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Originally Posted by Fonkey123
Yugo,
To my understanding you are probably the best chess player here.
Not even close. AIM who has been quite active ITT is worlds stronger than I am. Don't remember if YKW dropped into this thread but he is worlds stronger too.
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Magnus is about an 80% fav in rapid with probably less variance than one sharp classical game.
Well...not sure about that, I was giving it 70%. Today of course was a disaster for Fabi but after not holding the first game a 3-0 result was probably fairly likely.
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Sesse gave Magnus a less than pain evaluation and it didnt seem risk free.
Which one? Finding Ba3 was likely winning and was risk-free as long as Magnus did 5 minutes of work looking at it (probably less).
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Originally Posted by MinusEV
Very nice.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
GCT finals, also featuring Caruana, will be interesting too.
We'll see - I wonder if he'll take next year "off" and date again, only worrying about winning stuff the year after when candidates is coming up.
I think both players have some tough work to do. Carlsen's classical chess is broken in some manner - players at this age don't just steadily decline year over year.
Caruana is in Karjakin's shoes where he was super close and it will be hard to stay hungry. I mean, no one is hungrier than Karjakin yet he definitely didn't seem to do as much work/push as hard the last couple of years vs. the years before his match with Carlsen.
I'm a bit worried this was Magnus' biggest test for the next several years and as long as he doesn't quit and fixes his Classical chess, we need to wait for the next wave of young guys since Wei Yi/Rapport/Artiemev/Duda age bracket seems a bit busted for championship equity.