Happy New Year, Ian! I love your podcast and to hear your opinion on all the current issues in chess. I am always rooting for you, you are my favorite chess player! Much love from Austria ❤
Thanks for the podcast, Yan, and sharing your thoughts. The sad thing about the pre-arranged draw was that Danil lost his opportunity to tie Magnus for first place.
GMs are valid authorities on chess protocols and we are lucky to live in an age when you can express your ideas with less reliance on traditional outlets. From your "draws" commentary to Magnus' thoughts on classical championship format, FIDE should strive for agility in an evolving chess landscape. Appreciate your podcast and thanks for the Prokofiev ballet. Love and good luck to you for candidates, from USA!
honestly, that game with the dancing knights sparked a good debate regarding draws in general, and your points are really great overall (about the arbiters being from fide directly, rules for qualifications). I had no idea the chennai masters was rated the same as TATA steel in terms of circuit points.... it really shouldn't be considering the rounds were too short....
Very good points across the video. Regarding Chennai masters it is known that both Wesley and anish were invited and they only rejected. And if you think Gukesh has an advantage being invited there , Wesley and anish both played gct classical and sinqufield cup both of which Gukesh was not invited. Which had more points involved than the Chennai masterd
But I think since the tournament was scheduled at the last moment, it was inconvenient to Anish / Wesley to travel from St Louis, not the same for Gukesh and Arjun. So, Ian's point is still valid that the tournament was not announced earlier and it disadvantaged few players.
ЯН Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ, ТЫ МОЙ КУМИР, ЖЕЛАЮ ТЕБЕ ВСЕГО САМОГО НАИЛУЧШЕГО, Я ВЕРЮ В ТЕБЯ ТЫ СТАНЕШЬ ЧЕМПИОНОМ МИРА ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 ДЛЯ МЕНЯ ТЫ ЛУЧШИЙ ШАХМАТИСТ НА ПЛАНЕТЕ. ПОСТАВЬ СЕРДЕЧКО 🙏🙏
Thank u for doing this, Ian! Love to hear u talking. Have a great 2024 in chess and in other aspects of life! I'm confused about something: I knew that Anish and Wesley were both invited to that tournement in India, but they declined. Fabiano was the one who did not get an invitation. Am I wrong?
Сильный подкаст! Молодец Ян, что решил пролить свет на всю современную ситуацию в шахматах. Буду болеть за тебя на отборочном турнире. С новым годом, новый чем!)
Great to know your thoughts. Also accepting that Dubov game you are sorry. Being a chess fan i so relieved. Please respect the game and best of luck for your candidate tournament ❤
Both players had a chance to improve their position AND also has a real chance of loosing their position. The probability of loosing was higher. So better be safe and keep the points and let others "gain point" if they risk their position
Thank you for telling the truth and a huge like for this video. Having a private lounge booth right in the playing venue separated from the playing area only by ropes is totally unacceptable. Even more outrageous is having electronic devices there such as a laptop. I would say even more: Having coaches/seconds with such devices too close to the playing area is also unacceptable! While broadcasting with a delay made this tournament almost completely free of cheating, having people with electronic electronic devices (like smartphones, tablets or laptops) in close proximity to the players negate this broadcasting delay at least to some extent. I also agree with Yan that just having this lounge might have helped Magnus score 1-1.5 mores. What am talking about? -- Obviously, I feel like this lounge breaches the anticheating measures. You can think what you want about this, but *I do think this lounge breaches the anticheating measures. The same goes for players constantly going into the area where electronic devices are allowed. UNACCEPTABLE!* Happy New Year, folks! Congrats to Magnus, Anastasia Bodnaruk and Gunina! Congrats to Yan for the good results too, although he didn't take the first place.
In regards to the lounge I very much agree that all players should play at as equal terms as possible, the problem is that the level of attention and media preassure is hard to quantify but undeniably very far from equal. There is just no disputing that Magnus is the biggest star in chess by a mile and would suffer disproportionally from being in the common area. But I definitely do agree that there should be at least a more semi-private lounges available to other players who also can make a strong case to Fide for needing one, like the one you shared with Hikaru one year for example! Lastly I do think it's important to mention that team Magnus very explictly stated that he in no way had access to a laptop in the lounge, which I think would have given him a significantly bigger advantage than what the lounge was.
Happy new year, Yan. A good luck in the Candidates` tournament because you already have the skills. As for clothing , could you suggest photographing the clothes and shoes for pre approval ? That way there not wouldn`t be so many problems . 2023 was a good chess year !
