Candidates ending edition>Calendar:- FIDE Candidates Tournament | April 3rd - 25th- European Women’s Chess Championship | April 18th - 30th- TePe Sigeman & Co | April 27th - May 3rd- Sardinia World Chess Festival | April 27th - May 4th- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz | May 6th - 13th- Champions Chess Tour: BetterHelp Masters | May 8th - 15th- Sharjah Masters | May 13th - 23rd- Norway Chess | May 26th - June 7th- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Chess Classic Romania | June 24th - July 6th- European Individual Chess Championship | June 30th - July 13th- Grand Chess Tour: SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia | July 8th - 15th- Biel International Chess Festival | July 13th - 26t>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Previous thread:>>92468639
>>92561909Rip Hickaroo Bakamura
>>92561909>Candidates endinground 13 live streams:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0MLcdW-K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvMU7OL2Ff0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvtpxHiVGvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KC4sJ0sSE
My boy Caruana is winning.
>>92563028Everybody but Caruana draws so we have a massive round 14.
Hikaru will draw Gukesh and Fabi will draw Ian. Is that whats going to happen tomorrow?
>>92564839Nerves will play a big role. I expect blunders and no draws at all. There is also a chance that Ding is not defending the title, so finishing second is important.
>Hikaru ANWOs Gukesh>Ian colonizes Caruana>Hikaru bottles against Ian in the tiebreaker as he always does>yet another semen slurping WCC between Ian and Ding next yearThis is the gran finale to the "unnerving" and "unpredictable" final round.
Hikaru with white will start aggressively, but then play defensively leading to a draw. Fabi with white beats Nepo.
>>92566029>ANWOsWhat does this mean?
>>92566029I like the other scenarios more.
round 3 of the European Women’s Chess Championship is startinggames:https://lichess.org/broadcast/european-womens-chess-championship-2024--boards-1-64/round-3/L4Nu4mH0pairings:https://chess-results.com/tnr897945.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=3&turdet=YES&flag=30live stream:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ALRWmped0photos from the event are available on the Facebook page of the organizer; see links in the news section of the official website:https://ewcc2024.eu/news/
Good morning sirs Gukesh D will surely redeem championship for India we are surely world superpower
>>92567230They will both be draws retard
>>92564839Yes
>>92569715Doesn't Gukesh win if everyone goes for draws? Surely, everyone but him will be playing for a win.
>>92569745Of course they will play for a win but it's not going to happen. Nepo will play some Petrov draw line and draw. Then he can go back to dota and not have to face another embarrassment loss in WCC
please please please please please no Tania Sachdev for the final round...
>>92570059Polgar, Leko, Howell for the final day would be perfection. Just imagine the utter insanity of Polgar+Leko calculations on crazy lines. I know others here don't like him, but I'd be cool with Danya in place of Howell desu.
>>92570092>Polgar, Leko, Howellpatrician taste, my friendI also like when Anish comes in and shows fancy linesTania Sachdev and Levy Rozman are fucking awful.
Nepo is going to win the Candidates today, isn't he?Still rooting for Hikaru
My bait worked!
>>92570129>that screencapIt's like redditors go out of their way to look embarrassing.
>>92570059>We will never get a chess event the comfy Chess24 studio and production again >No Simon Williams>No Kaja Snare
>>92567271asian new world orderbasically a fetish where asian men submit men of other races to their sexual desiresthis general never stops using raceplay terminology to describe chess
>>92570059Do not besmirch my pajeeta
So who's going to win: Gookesh or Cuckaru ?
>>92570059Is she really that bad?
>>92570970Her contributions aren't necessarily bad. It's more that she has a high pitched, high volume voice and just never stops talking. That's why I don't like having her on the commentating team.
Have data scientists ever done an eye-tracking study on chess grandmasters similar to the studies done with eyetracking on recruiters and HR people reviewing resumes? I think such a study would elucidate to mere mortals a bit more of how GMs view the board and study positions.
