Seeing as I went 16 moves against Kasparov as a complete noob to chess, does that make me better than Bill Gates? My programming ability and checkbook seem to disagree, however. :/
Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
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Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#92Actually, Carlsen was playing for tricks (as might be reasonable when you have just 30 seconds). Bill Gates had a winning position on the 9th move. If instead of 9. Nxe5?? which allows an immediate checkmate, he had played 9. Re1!, he would have had a huge advantage. I'm an international master, and more importantly, my computer backs up my opinion. I'm surprised Carlsen played a game with just 30 seconds on his cloc…
Is not knowing your opponent part of the strategy? Carlsen played the 'tricks' way he did because he knew, or felt reasonably certain that Gates would fall for them. Critiquing his play based on what you would do in Gates' position is simply wrong, because I'm assuming the #1 chess player in the world would play differently had he been playing against an international master such as yourself.
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#93There is a Derren Brown (UK Illusionist) piece where he plays
seven opponents at once, walking round in a big circle, and amazingly wins 4 out of 7.
Afterwards the explanation is simple - he played 6 masters or grandmasters, and one guy off the street. And simply (!) memorised the moves of player A and made them against player C, B to D etc. All he had to do was play a decent game against the guy off the street and he would always beat 50%
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#94How is this news? Magnus Carlsen is good at chess. Bill Gates is bad at chess. How does this story add value to anyone's life? What was learned here? (sincerely curious)
Fun. If people are more interested in either Bill Gates or Magnus Carlsen, then here's a starting point. Many people likely don't know who Magnus is, now they do. Bill Gates' involvement makes it more likely that people would have watched the video. Also, fun.
Hmm, I used to play lots of chess and still follow the chess world, so this wasn't interesting or educational to me. But if people who aren't familiar with chess or Magnus Carlsen still found it fun or interesting, then that's good enough for me. :)
Thanks for your sincere reply to my sincere question.
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#95There is a Derren Brown (UK Illusionist) piece where he plays seven opponents at once, walking round in a big circle, and amazingly wins 4 out of 7. Afterwards the explanation is simple - he played 6 masters or grandmasters, and one guy off the street. And simply (!) memorised the moves of player A and made them against player C, B to D etc. All he had to do was play a decent game against the guy off the street and h…
That's a quite clever application of the one ahead principle
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#96Actually, Carlsen was playing for tricks (as might be reasonable when you have just 30 seconds). Bill Gates had a winning position on the 9th move. If instead of 9. Nxe5?? which allows an immediate checkmate, he had played 9. Re1!, he would have had a huge advantage. I'm an international master, and more importantly, my computer backs up my opinion. I'm surprised Carlsen played a game with just 30 seconds on his cloc…
When the difference in level is so big you can use the opponent time to think. Bill has 2:00, but Carlsen has 2:30 :) (I’m not an international master, but I played a lot of chess while I was a child, including some matches with 5:00 for me and 2:00 for the other player.)
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#97What did people expect? For Bill Gates' bodyguards to break both of Magnus arms and Bill taunting him "whatsamatter bitch? are you gonna move? tick-tock".
Why is this on HN?
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Justin Beiber of chess". 'The Mozart of chess' is the general consensus. The 'Justin Beiber of chess' is rather insulting.
I couldn't agree more! Why would anyone come up with "Justin Bieber of Chess"?
No one would've been talking about it if they said Mozart of Chess.
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
But... isn't Magnus Carlsen good at chess? I don't understand...
What exactly is Justin Bieber so good at to earn such a comparison? Not singing, not composing music, not dancing .. no one has ever claimed he's the "world #1" at anything other than being celebrity amongst other pre-teen children. And Magnus Carlsen is certainly not a celebrity amongst pre-teen children, so the comparison makes no sense.
The comparisons are "young" and "good looking".
Re: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
#100What did people expect? For Bill Gates' bodyguards to break both of Magnus arms and Bill taunting him "whatsamatter bitch? are you gonna move? tick-tock". Why is this on HN?
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