Chess World Championship 2012: A First Win
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Chess World Championship 2012: A First Win
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#2I don't play chess or understand why this matters. What is going on?
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#3I don't play chess or understand why this matters. What is going on?
Same here. But chess interests me a whole lot, so I'd love some explanation.
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#4I've been following the match since it started and can't fathom what this has to do with hacker news.
Though I can't help but mention that interested parties would be much better served by the coverage at chessbase than the dry 'game-score+laconic-engine-commentary' as presented here.
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#5I don't play chess or understand why this matters. What is going on?
They've drawn each game up till this win by Gelfand.
Beautiful mate at the end: Anand, the world champion, playing black, marched a pawn across the board, but Gelfand will checkmate in two moves regardless. The knight checks on G6, the King is forced to G8, then the Rook checkmates on G7.
Incidently, Kasparov just called out Anand as old'n lazy while visiting the match in Moscow. Gelfand came through candidate matches as a surprise challenger. He's been around forever in the top twenty.
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#6Perhaps because Chess is a fascinating thing for Hackers!
I'm just a casual Chess Player and I play while I relax or get tense with work.
I don't really follow the championship but they were unable to win for quite a while, right? So, this is the first win. We'll have to watch how Anand comes back.
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#7Really nice game. That's the sort of elegant finish I always hope for in my games.
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#8While I don't know why the poster put this up, one could argue that hn is about learning from others opinions, victories and mistakes.
Here, we are given a chance to analyze two great chess masters and replay their strategic battle. What decisions made one lose? How is the strategic deployment of pieces similar to running a company? What attracts hackers to chess?
Or it could be that bunch of people on hn like chess, and this got voted up. Who really knows what fuels articles to the front page of this community?
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#9I don't play chess or understand why this matters. What is going on?
Modern chess matches like this require a huge amount of preparation. Computers are much better than even the best humans at chess, and they are (in the last decade or so) the number one tool for grandmasters when preparing. Each GM has a support team, which at this level includes HPC compute specialists. This match includes two players that over a year, beyond rigorous practice, include in-depth computer analysis of an exponential time problem (more possible chess positions than atoms in universe, etc).
Beyond that, the top 20 in the world are downright geniuses, locked in a fierce mental competition. Not directly hacker related, but there is an overlap in interest base.
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#10I don't play chess or understand why this matters. What is going on?
They've drawn each game up till this win by Gelfand. Beautiful mate at the end: Anand, the world champion, playing black, marched a pawn across the board, but Gelfand will checkmate in two moves regardless. The knight checks on G6, the King is forced to G8, then the Rook checkmates on G7. Incidently, Kasparov just called out Anand as old'n lazy while visiting the match in Moscow. Gelfand came through candidate matche…
Black could avoid the mate by sacrificing his rook with h1+, then promoting the pawn with a check, then sacrificing the new queen by taking the knight at e5. No point in that though. He has lost.