I personally think removing the draw offer, at least before a certain move number, is a pretty decent solution even if it would increase the amount of Berlin draws and similar lines. My reasoning is that if you know you're playing someone you know plays drawn lines like that you could prepare very deeply and maybe catch them off guard when they are expecting a free draw. I am only a lowly 2200, but the amount of decisive games in for example the Grand Swiss seems to suggest to me that even at the top level there is room for more combative chess if the players are incentivized strongly enough!
True, but Anish didn't go because the tournament was announced late. So perhaps the solution s a deadline for announcing tournaments that count in the circuit.
@@anotherelviswell it was planned 3 months prior and Anish knew it before that 3 months cuz sagar Shah i.e chessbase india is the one who was trying to organize and he only organised the event told Anish about this way before
For your kind information both wesley and anish were invited for Chennai grandmasters event mostly organised by chessbase india(sagar shah) and they denied and anish even commentated for matches of the event which goes to say he didn't have any problem with it moreover it was actually a chance for anish to assess the weaknesses of the players which will help him in the long run
Really love you sharing your thoughts Ian! I personally found your game with Dubov hilarious! After hearing about your thoughts about it being a protest, I hope it made people judge you less who think you disrespected the game. I’ll be rooting for you and Fabi in the candidates! Happy new year!
53:15 needs correction Both Anish and Wesley both were invited to the tournament. The tournament gave equal opportunities to players that were close to having a shot at the candidates. In fact, Anish and Wesley chose not to play it.
Ian , your accusations about the lounge were completely unfounded and unreasonable. You mentioned in your tweet that Magnus had access to a laptop. Both FIDE and Magnus’ dad clearly said that was just false accusations.
Ideally the top 10 players should have identical lounge situations. This way nobody can accuse Magnus of getting an unfair advantage. FIDE needs to protect the sanctity of the game.
@@anotherelvis If the top 10 players get such treatment, I bet the 11th ranked player will cry foul and say top 20 players deserve it. It’s difficult to draw the line.
The Chennai tournament and wijk had 20 and 27 points for first place respectively so close to 3/4th of the wijk aan zee tournament. While it's true that the number of rounds is much lesser, it's a problem specific to wijk which has 13 rounds and hence is a super tough tournament. Most other top invitational tournament has 7 or 9 rounds and get more points than Chennai because of higher average rating
In any other sport you would have been kicked out of the tournament, suspended, and fined for fixing a game. But I understand this is basically a tradition and acceptable in chess. And Most chess players probably think fans are too stupid to understand how easy it is for you guys to draw if you want, and some may use this as an excuse not to care if it's made obvious. But I think the tournament formats and point system needs to be revamped to discourage draws to bring more fans to the game.
24:10 Apparently it is normal for top players to negotiate to get a draw. This calls for a statistical analysis. See Steven D. Levitt's work on match fixing i sumo (in the book named Freakonomics).
When did you know that you missed Bxd8 in the last game in the Blitz... We want the answer...😂 (Btw I haven't watched full so idk if he has talked already about it)
Was great to hear Nepo's thoughts... But have to say that "Tata Steel having nearly the same circuit points on offer as Chennai" is not quite accurate. Tata Steel offered 27 points to the sole winner (i.e., Anish Giri) whereas Chennai offered 21 points to the sole winner (Gukesh eventually got 20 points as opposed to 21 since he was tied 1st on points and champion only on tie-breaks). So there was a difference of 6 points which is just slightly lower than 30%. So, in essence, Wijk actually awarded about 30% more points to the winner as compared to Chennai. Also, in absolute terms, Wijk offered 6 points more to the sole winner than Chennai, which is actually double the eventual difference in total circuit points (3 points) between Gukesh (87 points) & Anish (84 points). Even beyond the top 2, Wesley ended just 1 point behind Anish and Arjun ended another 2 points behind Wesley. So, a 6 point difference is VERY significant. But yeah, the diff was based just on the rating strength of the top 8 players in the tournaments. The no. of rounds, and the strength of players beyond the top 8 was not a factor, which may be can be tweaked a bit in the next cycle.
