Wijk aan Zee 2012

[EGarrett]

Topalov makes Houdini explode again en route to another loss. Let's hope this is the last tournament, if he cares this little now.

[EGarrett]

Performance ratings. Interesting how Carlsen performed almost exactly at his, Aronian pulled a 2890, and Topalov was almost 100 points under.

[All-inMcLovin]

Originally Posted by roblin

Did he seriously just curse?

Why did they keep that video, instead of re-filming and telling him not to curse?

Don't a lot of kids watch those videos..

lol though

Naka is #6 in the world, and Caruana is #10 now according to 2700chess.com

[Freddy777]

I don't see how 'I ****ed up' is cursing, And lol at all those youtube reactions. (they're probably all from us of a people btw...)

Also in the Netherlands you can even say **** YOU on prime-time television. (which is completely different imo.) Not saying I like that but it might explain why they probably didn't even consider to edit it.

[Freddy777]

Originally Posted by EGarrett

Topalov makes Houdini explode again en route to another loss. Let's hope this is the last tournament, if he cares this little now.

You are not a big fan of Topalov are you?

[EGarrett]

It was painful to watch him do this to his rating and care so little about the games. He's much better than this, or he was when motivated.

[All-inMcLovin]

Originally Posted by Freddy777

I don't see how 'I ****ed up' is cursing, And lol at all those youtube reactions. (they're probably all from us of a people btw...)

Also in the Netherlands you can even say **** YOU on prime-time television. (which is completely different imo.) Not saying I like that but it might explain why they probably didn't even consider to edit it.

Oh okay, that makes sense.

Can't curse here on TV/Radio, us Americans are prudes..

Fwiw, I think they're just words. :shrug:

[Discipline]

78% draws...

[Ajezz]

There were 91 games. Of these 52 were draws and 30 were decisive. 52/91 = 57% and not 78%. Sounds a lot better, doesn't it?

And even if there would have been more draws: So what? Draw is an integral part of chess; it is probably the default result if noone makes a mistake. Drawing is fine; the result itself says nothing about the quality of the game. As a spectator, it is just important that they don't make boring 12-moves draws.

[3kingme3]

"I ****ed up in the middle game, or opening, whatever."
-Magnus Carlsen, Tata Steel 2012

awesome

[BobJoeJim]

Originally Posted by Ajezz

There were 91 games. Of these 52 were draws and 30 were decisive. 52/91 = 57% and not 78%. Sounds a lot better, doesn't it?

I'm confused by this math... if 52 games were drawn and 30 were decisive, out of 91 total games, then what happened in the other 9 games?

[Noir_Desir]

they were also decisive, 52 draws is correct.

[Ajezz]

The "0" key is so damn close to the "9" key....

Apart from that explanation, I blame the German school system for my calculating skills.

[All-inMcLovin]

lmaoooooo