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Apr-23-25 Grenke Freestyle Open (2025)    1300patzer: I agree with Check It Out about modern appurtenances, especially engines, underlying the rise of this variation. Engines have been like steroids for classical opening prep, allowing too many game-determining surprises that the player can't, or oughtn't, take any credit for. The ...      Apr-11-25 Freestyle Grand Tour Paris (2025)    1300patzer: So, "memorization and engines" is real chess, but having to play unfamiliar positions is not?      Mar-05-25 Aeroflot Open (2025)    1300patzer: Neimann has never shown much concern with ethics.      Feb-17-25 Freestyle Grand Tour Weissenhaus (2025)    1300patzer: The church, royalty, elephants so forth don't seem to enter far into the consideration of most chess positions, and in serious play I doubt they ever did. I view those as "external suppositions".      Feb-01-25 Tata Steel Masters (2025)    1300patzer: There's no reason to expect a steep or imminent decline from either Caruana or Carlsen. Both may be edging past their calculating best (Carlsen even admits this) but they're very active and still working to improve their games. Having said that, there's more strength in players ...      Oct-19-24 United States Championship (2024)    1300patzer: Back when I was 20-something, I was walking into a store, and there was a guy standing outside beside the door - nobody I knew. He punched me in the face with no warning or preamble. Unprepared, I was spun around, and my glasses went flying, though I didn't fall. Seeing stars, I ...      Oct-17-24 C Yoo vs Caruana, 2024    1300patzer: Playing bad moves and becoming angry are two expressions of the same neural derangement. It's as though if one could access their self-control, one wouldn't need to.      Oct-10-24 TechM Global Chess League (2024)   1300patzer: Firouzja has had excellent results since the Candidates, rivalling Carlsen. Nakamura, after losing to Firouzja here, titled his daily video, "Today I played the future of chess." However, in a subsequent game between the same two, Firouzja made an incredible blunder while ahead ...      Sep-29-24 10th Gashimov Memorial Rapid (2024)   1300patzer: Carlsen, Caruana, So, Firouzja and others are at the concurrent Julius Baker Generations event. Nepo is both here and there.      Sep-17-24 Budapest Olympiad (2024)    1300patzer: FTB: LOL.

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