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Jul-06-25
 | | Atterdag: With the exception of Hou Yifan and Ju Wenjun all the world's strongest women are here. Looking forward to many great games - the ladies usually deliver! |
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| Jul-07-25 | | Rdb: <Atterdag: With the exception of Hou Yifan and Ju Wenjun all the world's strongest women are here> Koneru humpy is playing, she got bye in first round, directly playing second round. She is seeded fourth. However, i do not see her name in the list of players on this page |
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Jul-10-25
 | | piltdown man: She's right at the top of the list, sir. |
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| Jul-10-25 | | Toxic Narcissist: <piltdown man: She's right at the top of the list, sir.> Sir, yes, sir. |
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Jul-11-25
 | | MissScarlett: Goryachkina is gone! Future coverage of this event may be intermittent. |
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| Jul-12-25 | | AngeLa: 🙄 changing the guard!!! that's progress 💯🦾🙏 |
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Jul-12-25
| | Atterdag: <changing the guard!!! that's progress> That's highly dependable on which guard we're talking about. :-] |
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| Jul-13-25 | | Rdb: <piltdown man: She's right at the top of the list, sir> Now she is after I posted , earlier she was not in the list |
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Jul-15-25
| | MissScarlett: Rest day today - here are the round 4 or last-16 matches: https://s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.... |
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Jul-18-25
| | Atterdag: CG shows the games in this tournament, but doesn't reflect the course of the knock-outs (besides the link above). The 58th Biel Chess Festival, 12-25 July
as well as
Freestyle Chess Las Vegas, 16-20 July
are absent here.
Personally, I think freestyle is a totally wrong path to tread for our game. This is mainly supported by spoilt GMs (and former WCs in particular!) who are bored by the classical game and want to find new sources of quick income. These events steal money and attention from chess as we know it and cherish it. |
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Jul-18-25
 | | Dionysius1: I don't know how much more income MC the ex WC needs, but sure, most of the GMs can't make a sustainable income from Chess. I wish them joy. Have you a different solution to the danger of atrophy with classical chess being choked up with opening theory then? |
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Jul-19-25
| | Atterdag: Hi Dionysius1,
I am talking about the elite GMs, of course, those in the top 25 or so. You are right about the other GMs and IMs - it's not easy for them to <make a sustainable income from Chess.>. I think it is important to differentiate between the professional chessplayers and us amateurs when it comes to time formats. I fully understand that Carlsen and many GMs feel that opening theory has - as you phrase it - choked the game. It has somewhat destroyed creativity and pure chess skill and paved way for those who have an autistic memory of long computer-generated opening sequences. But my solution is not changing the basic rules of chess, but the time granted for thinking. In other words I agree with Carlsen, Caruana and probably most of their colleagues that shorter time formats will open for creativity, pure chess skill and make it hard for those who are eagles with the aid of a chess programme. I would like to see a hybrid time format somewhere between the classical and the rapid - 50-60 minutes. That would IMO preserve the quality of the classics and the spontaneity of the rapids. Tournaments with such a format should allow two games a day, thus more double round robin tournaments - which again would increase more interest ... I think. Now, all this was about the top GMs. For the lower ranged players who don't get all their income by chess, and particularly for all us amateurs around the world, chess is still such a tough game in the opening that very few of us would have the time and skill to prepare openings intensively, so we would still benefit from the depth the classical time format would allow us. All IMO, of course. |
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Jul-19-25
| | Dionysius1: Yeh, I see what you mean. I'm a bit detached from the freestyle/classical debate because I prefer the older games - up to about Tal and Fischer, and there are enough there to keep me interested. You're making me think now. Is freestyle a better or worse spectator sport? For the first dozen moves maybe worse. After than when the spectators start to recognise patterns from classical chess, it may be just as good. It's all part of chess-as-a-sport I think. Before I stopped playing in team leagues I had child opponents turning up in track suits, after a pep talk in the corner from their very serious parent. I'm pretty sure I remember Nigel Short's mum !feeding him vegetable soup! while he wrecked me in a Richter Rauzer Sicilian in an open tournament in London about 1981. Getting a bit random now, but thanks for coming back to me :-) |
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Jul-20-25
| | Atterdag: <Is freestyle a better or worse spectator sport? > Depends, I guess, on how you are connected to the game. If it's the gameplay itself and nothing else, you may be right that freestyle <may be just as good>. But to me chess is much much more than that. It's the history of a game with the same starting position today as in the times of Philidor. I love the history of chess: the legendary players from the past, their unforgettable, iconic games, the tournaments right from the beginning, when they, dressed in formal suits, sat down in mahogany chairs and a small table with small chess pieces. The dramas at the board, the fate of the players, the historical context in which it all took place. All that is IMO unthinkable with freestyle chess. For me it's only the game and nothing else. Like a crossword you solve and throw away because the next crossword will be different. Of course I don't mind experiments like freestyle and constructed mate-in-X-moves problems when they stay in the periphery of the culture around the game. But I do mind if they begin to replace the classical game that still thrills millions around the world. |
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Jul-24-25
 | | Check It Out: And Humpy wins the semi-final. An all Indian final! |
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| Jul-24-25 | | dehanne: Divya Deshmukh gets a shortcut to the GM title if she wins the final. |
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Jul-28-25
 | | alexmagnus: ...And Divya won. But before this recent form high she had quite a slump, so that she is still below her peak rating (her live rating is 2478, her peak official rating is 2501 in October 2024). |
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| Jul-28-25 | | AngeLa: wow automatic gm title!! Humphrey must have a bunos!! for sure!!😃😃😃 |
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Jul-29-25
| | Atterdag: Huge congrats to Divya Deshmukh. It was not an easy task to beat the experienced Humpy Kuneru in the final drama, but a much greater accomplishment to get that far - amidst the elite of women. What a beautiful, worthy representative of young women in the top of our game. And another fine day for chess in India. |
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| Aug-01-25 | | Chessinfinite: Congrats ! to Divya Deshmukh, for a strong win. |
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Aug-01-25
| | Dionysius1: Hi AngeLa. <Humphrey must have a bunos!! for sure!!> How do you mean? I haven't come across the expression before. |
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Aug-02-25
| | Atterdag: Dionysius1: <<Humphrey must have a bunos!! for sure!!> How do you mean? I haven't come across the expression before.> And I didn't know that Humpy Koneru would be an ancestor to Hubert Humphrey. CG gives us such wonderful conumdrums. |
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Aug-02-25
| | Atterdag: I mean successor, of course :-| |
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