2024 World Championship of Chess

He lost on time a winning game vs one of the best in blitz at his age .
Passion .
At his age it’s nice to see .
Ps: seem he lost many games in time in this tournament, common as you get old , but at his age competing at this level still , very impressive .
He had a shot .

What a human video. You have Danya fighting for pride after the Kramnik attacks. You have Ivanchuk fighting for pride in the twilight of his career. Both men at the breaking point. It's raw.

And this is why blitz is a spectator event in a way classical never will be.

Vasily Ivanchuk (left) won this event in 2007, at the final peak of his career (he hit FIDE number 2 as early as 1991 before recapturing it last in 2007). He's well past the peak but unlike a Garry Kasparov, he loves the game and keeps playing.

He was winning as the game progressed, but burned a lot of time and had to scramble. In the scramble, Daniel Naroditsky (right) took an advantage. In trying to deal with that, Ivanchuk flagged. He didn't make a move in time. Players were getting only one second of bonus time with every move, so they had to move quickly to bank some time.

thanks i thought the guy on the right got it in on time and other guy conceded and the old guy was crying tears of joy

I don't play much any more but I do watch these high level matches. They can be real life dramatic as hell . Yesterdays New Years Eve World Blitz playoff between super player Magnus Carlsen and his young USA nemesis, Hans Neiman, was a real battle of nerves. Magnus' friend, Dubov, had indirectly insulted Hans in an earlier match. Tension was high. Hans putting up a good fight, and ended with Magnus slamming pieces. Then the finals blitz championship match between Magnus and another great blitz grandmaster, Ian Nepomniachtchi, was a long, superbly played one by both sides. It was a gripping nail biter where Ian made a spectacular sacrifice with seconds left . They had to go into sudden death tiebreak games. It all ended in an unpredictableway where the FIDE authorities had to step in to resolve it. It's more fun to watch lately than the NFL or soccer.

What do you guys think about Magnus and Nepo chopping the blitz title?

I think they planned it... or at least MC planned it, Nepo just agreed.

I think the biggest issue is that it affects the other players because none of them had the chance to 'chop it up' during their sudden death matches

in essence, the entire 2024 World Championship was a bit of a Joke.

Magnus has turned into an insufferable dickhead in recent years, but FIDE has to take most of the blame for the blitz-title now being a total joke.

Mainly for going for a format that would allow endless draws (armageddon may not be a balanced decider, but at least it is a decider), and also for just caving to Magnus' "solution" once he got bored and didn't want to play any more.

Is there something the FIDE is doing great ?
The format of WC is atrocious imo too .

Seems like the WC went fine this year only because Gukesh won it clean.

They're bad at designing tiebreaks

FIDE never does anything good. They just sometimes do things not awful. How Emil Sutovsky still has a job at the top is a mystery to me.

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Sutovsky has a really nice side to him when he delves into bios and the history of chess.

That's fairly irrelevant to him actually doing his job, though, lol.

I agree. His next position at a wax museum will be serendipidous.