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The 2018 King Salman FIDE World Blitz Championship was a 21-round Swiss open taking place in St. Petersburg, Russia from 29-30 December. The prize fund was $350,000, with $60,000 for 1st place. Time control: 3 minutes per player for all moves, with a 2-second increment per move from move 1. Monetary prizes to be shared equally among tied players. If there was a tie for the 1st place, the top 2 players according to the first eligible tiebreak criterion would play a playoff match. This match would include two ... [more]
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: <nok>
Wrong! In fact it is the war of the American industrial complex versus Europe. They sponsored Hitler. As they now are sponsoring the EUSSR. Btw Stalin did not have one tank when Hitler attacked him. Soon they were loaded with tanks, though. Maybe you still wonder why.. obviously this is all a conspiracy. |
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: <perfidious>
Germany is somewhat larger than the Netherlands though. However, I agree with the idea of the traveling circus. Now we have Tata. Where the players have to pose with the Muppets, travel around, otherwise they will not get invited. At least Alekhine had not to face that kind of misery. |
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Jan-02-19
 | | Diademas: < WorstPlayerEver:[...]
Btw Stalin did not have one tank when Hitler attacked him. Soon they were loaded with tanks, though.>I call BS.
<On the eve of World War II, the Red Army had around 8,500 T-26s of all variants. >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks... |
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Jan-02-19
 | | beatgiant: Can we combine all the conspiracies into one?
"Steinitz claimed naming rights to the next major European war in his will. When that didn't happen, his heirs in the Steinitz-bin Abdulaziz line bankrolled Roosevelt in 1940, hoping WWII would be called WW Steinitz. That led to the Trinity operation in 1945, which will be visible in the geologic strata. For that reason, the Anthropocene is PC talk for the Steinitz era." Honestly, this thread is trending toward Rogoff page material. |
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Jan-02-19
| | Diademas: <beatgiant: Can we combine all the conspiracies into one? > You really forgot most of them!
Michelle Obama, or was it Michael, led the Jewish conspiracy to victory with George Sorros and the incestues Clintons against the family friendly third reich! |
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| Jan-02-19 | | ChessHigherCat: <Diademas: I call BS>
(about WPE's claim that the Russians didn't have a single tank at the start of WWII) <On the eve of World War II, the Red Army had around 8,500 T-26s of all variants. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks... Worst Historian Ever's claim about the tanks is even more absurd because, counting all models (nor just T-26s), <Russia had over 14,000 tanks immediately available, four times as many as the Germans> had at the start of Operation Barbarossa: <The German Wehrmacht had about 5,200 tanks overall, of which 3,350 were committed to the invasion. This yields a balance of immediately available tanks of about 4:1 in the Red Army's favour. The best Soviet tank, the T-34, was the most modern in the world, and the KV series the best armoured> (from the same wiki article). That said, at least it's in line with the other BS statements about the US financing Hitler. <WPE>, I know you can't be bothered quoting your sources, but can you at least indicate what orifice you pulled your statistics from? |
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: <Diademas>
You are kidding me. The T-26 can hardly be considered to be a tank. The T-28 was the first vehicle which began to look like a tank. But... according to the same wiki article: "The Soviets thus began to upgrade their T-28 tanks for the coming war with Germany, but many were still lost during the first two months of the invasion, when the Germans invaded in June 1941." Really, Hitler was not dumb, if he had delayed the attack, the Russians had been ready; Stalin was not exactly dumb either. In fact it was a master plan, but Hitler never was a great executioner of his brilliancies. Because he lacked of any consistency when it comes to his decisions. Usually plans work out if you really want power; to control the masses, like Hitler would. However, to sustain power is not an easy task. Again and again you have to deal with all those mofos. They actually don't want to listen anyhow. <beatgigant> confirms this; usually people want to live their lives and not to be bothered too much. Oh the Rogoff page, where characters ask Santa for a premium account. And you know what? Anyway, I'd am willing to illustrate the entourage here with a jolly song. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzjf... |
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34 |
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| Jan-02-19 | | ChessHigherCat: <WPE: Really, Hitler was not dumb, if he had delayed the attack, the Russians had been ready; Stalin was not exactly dumb either.> The consensus among historians is that Stalin was crazy enough to trust Hitler, and that he went into a extremely deep depression when he learned that his soul-sister Adolph had broken the truce: <Why did Stalin ignore the yearlong military buildup in eastern Europe and the (by one count) 87 separate, credible intelligence warnings of the German invasion that he received during 1940–41? [...]>
<Stalin’s corresponding blindness to all this is more problematic. Hitler’s foreign policy aims were well known, and it is difficult to comprehend how any national leader could do so little to anticipate the onslaught that everyone knew must come.> https://www.cia.gov/library/center-... As to the US funding Hitler, it's a well known fact that the US poured billions into financing the war efforts of the UK and USSR, so why would they fund their enemy? Can you cite a single source for that claim? |
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Jan-02-19
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| Jan-02-19 | | rogge: Popcorn time :) |
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: Back to topic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=50xx1... |
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Jan-02-19
| | keypusher: <WorstPlayerEver: Back to topic> Glad you realized you needed to shut up about World War II pronto. |
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: <keypusher>
At least I know how to shut up. But I plead guilty: kind of exactly knew what was coming when I stated Russia had zero tanks in 1941. |
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| Jan-02-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: It's hard to explain the Dutch soul.
