The King of all games

[OnWargaming]

In few hours will start the next World Chess Championship, here the official site but there are several chess sites with stellar commentators (like Chess.com with the previous challenger Fabio Caruana).

A great match for sure!

[altipueri]

Still no fog of war or attack/defend odds in chess.

I reckon pawn vs queen should be 1 in 10 or 10% in fancy terms.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: altipueri

Still no fog of war or attack/defend odds in chess.

I reckon pawn vs queen should be 1 in 10 or 10% in fancy terms.

Not the way that Mel Brooks showed it. I believe everybody got the queen . . . [;)]

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: OnWargaming

In few hours will start the next World Chess Championship, here the official site but there are several chess sites with stellar commentators (like Chess.com with the previous challenger Fabio Caruana).

A great match for sure!

I like to follow Agadmator's YT channel ("Hello everyone!" [:D]) I guess that he will show the best matches too.

Where is Hikaru Nakamura, BTW? Is he in the tournament?

[budd]

No tournament, the player that won the candidates tournament,Ian Neponmiachtchi, will play Carlson for the championship. Best of 14 with tie breaks. The challenger is rated #5 in the world but I think is the only player to have a winning record against Carlsen.

[OnWargaming]

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69
I like to follow Agadmator's YT channel ("Hello everyone!" [:D]) I guess that he will show the best matches too.
...

1M+ subscribers for a chess channel? [X(]
Amazing!

[OnWargaming]

ORIGINAL: budd

No tournament, the player that won the candidates tournament,Ian Neponmiachtchi, will play Carlson for the championship. Best of 14 with tie breaks. The challenger is rated #5 in the world but I think is the only player to have a winning record against Carlsen.

Yes and I think he will be more aggressive than his precedessors.

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: OnWargaming

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69
I like to follow Agadmator's YT channel ("Hello everyone!" [:D]) I guess that he will show the best matches too.
...

1M+ subscribers for a chess channel? [X(]
Amazing!

There is a channel by a bovine hoof vet with 1m+ subscribers. Makes a chess channel more understandable.

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheHoofGP

[budd]

And a draw it is.

i think this guy has the most subs for a chess channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHX6V ... YSFAyS0a3Q

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: budd

And a draw it is.

i think this guy has the most subs for a chess channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHX6V ... YSFAyS0a3Q

Yes, even if they are close.

Gotham Chess has much more content aimed at beginners and those who want to better their game, but I like Agadmator more as a YT.

Well, I didn’t know that we were already at the challenge for the Throne. Time really flies [&:]

[rommel222]

Greetings OnWargaming,
Thanks for starting this thread, which reminded me to follow the first championship match or I would have missed it.

[OnWargaming]

ORIGINAL: rommel222

Greetings OnWargaming,
Thanks for starting this thread, which reminded me to follow the first championship match or I would have missed it.

You are welcome!


First game a draw (not a surprise I know).
I am following this event on Chess24 with the comments of Anish Giri and Judit Polgar, it is pretty interesting because they don't follow the engine position but do their own analysis.

[OnWargaming]

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69

ORIGINAL: OnWargaming

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69
I like to follow Agadmator's YT channel ("Hello everyone!" [:D]) I guess that he will show the best matches too.
...

1M+ subscribers for a chess channel? [X(]
Amazing!

There is a channel by a bovine hoof vet with 1m+ subscribers. Makes a chess channel more understandable.

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheHoofGP

[:D]
High quality, definitely not a beginner on video making.

[OnWargaming]

ORIGINAL: budd

And a draw it is.

i think this guy has the most subs for a chess channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHX6V ... YSFAyS0a3Q

And it seems a very good one, I will watch his match review.

[CharlieTill]

So nobody here plays MMORPG??

[OnWargaming]

And we have the first win, not an ordinary one but the longest World Championship game in the history! (previous one was Karpov vs Korchnoi).
Almost 8 hours of game for 136 moves, they played the last of the first 40 moves in few minutes and then a really great endgame, Queen against Knight, Rook and two Pawns.
What a match!

[ernieschwitz]

ORIGINAL: CharlieTill

So nobody here plays MMORPG??

MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) are hardly The King of all games.

[budd]

ORIGINAL: OnWargaming

And we have the first win, not an ordinary one but the longest World Championship game in the history! (previous one was Karpov vs Korchnoi).
Almost 8 hours of game for 136 moves, they played the last of the first 40 moves in few minutes and then a really great endgame, Queen against Knight, Rook and two Pawns.
What a match!

High level stuff. One mistake by Carlsen and its a draw, its like doing ballet on a high wire. Curious to see if Carlsen will turtle now. Play for one win and draw the rest. Seems easy to defend and play for a draw with classic time controls when your at their level of play. I'd like to see the format changed to something like 8 games classic time controls, 3 games rapid, 15 minutes with maybe +5 per move, and blitz 5 minutes with +5 per move,and use bullet games for tie breakers.That would be exciting, of course Carlsen is the top rated player in rapid/blitz games also.

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: budd

ORIGINAL: OnWargaming

And we have the first win, not an ordinary one but the longest World Championship game in the history! (previous one was Karpov vs Korchnoi).
Almost 8 hours of game for 136 moves, they played the last of the first 40 moves in few minutes and then a really great endgame, Queen against Knight, Rook and two Pawns.
What a match!

High level stuff. One mistake by Carlsen and its a draw, its like doing ballet on a high wire. Curious to see if Carlsen will turtle now. Play for one win and draw the rest. Seems easy to defend and play for a draw with classic time controls when your at their level of play. I'd like to see the format changed to something like 8 games classic time controls, 3 games rapid, 15 minutes with maybe +5 per move, and blitz 5 minutes with +5 per move,and use bullet games for tie breakers.That would be exciting, of course Carlsen is the top rated player in rapid/blitz games also.

You could see why Carlsen is Carlsen by looking at him playing under pressure. When in time shortage he still thought about every move like if he had all the time in the World. When he was under 5 mins and needed, IIRC, 6 moves to reach time-check he stalled like a master (well, he is a master [:D]). Napo had 10 minutes more than Carlsen and wasted them.

Caruana is really a great commentator, BTW.

[RFalvo69]

So 5 - 3 and possibly the World Championship is over.

Carlsen played a solid game. Nothing spectacular, but all that Carlsen needs is a small mistake by his opponent - and today Nepo wasn't there with his head.

Also, why he spent more time away from the keyboard than facing it? I know that a player at his level has the position memorised and can "see" is like if it is in front of his eyes, but after mid-game he never gave the impression that he really cared. [:(]

Gotta love how Carlsen can do mate in one and still he thinks for 30 minutes before making the move [:D]