Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

Post by WhompingWindows » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 8:27 PM UTC

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Soccer just needs to remove players as time increases. It'll create odd exciting scrappy scenarios, but goal scoring will certainly be more likely.

I actually agree with this. Defensive soccer/football is incredibly boring to watch. 0-0. So fun. When the number of players in any sport is changed, it puts everyone on their heels because they don't know exactly how to react, and so you know what you get? Sport!

Post by mattbillenstein » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 12:24 AM UTC

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Post by uep » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 1:45 PM UTC

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> Carlsen remains the better player, because he does better where it matters; time pressure. I disagree. Carlsen is the better player under time pressure, but they appear evenly matched in what I'd consider "actual" chess. One of the things I love about the game is that it's a slow, pensive game.

> I disagree. Carlsen is the better player under time pressure, but they appear evenly matched in what I'd consider "actual" chess. Did they? The primary complaint about Carlsen's game 12 is that he had Caruana dead to rights, but chose not to press the advantage. Which isn't to say that Caruana didn't do a fantastic job of playing Carlsen to a standstill throughout the tournament, but Carlsen seemed to have more of…

Post by RebeccaHarris » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 7:45 PM UTC

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Post by sytelus » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 9:34 AM UTC

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This is quite funny thread. I often marvel at folks dissecting sport game outcome for hours retrospectively as if everything was perfectly explainable only after outcome was seen. We don't see this in HN threads much - well, except for chess games :). In reality, pro games have such strong contenders that each have very thin edge, if at all, and the outcome is usually just same as throwing dice.

In the US, the major team sports are not at all "very thin edge". In fact, lack of parity is a real issue facing several leagues. Between "tanking" (teams that are deliberately bad in order to get better draft picks), massive budget differences (it's not unusual to see large-market teams with payrolls more than double those of small-market teams), and structural issues in the games themselves, parity can be very very…