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Just two of them at the end. Anand and Fed...something. ;)

But I can't really follow these fast games properly. Anand seems to be quite more adept at them.

I wanna see Armageddon, so, win Fed, dammit. Like Aussie Open!
 
Mrs Smoker said:
Just two of them at the end. Anand and Fed...something. ;)

But I can't really follow these fast games properly. Anand seems to be quite more adept at them.

I wanna see Armageddon, so, win Fed, dammit. Like Aussie Open!
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Blitz is exciting, but almost impossible to follow. When Fedoseev sacrificed a piece in the final game, you need to be at least 2000+ to keep up. Seeing that Nxe8 protects the queen in the end is just baffling.
 
Stream being behind some time, while I'm looking also at almost real-time board pgn doesn't help either. Will have to pick one of the either for Blitz. Which starts in less than three hours!
 
Mrs Smoker said:
Stream being behind some time, while I'm looking also at almost real-time board pgn doesn't help either. Will have to pick one of the either for Blitz. Which starts in less than three hours!
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Try chess21
 
Busy time for chess these days, January 3rd has also Speed Chess Championship between Carlsen and Nakamura. Starts at 6 pm british time or 7 pm best time.

Matches start with 90 minutes of 5|2 blitz, continue with 60 minutes of 3|2 blitz, and end with 30 minutes of 1|1 bullet.
 
But actually, Inarkiev himself made an illegal move first, and then Carlsen did as well, and apparently, first one isn't disqualifying so to say, but the second one is.

Weird rule. I think Magnus should feel a bit cheated. Well, not *cheated*, rules are rules...but, well dunno. Will certainly pay more attention to that as well from now on.
 
Thanks, though, I'm on desktop. chess24 will do, they improved the board look in stream, which is also almost real time as well with coverage.

As for Carlsen match. He lost, then it was a draw, now reading it's his win. Rollercoaster, and it's only round 1! :)

Think this was timeline:

Carlsen puts in check Inarkiev.
Inarkiev, while still in check, plays the knight and checks Carlsen.
Carlsen moved the king out of chess.
Inarkiev stops the clock and claims the win.
Arbiter comes and agrees?
Win Inarkiev.
Time passes, glaciers melt.
Head arbiter says Carlsen made no illegal moves, and offers both players to continue playing from the first chess.
Inarkiev refueses, and Carlsen gets the win.

I think that's fair, but not really familiar with actual rules.
 
Shame that we have not seen any leaders in action, every round, from first to 11th, it's always Carlsen, Carlsen, Carlsen. Will be the same with 12th to 21st. And as the matches are so short, can't really jump from table to table.

Norge TV is to blame. :cool:
 
Mrs Smoker said:
Shame that we have not seen any leaders in action, every round, from first to 11th, it's always Carlsen, Carlsen, Carlsen. Will be the same with 12th to 21st. And as the matches are so short, can't really jump from table to table.

Norge TV is to blame. :cool:
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You streaming Norwegian TV?
They will always show Magnus.
He's on fire now though, 3 wins in a row. I love how he doesn't play for a draw, like many of the other top players do.
He just plays on the time, and waits for opponents to do a mistake, like in the last one vs Mamedyarov (his name was on the tv screen as i wrote it, or i would never remember :) ).
 
No, but apparently they bought the TV rights, and that's why he's always on table 1, which was always streamed as well...before round 12 or so.

To be fair, even if I had a choice of matches, I'd probably watch his much more often than others.

And yeah, just saw that blunder, in comments people are saying blunder of the week. It was almost sure a draw, yet Magnus gets third in a row, and I think just half a point behind the leader! Great day for him so far.
 
3 in a row, and he's looking better against Karjakin now.
Important match this.
 
I'm surprised at how bad English everyone in the chess world speaks :lol:
 
Magnus won it with a round to spare, he's 2 points ahead, and won 8 out of 9 today, amazing day for him.
 
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And he won the (sadly unofficial) combined rapid-blitz title for the third year running!
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And now the fourth. No-one can keep up with him across five days. He has only twice in eight tournaments finished with fewer points than the winner:

2014 R: Won
2014 B: Won
2015 R: Won
2015 B: 1.5 pts behind the winner
2016 R: 0 pts behind
2016 B: 0 pts behind
2017 R: 0.5 pts behind
2017 B: Won
 
Not reading in fear of spoilers, just wondering if anyone knows if there's a video or today's Speed Championship final between Carlsen and Nakamura, youtube or somewhere else? If so, can anyone please send me a link for it?

That is, if it's over...

Completely forgot about it, so hoping to see it tomorrow.
 
Mrs Smoker said:
Not reading in fear of spoilers, just wondering if anyone knows if there's a video or today's Speed Championship final between Carlsen and Nakamura, youtube or somewhere else? If so, can anyone please send me a link for it?

That is, if it's over...

Completely forgot about it, so hoping to see it tomorrow.
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Might get taken down from copyright not sure. In five parts starting from the top.





 
Thank you, @donkeyfish . It's still there, but @pillory also sent me nice twitch video, in one piece. Thanks a bunch to both of you.

I've just finished watching, and have to say, skipped a lot of the bullet, not only because it's tough to follow, but really not a fan of drubbing. Boy, Nakamura really got thrashed. Bigly! Maybe it would've been a good idea to warm himself up with a nice rapid/blitz tourney before. ;)

Carlsen is amazing!
 
Interesting day. Giri crushed (and joined) the leader Mamedyarov, Carlsen is winning nine moves after blundering a piece against Jones, Kramnik is having fun with letting pieces hang, and Caruana (2/7!) is in trouble against Hou (1/7).
 
1 Giri, Anish
8½/12 2752
2 Carlsen, Magnus
8½/12 2834
3 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
8/12 2804
4 Kramnik, Vladimir
7½/12 2787
5 Anand, Viswanathan
7½/12 2767
6 Karjakin, Sergey
7/12 2753
7 So, Wesley
7/12 2792
8 Svidler, Peter
5½/12 2768
9 Wei, Yi
5/12 2743
10 Caruana, Fabiano
4½/12 2811
11 Jones, Gawain C B
4½/12 2640
12 Matlakov, Maxim
4½/12 2718
13 Adhiban, B.
3½/12 2655
14 Hou, Yifan
2½/12 2680

Final round:

Mamedyarov v Anand
Karjakin v Carlsen
Adhiban v Kramnik
Wei v Giri

How are the tie-breakers decided?
 
Funny game now, Fischer... something.
Carlsen vs Nakamura.
 
Fischer Random, i think it's called.
 
Entertaining stuff so far. Caruana (6.5) is half a point ahead of Mamedyarov after their 10th round draw today, but the one to watch is Krazy Kramnik, who opened strongly (WDW), completely lost the plot (LDLDLL) and then today sacrificed an exchange against Aronian and eventually won thanks to an horrific blunder by the latter, who is rock bottom on -3. The reigning challenger Karjakin was on -2 early on and looked down and out, but he's now on 5/10 and has Caruana with white in the 12th round. Grischuk (5.5) - Caruana in the last round could also make things interesting. Not to mention Caruana-Kramnik tomorrow.
 
With two rounds to go it has become a five-horse race. Caruana, Karjakin 7.0, Mamedyarov, Ding, Grischuk 6.5. My money's on Karjakin.
 
Carlsen will meet Caruana for the World Championship.
Looking forward to it, hope it's in a timezone where i don't have to sit up all night to watch it :)
 
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