*** Chess Low Content Thread ***
Hey guys,
The Chess BBV thread is for beats and variance and brags, this one is for low content stuff which is like not important enough elsewhere.
Well reading the rook endings thread reminded me. The only thing in chess that puts me on mega-tilt is when I misplay a rook and pawn ending. If I play the opening badly, fine. If I hang a piece to a tactic, no problem. Other endgames don't do this. But if I mess up a rook endgame, I feel like smashing the board with a huge meteorite rock.
I have no idea why this is, but this is my feelings about rook endings.
This is a fun video
The rarest move in chess
That popped up in my feed so I watched it.
Funny - was in my feed too - then I see it here
what another amazing game between Magnus and Hans...
Hans Niemann is legit!
Lol... apparently he was handed his arse last month in blitz.
There's another Grand Master live tournament cheating scandal that broke today..
Don’t be shy post link .
I mean, you say that like it was some embarrassing loss, but he drew Carlsen (losing by 5) then Nakamura (losing by 12). Those are of course the only two people ever to win the SCC.
His mouth is running ahead of his skills, but he's on an upward trajectory right now.
The douche is clearly way behind both Carlson and Hikaru at faster time limits. He let his chess do the speaking but it had little to say.
Chess is becoming a contact sport
IF chess is sensitive of electronic devices... how can anyone say that this years WSOP main event was not filled with cheating.
I mean, you say that like it was some embarrassing loss, but he drew Carlsen (losing by 5) then Nakamura (losing by 12). Those are of course the only two people ever to win the SCC.
His mouth is running ahead of his skills, but he's on an upward trajectory right now.
Oh he is talented.
It is like people saying this racing driver or that driver is horribly slow because they can not beat a team mate... any driver racing today would make you shyte in your pants if you got in a car with them.
Yoo vs Niemann for all the glory
wow, just read more about what happened. ugly stuff. yoo's career is basically over.
I doubt it. He’s only 17 and will be allowed to show remorse and be rehabilitated with appropriate help.
That will take years, and this is a very formative time for his chess. He needs to be out there playing top players. Probably will have to relocate for a while, after dealing with the assault charges.
Fourth degree assault is defined by the state of Missouri as a class C misdemeanor, unless a "special victim" makes it a class A misdemeanor. Special victims include LEOs, emergency personnel, probation/parole officers assaulted in the line of duty, elderly people, disabled people, "vulnerable" people, jailers and COs in the line of duty, highway workers in a work zone, utility workers on the job, cable workers on the job, mass transit system employees on the job.
A photographer at a chess tournament will not qualify as a special victim. therefore the MAXIMUM sentence Yoo could receive if found guilty of fourth degree assault as a Class C misdemeanor is 15 days in jail and a $750 fine.
His life/career aren't over, but he has a hard lesson to learn.
He is currently banned from the St. Louis Chess Club (as is Niemann but he's getting an exception for the U.S. Championship). His USCF membership is temporarily suspended, pending investigation. He currently cannot enter any rated tournament in the US, and due to the nature of the attack, this is may become a long or even permanent suspension. The USCF is under fire for being too tolerant of abuses by top players, and will likely want to shed this image.
The bigger problem for his chess career is getting invited to strong tournaments. The very top players in the world, the players a young rising star needs to face to gain experience and rating, mostly only play in invitational round robin events. No organizer is going to want to invite this kind of trouble, not until it has been behind him for a long time.
Now sure, a "career" as an ordinary grandmaster, eking out a living playing in open tournaments, teaching, and being a second, will always be available after this all blows over. But that's not the career we are talking about here. He was a prodigy breaking age records. He was likely under tremendous pressure to win this US championship, and put him on a path to get those top invitations, and to eventually become a top player who could challenge for the world championship.
He is currently banned from the St. Louis Chess Club (as is Niemann but he's getting an exception for the U.S. Championship). His USCF membership is temporarily suspended, pending investigation. He currently cannot enter any rated tournament in the US, and due to the nature of the attack, this is may become a long or even permanent suspension. The USCF is under fire for being too tolerant of abuses by top players, and will likely want to shed this image.
The bigger problem for his chess career
Point, re USCF. He'd have to go international.
Also wow, didn't know this was about Susan Polgar's son. Honestly that *could* matter if it would maybe let him transfer to Hungary under FIDE?
