Bottler, but his games have been the best to watch thus far.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) review both the Everton and Bodø/Glimt victories at Old Trafford. Listen to the guys discuss 2 wins and 7 goals in the last week, analyse of the Amorim formation, focus on Amad and how he is playing, and also take a look at Hojlund, Rashford & Zirkzee – who starts v Arsenal?
Nakamura won, what a topsy-turvy game that was
Nakamura beats Pragg with black to move 1st unless Nepo beats Vidit.
Of cause Vidit blunders and gifts Nepo the win.
Nepo is going to win it again..
Big win for Nepo with the black pieces when Vidit missed the win and turned down a draw. Vidit's a thorn in Hikaru's side in this tournament beating him twice and preventing him going top by losing to Nepo for the second time.
Nepo's luck bloody hell
Looking like a 3 way tie for the lead, Nakamura won, Nepo Drew and very much looking like Gukesh will win.
Naka and Nepo drew, so if Nakamura wins with White vs Gukesh tomorrow he will play Ding unless Nepo beats Fabi with black in which case Nepo and Nakamura will play rapid to decide who plays Ding.
What a final round this will be. Ian, Fabi, and Hikaru all need to win.
Ian and Fabi will have to go through a tiebreak to get to Ding as well
Ian and Fabi will have to go through a tiebreak to get to Ding as well
Gukesh was brilliant last night really hope he makes it those last moves under time pressure were beyond his years.
Gukesh got the draw, but looks like Fabi might get the win vs Nepo, if that happens I can’t see anything other than a Fabi win vs Gukesh in rapid.
Very tense end to this game, Fabi blew his advantage but got away with it
I’m sure Nepo has been getting beat in every game with black, but his opponents makes a mistake and he gets a draw, credit to Gukesh to winning the candidates.
Feel very sorry for Fabi , but will take 17 year old wunderkind winning it every time.
Naka was there for the content so job done I guess.
Naka was there for the content so job done I guess.
Caruana blew it. He just isn't great under pressure. Surprised at Nakamura's d4 choice.
You can see his reasoning why in todayyyys video.
Ding is in horrendous form, Gukesh will crush him in the World Championship.
Playing in the Norway Chess, 6 players, Nakamura, Carlsen, Pragg, Caruana, Alireza & Ding. Ding is in last place with only 2.5 points, Nakamura who just avenged his 2022 candidates defeat with black is in1st place with 10 points (a 3.5 point gap to 2nd)
Playing in the Norway Chess, 6 players, Nakamura, Carlsen, Pragg, Caruana, Alireza & Ding. Ding is in last place with only 2.5 points, Nakamura who just avenged his 2022 candidates defeat with black is in1st place with 10 points (a 3.5 point gap to 2nd)
1 point..
Pragg beat both Magnus and Fabi.. World #10 now.. Ding is out of the top 10.
I had meant to edit the post when I saw that Magnus won. Will watch Gotham’s recap video as both Magnus and Pragg games were even when I put the football on.
Carlsen vs anal beads let's go
Thanks for the reminder,see guccireza beat hikaru he's on a nice run with the st louis win also.
Carlsen with something to prove. Niemann already cracking under pressure.
Hans is such a strange guy. Clearly not on the level of the absolute top players but acting like he is before the matches and then says he didn't really prepare. Like anyone believes that.
Is Magnus the most dominant player in any sport? No one comes close to him in chess.
The game is set to return to its roots as India cruises the Olympiad. China won't be happy about that.
So which way can the seahorse piece move again?
Seahorse only moves en passant.
I thought that was only prawn on prawn action?
Oh I thought you were joking re seahorse. It is re pawns.
I was and I still am
Sorry.I will never get used to how arrogant chess followers are. So many seem to believe that they are brilliant minds just because they see an eval bar and are spoon fed top engine lines.
It is pathetic
And then you play them and they fall for fried liver attack.
It really is. And I was glad to see Caruana share the same idea this weekend, the worst part is that most seem to not even understand what the eval bar is or that they are judging players against a +3800 ELO engine.
It's because 95% of chess fans now have played 100% of their chess online and with computer evaluations being part and parcel with analysing etc. No concept of intuition etc.
You think so? I actually had the opposite idea because my intuition often lead me to one of the top engine move even in very complicated situations but I'm totally unable to consistently calculate beyond 3 or 4 moves which to me is the actual key point, the reason super GMs spend that much time on certain moves or elect to choose a different move is because unlike engines they sometimes can't see a path after a dozen of moves, the next move is often easy to find, it's the following ones that are complicated.
Though your point make a lot of sense if we consider the idea that many online players play short time formats which include a lot more inaccuracies. So maybe their mindset is squewed because they don't realize that there is a lot less room for mistakes in classical chess.
Interesting to see Nakamura make the point about the broadcast skewing people's perception with eval bar and top engine lines.
That was an entertaining game. Agree eval bar skews people thoughts, everyone is an expert with it on. This is one of the reasons i like to watch Kramnik's recaps as he reviews the game without the eval bar.
Today's game should have been won by a 2750+ GM with or without the engine. Gukesh has an almost +2 advantage including time advantage.