. ^what he said. Thanks Yugo

Fischer Random/960 is happening.

Tight results

Kasparov not too good for those who grew up with him as a semi-deity, but no complete disaster either. His blunder vs Caruana was painful though.

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all!

I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

Uhhh what now?

Amazing.

GM got called out for using an engine in an online tournament with payouts. That was his response to the claims.

Lolz

I didnt know that was his actual reply. I thought that was a parody! Lmao at this *** clown.

Magnus has the Champion's chess tour now. Does anyone think Fide might have some competition after Covid?

The Skilling Open begins November 22.

@ FIDE competition - Is FIDE disliked at all by the chess world? (Legit question - I don’t have the background/history)

Yes. It's a long story but FIDE (mostly the previous administration to the current one) had a reputation for poor management and probably corruption.

HELP REQUIRED PLEASE!

Is there ANY way out of this position as black (me to play) or am I fooked? (i'm a novice LDO)

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It occurs to me that a few folks here might be interested to know that I have re-launched my blog with coverage of Tata Steel. Landing page for all the content related to the tournament here: https://chessnumbers.wordpress.com/2...steel-masters/

I noticed that via Twitter! I meant to actually post here about it but the forum seems so dead.

Have you found many prodigies not on the watch 4 years ago but seem to be main prodigies now? Or do you suspect it will just be a bunch of super young players who shouldn't really have much buzz surrounding them unless they make additional leaps?

Also, poor Nils. Wins the first two games, may be having the tournament of his life....1.5% chance of winning the whole thing. Of course, it's a long tournament but it's just gotta be so tough for guys like him who realistically have no chances to win top events.

I like what they do for this tournament by having not just the strongest players in the world, but so many of them just have no chance to win (or ever win) this level of tournament. Firouzja does in the future. Duda does, Esipenko, and then it's just Magnus/Fabi/Giri/Maxime. All the rest of the guys are forever drawing dead.

FIDE is not quite as corrupt as FIFA.

I haven't yet found any 15+ year olds who need to be tracked that I wasn't already looking at in 2016. Adding quite a few new 10-13 year olds though. Prodigy watch is on the back burner, just slow casual updates, while I focus on Tata Steel (and because Covid really screwed up all the kids' trajectories). I may find more when I start updating it more aggressively in February.

Yeah, it's just too long of an event. 13 games is enough of a sample size that there's just no real chance for a weaker player to get so lucky that they win. Though it's worth keeping in mind that while I calculate odds of winning, there are other reasonable goals. A lot of those players would be super happy with a top five finish, and that is certainly possible for them.

I'm glad you've been reading it!

BJJ, your site is incredible, I've been following as well since I saw on Facebook that you've relaunched it. Amazing work!

Well, of course!

I figured you guys might be but my view counts are low enough I couldn't be sure any one person from my old audience was definitively part of my new audience. Feel free to spread it around to other potentially interested readers! I'm a stats guy not a marketing guy lol.

Well I only noticed it due to a tweet by chess24 or someone else? Although if there aren't many views then I'm now wondering who retweeted, you'd think of chess24 did you'd get more views.

Really nice job on the blog, BJJ.

Fabi with the win over MVL today! I assume that brings him really close to Magnus as the favorite. Could come down to their h2h.

Chess24 retweeted a link to my prodigy watch when I first relaunched with a minor update there (even though I emphasized that it was only a partial update). I haven't gotten a "major" retweet like that yet on any of my Tata Steel coverage though which is where all my focus on the relaunch has been so far lol. It'd be great if I could get one...

Fabi is actually now the favorite by a rather large margin! https://chessnumbers.wordpress.com/2...und-8-preview/