Chess

Carlsen loses to a girl and doesn't react well:

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When I was 19, I probably would have reacted the same way. Today I would cringe if I reacted in this manner. Losing to a girl/woman is annoying, but if she beats you fair and square, be a man and shake her hand.

It wasn't just losing to a girl, Alexandra is also like 400 lower rated points lower than Carlsen. Double whammy.
 
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It wasn't just losing to a girl, Alexandra is also like 400 lower rated points lower than Carlsen. Double whammy.
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Carlsen clearly didn't pay much attention to the game, looking around half the time, so that blunder that he made with R3e2 was only natural.
 
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This is the way that chess is in Europe among adults. Two old tigers playing, one strong player (Bacrot) and Mariya Muzychuk who is a very talented female player.

In his prime, Karpov is arguably one of the greatest chess players ever. If Karpov lost 40 pounds (whatever that is in Kilos) he might be able to ascend the top twenty. Ivanchuck is is playing terrible chess recently, and one wonders if aging takes its toll on all of us in a different way (of course it does).
 
I used to play speed chess 30 years ago at the Toronto Chess Club. Once in a blue moon I would beat a player with a 2000+ rating but could never pass 1860 myself. There was a player there with a 1300 rating who would slaughter me every time.

Early in the game he would dig into his nose and pull out a bit of snot then hold it above the board and roll it between his thumb and forefinger while he pondered his next godawful move. This was a bit of chess strategy that worked perfectly with me but apparently not everybody or he would have had a higher rating.

Even so it must have worked with at least a couple of other players. He was a terrible player and I suspect that without his snotball technique his rating would have been <1000.
 
The World Chess Championship starts on November 7. The chessbomb site will be packed.

This is a documentary on Magnus. Well worth looking through it.

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The official site of the World Chess Championship:

http://chennai2013.fide.com/

There will be a live HD internet feed. However, it starts at 4:00 AM ET, so it will be brutal to see it from the start.

I believe the purse is $2M USD, with 1.25M going to the winner and .75M USD going to the loser.
 
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