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Chandra @QuestToGM is Indian culturally. My point is its culture not geography. I may have misspoke. he is an american and currently residing in the USA.

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04-20-2014 , 12:15 PM

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BobJoeJim

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Carlsen wins a chess game, blah blah blah, new record high liverating, blah blah blah, 2885, blah.

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04-20-2014 , 02:15 PM

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lkasigh

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Originally Posted by adams161

You speak of Russia as offering a challenging system. It speaks to play coming from a geography not a cultural group. I've watched a few GM's develop from ICC online play. Currently Akshat Chandra @QuestToGM on twitter comes to mind. He is like 14 as his twitter profile picture reveals. i follow him on twitter and he follows me. I use him as an example because i think his online play rather than his geographic area is critical to his success. He is Indian though and i don't suggest his cultural heritage doesn't mater. He is keeping his blitz over 3000 ICC. I see again and again the online play being critical for young people on ICC.

Mike

This is true, in the internet era, you can play a high level of opposition from anywhere in the world. Still, I think online play alone will only get you so far. Internet blitz and 6 hour tournament games a're very different beasts.

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04-20-2014 , 03:08 PM

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Rei Ayanami

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The Gashimov Memorial has started, in case anyone is craving their fix of Carlsen porn. A couple of games in the Nakaploitation subgenre should become available.

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04-20-2014 , 03:23 PM

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schundler

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Anyone in the 1250-1500 range interested in playing a few games with a 15+min time control on chess.com and reviewing afterwards?

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04-21-2014 , 12:10 AM

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Rei Ayanami

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I was reading miscellaneous articles about Hou Yifan's 2700 potential, and this is what I came across...

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04-21-2014 , 12:55 AM

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The Moocher

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timothy rigney is clearly a sklansky dupe

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04-21-2014 , 07:43 AM

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Sholar

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I need him to translate his statistical ability to Elo, and then to IQ, before I can reply.

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04-21-2014 , 12:12 PM

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ScottTK

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Originally Posted by BobJoeJim

Carlsen wins a chess game, blah blah blah, new record high liverating, blah blah blah, 2885, blah.

2/2 after beating Naka today.

I don't know openings, but is Carlsen's 6.Be2 / 7.Bd3 standard?

1 d4 d5
2 c4 c6
3 Nf3 Nf6
4 e3 Bf5
5 Nc3 a6
6 Be2 h6
7 Bd3

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04-21-2014 , 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BobJoeJim

Carlsen wins a chess game, blah blah blah, new record high liverating, blah blah blah, 2889, blah.

FYP

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04-21-2014 , 01:19 PM

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wlrs

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Originally Posted by ScottTK

2/2 after beating Naka today.

I don't know openings, but is Carlsen's 6.Be2 / 7.Bd3 standard?

1 d4 d5
2 c4 c6
3 Nf3 Nf6
4 e3 Bf5
5 Nc3 a6
6 Be2 h6
7 Bd3

Not standard, but it's not that hard to understand with a little background info about the variation - 6.Bd3 used to be a way for a very small but safe edge but Black has done okay recently with 6.-Bg6. 6.Be2 plans 6.-e6 7.Nh4 snagging the bishop pair and after B prevents it with h6 he can't reply 7.-Bg6 to 7.Bd3. A good way by Magnus to get one of those "should be equal but I can try to grind this" positions he just seems to win so often.

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04-21-2014 , 09:59 PM

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TexAg06

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Originally Posted by Rei Ayanami

I was reading miscellaneous articles about Hou Yifan's 2700 potential, and this is what I came across...

Haha, that reply is awful.

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04-22-2014 , 06:43 AM

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Rei Ayanami

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Which openings, iyos, lead to the most aesthetically pleasing positions? What about the ugliest?

I think the Grunfeld with Rb1 and ...Qa5+, featured in today's Radjabov–Caruana match-up, can be gorgeous.

All of the imbalances: White's abandoned queenside and classical pawn center, Black's developed kingside and almost diametric inattention to the other side of the board, and connected passed pawns (!) already on move 12.

I like how subtly minimalist it is, for all the apparent dynamicity. Apart from a stray piece, each side can be neatly divided into two elementary "chunks":

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04-22-2014 , 07:44 AM

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All-inMcLovin

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Chess aesthetics are mostly in the eye of the beholder.

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04-23-2014 , 11:11 PM

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vixticator

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After losing countless numbers of games in a row over my last 10 I am 6-1-3* (1 loss obv) although I'm still making a number of blunders each game. My rating on chesscube is 1292 and 1068 on chess.com although I've played more on the first one lately. Must be improving somewhat. I don't think I'm the worst player of all time anymore so that's progress.

16-13-3 this month I'll take it

Last edited by vixticator; 04-23-2014 at 11:21 PM.

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04-24-2014 , 01:29 AM

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A-Rod's Cousin

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Vixt, I'm 1137 on chess.com. Let's play a correspondence match. ChessKing9577.

I tried to think of a lame name when I registered in November. It is quite funny how angry the name "Chess King" makes people. Even though it's pretty obvious I am not a king of chess. I thought there'd be all kinds of names like this when I registered and didn't think it would be a big deal but it bothers some people. lol.

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04-24-2014 , 06:32 AM

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vixticator

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Sounds good. I'm not sure I know how to set that up but pretty sure my name is the same as 2p2.

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04-24-2014 , 07:01 PM

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A-Rod's Cousin

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I've set it up. Log on to chess.com and I'm sure you'll see it under Online Chess.

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04-24-2014 , 07:09 PM

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grando1.0

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Chess.com free?

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04-24-2014 , 07:36 PM

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airwave16

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Yes

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04-24-2014 , 07:36 PM

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BobJoeJim

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Originally Posted by grando1.0

Chess.com free?

Free... with a large list of "premium options" that you can gain access to if you choose to pay for them.

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04-24-2014 , 10:20 PM

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vixticator

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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin

I've set it up. Log on to chess.com and I'm sure you'll see it under Online Chess.

Got it.

Just got around to it right now been a weird day.

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04-24-2014 , 11:37 PM

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Rei Ayanami

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Greg Shahade has an ongoing tactical puzzle series, and this is the most recent video:

I thought I got this one wrong when Greg revealed the first solution (and I was like

), but around ~1:25 I found out that the sequence I discovered was indeed the strongest (so I was like

).

Cool story sis, I know, but spotting a tactic an IM "missed" made my very uneventful day.

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04-25-2014 , 12:07 AM

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vixticator

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Curtains is a beast. I watch his videos fairly often can't believe how many he cranks out. Watching actual good players play chess is more interesting to me than when I play myself cuz I suck, lol. I've been watching quite a lot of games and lectures on the Siquefield (sp?) youtube site as well. Again, much cooler than playing.

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04-25-2014 , 04:20 PM

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Meditations

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Interesting that so many poker players have gotten into chess, given that there is relatively 0 money in it. I, myself, went the opposite route and started off with chess first

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