1 - Hikaru cheated Levon Aronian in 2016 candidates. 2 Vlad Kramnik is right but for the wrong reasons. Hikaru Nakamura is a 'bullying cheater' not an engine cheater. More info on bullying cheating vs engine cheating: p1w4Rr-jr I'm glad Vlad's accusing Hikaru, but I don't necessarily agree with Vlad's reasons for accusing Hikaru. 3 Similar to Bobby Fischer Vs Garry Kasparov case. Bobby said Garry cheated by pre-arrangement. Idk but Garry did cheat Vishy Anand, Judit Polgar & Alexei Shirov. That was bullying cheating, not engine cheating and not pre-arrangement. Bobby afaik didn't acknowledge that Garry cheated Vishy, Judit & Alexei but instead accuse Garry of essentially everything else. I'm glad Bobby hated Garry, but I don't necessarily agree with Bobby's reasons for hating Garry. 4 Hikaru & Garry are like Magnus Carlsen - bullying cheaters, not engine cheaters.
5 Magnus engine cheated - Danya Naroditsky 2x on lichess (2020, 2021) but bullying cheated - Alireza Firouzja (2019 blitz wcc), - Wesley So (2022 rapid not classical WFRCC - try to define 'slow rapid'), - Anish Giri (2023 Superbet Blitz), - Hans Niemann (2022 CGC), - Ian Nepomniachtchi (2021 classical WCC), - Sergey Karjakin (2022 candidates), - Alexandra Kosteniuk (2009 blitz WCC, a whole decade before Alireza) 6 Of course all this could be like Vlad is being like Batman in The Dark Knight (2008) or Lelouch in Code Geass like pretending to be the bad guy. This might explain why - Nepo made that post quoting The Dark Knight - Vlad accused both Hans & Hikaru who are on opposite sides of axis of evil vs allies of evil. Good guys vs Bad guys - Axis of Evil = Good guys: wesley so, hans niemann, bobby fischer, sergey karjakin, vlad kramnik (still! See below), ian nepomniachtchi, alireza firouzja, nodirbek abdusattorov, andrii baryshpolets, vishy anand, jan-krzysztof duda, christopher yoo, leela, ben johnson, elon musk, donald trump, andrew tate - Allies of Evil = Bad guys: magnus carlsen, hikaru nakamura, garry kasparov, daniil dubov, veselin topalov, liren ding, aryan tari, vincent keymer, arkady dvorkovich, peter heine nielsen, richárd rapport, andrew tang, lex fridman, stockfish, lex fridman, mark zuckerberg, george bush, piers morgan - axis of evil (female) = good girls: tingjie lei (or paikidze), janelle frayna, dina belenkaya, sara khadem (or carissa yip), robbi jade lew - allies of evil (female) = bad girls: wenjun ju, bella khotenashvili, andrea botez, atousa pourkashiyan - nakamura, nemo zhou More info: ARNSi0cPu60 Re Vlad: I view Vlad's accusation of Hans similar to Bobby's accusation of Anatoly Karpov & Wesley's wanting Sergey to not be in the 2022 candidates - it's a good guy fighting another good guy. The real bad guy in each respective case is Magnus, Garry & Magnus again. Tsk tsk. It's sad Vlad/Bobby/Wesley didn't realise that Magnus/Garry/Magnus is far more evil than Hans/Anatoly/Hans. Wait, I think Bobby did. Not sure. I think Bobby hated Garry more than Anatoly, but maybe not by much more. More info: eXHvXpOnAOE
He probably feels no players should get special treatment. I personally don't even think the site should allow speed running because that literally encourages cheating. And the fact Hikaru has no problem doing that says a lot about him.
Timestamps
1:02 - Samarkand Rapid & Blitz 2023
6:02 - Magnus Private Lounge
17:25 - Dress Code
20:10 - Dancing Knights vs Dubov, Draws in Chess, Arbiter's decision & appeal
46:40 - Candidates Drama & Farming
57:30 - Happy New Year Wishes
tysm dude
A true GM of youtube commenting
Happy New Year Ian and thanks for sharing your thoughts through the podcast, best of luck for the next world championship match against Ding!
hope nepo wins this time finally
@@boxofcans461 He will
Go Nepo! You're a true gentleman and athlete! Love from South Africa
Happy New Year, Ian! I love your podcast and to hear your opinion on all the current issues in chess. I am always rooting for you, you are my favorite chess player! Much love from Austria ❤
You should do these monthly :)❤️
Thanks for the podcast, Yan, and sharing your thoughts. The sad thing about the pre-arranged draw was that Danil lost his opportunity to tie Magnus for first place.
