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Carissa Yip vs Nazi Paikidze
United States Women's Championship (2024), Saint Louis, MO USA, rd 7, Oct-18
Caro-Kann Defense: Advance. Tal Variation (B12)  ·  1-0

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Oct-18-24  notyetagm: And the exhibition continues.
Oct-18-24  notyetagm: Yip is just MUCH better than all these 2300s she is playing.
Oct-18-24
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  K Any: What's her performance rating? It was 3100 after round 5.
Oct-19-24
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  keypusher: Yip is awesome and she is having an awesome tournament, but Black just commits suicide in this game.
Oct-19-24  EvanTheTerrible: You can't really compute a meaningful TPR if you are undefeated.
Oct-19-24  notyetagm: <EvanTheTerrible: You can't really compute a meaningful TPR if you are undefeated.>

Correct, 100% or 0% score is problematic for TPR calculation.

Yip is 7/7 against 2300s; Gukesh was 9/10 vs 2700s, much more impressive.

Oct-19-24
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  Atterdag: <Yip is 7/7 against 2300s; Gukesh was 9/10 vs 2700s, much more impressive.>

I question that comparison. It's a trivial fact that women's chess is at a lower level than men's chess. And it is obviously the reason for arranging a particular championship for women. Just like they separate genders in so many kind of sports, simply because nature has given men some very detectable advantages by birth.

Does that diminish the achievements by women within these frames? Not the slightest. It's like saying women's results in all sports with gender separation are unimpressive.

It's all about relativety, and relative to the strongest female players in the U.S., Carissa Yip's 7/7 is just as impressive as the great result by Gukesh, relatively spoken.

PS: There may be many reasons for the relative weakness of women in chess, some are undoubtedly rooted in history and prejudices, but we have to acknowledge the reality that there are only very very few women who have reached the top 100. Unfortunately, Polgar and Hou have been very rare exceptions and on today's live ratings list no woman is in the top 100.

Oct-19-24  notyetagm: <It's all about relativety, and relative to the strongest female players in the U.S., Carissa Yip's 7/7 is just as impressive as the great result by Gukesh, relatively spoken.>

Sorry, I don't see beating 2300s in the same ballpark as beating Top 10 2750s.

Oct-19-24
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  perfidious: An aside: there is no comparison whatever between Polgar and Hou. Polgar was a borderline top ten player overall, peaking at eighth, while Hou's zenith saw her at 55th in the FIDE rankings.
Oct-20-24  notyetagm: <perfidious: An aside: there is no comparison whatever between Polgar and Hou. Polgar was a borderline top ten player overall, peaking at eighth,>

And Polgar almost won Corus A one year, clear 2nd in 2003, winning a brilliancy against Karpov.

Corus Group A (2003)

Karpov vs Polgar, 2003

Oct-20-24
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  perfidious: An early memory of Judit Polgar:

Alex Cherniack (kibitz #1)

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