>>92571036No, she just regurgitates what the other casters say and she's faking hype all the timeAlso she's an IM and people want to act like she's on the same dimension as Leko who was litteraly a world championship contestantShe's talking twice more than other casters to say basically nothing, or mundanities like pointing out that someone is losing. Yes Tania, we see the eval bar. You can let the GMs talk about interesting lines now.
Incels popping off ITT kek
>>92571398Go back.
>>92571288>She's talking twice more than other casters to say basically nothing, or mundanitiesYeah this is the main problem. Her dumbing it down can be helpful for the shitters like me in certain cases. But she just dominates the airtime compared to everyone else. But yes, everyone, myself included, would prefer literally any of the other commentators that just go full steam ahead on the analysis. If I get lost in the complexities, I don't care, it's still fun.
>Gukesh vs DingIs this the most boring World Championship possible?
>fucking danny renschanother cringe IM.
>>92571512This wasn't one I was expecting. IM aside, how is he as a commentator? Does he have enough insight to go into fun lines/calculations? I don't think I've seen him in any capacity other than acting like pic related.
>>92561938final round:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fIwNVqn30https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQ_MScNPeIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8O4qJ6KjLohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCE-Ar9udOU
>>92571538He's chesscom's ceo so he feels the need to cast the last most important round to like the narcissistic prick he is, even though we could have a great cast with 3 or even just 2 good GMs. But I guess when you bring Levy Rozman and Tania Sachdev at that point it doesn't matter who else.My favorite moment was when danny kept accidentally cutting hikaru off during the pogchamp streams and hikaru was really annoyed at him and you could see danny visibly sweating and shitting himself.
You have to admire Rensch for putting himself and his best friend on commentary for the most watched round of any tournament this year.
>>92571499Why would it be boring? Both are very inconsistent.
>>92571410Concession accepted.
>>92571288>>92571626>leddit spacingDownvoted
>>92571709Seethe and cope.Blocked.>>92571716>noooo you must write in a full block of textretard
berlin draw, what a time to be alive
>>92571795I respect it. There's no point for them to bother going all out. Just collect the cash from a draw and go home.
nepokings.. doesn't look so good for us..
>>92571716Did you blank out the second grade where they taught you about paragraph breaks?
holy shit magnus on stream
>>92572072why? middlegame just started
>>92571629>You have to admire lmao, it's unwatchable!
How many hours do I need to study and practice to be able to crush all normies around me?
is magnus a drunk now? he sounds braindamaged
>>92572245It's too late in Norway I guess.
>>92572254clearly drunk
>>92572242Which country? One hour daily it's enough usually, unless you are in Russia or Serbia or some other chess powerhouses.
>>92572202he's lost
no shot gukesh just threw the game
Vou soltar um peido bem forte.
>>92572242Normalfags who even know the rules will be in the minority. The ones who know the first thing about winning will be even fewer. They'll be the odd person who tried to get into chess but couldn't handle it and stopped playing. They'll take a good amount of practice but the rest of them will be an easy win after ten minutes of learning the aforementioned first thing about winning (defending pieces).
Hikaru is 5'1 without his high-soled shoes. I have a friend who is 5'2 and took a photo with him and they both ended up being same height
They just constantly ask Magnus about players mentality instead of talking about the game on the board, just negative contribution to commentary
>>92572242Just go through the steps method workbooks vol 2-5 (can even start at vol 1 if you're a total noob). Most important is to not just do the puzzles but to apply the "search strategies" detailed in the manual for each lesson to each puzzle. By the time you hit vol 4 you'll already be better than 95% of ordinary (i.e non-club) players. At step 5 you're basically a very strong club player. Then if you want to get to master level just grind book 6.
Pragg is the best gooner in this tournament, nepo is second
kek fat retard nepo fumbles again
KWAB
not discussing chess in your gamertag subreddit
damn hikaru is fucked now
>>92572975fabiano's reverse choke tho
this is about to become the worst world championship of all timethe worst champion ever vs hello sir teenager edition
Annual reminder that Magnus played against fashion designers, podcasters, and Twitch streamers with supercomputers doing his prep work. #NotMyGOAT
We rooting for Gukesh right?