GMs are valid authorities on chess protocols and we are lucky to live in an age when you can express your ideas with less reliance on traditional outlets. From your "draws" commentary to Magnus' thoughts on classical championship format, FIDE should strive for agility in an evolving chess landscape. Appreciate your podcast and thanks for the Prokofiev ballet. Love and good luck to you for candidates, from USA!
Rumors say that the next Rapid & Blitz WCC will take place in Austria 🇦🇹. And my biggest wish for the new year ist to meet you in person, Ian! ❤
Happy New year Brooo
Thanks to you and Dubov I finally how the Knights move 😂😂
honestly, that game with the dancing knights sparked a good debate regarding draws in general, and your points are really great overall (about the arbiters being from fide directly, rules for qualifications). I had no idea the chennai masters was rated the same as TATA steel in terms of circuit points.... it really shouldn't be considering the rounds were too short....
Happy New Year Ian🎉 loved the podcast. I would love to see more of it!
It nice to see so many chess gms making videos and being chill about it. Considering chess is like a serious game, happy new year.
Very good points across the video.
Regarding Chennai masters it is known that both Wesley and anish were invited and they only rejected. And if you think Gukesh has an advantage being invited there , Wesley and anish both played gct classical and sinqufield cup both of which Gukesh was not invited. Which had more points involved than the Chennai masterd
Didn't Gukesh play Sinquefield cup he didn't perform very well there
But I think since the tournament was scheduled at the last moment, it was inconvenient to Anish / Wesley to travel from St Louis, not the same for Gukesh and Arjun. So, Ian's point is still valid that the tournament was not announced earlier and it disadvantaged few players.
This guy have less reacg
Ideally tournaments should be announced at the beginning of the year though.
@@anotherelvis in December that rules is created
All the best from Spain. Good luck in the Candidates, you can do it!
ЯН Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ, ТЫ МОЙ КУМИР, ЖЕЛАЮ ТЕБЕ ВСЕГО САМОГО НАИЛУЧШЕГО, Я ВЕРЮ В ТЕБЯ ТЫ СТАНЕШЬ ЧЕМПИОНОМ МИРА ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 ДЛЯ МЕНЯ ТЫ ЛУЧШИЙ ШАХМАТИСТ НА ПЛАНЕТЕ. ПОСТАВЬ СЕРДЕЧКО 🙏🙏
I'm also huge fan for you dear bro
You are true champion 🏆
Иван я ❤ твою маму
И Раппорт лучше тебя
@@sleppysnow3016 ххахаха Наш Ян лучше всех, и я буду его поддерживать несмотря на все неудачи!
Thank u for doing this, Ian! Love to hear u talking. Have a great 2024 in chess and in other aspects of life!
I'm confused about something: I knew that Anish and Wesley were both invited to that tournement in India, but they declined. Fabiano was the one who did not get an invitation. Am I wrong?
lol had to do a double take, I thought Ian stopped uploading. 🙏🙏 need more super GM channels
All the best from Austria! :) You are awesome
Thanks so much for this intelligent and insightful video!
Yearly podcast lets goo 😂
Сильный подкаст! Молодец Ян, что решил пролить свет на всю современную ситуацию в шахматах. Буду болеть за тебя на отборочном турнире. С новым годом, новый чем!)
С Новым годом! Спасибо за разъяснения :) моменты закулисья - это действительно интересно! Верим в тебя и твои победы 💪
Great to know your thoughts. Also accepting that Dubov game you are sorry. Being a chess fan i so relieved. Please respect the game and best of luck for your candidate tournament ❤
you came for this, thanks me later Timestamp : 20:20 game against Daniil Dubov
53:20 Anish and Wesley were invited to play in Chennai . And Chennai tournament was announced more than half a year back
Both players had a chance to improve their position AND also has a real chance of loosing their position. The probability of loosing was higher. So better be safe and keep the points and let others "gain point" if they risk their position
Happy New Year Nepo! Love you 😊❤️
Happy New Year, Ian! All the best to you in 2024. Keep the vlogs coming. :)
I think wesley said he, anish and hikaru were invited to Chennai masters.
Stay strong, Ian and make it a hat trick of Candidates wins.
Привет, Ян! С новым годом, желаю только успехов в этом году, буду болеть за тебя на каждом турнире!🔥❤️
Thanks for sharing your thoughts honestly & openly! Interesting and informative
С новым годом, Ян! Желаю успехов в Торонто и яркой игры!
