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Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

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Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

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Post by ajharrison »

pedrosorio wrote: post #72
tmalsburg2 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Point taken, but to my taste it's quite disrespectful to refer to the best player in the world as just "Norwegian teen".

I think you will find that focusing a bit less on subjective notions of “respect” and not being offended by innocuous things will make your life a lot less stressful.

Pretty frightening that you can’t see the obvious bias.

They could and should have named the “Iranian teen” in the headline instead of glorifying Magnus as some unbeatable chess god. Not to mention that in the actual article itself the hero image is of Magnus holding a trophy. For an article about how he lost.

Get with it.

Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

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Post by dang »

tmalsburg2 wrote: post #21

Why is Alireza Firouzja being referred to as "Iranian teen"? He's an international top player. I doubt that Carlsen was referred to as "Norwegian teen" when he was ranking in the top 25. p.s: As always: responses > downvotes.

That's a trope of headlines which has been around for decades. Are we perhaps running into a cross-cultural issue here?

The younger someone doing something noteworthy is, the more the press (at least in North America) will headline their age.

Here's Orson Welles at age 10: https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/11919269504508805...

Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

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Post by tombh »

freeflight wrote: post #109

This reminds me very much about a documentary I saw a while back about competitive fighting games [0]. A Pakistani newcomer ended up taking everybody by surprise in a big Tekken 7 tournament trough his unconventional way of playing. This was apparently the result of Pakistani arcade culture existing in its own isolated underground niche, in which a completely independent meta for playing the game evolved. Internation…

Wow, I loved watching that! Thanks for posting

Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

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Post by __s »

__s wrote: post #86
jon_elbrook wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Basically have some empathy Why doesn't the person im supposed to empathise with instead empathise with his opponent and not throw a tantrum?

That'd be ideal, but you only control yourself. Empathisizing with someone doesn't mean you have to agree with them. It just means you don't need to call them out on it months later on a random HN thread when they've come around with a nice result. Maybe it'd be relevant if this article was about another argument with event moderators

Also, here's Carlsen having a mature response to it: https://youtu.be/2sWVmVhBKSw?t=157

Re: Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize

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Post by thom »

DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #91
thom wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anand, Gelfand, Dreev and Ivanchuck are all 50 or older, unless you just mean blitz, in which case it's just Anand and Dreev.

Anand is about 100 Elo points weaker than Carlsen at all time controls. It's impressive that Anand is still #15 at his age (50 years), but he's the only 50-year-old at that elite level (2700+ Elo). The age distribution of the top 100 Classical players is: 16-19: 5 20-29: 39 30-39: 40 40-49: 12 50-51: 4 The 20s and 30s are really the peak ages for chess.

Wasn't disputing that, just the inaccuracy of the previous comment.
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