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chessismyaesthetic · 5 months

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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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noneun · 1 year

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Voglio un bambolotto di peluche a forma di Ding Liren.

#chess #ding liren #i've just cried #world chess champion

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dozydawn · 9 months

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IM Eline Roebers.

#the netherlands’ first world chess champion (girls under 14 & youth) & she became an IM straight away & she’s still only 17 wow #chess #eline roebers #international master

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lil-shiro · 10 months

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I fully think Nicky is cooking up his own el plan by going to business school, he’s either gonna

1) Become the next CEO of the Ferrero group, who own Nutella, then the company becomes William’s biggest sponsor, thus forcing them to run with a Nutella livery or

2) Straight up buy Williams

#this is how he will be a world champion #he’s out here playing 5D chess #while everyone else is playing checkers on webkinz #I can’t not support my fellow Canadian okay #good for him #nicholas lafiti #thinking f1 thots

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17yearcicada · 6 months

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i'm so delighted by anything that implies bobby fischer still exists in the chess-verse despite freddie being a clear expy of him. the americans had not one but two chess champions during the cold war and they were both fucking assholes

#this wasn't spurred by anything in us tour freddie's kencen posts reminded me of this #i don't actually remember when most of fischer's career was... i think he mainly played in 60s actually...?#he was us champion really young but he was only playing world championships in like the 70s/80s i think.#.txt #chess

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pinnedbishop · 9 months

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Khrushchev was five three and he built my apartment. Anything is possible

i’m not insecure about my height, i was just surprised.

#i was the world champion of chess — i know i can DO things.#moves #press conference

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emotionsandphenomena · 6 months

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no theaters showing priscilla on this island 😖

#girl do you want to play a sweetie pie chess world champion. with personal issues

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findrahil · 1 year

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DING CHILLING

#WORLD CHESS CHAMPION!!!!!!#IM SO HAPPY FOR HIM #HE DESERVES THIS #chessposting

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vocalwarrior24 · 11 months

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#ding liren #liren #ding #world chess championship #world chess championship 2023 #ian nepomniachtchi #nepomniachtchi #nepo #wcc 2023 #2023 fide world champion #fide #winner #chess #2023 stuff #2023

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kneedeepincynade · 1 year

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Normally, on the shaoshan collective, we discuss geopolitical topics, news, and military conflicts, but today, we discuss something a bit different and more light on the soul, chess

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Translation is at the bottom

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⚠️ DING LIREN, SCACCHISTA CINESE, DIVENTA CAMPIONE DEL MONDO DI SCACCHI SCONFIGGENDO IL CAMPIONE RUSSO IAN NEPOMNIACHTCHI ⚠️

🇨🇳 Ding Liren, Scacchista Cinese, è diventato Campione del Mondo di Scacchi, sconfiggendo lo Scacchista Russo Ian Nepomniachtchi

🏆 Questo significa che, attualmente, sia il Campione di Scacchi che la Campionessa di Scacchi sono entrambi Cinesi 🇨🇳

♟ Dal 05/07 al 25/07, ci sarà il Campionato Mondiale Femminile di Scacchi, dove - a sfidarsi - saranno proprio due giocatrici Cinesi: Ju Wenjun (attuale Campionessa) e la sua sfidante Lei Tingjie 🇨🇳

💕 Il Campionato Femminile si svolgerà nelle due meravigliose città di Chongqing e Shanghai 🏙

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

⚠️ CHINESE CHESS PLAYER DING LIREN BECOMES WORLD CHESS CHAMPION BY DEFEATING RUSSIAN CHAMPION IAN NEPOMNIACHTCHI ⚠️

🇨🇳 Ding Liren, a Chinese chess player, became the world Chess Champion, defeating Russian chess player Ian Nepomniachtchi

🏆 This means that, currently, both the Chess Champion and the Chess Champion are both Chinese 🇨🇳

♟ From 05/07 to 25/07, there will be the Women's World Chess Championship, where two Chinese players will challenge each other: Ju Wenjun (current Champion) and her challenger Lei Tingjie 🇨🇳

💕 The Women's Championship will take place in the two wonderful cities of Chongqing and Shanghai 🏙

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

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chessismyaesthetic · 5 months

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#anna muzychuk #world champion #European champion #chess #chess player

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noneun · 1 year

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Conferenza stampa

- Cosa farai ora che sei diventato campione del mondo di scacchi?

Ding Liren: Vorrei viaggiare

- E dove vorresti andare?

Ding Liren: A Torino a vedere una partita della Juventus

🤣🤣🤣

#ding liren #chess world champion #juventus

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politrixter · 2 years

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World Champion Magnus Carlsen takes on Cheating in Chess (not Hans Niemann!)

Chess just became mainstream. Sadly, it did not do so all on its own, “drama’ followed suit.

Magnus Carlsen, the current reigning world champion since 2013, ‘insinuated’ by an unprecedented withdrawal from an ongoing tournament and a cryptic tweet that his opponent the 19-year old American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann is not exactly as he seems… and the latter seems to be on a crusade to prove to anyone who is listening that he is the reincarnation of Bobby Fischer, only better.

GM Niemann admitted to have cheated “only online, and never otb” (otb: chess lingo for ‘over the board’) and only twice, the very two times when he was caught at ages of 12 and 16, and never in-between or never after. A very unlucky cheater, indeed.

In the ongoing online tournament, Magnus Carlsen faced Hans Niemann as black and after two moves… Carlsen resigned. Yeah, no shit.

For people who are not aware of who Magnus Carlsen really is and what chess means to him… please watch this video at your leisure.

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Magnus Carlsen has nothing to gain by what he is doing and he is doing this for what he actually loves - the game of chess.

There are people who have called him a lot of names including “unsportsmanlike”, but what he has really done is to take on a huge responsibility of doing what many have had wanted to be able to do. He is trying to undo something several have exploited, and many have let pass for their own convenience - cheating in chess.

May be Magnus Carlsen is doing this for all the career chess professionals who survive on talent, hard work, and dedication alone - who are cheated against, whose confidence get destroyed because while they suspect they are playing a machine they can’t always prove it, whose careers are put on the line and is the price they have to pay.

This cannot go on.

FIDE director general, Emil Sutovsky was quoted saying:

But may be the system does need to be broken down, and rebuild. Because the primary objective should be to protect the real players and not penalize them for their integrity. Because past instances bear examples that the current system seems to think a slap on the wrist is sufficient to allow a known cheater come back and play in titled tournaments.

May be the organizers should swallow their gigantic egos, loosen the purse strings, and strive to do better.

May be there should be a system put in place that assesses phenomenal rises, uncharacteristic behaviors, and frankly, the opinions of the few top chess players in the world (who are capable, definitely not all GMs qualify).

Because the best chess players often can know after a while when they are playing a human and when it is a computer.

May be if the system took responsibility, Magnus Carlsen wouldn’t have had to resort to these passive aggressive “vigilante” methods to make his point, to try and right a wrong.

Chess is not “just a game”, it is a passion and a career for many and it is time that “the system” awarded integrity and talent. And not those who has hidden access to Stockfish with a higher processing power.

P.S. If it isn’t obvious, this author considers HMN to be cheating. For every nitpicks, several points have not been addressed, but they might be in subsequent posts.

P.P.S. Finally, if chess values its “child prodigies” so much - if becoming a GM or a titled player, access to elite tournaments, earning money in chess has no age limit then no one is exempt from the penalties of cheating in chess, simply because “he is just a kid” either. No one talks about the careers, the minds that are affected, ruined even, in the wake of the havoc wrecked by a cheater. Chess is not just a game, it is somebody’s life and livelihood.