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Obsessed with this gif
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#chess#judit polgar#chess player#total legend#boris spassky#garry kasparov#veselin topalov#viswanathan anand#vladimir kramnik#magnus carlsen
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#artist#art#drawing#illustration#drawwithleo#figure drawing#leodraws#love#artlove#king#magnus carlsen#Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa#chess#chessworldcup#grandmaster#chess master#portrait#painting#portraiture#digital painting#clip studio paint#photoshop
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Me: *just sitting around*
My brain: Magnus Carlsen is like the real life version of Wakatsuki Takeshi but for chess
#magnus carlsen#chess#kengan ashura#kenganverse#Wakatsuki Takeshi#not art#i knew of Wakatsuki first thats why i made the comparison like this
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My idea of escapism is sketching chess players while watching chess tournaments, and how much of a nerd are you?
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who's your favourite chess grandmaster and why is it Mikhail Tal ? (biggest fanboy right here and I can talk about his queen sacrifice for hours)
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frank vs Russia is the funniest thing I've ever seen
#frank vs russia#magnus carlsen#chess#iasip#its always sunny in philadelphia#frank reynolds#charlie kelly
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why are chess players kinda...
also you can find anish giri and magnus carlsen smut on ao3, if your day was going well <3
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This is the greatest scandal that I’ve seen in months and it involves a chess competition and accusations of a player cheating against the long standing winner of the chess version of Eurovision by using AI anal beads to signal moves, I kid you not
This is from The Guardian
#Magnus Carlsen#Hans Niemann#chess drama#that I am fucking living for#boys gotta do what a boys gotta do#don’t hate the player#hate the game#if I think of more don’t u worry I’ll add them x
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Happy birthday Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand!
Vishy Anand, one of my favourite commentators from recent World Championships (he just seems like such a lovely guy and his analysis is always interesting and well explained), is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. The FIRST grandmaster from India (he won the title in 1988) which is hard to believe given how many great Indian chess players there are now, he has the 8th highest peak FIDE raiting of all time. He remains the only player to have won the World Chess Championship in tournament, match, and knockout format, as well as rapid time controls.
Vishy playing Kasparov, 1995.
As a teenager people called him "Lightning Kid" for his rapid playing speed, and later GMs who faced him often described him as one of the all-time greats alongside Garry Kasparov (a logical comparison given the schism in the World Championship and the fact most top GMs would have played both so could compare).
As a lightning fast teenager in the 1980s.
Wikipedia describes him as "a well-liked figure throughout the chess world for two decades, evidenced by the fact that Kasparov, Kramnik, and Carlsen, all of whom were rivals for the world championship during Anand's career, each aided him in his preparations for the 2010 World Chess Championship" which is something I massively admire in sports people - the seemingly rare ability to be a top competitor AND be nice to people.
Check out his game 6 win against Karpov in the 1998 World Championship match for a great win at an important moment. Karpov had won the first four games, Vishy made a draw in game 5, and NEEDED to win. So what does he do? He plays the Trompowsky Attack (1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5) - rarely seen at GM level - and wins in 42 moves! Seriously, go google and admire. Sadly (for me at least since I'm a fan) he lost the WC in the tiebreaker games and didn't manage to become World Champion until two years later when he became the first world champion from Asia and the first world champion from outside the ex-Soviet Union since Bobby Fischer.
Anand v. Kramnik at the 2008 World Championship, game 3.
OR check out game 3 of his World Championship match against Kramnik in 2008. Here Vishy has the black pieces playing against Kramnik's Queen's Gambit Declined - they go into a really tactically sharp line known as the Blumenfeld Attack (this is part of the Semi-Slav defence, classical merin variation if you want to look it up). On move 14 Vishy plays a novelty - a new idea - that Kramnik needs to refute if he's to win. Vishy's idea is to just give up a pawn (which is usually defended) in favour of attacking the white king. Two pawns down, Vishy rejects the possibility of a draw and goes on the attack with Kramnik's king on the run. It's exciting stuff and unbelievably tense when you imagine the WC conditions they were playing in!
Vishy about to beat defending champion Magnus Carlsen in Game 3 of the 2014 World Chess Championship in Sochi.
His career is way too long and too well documented to be worth going into any greater detail - google is your friend here - but what a great player. Well worth delving into his games, not least as he was one of the first to embrace computer prep so that alone is an interesting development.
#Viswanathan Anand#vishy anand#chess#chess player#magnus carlsen#garry kasparov#world chess champion#world chess championship#born on this day#happy birthday#chess players
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Made a quiz. If you need to know Hikaru's spirit animal, which Disney princess would fall in love with Anish, or the D&D class of Rapport...
#chess#magnus carlsen#ding liren#anish giri#ian nepomniachtchi#alireza firouzja#fabiano caruana#hikaru nakamura#wesley so#richard rapport#levon aronian#alexander grischuk#nodirbek abdusattorov#cats#disney princesses
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The missed opportunity of the ao3 chess community to write omegaverse fiction, man..... so many innuendoes and the constant use of the word "mating" and theyre not even gonna try and make use of the opportunity?!?!
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I’m convinced magnus is done with the main quest and is just doing side quests and collectibles now
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