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Outcome 2. Kinda sad Fabi didn't make it to tiebreaks but it could have been a lot worse
Thoughts on the Candidates? The final round? Alireza?
Absolutely insane situation! I watched the last couple hours of the games today (specifically Fabi and Gukesh). Easily the most intense and fun chess we've had in a long time. It's crazy that we have four potential winners tomorrow.
In terms of how I rate the outcomes:
Fabi wins. I'm a huge Fabi fan and I think he deserves to be world champion as the number two player of the Magnus era.
Gukesh wins. I like Gukesh a lot and having a teenage world championship challenger would be really exciting. No doubt in my mind that he's earned it.
Hikaru wins. I find Hikaru a bit insufferable but it would be phenomenal content.
Nepo wins. Please god not again.
In terms of Alireza's performance, well. I think he'd previously been anointed as the leading light of the post-Magnus generation, especially after he hit 2800, but he hasn't lived up to that since then. I think maybe that was an unfair amount of pressure to put on him. I don't know if his problems are psychological or if he's hit a wall, but he certainly seems far weaker than he was just a couple years ago. He was rank 2 in the world not so long ago, and he's fallen to rank 16 in the live ratings.
The result is still up in the air, but Gukesh is making a very strong case for himself as the strongest player of the new generation, at least at the moment. If he can seal the deal and triumph first over Fabi, Nepo, and Hikaru and then over Ding, it'll be a real changing of the guard. Easier said than done, though.
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#your post jinxed him /j
Check now, we're so fucking back Fabi bros
Legalize Caruana baby!
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what's wrong with nepo?
He massively outperforms his normal results at the candidates and then proceeds to regress to normal at the WCC. He's had his chances, I don't think he deserves a third one
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Thoughts on the Candidates? The final round? Alireza?
Absolutely insane situation! I watched the last couple hours of the games today (specifically Fabi and Gukesh). Easily the most intense and fun chess we've had in a long time. It's crazy that we have four potential winners tomorrow.
In terms of how I rate the outcomes:
Fabi wins. I'm a huge Fabi fan and I think he deserves to be world champion as the number two player of the Magnus era.
Gukesh wins. I like Gukesh a lot and having a teenage world championship challenger would be really exciting. No doubt in my mind that he's earned it.
Hikaru wins. I find Hikaru a bit insufferable but it would be phenomenal content.
Nepo wins. Please god not again.
In terms of Alireza's performance, well. I think he'd previously been anointed as the leading light of the post-Magnus generation, especially after he hit 2800, but he hasn't lived up to that since then. I think maybe that was an unfair amount of pressure to put on him. I don't know if his problems are psychological or if he's hit a wall, but he certainly seems far weaker than he was just a couple years ago. He was rank 2 in the world not so long ago, and he's fallen to rank 16 in the live ratings.
The result is still up in the air, but Gukesh is making a very strong case for himself as the strongest player of the new generation, at least at the moment. If he can seal the deal and triumph first over Fabi, Nepo, and Hikaru and then over Ding, it'll be a real changing of the guard. Easier said than done, though.
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Starting to believe there's a connection between being in a country with mandatory military service and being good at sc2
Anyway this is cutting short a 2018-level run of dominance by Serral over the entire scene for the past six months so. Bummer
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If Alireza keeps getting his ass beat this bad I'm gonna have to retitle this blog
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come on man
please god do not let Nepo win the candidates again i can't fucking do this again
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RED ALERT: DO NOT FUCK THIS UP FOR US PRAGG
please god do not let Nepo win the candidates again i can't fucking do this again
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please god do not let Nepo win the candidates again i can't fucking do this again
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Hikaru as white losing to a player 50 points lower rated in the candidates? brutal
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the new sethbling vid is killing me like, I had no idea that there was a entity where you could use NBT to control its transform matrix and it's fucking hilarious to me that data packs have THAT but not 'multiply two numbers'
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this vid?
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Saw you mention ICON being built for smaller maps but honestly I don't see it? Maybe its because I run a group of 6 so that naturally spreads things out but most of the battles I've run are in the realm of 12x12, often larger.
From the handbook:
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