Thank you for telling the truth and a huge like for this video. Having a private lounge booth right in the playing venue separated from the playing area only by ropes is totally unacceptable. Even more outrageous is having electronic devices there such as a laptop. I would say even more: Having coaches/seconds with such devices too close to the playing area is also unacceptable! While broadcasting with a delay made this tournament almost completely free of cheating, having people with electronic electronic devices (like smartphones, tablets or laptops) in close proximity to the players negate this broadcasting delay at least to some extent. I also agree with Yan that just having this lounge might have helped Magnus score 1-1.5 mores. What am talking about? -- Obviously, I feel like this lounge breaches the anticheating measures. You can think what you want about this, but *I do think this lounge breaches the anticheating measures. The same goes for players constantly going into the area where electronic devices are allowed. UNACCEPTABLE!*
Happy New Year, folks! Congrats to Magnus, Anastasia Bodnaruk and Gunina! Congrats to Yan for the good results too, although he didn't take the first place.
happy new year, Ian! ❤
С наступающим новым годом Ян! Желаю хорошенько отдохнуть, а потом разнести всех на кандидатском и ЧМ! Всегда болею и буду болеть!
присоединяюсь Яна в чемпионы мира
Яну надо поменять имя канала на Вечно второй
Good luck in the new year, and the candidates
Янчик, с наступившим ! Всё ещё верю в тебя)
Happy new year Nepo! All the best in 2024, hope you win some good tournaments and hope you get your own vip room ;) 😊
In regards to the lounge I very much agree that all players should play at as equal terms as possible, the problem is that the level of attention and media preassure is hard to quantify but undeniably very far from equal. There is just no disputing that Magnus is the biggest star in chess by a mile and would suffer disproportionally from being in the common area.
But I definitely do agree that there should be at least a more semi-private lounges available to other players who also can make a strong case to Fide for needing one, like the one you shared with Hikaru one year for example!
Lastly I do think it's important to mention that team Magnus very explictly stated that he in no way had access to a laptop in the lounge, which I think would have given him a significantly bigger advantage than what the lounge was.
He's probably skeptical and I don't blame him.
The most awesome notification I have is your Twitch stream. I hope to see you always streaming.
Happy new year, Yan. A good luck in the Candidates` tournament because you already have the skills. As for clothing , could you suggest photographing the clothes and shoes for pre approval ? That way there not wouldn`t be so many problems . 2023 was a good chess year !
Get stronger we root for you next year 💪 ✨
Ян, хотелось бы увидеть ваши стримы в наступившем уже году, поучиться чему-то...Успехов в новом году, счастья и мира в 2024-м!🎉
You have made a few excellent points
Happy New Year 2024 Yan. Wish you lots of successes
Happy new year, Nepo.
Love from India ❤
Happy New Year 🎉
Thanks for this, Ian; it was very insightful. Best wishes for your year to come in chess and in life in general!
I personally think removing the draw offer, at least before a certain move number, is a pretty decent solution even if it would increase the amount of Berlin draws and similar lines. My reasoning is that if you know you're playing someone you know plays drawn lines like that you could prepare very deeply and maybe catch them off guard when they are expecting a free draw.
I am only a lowly 2200, but the amount of decisive games in for example the Grand Swiss seems to suggest to me that even at the top level there is room for more combative chess if the players are incentivized strongly enough!
Great stuff Ian, Have subscribed!!
Ян, мы болеем за тебя! 🎉🎉🎉 Не пропускаем ни одного матча турнира претендентов! И верим в победу!
It's great you are posting. I respect your opinions.
С Новым годом!
Happy New Year!
and Guten Rutsch from Germany 🎉💜
Hello Ian, just want to clear one thing,
Both Anish and Wesley were invited to Chennai Grandmasters
True, but Anish didn't go because the tournament was announced late. So perhaps the solution s a deadline for announcing tournaments that count in the circuit.
@@anotherelviswell it was planned 3 months prior and Anish knew it before that 3 months cuz sagar Shah i.e chessbase india is the one who was trying to organize and he only organised the event told Anish about this way before
“Well behaved (chess Grandmaster's) seldom make history.”
Totally agree with you about the dodgy loopholes in the system ( two guys you mention seem to have used these loopholes).Well said.👏👏👏👏👏👏
For your kind information both wesley and anish were invited for Chennai grandmasters event mostly organised by chessbase india(sagar shah) and they denied and anish even commentated for matches of the event which goes to say he didn't have any problem with it moreover it was actually a chance for anish to assess the weaknesses of the players which will help him in the long run
I hope you have the bestest new year
Nepo knows how the knight moves!!!
