Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
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Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#2Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades - if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#3This appears to be some kind of speed chess, not chess.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#4Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades - if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.
I would like to differ on this. It's getting harder and harder to maintain dominance. Kasparov was the one to hold the longest. Magnus, even though he is one of the best ever, is already losing out to Alireza in bullet, blitz and even almost in classical.
Chess theory has a new Renaissance due to neutral networks and we will see newer GM's adapting to it.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#5This appears to be some kind of speed chess, not chess.
Huh? Variants of lightning/blitz/fast chess have been around since the late 19th Century. They are very much games of chess. I’m not sure what the quibble is? Is untimed chess, which is uncommon for competitive play, the only real form of chess? Or is timed chess, which almost all competitive matches are, an acceptable form of chess, so long as the duration allotted to each player is __________?
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#6Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades - if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.
I would like to differ on this. It's getting harder and harder to maintain dominance. Kasparov was the one to hold the longest. Magnus, even though he is one of the best ever, is already losing out to Alireza in bullet, blitz and even almost in classical. Chess theory has a new Renaissance due to neutral networks and we will see newer GM's adapting to it.
This is not how I see it. Carlsen lost one insanely long online bullet match on lichess.
He narrowly lost an online banter blitz match. This is not blitz, since also you have to talk while playing, which does not seem to suit Carlsen's personality.
In classical, you can often "almost lose", except that Carlsen does not "actually lose", as exemplified by his ongoing record non-loss streak.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would like to differ on this. It's getting harder and harder to maintain dominance. Kasparov was the one to hold the longest. Magnus, even though he is one of the best ever, is already losing out to Alireza in bullet, blitz and even almost in classical. Chess theory has a new Renaissance due to neutral networks and we will see newer GM's adapting to it.
This is not how I see it. Carlsen lost one insanely long online bullet match on lichess. He narrowly lost an online banter blitz match. This is not blitz, since also you have to talk while playing, which does not seem to suit Carlsen's personality. In classical, you can often "almost lose", except that Carlsen does not "actually lose", as exemplified by his ongoing record non-loss streak.
In the banter blitz I saw, they aren't really bantering, just making offhand comments during downtime.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#8This appears to be some kind of speed chess, not chess.
Huh? Variants of lightning/blitz/fast chess have been around since the late 19th Century. They are very much games of chess. I’m not sure what the quibble is? Is untimed chess, which is uncommon for competitive play, the only real form of chess? Or is timed chess, which almost all competitive matches are, an acceptable form of chess, so long as the duration allotted to each player is __________? https://www.chesshist…
Blitz chess is not ‘standard’ chess. This is not a controversial fact.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#9Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades - if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.
> Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades
Easily? No. The only player to have the top rating longer than 10 years is kasparov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIDE_chess_world_numbe...
> if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.
No. There is nobody 50 or older in the fide ranking ( top 100 ).
Chess is a mentally and physically draining sport. Top players tend to drop off considerably in their late 30s and 40s as younger talent takes over.
Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
#10Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades - if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.
I would like to differ on this. It's getting harder and harder to maintain dominance. Kasparov was the one to hold the longest. Magnus, even though he is one of the best ever, is already losing out to Alireza in bullet, blitz and even almost in classical. Chess theory has a new Renaissance due to neutral networks and we will see newer GM's adapting to it.
And I thought short time controls were Magnus' forte. I guess it may be the one where age related decline sets in the quickest.