Spoiler alert!
Yeah, seriously... I was looking forward to watching the tiebreaker in suspense. I suppose it isn't too surprising to find the story on HN though.
Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
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Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#62As somebody who has no idea about chess I cannot believe that Carlsen calculated Bf8 after Rc8 under this time pressure and an easy Qg3 move. Kudos.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#63I'd just like to give a little shout out to the guys streaming this on twitch last night. I don't play chess beyond the "find legal move and make it" level - but watching the last game was really really enjoyable and the commentary was pretty good too, helped me see what was actually going on and why.
I'd never have looked for it, but once I started watching I couldn't stop. Wish I'd started earlier
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just played it and it also said it was played 0 times To anyone that plays chess or would like to: lichess is an all-around wonderful site, and in my opinion the best place to play chess! It's also free, and ad free.
What does it have over ICC?
The biggest advantage: It's free.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#65A few days ago, Karjakin tried to tilt Magnus by showing up very late for the press conference as a way to be disrespectful. Anyone know if there were there any other psych outs that happened? Historically, there have been some really interesting ones in the chess world.
If anyone was disrespectful in that occasion, it was Magnus. He refused to talk in the flash interview, went immediately to the press conference, and had to wait 90 seconds or so before deciding to leave because Karjakin was still in the flash interview Magnus had refused.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#66I whipped up a little demo illustrating Carlsen's decisive rapid game 3. It transposes the move sequence to show white's 13-move opening (Karjakin) followed by Carlsen's 13-move response as black, and so on through the game - using the longest possible sequences consistent with legal positions from the original game. http://transpose.fantasychess.co.uk/
Hi zbik - just fyi, Avast gives me a message "This site could have harmed your computer" for your url.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#67Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#68The ending of the match in puzzle form on Lichess: https://en.lichess.org/training/102787
I tried some of the problems and I am obviously a terrible chess player :) Is it possible to view the correct moves without, for a bad chess player like myself, making an exhaustive search for all possible movements?
You can analyse the game, play against the puzzle player and set your opponent to Stockfish 8.
However, this isn't as fun. I think exhaustive search is sometimes also fun if the legal move is so "hidden" that you don't even realise it's there.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#69This time around there was an unusual amount of match strategy involved. In fact, what's interesting is that they always played the Spanish or the Italian, but in the one game where Karjakin wanted to (had to) win, he played the Najdorf. Peter Svidler mentioned a very interesting suggestion that the players should play the tie-breaks before the match, which should produce more interesting games (in particular, it sho…
Both of the suggestions "Champion has draw odds" and "tiebreaks before the match" means that one player can just go on the defence for the duration of the match. The only way to get both players to attack, that I've heard, is the classic "first to 6 wins" or some other number. In that version, no side ever wants to draw.
Unless you're 5-0 down, so you just aim to draw repeatedly until it's declared a stalemate.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#70I whipped up a little demo illustrating Carlsen's decisive rapid game 3. It transposes the move sequence to show white's 13-move opening (Karjakin) followed by Carlsen's 13-move response as black, and so on through the game - using the longest possible sequences consistent with legal positions from the original game. http://transpose.fantasychess.co.uk/
That's what I was looking for, thx