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Oct-15-21
 | | Troller: On <Radjabov> it clearly seems he lowered his ambitions at some point. Maybe marrying the richest heiress in Azerbaijan had something to do with him not wanting to spend 10 hrs/day on chess to stay in the top. Right now he looks to have the chess-spirit back though, very tough customer in his latest events. <Caruana> has a very demanding style, heavy on concrete opening preparation and often going for sharp tactical positions. It must be exhausting to play this kind of chess; but also missing out in the WC match and Covid kicking in can be factors for his dip in form. Still, I expect it is easier to stay competetive for many years with a Smyslov-style than with the Kasparov-style that Caruana is embracing. |
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| Oct-15-21 | | fabelhaft: If Caruana can win his three remaining games his rating will be rounded up to 2796 on the next official list. |
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Oct-15-21
 | | HeMateMe: Lenderman has paid his dues. I'd like to see him win one of these US championships. |
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Oct-15-21
 | | chancho: Looks to me like Wesley will win this event.
(He has Naroditsky, Sevian, and Robson in the final rounds.)
One of those guys could pull off an upset, but I don't really see that happening.
His play is quite solid, and that's not likely to change at this stage of the event. |
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| Oct-15-21 | | 0ZeR0: <HMM>
100% agree. |
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| Oct-15-21 | | nok: <If Caruana can win his three remaining games his rating will be rounded up to 2796 on the next official list.> How earth shaking do you think it is whether it's 2786 or 2796? |
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| Oct-15-21 | | macer75: <chancho: Looks to me like Wesley will win this event.
(He has Naroditsky, Sevian, and Robson in the final rounds.) One of those guys could pull off an upset, but I don't really see that happening. His play is quite solid, and that's not likely to change at this stage of the event.> Then again, those guys are a combined +2 right now, so in that sense they aren't the most ideal batch of opponents. |
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| Oct-15-21 | | fabelhaft: <How earth shaking do you think it is whether it's 2786 or 2796?> With three draws instead it would be 2781 and the earth would shake for sure. |
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| Oct-15-21 | | Albertan: Yip stars, while Logjam continues at US Championship: https://kasparovchess.com/articles/... |
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| Oct-15-21 | | RookFile: Bobby Fischer would be like 7/8 at this point. |
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Oct-15-21
 | | MissScarlett: His age or his score? |
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| Oct-16-21 | | Albertan: Thé résilience of Wesley So 2-time US Champion: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/re... |
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| Oct-16-21 | | RookFile: <MissScarlett: His age or his score? > Actually, 8 would be the number of times he won the US Championship. |
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| Oct-17-21 | | Albertan: US Chess Championships Round 9:Leaders draw,Caruana wins: https://www.chess.com/news/view/us-... |
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Oct-17-21
| | HeMateMe: how did sparsely populated Norway give us a chess genius yet the USA has only one world champion (bobby Fischer) and China's 1.3B population has never produced a world champion candidate? |
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| Oct-17-21 | | fabelhaft: Once upon a time Germany had Anderssen, Paulsen, Tarrasch, Lasker etc but nowadays their best player is #99, until recently Romanian and 45 years old. |
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| Oct-17-21 | | fabelhaft: Norway has one player in the top 100 while the US has Caruana, So, Aronian, Dominguez, Nakamura just in the top 20. |
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| Oct-17-21 | | RookFile: The Germans did produce some correspondence world chess chamnpions. Maybe they just preferred licking stamps to traveling. |
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| Oct-17-21 | | metatron2: <HeMateMe: how did sparsely populated Norway give us a chess genius> For the probability of once-in-a-generation-level-genius being born, your domain is the entire human race and not a specific country (I guess that goes by definition). And if you want to give more weight to specific countries, you probably need to do it based on their culture and wealth, and not based on the size of their population (and Norway is way up with those parameters). So that single individual (Carlsen) just happened to being born in Noraway. Before the times of strong Engines, Internet, and huge chess real-time databases, the chances for such individual to actually live up to his potential were significantly lower in case he was born in a country that doesn't have strong "chess culture" and strong support for chess players. That is the reason that B Fischer achievements are so amazing, and so are Anands achievements (although Anand did have computers databases from his mid 20s and engines in his 30s). In any case, these days, a genius like Carlsen has no problem to live up to his potential (if he has the motivation for it). He can access all the information that he needs, get the best engines, and just pay for services of the best players/trainers around the world to help him (and can do most of his work with them, without even physically meeting them). |
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| Oct-17-21 | | optimal play: <fabelhaft: Norway has one player in the top 100 while the US has Caruana, So, Aronian, Dominguez, Nakamura just in the top 20.> That's meant as a joke, right?
Caruana, began his international career playing for Italy. So, Filipino.
Aronian, Armenian.
Dominguez, Cuban.
Nakamura, born in Japan. |
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| Oct-17-21 | | fabelhaft: <That's meant as a joke, right? Caruana, began his international career playing for Italy> You have to be pretty eager to get rid of people if Caruana and Nakamura both are discounted for opposite reasons :-) |
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| Oct-17-21 | | optimal play: <You have to be pretty eager to get rid of people if Caruana and Nakamura both are discounted for opposite reasons :-)> I'm not trying to get rid of anyone, or discount anybody, I just assumed you were making a joke. I thought it was funny and got a laugh out of it. |
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| Oct-17-21 | | fabelhaft: Of course many of the US top players have a non US background but either Caruana or Naka should count as more American than Aronian at least :-) |
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| Oct-17-21 | | fabelhaft: Sevian-So and Lenderman-Caruana today, any winner there will have good reasons to feel good before the final round, no winners and Lenderman will feel most happy before the final round. |
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Oct-17-21
| | HeMateMe: Nak grew up here, the rest didnt.
Fischer had the chess rich culture of NYC to help him. BF was by no means alone. China and india have been pouring money and people into chess, 2.5B people. Yet just one WC, Anand. I do think china will have one in the near future |
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