Wait why are there separate mens and womens prizes?
you know why.
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
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Re: Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
#202Slightly tangential, but...
Is practicing chess at an adult age beneficial for the brain, or is it already too late?
Re: Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
#203Slightly tangential, but... Is practicing chess at an adult age beneficial for the brain, or is it already too late?
Anything using your brain is good for it. "Too late" for what exactly?
Re: Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
#204Slightly tangential, but... Is practicing chess at an adult age beneficial for the brain, or is it already too late?
Any hobby where you learn stuff is beneficial for the brain at any age. The trick is that you have to enjoy it enough to keep doing it.
(chess, music, languages, programming, etc)
(edit - also physical hobbies benefit the brain in the same way: lifting, skating, karate, whatever)
Re: Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
#205Slightly tangential, but... Is practicing chess at an adult age beneficial for the brain, or is it already too late?
It's never too late to improve your brain although there can be this false thinking that the brain needs "intellectual" hobbies to be healthy.
Yo give the most benefit, you should mix in hobbies like chess with things that stimulate your whole body and cause your brain to coordinate multiple systems at once. Something like dance is highly beneficial because you're not only listening to music, you're coordinating your movements, balance, emotions. If it's a social dance even better. You're coordinating your social skills as well.
I don't practice what I preach but I think social dance is the number one way to keep your brain healthy as well as your body if you're trying to be efficient.
Re: Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
#206It feels like the cohort GM player pool is mentally cooked against Magnus. Youngsters like Lazavik during the Speed Chess Championship or Sindarov in Freestyle were the most recent convincing wins against Magnus, but the historical mental edge that Magnus comes into each game after beating the brakes out of everyone is hard to overcome. Magnus' time will come! But not today.
Same exact thing happened in tennis. There was a whole "lost generation" of amazingly talented players who just basically shat the bed whenever they stepped onto the court with Djokovic, Federer, or Nadal. It wasn't until much younger players like Alcaraz and Sinner came on the scene, who weren't quite as overpowered by the aura of the Big 3, that the playing field finally leveled. (And now they themeselves are turni…
I'm not sure why are you so sure that everyone plays worse when playing against some big name. I'd estimate that 90-95% of the top ranked players don't play worse when they play against big names.
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Either the engine was misconfigured, the hardware you were playing on was glitching or you are omitting something. There is no chance in the world that you can beat stockfish in standard time control.
Just because you can not do it it does not mean that others can not do it. If you search for Lichess games where strong players play against (edit: strongest!) Stockfish (which, admittedly is not the full throttle Stockfish) you will find that Stockfish by far does not win all the time. Such is a claim which only inexperienced chess beginners and Stockfish fanboys make. Stronger players know that Stockfish is relativ…
Surely you have proof to back up this extraordinary claim? You said above that you won.
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Yes. I hear this claim from above: "Some humans can beat stockfish." Evidence given: "There exist some small number of games on lichess.org played against stockfish where the user won." My counter argument is that games on lichess against stockfish don't imply a human beat stockfish. It could just be that stockfish (or other bots) can sometimes beat stockfish. And some humans surely use bots to play on their behalf i…
Well, there is nothing I can do to prove to you that I did, as I can not travel into the past taking you with me. I know, I did win two or three games and drew approximately 25 out of approximately 500 training games. But I can not prove it. You have to believe or not.
An extraordinary claim without any proof. Surely you believe the moon to be made of cheese, since we can‘t travel there to verify it‘s not?