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Apr-06-25
 | | offramp: <Wild cards>. That term started in poker but now it is used often in tennis. <A person allowed to compete in a sports event even though he is lacking the stipulated qualifications.> In tennis, a local boy/girl is given a wild card entry. He / she needn't qualify in any way. |
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Apr-06-25
 | | MissScarlett: From Wikipedia:
<While the first leg only had 10 participants playing in the main event, the number of participants was increased to 12 for the second leg. Nevertheless, only the top eight players after the round-robin stage will qualify for the main knockout bracket, while the remaining four players will play for positions 9–12 in a separate bracket.> I notice on Lichess that the time control for the rapid round-robin stage is 10 min + 5 spm, different from the 10 min + 10 spm in Weissenhaus, but chess-results still has 10 min + 10 spm. |
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Apr-07-25
| | MissScarlett: <Freestyle Grand Tour Paris> Better as <Freestyle Chess Tour Paris>? |
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| Apr-07-25 | | Bobby Fiske: Thanks for bringing the tournament.
This format takes chess broadcasting to a new level. Being in the same time zone as Paris, I just blew 6 hours of my work day, and it was worth it.
Out of 36 games, only 6 draws. Lot's of drama and fighting chess.Basically you find everything on youtube. Just search for <Chess Live> and choose your transmission. There are several studios relaying the videos and commenting on the games in different languages.
Eventually there is also Nakamuras channel on Kick, focusing only on his games. Apart from the live games, there are also (on youtube) shorter videos peaking into what's happening back stage. The cameraderia between the players, and their partners (wives, fathers, coaches, etc). DAY 1: From the various streamers, I counted about 40.000 live viewers. That is like selling out Madison Square Garden twice a day for 8 days. (Breaking Billy Joels record of 10 sold out shows).
On top of that many more people will replay the videos afterwards, when they get up from bed or home from work. |
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| Apr-08-25 | | Bobby Fiske: Alireza declined his wildcard invitation on a very short notice, because of «personal reasons». Here is a deeper explanation from the organizer: https://taketaketake.com/article/48... |
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Apr-09-25
| | MissScarlett: Another day, another Gukesh loss.....will the real world chess champion please stand up! |
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| Apr-09-25 | | stone free or die: Freestyle isn't real chess. |
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Apr-09-25
 | | tamar: Gukesh has the qualities more suited to standard chess, with its emphasis on memorization and engines. He is not as quick or creative as the other top guys, but has great persistence and self belief. He would have better chances if he could have qualified for the 2 hour time control in the quarter finals, but having 10 minutes in the preliminaries was a recipe for disaster. |
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| Apr-09-25 | | stone free or die: Agree with <tamar>... please allow me to amend: Freestyle isn't real chess(, especially at these time controls). |
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Apr-10-25
 | | Atterdag: Agree with <Stone->. I see it as a bit sad that all these wonderful players use their participation and energy on freestyle chess instead of real chess. |
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| Apr-11-25 | | 1300patzer: So, "memorization and engines" is real chess, but having to play unfamiliar positions is not? |
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Apr-11-25
 | | Open Defence: We have seen some really creative ideas, with very interesting OTB struggles. Even when one side looks to be winning the other side finds a practical resource causing their opponent to stumble It could be what the Chess World needs, however without the broadbased efforts to develop it, we may see it peter out after an initial wave of interest. |
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Apr-12-25
| | Atterdag: <1300patzer> True, <"memorization and engines"> are indeed serious threats to real chess, but I don't think changing the starting positions is the solution. I suggest quicker formats with less time for perfection and benefits of preparations. Freestyle is undoubtedly a fun distraction for the elite, who may be bored by playing the same opening systems over and over again. Chess is, after all, their profession, it's what they do for a living. For all the amateurs all over the world and the lower rated players in clubs and local tournaments, the opening repertoire is far from exhausted - there is still much to learn and practizise. There is very little to learn from replaying the games in this tournament. They learn how skillfully the great players manoeuvre in unusual positions, but they can hardly transfer any of it to the game they meet in their clubs and among other players at their level. That aside, Freestyle also ignores the whole history of chess and a large percentage of the wisdom accumulated in it, based on the same start position and the same rules. There have been many attempts to make chess more appealing: 3-dimensional, boards with 3, 4 players, boards with more squares and what not, but by the end of the day, our trusty classical chess remains. |
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Apr-12-25
| | Open Defence: Arjun Erigaisi beat Ian Nepomniatchi in a wonderful attacking game |
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Apr-12-25
| | offramp: ATM on Youtube I am watching MVL v Abussatorov. The game is being played in Paris. The two commentators are <Leko and Judit Polgar>. They are both Hungarian but they are speaking totally natural English. The event is very interesting. |
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Apr-13-25
| | tamar: Perhaps it is a pipe dream as an ongoing venture, but I enjoy seeing players put on their own resources. With Freestyle, we are back in the age of Morphy or even before, where the best players were regarded as wizards, and ordinary players had no clue why they chose setups. |
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| Apr-14-25 | | IvKolisch: No idea why <chessgames.com> insists on putting Rameshbabu's last name first as opposed to every other name on the list. |
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Apr-14-25
 | | WannaBe: <IvKolisch> Because FIDE player card have it as Praggnanandhaa, Rameshbabu https://ratings.fide.com/profile/25...
Contact FIDE to get this fixed, and CG.com will follow the corrected format. Thank you |
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Apr-14-25
 | | beatgiant: To clarify, Tamil names don't follow the assumptions of European style first and last names. The Rameshbabu is from his father's name, but if he has children in the future, they will bear the name Praggnanandhaa from his name. This is exactly the same as the case of Anand, where Viswanathan is his father's name. |
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| Apr-14-25 | | Bobby Fiske: Magnus won another super tournament. |
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Apr-14-25
 | | fredthebear: Fabiano Caruana took in $100,000 for third place. Not bad. Caruana made a good run last year as well, won by Vincent Keymer: https://www.freestyle-chess.com/new... |
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Apr-15-25
| | Open Defence: <IvKolisch: No idea why <chessgames.com> insists on putting Rameshbabu's last name first as opposed to every other name on the list.> His name is Praggnanandhaa. Rameshbabu is his father's name |
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Apr-17-25
| | Atterdag: This tournament was not the finest moment for the current world champion. True, freestyle is not a yard-stick for ordinary strength in chess, but +3 -8 =2 can't be satisfactory for Gukesh. On a note: Ding Liren, the former, is now at place 21 on the live ratings list. Carlsen still no. 1 in classical, rapid and blitz. |
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| Apr-17-25 | | Bobby Fiske: Grenke Chess Festival about to start any minute, CET 1900.
https://www.grenkechessopen.de/en/
All the heavy hitters chose to play the Freestyle portion:
https://chess-results.com/tnr116003...
Expert commentary by IM Trent and GM Leko on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MioG0... |
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| Apr-17-25 | | ColdSong: Things are not that hard to understand.Classical chess is and will always be fascinating,for a lot of reasons,for chess lovers,till they reach a level when they will just understand that the classical position has no future,and will no more wish to be deprived to the right to create their own game from the very beginning. |
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