Ян делай видео и подкасты почаще!
This was a good episode of the chicken chess club FIDE segment!
Really love you sharing your thoughts Ian! I personally found your game with Dubov hilarious! After hearing about your thoughts about it being a protest, I hope it made people judge you less who think you disrespected the game. I’ll be rooting for you and Fabi in the candidates! Happy new year!
NEVER STOP THIS PODCAST
Get stronger!! You deserve it.
20:10 relax guys you both did crazy thing . We love it.😅
I am not supporting this kind of behaviour, but once in a century, it's ok.
I didn't agree with alot of points but I appreciate that your share yor thoughts cause that's the only way it can get better ❤
Fuerza Nepo, los fans te seguimos apoyando. ❤❤❤
Happy New Year Yan!
Both anish and wesley was invited to chennai grandmasters
"Don't do this at home!" 🤣
thank your for the podcast
I wish you win the Candidates and the World Championship ❤
Best of Luck ❤
Anish and Welsey were actually invited to the Chennai Grandmasters
lets go win a third candidate in a row!
53:15 needs correction
Both Anish and Wesley both were invited to the tournament.
The tournament gave equal opportunities to players that were close to having a shot at the candidates.
In fact, Anish and Wesley chose not to play it.
Thanks for the apology, Ian
Вы открыли новый дебют). Новоберлинская защита) Гамбит Дубова -Непо)
Hello Ian sir❤️
Happy new year and i wish you and your family and friends a happy and prosperous life in years to come❤️❤️❤️🫶
Love from India
Ian , your accusations about the lounge were completely unfounded and unreasonable. You mentioned in your tweet that Magnus had access to a laptop. Both FIDE and Magnus’ dad clearly said that was just false accusations.
Ideally the top 10 players should have identical lounge situations. This way nobody can accuse Magnus of getting an unfair advantage.
FIDE needs to protect the sanctity of the game.
@@anotherelvis If the top 10 players get such treatment, I bet the 11th ranked player will cry foul and say top 20 players deserve it. It’s difficult to draw the line.
Слово Яна Непомнящего: 0.5 очков на асфальте
Ян, удачи в Торонто, у тебя в запасе ход конём!
С новым годом!🎉
The Chennai tournament and wijk had 20 and 27 points for first place respectively so close to 3/4th of the wijk aan zee tournament. While it's true that the number of rounds is much lesser, it's a problem specific to wijk which has 13 rounds and hence is a super tough tournament. Most other top invitational tournament has 7 or 9 rounds and get more points than Chennai because of higher average rating
big fan ian, keep being u
I'm quite sure there was a multi year period where number of wins was promoted against death by draw, and top players were making even more draws!
Thanks for accepting the draw mistake! Happy New year, i thought you would've been rude about it
С наступающим! Творческих успехов и справедливого отношения! Удачи в личной жизни!
Happy New year
In any other sport you would have been kicked out of the tournament, suspended, and fined for fixing a game. But I understand this is basically a tradition and acceptable in chess. And Most chess players probably think fans are too stupid to understand how easy it is for you guys to draw if you want, and some may use this as an excuse not to care if it's made obvious. But I think the tournament formats and point system needs to be revamped to discourage draws to bring more fans to the game.
24:10 Apparently it is normal for top players to negotiate to get a draw. This calls for a statistical analysis. See Steven D. Levitt's work on match fixing i sumo (in the book named Freakonomics).
Bravo 👏🏾
2024 будет лучшим для тебя🎉
I wish you an happy new year and great success in 2024!
انا أحبك نيبو ، من معجبيك في السعودية
Hi Ian. I am your new fan. Happy New Year..🎉
Would 2.5 points for a win and 1 for a draw be a better point system?
When did you know that you missed Bxd8 in the last game in the Blitz... We want the answer...😂
(Btw I haven't watched full so idk if he has talked already about it)
Was great to hear Nepo's thoughts...
But have to say that "Tata Steel having nearly the same circuit points on offer as Chennai" is not quite accurate.
Tata Steel offered 27 points to the sole winner (i.e., Anish Giri) whereas Chennai offered 21 points to the sole winner (Gukesh eventually got 20 points as opposed to 21 since he was tied 1st on points and champion only on tie-breaks). So there was a difference of 6 points which is just slightly lower than 30%. So, in essence, Wijk actually awarded about 30% more points to the winner as compared to Chennai.
