Strange how FIDE is running the Women’s World Championship and the Open World Championship at the same time…
The scores in the semis so far:
Ju Wenjun (1) VS 
Alexandra Kosteniuk (0)
Mariya Muzychuk(0.5) VS Kateryna Lagno(0.5)
The world championship match:
Magnus Carlsen (2.5) VS 
Fabiano Caruana (2.5)
man carlsen is a defensive god!!!
also that’s too bad he couldn’t convert to a win in game 1
Justin Wong stuff lol
AlphaZero with the SNK boss syndrome. AlphaZero is black in this game VS Stockfish8:
Attack!!!
What the hell is Carlsen doing? Losing game 1 on time and blundering away a piece on game 2, both against fairly weak players.
Lost to a 2304 something player while he tries for the Scholar’s Mate opening LMFAOOO…
Like this guy:
Kyrgios
LOOOL
that was a sick world championship i disagreed with magnus not trying moar on game 12, but he was playing 3d chess and looking ahead not just the moves in the current game, but the moves to be played in future games and realized he could win it all. feel bad for fabi though it was like a crime scene
Seems like chess openings are equivalent to Magic: The Gathering decks and fighting game characters.
The London System seems top tier…
U.S. Chess Hall of Fame 2019:
Susan Polgar
William Lombardy
Max Judd
World Chess Hall of Fame 2019:
Xie Jun
Akiba Rubinstein
Mark Taimanov
who is xie jun??? never heard of how is he in same league as rubinstein and taimanov which have huge name brand recognition???
Still the GOAT
beast
that just makes caruana, who drew all 12 games, look that much better
Poor Hikaru, he’s supposed to be one of the best in blitz but he’s only 9th place???
Check this. Will Liren Ding be the next world champ? He is now ranked world number 3!!!
”I got to say that he was a lot better than I was today so he won absolutely deservedly.” - Magnus Carlsen
Fast forward 21 months, and look at the progress Ding has made. Now the world number-three, hot on the heels of number-two Fabiano Caruana (whom he beat at the Sinquefield Cup), he might have gotten all the confidence he needed after holding Carlsen to a draw in their classical game—with splendid defense
oh snap!
i also found out ding is a champion at chinese chess too LOL
Been playing on chess.com a bit more lately. I’ve known how to play since I was a kid, but I never looked into any openings, strategies, etc, so I’m basically the chess equivalent of a more educated button masher lol.
Where to start with learning beyond basic movements? I’ve been doing a bit on the chess.com app but I feel like I need more. And what is a good opening for someone just starting out? I’ve heard Tarrasch is a good one, any thoughts?
The interactive courses on chess.com are excellent. You need to pay for access, but it’s like one dollar a month or whatever if I’m not mistaken.
As for openings: imo you should learn one opening with white (some variety of e4 / d4) and a defense against both e4 and d4 with black. I recommend finding something you like and just stick with that. As long as the opening doesn’t actually suck, anything goes. Figure out what sort of positions you like playing, find something that leads to that sort of positions reasonably often, and go from there.
Thanks. Yeah I’ve been thinking about looking into prem at chess.com. Do you play on there? If so maybe want to get some games sometime?
I’ve been doing the 1. e4 thing a lot lately and it really seems to open up a lot of options early on.
