Ashwin's YouTube channel

[Gollum]

On 9/24/2024 at 1:40 AM, vvvslaxman said:

This is a great segment on Chepauk. 

 

 

Best cricket related Indian YT channel, by a mile.

 

Now Ashwin has started a Hindi channel as well !!!!!

[vvvslaxman]

3 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Best cricket related Indian YT channel, by a mile.

 

Now Ashwin has started a Hindi channel as well !!!!!

 

yes. He focuses on things that people don't otherwise focus on. Very off-beat which is what makes his channel unique.

[Gollum]

Sreejesh interview was one of the best , revealed so much more than his other media appearances. 

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

yes. He focuses on things that people don't otherwise focus on. Very off-beat which is what makes his channel unique.

Yes, and down to earth, relatable to us. Look at some of the videos from TNPL time, no other Indian cricketer will mingle with commoners like that. 

Edited September 27 by Gollum

[Gollum]

Now that Ash is comfy with Hindi, hope to see interviews with Neeraj and Sarpanch saheb. 

 

Also with the Olympiad winning chess players...now that Ash himself is into the game, owning a franchise team with Nakamura as captain. 

 

Ashwin-Svidler combo will be fab. @randomGuy @rangeelaraja @Mariyam @Tillu @Vickydev @Lone Wolf you know about how big a cricket fan Peter Svidler is? He is obsessed with the sport (especially test cricket, and the English team), once in a chess24 commentary stream he wandered off and started talking about domestic players from RSA (before an Eng-RSA series IIRC) I myself didn't know existed . 

Edited September 27 by Gollum

[Mariyam]

On 9/28/2024 at 12:41 AM, Gollum said:

Now that Ash is comfy with Hindi, hope to see interviews with Neeraj and Sarpanch saheb. 

 

Also with the Olympiad winning chess players...now that Ash himself is into the game, owning a franchise team with Nakamura as captain. 

 

Ashwin-Svidler combo will be fab. @randomGuy @rangeelaraja @Mariyam @Tillu @Vickydev @Lone Wolf you know about how big a cricket fan Peter Svidler is? He is obsessed with the sport (especially test cricket, and the English team), once in a chess24 commentary stream he wandered off and started talking about domestic players from RSA (before an Eng-RSA series IIRC) I myself didn't know existed . 

Had to look up Peter Svidler

[Gollum]

2 minutes ago, Mariyam said:

Had to look up Peter Svidler

Seriously? Sarcasm.

 

He was in the candidates a few times, 7 times Russian national champ which is a record. Pragg's second in the recent candidates. And commentator par excellence. 

[Mariyam]

1 minute ago, Gollum said:

Seriously? Sarcasm.

 

He was in the candidates a few times, 7 times Russian national champ which is a record. Pragg's second in the recent candidates. And commentator par excellence. 

No sarcasm.

 

In all things sports I only follow our teams/players. And our commentators.

 

The only other chess players I sort of followed were Giri and Nigel Short. But he's stopped making courses/ doing live commentary.

 

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, Mariyam said:

No sarcasm.

 

In all things sports I only follow our teams/players. And our commentators.

 

The only other chess players I sort of followed were Giri and Nigel Short. But he's stopped making courses/ doing live commentary.

 

You'll find Svidler's commentary/analysis fun. Give it a try in the future !!!!

[Mariyam]

14 minutes ago, Gollum said:

You'll find Svidler's commentary/analysis fun. Give it a try in the future !!!!

I'm going for the World Championship match. If I run into this guy there, I promise to get an autograph for your that says "much love @Gollum; signed Peter Svidler" 

[Mariyam]

@Gollum wasn’t being sarcastic about the autograph!!

 

Looked up a few cricket related videos of Svidler. He likes test cricket and the English cricket team

 

He made no mention of captain  MSD. 
 

I dislike him already. 

[Mariyam]

@Gollum

 

Peter Svidler is likely to play in the Global Chess League

 

 

[Gollum]

15 hours ago, Mariyam said:

@Gollum

 

Peter Svidler is likely to play in the Global Chess League

 

 

Won't follow this event. 20 minutes, no increment....don't like the time control one bit. 

 

Anyway I prefer classical, need commentators to explain the plans, spend some time looking at the position etc. 

[Gollum]

Btw @Mariyam, Ravichandran Ashwin is the co-owner of American Gambits in this GCL. Cricket-chess collab is cool.

[Gollum]

 

Nakamura eyeing Indian subscribers for his YT/twitch channels 

[Mariyam]

9 hours ago, Gollum said:

Won't follow this event. 20 minutes, no increment....don't like the time control one bit. 

 

Anyway I prefer classical, need commentators to explain the plans, spend some time looking at the position etc. 

Rapid has its own charm.

 

You should watch this. This has Svidler and Ashwin!

[Gollum]

16 minutes ago, Mariyam said:

Rapid has its own charm.

 

You should watch this. This has Svidler and Ashwin!

Yeah, but with increment. 

[Tillu]

Gukesh for the last one year has ruffled a lot of feathers by winning so many matches against the Super GMs. Now so many posters on the chess subreddit are undermining Gukesh against Ding for the world championship. I don't understand if it's the Chinese bots or the westoids posting these comments. For this reason alone I want Gukesh to crush Ding and retire him forever.

[Vickydev]

21 minutes ago, Tillu said:

Gukesh for the last one year has ruffled a lot of feathers by winning so many matches against the Super GMs. Now so many posters on the chess subreddit are undermining Gukesh against Ding for the world championship. I don't understand if it's the Chinese bots or the westoids posting these comments. For this reason alone I want Gukesh to crush Ding and retire him forever.

I think Ding is just universally liked by all Chess fans, cause of his demeanour and of course how good of a Chess player he is or was and the effect the World Championship has had on him. Genuinely think he was the 2nd best player in Classical after Carlsen around Covid time. He is going in as a massive underdog tbh and everyone loves the underdog. 

 

Of course there are Chinese bots too, And a lot of the negativity regarding Gukesh mostly come from Pakistani chess fans and there are lots of them online. A couple of days back Arjun lost to a 15 yo Turkish prodigy chasing 2800 elo, and the Pak supporters went into overdrive. 

[Vickydev]

10 hours ago, Mariyam said:

Rapid has its own charm.

 

You should watch this. This has Svidler and Ashwin!

I watched the first few minutes, they weren't showing the moves on the Jio coverage?