Well, the 1st Millionnaire Chess Tournament is in the books from Las Vegas, NV. The buy-in was $1,000
Open section
Champion – $100,000
2nd place – $50,000
3rd place – $25,000
4th – $14,000
5th – $8,000
6th – $4,000
7th to 20th – each $2,000
21st to 50th – each $1,000
Wesley So from the Phillipines won 1st place for $100,000 and Ray Robson got 2nd for $50,000. Both of them are from the same university and such.
The World Championship 2014 is in progress:
http://www.sochi2014.fide.com/
If Carlsen wins then he will be the following:
2014 World Blitz Chess Champion
2014 World Rapid Chess Champion
2014 World Chess Champion
Kinda like a triple crown
The results for the World Poker Championship 2014:
Martin Jacobson
Felix Stephensen
The results for the World Chess Championship 2014:
Magnus Carlsen
Viswanathan Anand
OH WOW!!! Today on chess.com they had Magnus Carlsen vs 10 chess.com qualifers in a simul on chess.com!!! It’s like having 10 average Street Fighter players qualifying for a chance to beat someone like Momochi in USF4 or 10 average poker players going heads up against Phil Ivey or 10 average tennis players going up against Novak Djokovic:
<a class=href=“http://www.twitch.tv/chess/b/599257127”>Magnus Carlsen vs Chess.com: Play Magnus Simul is LIVE!</a>
^These commentators were sucking on that Magnus cock. Treat this guy like a normal person and let Magnus have fun with this. Nigga is only like 23 I think.
So Carlsen wins again by 1 point…
edit: Not by 1 point, but by 1/2 a point
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournament/standings/year/2015/group/1
Anyone ever play chess at the beach in Waikiki:
scottsharickblog.com/2011/07/early-morning-waikiki/
http://storage.filemobile.com/storage/13458106/15
http://0.tqn.com/d/gohawaii/1/S/h/J/TMC497.jpg
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/08/19/sports/story3.html
chess hall of fame induction right after WrestleMania
Do you guys have a particular site that you frequent to practice?
Chess.com @3rdSTRikeLOVE that website is great. I don’t like online chess because of misclicks but whoever is down for a match I don’t mind playing.
I used to frequent Yahoo a ton but my accounts got straight jacked. I’d have to say Yahoo’s player quality is better because you have players with 10s of thousands of games under their belt.
Something I don’t get about chess openings: I see various types of openings, but they require the opponent to move in the same manner. What if I want to do, for instance, Two Knights Defense, I get my pieces out accordingly, but my opponent does something different? Is that still Two Knights defense, or just on my part? Is it better for the opponent to not do their part of this opening? Do people recognize these things and go like “Oh, he’s doing Two Knights Defense, so I will screw him up by not doing my sequence of the opening”?
How can people use various chess openings if their opponent does not follow suit?
@warrior’s dream not all deviations from the opening books are bad. However the difference between the best opening moves and sound opening moves aren’t that different except to a high level player.
Deviating from a familiar opening is a strategy but most likely not in your level of play. At first I suggest the natural moves(common sense ones such as developing pieces and center protection).
VS
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Fondation_Neva_Women's_Grand_Prix_Geneva_11-05-2013_-Yifan_Hou%28cropped%29.jpg/160px-Fondation_Neva_Women%27s_Grand_Prix_Geneva_11-05-2013_-Yifan_Hou%28cropped%29.jpg
Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) Hou Yifan (China)
This is from a cheating thread. You Super Turbo folks might get this joke:
Check out this thread and look at the comments ROFLMFAO
I saw a recent match between Carlsen (black) VS Caurana (white)
In this match you can see how patient Carlsen is like top Street Fighter players and so forth
The USCF is holding online rated games on chess.com for free. All you have to do is be an active,paying USCF member. In other news:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/chess-toilet-scandal-cheating-gaioz-nigalidze
This tournament is going to be hype
Also, Hikaru Nakamura qualifies for the 2016 Candidates Tournamnet for a chance to win it and go on to being the challenger for the World Chess Championship!