>>92574732I'm down with a teenager against a first time defender of the WC
Fabi the choke artist.
>>92574976Literally all he had to do was keep his queen and rook on the back rank and walk his pawn up the board.
Where my sirs at??
kek reddimura btfo
>>92575003Yeah. It's always like this, the game was won. He'll never be world champion.
Now I understand how Nepo fans felt watching the last round of the 2023 championship
congrats!
I hate Indians so goddamn much you wouldn't believe it
>>92575075I thought he hates reddit and they hate him?
>>92575692You thought wrong
>>92576474Were we supposed to manifest a different outcome?
Ding doesnt defendCaruana wins tiebreak and becomes WC PlsPls
>>92575692they do reddit hates his guts, normies love him tho
>>92575447Nakamura winning would have gotten Magnus back for sure.Peak content
>17yo wins Candidates Adult improvers rekt once again.
>>92576574It's a shame since Caruana probably could've won against Gukesh in tiebreaks and go on to beat Ding. But then again, any of the top candidates would've likely gone on to be world champions given Ding's current state.
>India vs ChinaI cannot bring myself to care about this world cup, but it will probably be the most popular chess match in history.
>>92578044>popular chess match in history.Popular among Indians maybe. Ding might as well be retired. Man is a shell of his former self. I'd be surprised if he decides to defend. He clearly doesnt care about competitive chess anymore.
>>92578044Western media will ignore it. The best case for them would be an American vs a Russian. Also I suspect that FIDE will choose a location in the far East, so even the live streams will have fewer watchers than the last championship.
>>92578960>Popular among Indians maybeThose two countries still have border disputes, so the media will be interested:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93India_relations#2020s
>>92578977WC in Mumbai. Imagine Ding fainting from the smell and getting food poisoning.
>>92561909Why did people want to see that shitter Alireza over So again? The former was absolutely farmed.
Looking for a queen sac every game, thoughts on this strategy?
have you ever seen someone so utterly broken. this reaction to a question that wasn't even directed at himhttps://youtu.be/qSMSq-Yu4JU?t=449
How much money do you get for being 2nd in the WC match?I mean, Ding is pretty much done with chess, but just participating in the defense, means he will get some money he can live from.
>>92580996The last time the second got 800K euros, I don't know if the next edition will be the same: https://worldchampionship.fide.com/general-information
https://rentry.org/5u2a6px2from the sticky's list, what's the one book that's considered to be a must read for beginners/early intermediates?
>>92581647>beginnersHow to Beat Your Dad at Chess >early intermediatesAny book on fundamental endgames, so when you play you will try (by following the basic principles) to reach an endgame that you are already familiar with.
>>92581846>How to Beat Your Dad at Chess sounds like a meme>fundamental endgamessounds reasonable, thanks
Why is no one streaming the closing ceremony
>>92582816FIDE ceremonies are cringe af usually.Anyway, I think it's too early, I'll check later.
>>92583156>that Nepo/Fabi post match interviewSo cringy
>>92581647Logical Chess (Supplement with a similar Neil McDonald book "Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking). Also very good for me were 5334, Play Winning Chess, Simple Chess, Chess Fundamentals, Amateur to IMMissing but very important is Silman's Complete Endgame Course. Would recommend over 100 Endgames book
>>92575692Why would they? His politics and personality is reddit incarnate.
>>92584488Yep.
>>9257721030y/o boomer bros...it's ogre...
