Chess

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:37 pm

Sometimes it is a draw because the higher ranked player is bored. Magnus will often offer a draw when he's a bit behind. The lesser-ranked player will agree because a draw against him is a win for them. It's fucking disappointing.

OTOH, the [early] Leela Zero games against Stockfish were fucking awesome.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:57 am

Yeah but the AlphaZero matches sucked

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 1:05 pm

Chess world news:

Carlsen Draws Controversy With New Club, 2020 World Championship Stance

Among other things, he's really pushing for the 2020 world chess championship not to be held in Norway.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 1:53 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 1:05 pm Chess world news:

Carlsen Draws Controversy With New Club, 2020 World Championship Stance

Among other things, he's really pushing for the 2020 world chess championship not to be held in Norway.

His is a reasonable position and I don't blame him. The tournament is to be held in November of 2020. Carlsen is Norwegian and as such, knows well what Norway in November is like.

at the very least, I think the reigning champ should have some say. 'Cause if he don't play,...

Fuck that, he's going to Florida.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:11 pm

Well I got the sense from the article that it wasn't really about the weather.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:35 pm

It was about the pussy?

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Thu Jun 27, 2019 2:52 am

He wants a match against ed.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:26 am

Interesting game with an early queen sacrifice

It's all very far beyond anything I could even contemplate doing on purpose. But fun to watch.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:52 am

Watched it the other day. Cool game. When black sacrificed the queen I thought for sure he was done. I thought that right up to when white resigned.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:00 am

Follow-up to the news story I posted earlier:

Stavanger, Norway Withdraws 2020 World Champs Bid After Carlsen Pressure

Stavanger, Norway is officially out of the bidding process for the 2020 world chess championship, organizers announced.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:30 am

Can I just say that they should change the rules to more greatly discourage draws. I don't know how. I'm just the idea man.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:33 am

Hmmm, I'm drawing a blank there.

You could give them less time I suppose. Perhaps a bonus for winning games? So that both players win more if there are fewer draws?

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:07 am

A bonus for winning. Yea. Doesn't have to be a 'score' bonus that effects your standing. Maybe a cash prize per win. Or a blowjob from Alexandra Botez.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:54 am

Her king looks a bit droopy

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:43 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:54 am Her king looks a bit droopy

You'd think grandmasters would play on better boards. I suppose those are for the novice.

In other news

Chess Grandmaster Busted Cheating in the Bathroom
Igors Rausis says he 'lost my mind'

(Newser) – One could be forgiven for never having heard of Igors Rausis—probably until the 58-year-old chess grandmaster got himself busted cheating in a tournament with his smartphone in a toilet stall. As the Guardian reports, the International Chess Federation says it caught the Latvian-Czech player "red-handed using his phone during a game" on Friday, and has since suspended him. The ICF says that Rausis was long suspected to be a cheat—his ranking has miraculously shot up in recent years—and that the bust is "merely the first shot" in its fight against cheating.

https://www.newser.com/story/277771/che ... -mind.html

I'm expecting agadmator to comment on it.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:37 am

I've been watching this Fischer random chess thing on agadmator's channel.

I think I might even like this more than regular chess.

It's Carlson vs Caruana. Wesley So and Ian Nepo are also involved. Top rate players all around.

I actually found the move at 8:20. Kinda surprised myself. I usually pause the video and try to find a good move when he promps it, but I'm pretty hit-or-miss at that. But I found this one.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:47 am

Wait. What? Weird. Why?

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:38 pm

Change of pace. It makes for interesting openings. Openings you wouldn't normally see in a game between grandmasters.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:55 am

The final match is underway, Carlson vs So, and agadmator has videos of the first 4 matches already up. They are all quite interesting!

Game 1:

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 3:23 pm

It is too frustrating for me.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 4:56 pm

Why? It's not like you're the one playing.

It's just like watching football. You don't have to be good at playing football to watch.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Nov 02, 2019 5:16 pm

Want to take a minute to remember Shelby Lyman. I watched this guy for the whole match. He would get excited "Oh Boy, what a move!!!" etc etc.
I was sad to see that he died recently. Actually my bro and I did. God, must have played 100 games during that match. I lost all of them as I recall.

Shelbourne Richard Lyman (October 22, 1936 – August 11, 2019) was an American chess player and teacher known for hosting a live broadcast of the 1972 World Chess Championship for the PBS television station Channel 13 in Albany, New York, New York. This broadcast became the highest-rated public television program ever at that time, far surpassing viewership expectations. He was also taught sociology at the City College of New York for three and a half years.[1] Shortly after the 1972 World Championship ended, he began writing a syndicated column about chess for Newsday; at its peak, this column was published in 82 newspapers around the world.[2] He later hosted a two-hour broadcast covering the World Chess Championship 1986. This segment was recorded at WNYE-TV in Brooklyn and aired on 120 public television stations.[3]

RIP Shelby.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 5:26 pm

Met him but never played against him. He helped make chess come alive for many Americans.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:52 am

I will say that agadmator is much better at this than he was a few years ago.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:38 am

It's worth noting that he just hit 500,000 subscribers.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:56 pm

I loved the watch.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:58 am

I couldn't see the killer move here, but it's a good one if you can find it

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:26 pm

I finally found it after agadmator showed it to me.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:42 pm

Probably in retrospect Nakamura's decision to castle queen side when he did, given the position was a big strategic blunder.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:03 am

Spoiler:

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:55 am

Typical Kid These Days, spending her time playing game rather than getting to work!

– J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:48 pm

Hikaru Nakamura is a Youtuber now and he's pretty good at it too.

He's also on Twitch, but that's for the kids.

One of the best, maybe even the best at rapid formats like blitz. That's 3 minute time limit. It's chess at lightning speed, but he is able to explain what he's doing. I can't follow his explanation because my brain doesn't work at that speed, but it's still interesting to watch.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:25 pm

I’ve been watching google deep mind alpha zero obliterate the best chess engines

A self taught AI that seems to have changed how chess will be played from now on

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:47 am

This is actually a pretty interesting game. The cosmonauts go all out.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:36 pm

In case anyone prefers the original Japanese Russian

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/karjak ... chess-game

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Jun 10, 2020 5:16 pm

That was fucking impressive. I suppose Sergey figured it would be an easy win and played a well known opening fools-gambit only to gave it shoved up his ass.

On the other hand, the Cosmonauts have easy access to a few million petaflops of processing power back at Roscosmos on which to run an instance AlphaZero ... if they so chose ... not saying they would ...

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Jun 29, 2020 7:35 am

Bizarre. A chess podcast with Agadmator and Hikaru was taken down, apparently by an algorithm, for reasons unknown.

It has been restored apparently, but it's still a mystery.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:00 am

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alpha ... ogi-and-go

This new approach is just the tip of a very very big iceberg. One that is poised to sink a lot of very big ships.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:46 am

dec of 18. ok boomer.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:06 pm