up until 15 seconds ago i thought greg and jennifer shahade were husband and wife. mind blown.

I'm sure he doesn't care. I just wanted to know what the rules are.

Lollllol ahahahaha oh wow. I mean, yeah, but that's really funny to me.

When I had the same misconception, I was wondering why Jen couldn't have found a better husband than Greg

my dream husband would be rated 2750+, but I might settle for a 2700 if he's really hot

It doesn't matter what the current rating of a male is, it matters whether he's smart and hard-working - then you'll be able to bring his rating above 2800 by means of coaching.

important to point out that i basically knew zero about jen. i knew greg = curtains, and i saw jen's name pop up in a lot of chess/poker/streaming circles and just assumed.

dream wife would also be 2750+, but if she is really hot I would settle for 100

Giri just lost as White.

This wouldn't happen if he had a wife with a proper GM level or 2750+ level rating.

Curtains popped into the chess24 chat (about the US championship) about an hour ago and is throwing gems
Also, wow at Anna Zatonskih blundering the Bc5 and wp by Maurice telling a story about how Judit once missed a similar skewer in analysis.

Go Tatev!!!

It was nice of Alex Lenderman to allow Fabi to mate him on the board

Now both Fabi and Tatev are a clear half-point ahead of the field, and both have easier pairs of games remaining than their closest competitors (Wesley is yet to face Ray with White, the former is pretty much still in the race, and Hikaru, even if he does win tonight, is to face both Jeffrey with white and Ray with black).

Wtf, Jen Yu, how difficult was it to spot 61... Re1+ 62. Kf2 Nh1+ (and be a full rook up) at the WFM level, albeit in time scramble? Bad girl

And Carissa Yup tanked and took the exchange on d1 at move 46 instead of the h3 knight...

K=40

At times I think it's more difficult to be a husband of a chess (or any other sport) pro than of an amateur with a steadier source of income.

If I were Yu's partner (platonic, obv), I wouldn't be able to soothe her. I'd have a hard time not showing the fury.

Well, she was considering only Ne4+ after Re1+ there,



missing the fact that a knight check can be usually given two ways when the knight and the king are diagonally adjacent. But then, in the next and final critical position,



she could have seen that White couldn't move the knight (except the distraction sac on e3) nor the king, could only move pawns or the rook along the d-file or with check, with the potential passed pawn on h5 being not quick enough to queen.

I guess such semi-zugzwang positions where it suffices for the stronger side to improve her weakest piece (Kf6) while holding the grip with her strong pieces are taught to master-level players to the extent of automatism. Or at least, she should have felt that getting an extra knight wasn't enough to win as her g-pawn could be neutralised easily, and should have gone for a king march that had more winning chances (even in White's best defence line Ne3 Rxe3 Rxd2), with the increment providing her with enough time to avoid blunders (such as Ke6 walking into a fork).

I just can't not root for Carissa. What an incredible person she is at twelve years old. But beating Irina? Really?

¡¡¡Carissa!!!

That Rg5 was a really nice finish, wp!

But her 21. gxf6 was terrible positionally, and she did need Irina's blunder (27... Rxd3, not foreseeing 30. Rg1 which was quite easy, especially when put on the board*) to win.

* But Carissa has just said in the interview that she had been going to resign had Irina played 29... Bxe4+ instead of the 29... Rxe4, lol, facepalm.jpg.

"I want to thank my mom for washing my clothes."

- Carissa Yip

She's obviously the most awkward participant at the interviews

Those prodigies can play chess really well, but they're not ahead of the population in terms of other real-life skills.

Great technical play by Tatev

I don't think she's awkward, to be honest. She's just twelve is all. I find her incredibly cute and confident. I still remember early Anand interviews (when he was more than ten years older than Carissa is now, mind you) that were a million-and-one times more awkward than that.

And I mean cringe-worthy awkward. There was this chess match on German TV that happened every year, "Schach der Großmeister" (Chess of the Grandmasters), it ran from the early 80s to the early 2000s. One time Anand was there, and, to this day, I still can't make it through the entire interview without cringing myself into the ground.

Carissa will never reach those levels of awkwardness, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCqOGf-s4ZE

Here.

Happens in the first two minutes. I just made it through the entire interview, and apart from the fact that Claus Spahn (the dude interviewing him) asks incredibly dumb questions, those one or two word replies are way more awkward than Carissa will ever be.


Claus Spahn is pretty controversial among German chess fans, by the way. On the one hand, he organised this once-a-year TV event for 20+ years (and "Schach der Großmeister" is pretty legendary over here), on the other hand he's just not a good host at all, but he insisted to host this show every year. The two main commentators, GMs Helmut Pfleger and Vlastimil Hort are universally liked, though.

Anyone know if any chessclub in vegas or places where some players gather and play ?

Wow, Paikidze is going to become the US women's champ now, after Krush got herself in trouble in the 3rd game in a row (25. Rf2) while Eswaran is two clear pawns up with a huge time advantage! Caruana isn't going to lose once his chasers have drawn, so he's still a huge favourite for the overall championship.

I think she has a lot of competition for this. Quite a few of the younger girls were obviously not comfortable with jumping onto Maurice's backroom casting couch.

I really enjoyed the last few days when Maurice just starting ripping people in the interviews, and when Krush started getting more and more salty.

I haven't been watching the interviews, but what, half of the women are juniors and aren't (and do not aspire to be) professionals--seems a bit rude if the commentators are just abusing them for poor play.

lol this is hilarious. I guess I have to sift through the ********** archives to find some of these interviews.