>faggot opponent send all his shit to f7>sends "good game well played" when he winsI hate being low ELO so much
>>92584345>lose the possibility to win more than a million dollar in the world championship>current world champion is so weak that winning the Candidates was like becoming world champion >worked a year and a half almost for nothing>last day of a tough tournament >they know that they are getting old and that the next Candidates will be even more difficult because Abdusattorov and other strong players will be there>last game ended in human-unsolvable mating lines everywhereyeah I'd like to skip the interview and go home with the first flight
>>92584345Based Nepo being sympathetic towards Fabi, real sportsmanship.Jaw dropped hearing the interviewer ask "how do you feel?"Would've stood up, told Nepo we're hitting the bar, and moonwalked out holy shit
>>92586493>undefend king>lose>complainSkill issue. Learn to play against jeets, now that Gukesh is playing in the championships we'll get a huge influx
>>92589189>dude you're le badYes, this was indeed mentioned in my post. Consider working on your reading comprehension.
>>92589189We are safe until November.
>lost six games in a row and started yelling FUCKING NIGGER increasingly louder at each defeatI reckon that's enough chess for today.
>>92568573Glad to see Jovanka still playing.
>blundered in a rated corrospondence game
>>92589189>huge influxI remember a request in the chesscom forum to add a country filter, maybe it's time to ask again, politely.
>>92596334>still playing correspondence in the age of chess enginesanon, it's 25 years too late
can someone explain what happened in the ian v caruana game? why is everyone talking about it?
>>92602215oh i just saw, caruan blundered. big woop
mandatory /chess/ poll: Ding or Gukesh for the next championship?https://strawpoll.com/GPgV6N1Kkga
>>92602215https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGussQgo6-8&t=131s
>>92586080Ding Liren will defend our asses :D
>>92553683Alexandra pussied out and moved to the B section, so now there is a good chance that the two sisters will play against each other in an official match :Dhttps://chess-results.com/tnr887243.aspx?lan=1&flag=30&turdet=YES
>>92568573round 6 with the Ukrainian zoomer in board 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtAKqFFDWG8
>>92561909My son (7) loses 9 of 10 games against other children in his chess club. It's 1 day/week.Could you give any advices how can i help him to improve in chess?
>>92610524If they use clocks teach him to use time: he needs to spend some time checking what the opponent wants to do with his last move, and then some time to check the possible responses (having 2 of them to choose from is always better).
yfw you finally realize magnus is a little shit with not much going on for him other than being good at chess. if he wasn't good at chess he'd be some dork living with his parents fawning over celebrities on twitter
>>92610957He's doing fine, while you're on 4chan, forever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUNp_a5gy94
>>92568573the photographer is pretty based desu
Who's the actual strongmind chess players? Are there any?
>>92614005Who are*
>>92614005All the players rated above 2650 (sorry women chess players).
>>92614137But Carslen himself got rattled more than once and hasn't recovered.
>>92614180Magnus is a special case, He can't be blamed to be a bit nervous about ending a long run at n.1 in the world.
>>92610957Well, yes, he's a chess savant. Insular talent.
> China> 48 GMs> 39 IMsWhat gives? The average is about 1:2.25 GM to IMLatvia and Iceland above 1:1 too, but with smaller populations.
>>92614180>rattledI swear he's just hungover half the time
>>92618183Cheating probably.
>>92611249he's doing fine because dumb people (like you, who post videos like that) love celebrities, and his sponsors will continue to milk that fact.>>92616899funny how out of the top 20 player most actually do have a personality and would probably do well in other careers, like how kasparov did, but in chess the general public don't care about anyone but #1 and today the #1 is some no soul twitter zoomer obsessed with saudis.
>>92610582Thank you!