Also, in absolute terms, Wijk offered 6 points more to the sole winner than Chennai, which is actually double the eventual difference in total circuit points (3 points) between Gukesh (87 points) & Anish (84 points). Even beyond the top 2, Wesley ended just 1 point behind Anish and Arjun ended another 2 points behind Wesley. So, a 6 point difference is VERY significant.
But yeah, the diff was based just on the rating strength of the top 8 players in the tournaments. The no. of rounds, and the strength of players beyond the top 8 was not a factor, which may be can be tweaked a bit in the next cycle.
Please discuss your thoughts about the whole Hikaru Kramnik situation.
1 - Hikaru cheated Levon Aronian in 2016 candidates.
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Vlad Kramnik is right but for the wrong reasons. Hikaru Nakamura is a 'bullying cheater' not an engine cheater.
More info on bullying cheating vs engine cheating:
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I'm glad Vlad's accusing Hikaru, but I don't necessarily agree with Vlad's reasons for accusing Hikaru.
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Similar to Bobby Fischer Vs Garry Kasparov case. Bobby said Garry cheated by pre-arrangement. Idk but Garry did cheat Vishy Anand, Judit Polgar & Alexei Shirov. That was bullying cheating, not engine cheating and not pre-arrangement.
Bobby afaik didn't acknowledge that Garry cheated Vishy, Judit & Alexei but instead accuse Garry of essentially everything else.
I'm glad Bobby hated Garry, but I don't necessarily agree with Bobby's reasons for hating Garry.
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Hikaru & Garry are like Magnus Carlsen - bullying cheaters, not engine cheaters.
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Magnus engine cheated
- Danya Naroditsky 2x on lichess (2020, 2021)
but bullying cheated
- Alireza Firouzja (2019 blitz wcc),
- Wesley So (2022 rapid not classical WFRCC - try to define 'slow rapid'),
- Anish Giri (2023 Superbet Blitz),
- Hans Niemann (2022 CGC),
- Ian Nepomniachtchi (2021 classical WCC),
- Sergey Karjakin (2022 candidates),
- Alexandra Kosteniuk (2009 blitz WCC, a whole decade before Alireza)
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Of course all this could be like Vlad is being like Batman in The Dark Knight (2008) or Lelouch in Code Geass like pretending to be the bad guy. This might explain why
- Nepo made that post quoting The Dark Knight
- Vlad accused both Hans & Hikaru who are on opposite sides of axis of evil vs allies of evil.
Good guys vs Bad guys
- Axis of Evil = Good guys:
wesley so, hans niemann, bobby fischer, sergey karjakin, vlad kramnik (still! See below), ian nepomniachtchi, alireza firouzja, nodirbek abdusattorov, andrii baryshpolets, vishy anand, jan-krzysztof duda, christopher yoo, leela, ben johnson, elon musk, donald trump, andrew tate
- Allies of Evil = Bad guys:
magnus carlsen, hikaru nakamura, garry kasparov, daniil dubov, veselin topalov, liren ding, aryan tari, vincent keymer, arkady dvorkovich, peter heine nielsen, richárd rapport, andrew tang, lex fridman, stockfish, lex fridman, mark zuckerberg, george bush, piers morgan
- axis of evil (female) = good girls:
tingjie lei (or paikidze), janelle frayna, dina belenkaya, sara khadem (or carissa yip), robbi jade lew
- allies of evil (female) = bad girls:
wenjun ju, bella khotenashvili, andrea botez, atousa pourkashiyan - nakamura, nemo zhou
More info:
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Re Vlad:
I view Vlad's accusation of Hans similar to Bobby's accusation of Anatoly Karpov & Wesley's wanting Sergey to not be in the 2022 candidates - it's a good guy fighting another good guy. The real bad guy in each respective case is Magnus, Garry & Magnus again. Tsk tsk. It's sad Vlad/Bobby/Wesley didn't realise that Magnus/Garry/Magnus is far more evil than Hans/Anatoly/Hans. Wait, I think Bobby did. Not sure. I think Bobby hated Garry more than Anatoly, but maybe not by much more.
More info:
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He probably feels no players should get special treatment. I personally don't even think the site should allow speed running because that literally encourages cheating. And the fact Hikaru has no problem doing that says a lot about him.
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