But this comes close, translated:
The Owls with 'Hello Mr Owl' (Your Underpants Are Dirty). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAfBw... |
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Jan-02-19
| | keypusher: <wpe>
<At least I know how to shut up. > Prove it. |
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Jan-02-19
| | Diademas: <WorstPlayerEver: <Diademas>
You are kidding me. The T-26 can hardly be considered to be a tank. The T-28 was the first vehicle which began to look like a tank. But... according to the same wiki article:> First and foremost, are you still sticking to your first claim,? This could be fun. |
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Jan-02-19
| | keypusher: Incidentally, getting well off-track here (ha!), but the T-28 was a design dead end, like the American M-3 Grant/Lee or the French Char B. The T-26 at least <looked> like the better tanks that followed it. The T-28 did not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-28 |
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Jan-02-19
| | Diademas: < keypusher: Incidentally, getting well off-track here (ha!), but the T-28 was a design dead end, like the American M-3 Grant/Lee or the French Char B. The T-26 at least <looked> like the better tanks that followed it. The T-28 did not.> In 1935 the USSR had the same number of tanks as the rest of the world combined, The T-35 proved a bit of a technological nightmare, but the T-34
that came into production in 1940 was one of the most successfull inovations of WW2. Claiming that the USSR did not have a single tank in June 1941 is beyond stupid. |
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Jan-03-19
| | beatgiant: <tonsillolith> <If only I were wealthy enough to sponsor the Corruption and Human Rights Violations Tiebreaks for the tournament.> Bear in mind that world chess championships have been held in Nazi Germany (Alekhine - Bogoljubov World Championship Rematch (1934)), Stalinist USSR (FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948), Botvinnik - Bronstein World Championship Match (1951)), Tsarist Russia (Lasker - Steinitz World Championship Rematch (1896)), Marcos martial law Philippines (Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)), and "green terror" Gaddafi Libya (FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)). That's three events under totalitarians, one under absolute autocracy, two under tin-pot dictatorships, and we're only getting started. So I think there would be lots of competition for your award. |
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| Jan-03-19 | | tonsillolith: <beatgiant: That's three events under totalitarians, one under absolute autocracy, two under tin-pot dictatorships, and we're only getting started. So I think there would be lots of competition for your award.> Okay, how about <Human Rights Violations and Corrupt Theocratic Friend of the United States> Tiebreaks But I guess it's a moot [sic] point, since there was no need for tiebreaks. |
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| Jan-03-19 | | john barleycorn: <tonsillolith: ...
Okay, how about <Human Rights Violations and Corrupt Theocratic Friend of the United States> Tiebreaks ...> Would not that be the point where Kasparov, the ultimate warrior for Human Rights would have to enter the stage? however, he did not as far as I know. |
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| Jan-03-19 | | tonsillolith: <john barleycorn:
Would not that be the point where Kasparov, the ultimate warrior for Human Rights would have to enter the stage? however, he did not as far as I know.>I have to plead a degree of ignorance about Kasparov's humanitarian work. I'm only aware of his protests/campaign against Putin and perhaps more broadly in Russia. To that I would respond that it's understandable for someone to address their humanitarian concerns only in the place where they feel most confident, e.g. the Slavic world for Kasparov. I'd also contest that Russia is a friend of the US and that the Russian government's weird alliance with the Orthodox Church qualifies them as theocrats. Being a friend of Trump does not imply a friend of the US, and being theocratic entails more than just rampant homophobia. |
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| Jan-04-19 | | thegoodanarchist: Getting back to chess - how 'bout that Carlsen fellow? He had quite a nice showing in blitz here. |
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| Jan-10-19 | | JustAnotherMaster: Tanks? Stfu losers |
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