>>92610524Teach him to think through his moves and how to use his time.Teach him tactics.Teach him positional play (improving piece activity by placing his pieces in squares where they are either defending or attacking or setting them up for an attack or tactical play)Thats it really. Use less time in the opening and more time in the middle game and endgame. Its how I got decent.
howd i win.1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bd7 5. O-O g6 6. d3 Bg4 7. a3 Bg7 8. h3 Be6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. Ng5 Qd7 11. Re1 e5 12. f4 O-O 13. fxe5 dxe5 14. Rf1 Nc6 15. Nf3 Nh5 16. Be3 b6 17. Nd5 Nd4 18. Nxd4 exd4 19. Rxf8+ Rxf8 20. Bg5 e6 21. g4 exd5 22. gxh5 Qxh3 23. exd5 Qg3+ 24. Kh1 Qxg5 25. hxg6 Rf4 26. gxh7+ Kxh7 27. Qg1 Qh4+ 28. Qh2 Qxh2+ 29. Kxh2 Be5 30. Kh3 Kg6 31. Rg1+ Kh5 32. Rh1 Kg5 33. Kg2 Rg4+ 34. Kf3 Rf4+ 35. Ke2 Rg4 36. Kf3 Rg3+ 37. Ke2 Re3+ 38. Kd1 Bd6 39. Rg1+ Kf5 40. Rf1+ Ke5 41. Kd2 Kxd5 42. c4+ Kc6 43. Rf6 a6 44. b3 b5 45. cxb5+ axb5 46. Rg6 Rh3 47. Rf6 Rh2+ 48. Kc1 Ra2 49. b4 cxb4 50. axb4 Ra4 51. Kc2 Rxb4 52. Rg6 Ra4 53. Kb2 Kc5 54. Rg5+ Kb4 55. Rg4 Bc5 56. Rg1 Ka5 57. Rg8 Ka6 58. Ra8+ Ba7 59. Kb3 Kb6 60. Rg8 Ra1 61. Rg6+ Ka5 62. Rg5 Rc1 63. Rg2 Rc3+ 64. Kb2 Rxd3 65. Kc2 Ra3 66. Rg5 d3+ 67. Kd2 Ka4 68. Rg4+ b4 69. Re4 Rb3 70. Rg4 Ka3 71. Re4 Rc3 72. Re6 Kb2 73. Re7 Bg1 74. Rb7 b3 75. Rg7 Bd4 76. Rd7 Bh8 77. Rd8 Bd4 78. Rxd4 Rc2+ 79. Kxd3 Kc1 80. Rh4 b2 81. Rh1#
>>92620386>tilted out of this world >blunder like a retard>decide to not resign out of spite>opponent refuses to simplify>win due to time pressure>get even more tilted for being in a losing position against a person who doesn't even know how to play the endgame.
>>92561909my gf made me a quilt for my birthday and i thought you guys might enjoy it
>>92620559lucky guy, nice piece choice(Needs thicker outline stitching for same color pieces on squares, I presume there's a pretty mate because there's a black Kh8.)
Why does he make /chess/ seethe?
>>92621335yeah it can be a little hard to see, but it's easier in person with better lighting!
>>92621335black is in mate in that position
>>92614005>>92614137>>92616894>>92618194Nah, I am asking for a top player that wasn't a bitter loser or had a mental breakdown and accused others of cheating if they won against him. But instead congratulated them and worked on himself to get better. Or are there no top players like that?
>>92608888I want Andrea to join the football match.
>>92622197Anand
This is like my 4th game with e4 since I learned how to move the pieces. I like how the plan is simple, you just play d4 any time black makes any slightly weakening move, give up pawns, and win.What do I do when someone eventually plays something other than 1...e5? Same idea or something else?
>>92626292D4/D5 liberates the position, the computer will always suggest D4/D5 whenever it's possible. Nice finish, i wish people were that bad at the 1300 bracket when they play against me.Fucking niggers.
>>92626553When is ching ding playing the Indian (dot, not feather)?
>>92620559Nice quilt.Also screw you catmixer some of us will always be alone and you gotta rub it in
>>92620559You're a lucky man
>>92608888Based tournament, they even posted about our Lucia in their Facebook.
>>92628958round 1 is starting; commentary by GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko and WCM Alexandra Prado :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txIpAwLro0Ehttps://chess-results.com/tnr876083.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=1&turdet=YES&flag=30https://lichess.org/broadcast/sardinia-world-chess-festival-2024--open-a/round-1/iP0Xfu75
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