World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen Also Wins World Blitz and Rapid Chess Titles (cnn.com) 23
"Rapid chess" grants 15 minutes to each player for all moves (plus 10 seconds per move). "Blitz chess" grants each player three minutes (plus 2 seconds per move).
Now CNN reports that five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen "won both the World Rapid and World Blitz chess titles in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the latest landmark of his glittering career." The 32-year-old Norwegian is now the holder of all three world chess championship titles — in Classical, Rapid and Blitz — for the third time in his career, while no other player has ever won both the Rapid and Blitz titles in the same year.
"Gonna need more hands soon," Carlsen joked on Twitter, posting a video of himself counting his now 15 world titles on his fingers.
It caps a triumphant end to Carlsen's remarkable decade-long reign as the classical world champion, as he has already announced that he will not defend his title next year.
Chess24 reports that for his first three-minute match, Magnus Carlsen showed up two and a half minutes late — and starting with just 30 seconds left on his clock, still beat his opponent.
Now CNN reports that five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen "won both the World Rapid and World Blitz chess titles in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the latest landmark of his glittering career." The 32-year-old Norwegian is now the holder of all three world chess championship titles — in Classical, Rapid and Blitz — for the third time in his career, while no other player has ever won both the Rapid and Blitz titles in the same year.
"Gonna need more hands soon," Carlsen joked on Twitter, posting a video of himself counting his now 15 world titles on his fingers.
It caps a triumphant end to Carlsen's remarkable decade-long reign as the classical world champion, as he has already announced that he will not defend his title next year.
Chess24 reports that for his first three-minute match, Magnus Carlsen showed up two and a half minutes late — and starting with just 30 seconds left on his clock, still beat his opponent.
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Well, he didn't lose, so...
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Computer assisted cheating at Rapid Chess would be extremely difficult, at Blitz it is pretty much impossible.
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Computer assisted cheating at Rapid Chess would be extremely difficult, at Blitz it is pretty much impossible.
I'll say that the one piece of evidence that makes me suspect Niemann hasn't cheated OTB* is his rapid and blitz ratings are in line with his classical rankings [chess.com].
* He still needs to come clean about his unacknowledged online cheating.
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That gap between long time controls and rapid and blitz is unusually big isn't it? If anything, this can be construed as mild evidence that he has been cheating o.th.b. in long time controls.
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That gap between long time controls and rapid and blitz is unusually big isn't it? If anything, this can be construed as mild evidence that he has been cheating o.th.b. in long time controls.
Hmm, I stand corrected [chess.com], the gap isn't unprecedented, but it's definitely an outlier.
I was thinking in the context of Hans being a 2400-2500 player unaided, but if he's a 2600 player then he could have gotten ~100 extra points by cheating.
The gap now make me a little more suspicious that he cheated OTB.
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I can't take a position on Magnus Carlsen, but speaking generally, the only thing that defines a cheater is a sense of entitlement, not lack of talent.
Vincent Keymer? (Score:2)
Carlsen secured his fourth Rapid title on Wednesday, half a point ahead of Germany’s Vincent Keymer
Vincent Keymer came second in rapid? The last time I saw him he was around 2500 Elo in long time controls and that wasn't too long ago.
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Carlsen secured his fourth Rapid title on Wednesday, half a point ahead of Germany’s Vincent Keymer
Vincent Keymer came second in rapid? The last time I saw him he was around 2500 Elo in long time controls and that wasn't too long ago.
I looked and Keymer is currently rated at 2696 and is 43rd in the world. For those who don't keep up with the top levels of chess, Keymer's success shows how being good at rapid and/or blitz chess is a very different skill than playing standard matches. However, if Keymer had been rated at 2500 he would be well below the top 100 players in the world, so Keymer finishing 2nd is surprising, but it's not as stunning as if he wasn't a top 100 player.
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Vincent Keymer's Classical rating is 2696 (Rapid 2630, Blitz 2651). It feels a bit strange that winning a silver medal does not have a stronger effect on his rating but that is because he does not play many games which affect ratings, and World Championship games are worth no more than others when it comes to the ratings. I wonder if he even cares, winning silver makes a bigger statement anyway.
I have no idea why Alireza Firouzia did not take part in these championships, he is rated at 13th in Rapid and f
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I more so think it remarkable that a 2651 rated player came come second in the world blitz championship. He is #129 in the world according to 2700Chess as far as Blitz goes.
Grandmasters, what they see and when they see it (Score:5, Interesting)
https://www.theguardian.com/sp... [theguardian.com]
Look at the right diagram from this tournament. QA5 wins. Its not very hard to see, and especially not if you know something is there.
But what you have to imagine is that white saw this, in a 15 minute game, early enough or far enough ahead to sacrifice a rook to get to this position.
Barden links to some other interesting games from this tournament and they are worth playing through. Its not whether you can see the forcing sequence when in the critical position, any A player will, most of the time. Its whether playing from a non-critical position you can see the possibility ahead, and see how to play so as to bring about the critical position.
Why computers are far stronger than humans now. And why Magnus and others came to their conclusions about cheating.
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If Niemann on the other hand showed up and pulled this off it would help him tremendously. Maybe somebody should suggest it to him.
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Adepts are strategists (Score:1)
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He has work to do if he needs more hands (Score:2)
Any geek could tell you that you could count to 1024 on two hands (more if each digit can be tri-state, but that requires too much dexterity for a geek). A lot more trophies are going to be needed. ;)
Re:He has work to do if he needs more hands (Score:4, Funny)
Any geek could tell you that you could count to 1024 on two hands (more if each digit can be tri-state, but that requires too much dexterity for a geek). A lot more trophies are going to be needed. ;)
If someone started showing off by counting on their fingers in binary I'd be tempted to show them a 4 or 128, maybe even 132 if they really got on my nerves.
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Niemann's is.