. This ESPN article is the number one source of the misconception, and every time it comes up, some people dispute it, and other armchair scientists come up with bro-science to try and validate it.
Sapolsky has never published any research that can back up his "6000-7000" calories a day figure, and infers this based solely on looking at chess player's heart rates and bloods pressures during the game. I hope you don't have to be an exercise physiologist to understand how heart rate variability does not directly correlate with energy expenditure. You are not burning as many calories while having a panic attack as you are while running a marathon.
Actual exercise scientists have used indirect calorimetry - the research standard in exercise physiology for energy expenditure - to actually measure how many calories chess players burn while playing chess.
Troubat et. al in 2008 found that chess players burned an average of 1.53kcal per minute at rest, and at most 1.67kcal per minute while playing chess - a modest 10% increase on average from doing nothing. 10% is a long way off the 300% that Sapolsky claims. Even if we take calorie expenditure at the top-end of the confidence interval, this would amount to only 960kcals spent over an 8 hour chess game: only a couple hundred calories higher than if you were just sitting watching TV.
Rodoplu et al. presented their own study at the 9th international scientific conference of kinesiology, where they found chess players burned 138kcals on average in a 30 minute chess game, compared to 260 kcals while those same players went for a run for 30 minutes.
There are lots of studies on HRV in chess, but sadly few in energy expenditure (as indirect calorimetry is resource expensive)
People will say that these players in these studies are not top grandmasters, and not playing serious classical tournaments. While this is true, I think you would struggle to come up with an extra 4000 calories by saying "but a top tournament is more stressful." You should not pay this 6000 calorie claim a
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Bitcoin’s dominance is beginning to wane but it will remain as the standard, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov says.
“But of course it cannot stay alone. So that’s why you have more coins coming in. It’s a natural process. It’s like the dot-com bubble - 99.9% will be gone. But those that survive will become the Googles of the world,” he says.
This is for all you chess fans here: With the World Championships coming up, I thought about comparing elite chess players with NFL quarterbacks and wrote out my pairings and thoughts for each. Remember that these are just analogies and not everything fits, and I’m looking forward to the follow-up discussions!
NFL: Tom Brady Chess: Garry Kasparov This is the pairing on which pretty much every other comparison depends on in order to work. The virtually undisputed GOATs of his sport, Tom Brady and Garry Kasparov have been the best of the best for longer than any other great, which I feel is the most important quality of a GOAT. In addition to being at the pinnacle of greatness for many years, they are fierce competitors and have, in my opinion, the strongest drive to win. Even in Kasparov’s few post-retirement appearances, it is obvious how much he cares about playing well and winning. If Kasparov had continued playing competitively past 2005, studying modern opening theory and adjusting play style, there is no doubt that he would achieved similar successes to Brady at a comparable age.
NFL: Patrick Mahomes Chess: Magnus Carlsen Magnus Carlsen and Patrick Mahomes are similar in so many ways that despite the differing lengths of their careers, it would be illogical not to not to pair these two. They both clearly have an abundance of natural talent for their sport that very few other players demonstrate. They make everything about playing their sport seem easy, when in reality, they are constantly exceeding boundaries and breaking records. But more impressive than just being exceptional players is their longevity at the top—Carlsen has been World #1 for ten years now while winning 4 Word Championships, and Mahomes has firmly established his #1 status after winning MVP and OPOY in 2018, a Super Bowl the next year, first on the NFL Top 100 List, and countless other accolades. They also excel in all formats of the game; Mahomes can throw, run, and scramble, while Carlsen is currently World #1 in rapid and blitz chess and has held triple crowns (World Champion as well as World Rapid and Blitz Champion). You’d be a fool to bet against Mahomes or Carlsen in any game, a fact that will likely remain true for years to come.
NFL: Peyton Manning Chess: Anatoly Karpov Kasparov vs. Karpov. Brady vs. Manning. Rivalries that each dominated their respective sport for years. Like Peyton Manning, Anatoly Karpov rose to prominence a few years before Kasparov and had cement
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Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess From wikipedia.
How it usually works is that a player decides on one move and sends a email that contains that move to the other over a day. So 24 hours to decide a move I was interested in seeing if anyone wanted to play over email! Would be fun
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Hey guys, how ya doing. Some time ago I was looking into female chess players, some of women's chess history, and things along those lines, and I remembered something- correspondence chess. I know of some OTB players who sometimes played correspondence, but I don't know really know about any players who mainly play correspondence and play OTB on the side. So I decided to ask reddit, cuz yall know everything somehow. Can you guys give me some names or games I could look into regarding this? I believe that Steinitz played Chigorin in a short match by correspondence, so I wanted to find more like those. Is there any match between a strong OTB player against a strong correspondence player? Thanks for your time
Sorry about the link: Washington Post
Thought it was interesting considering all of the discussion here of computers playing Go.
This kind of cheating isn't viable yet at the professional levels of Go, but may be at some point. I suppose it could be used at local tournaments where there are cash prizes.
