Mariyam Posted April 22, 2025 Posted April 22, 2025 Haven't been following it, but its all over my feed. Magnus wins the Grenke freestyle event with a perfect 9/9. Only the second person (after Fischer) to do so.
Mariyam Posted April 22, 2025 Posted April 22, 2025 The unsung doyen of Indian chess: Sagar Shah being on the other side of the interview for once: Tillu and neel roy 2
Gollum Posted April 22, 2025 Author Posted April 22, 2025 (edited) 6 hours ago, Mariyam said: Haven't been following it, but its all over my feed. Magnus wins the Grenke freestyle event with a perfect 9/9. Only the second person (after Fischer) to do so. Only one 2700+ opponent though. In the modern era nothing comes close to Caruana's 2014 Sinquefield performance. 7/7 run against Carlsen, Aronian, Naka, Topalov, MVL. Edited April 22, 2025 by Gollum Mariyam 1
Gollum Posted May 16, 2025 Author Posted May 16, 2025 (edited) 2024 was Gukesh and Arjun's year. This year will be all Pragg the way things are going. Playing so well in Bucharest. Gukesh shouldn't be disheartened, dip after such a high is common only. He will bounce back soon, and then stabilize. Edited May 16, 2025 by Gollum Mariyam 1
Mariyam Posted May 16, 2025 Posted May 16, 2025 7 hours ago, Gollum said: 2024 was Gukesh and Arjun's year. This year will be all Pragg the way things are going. Playing so well in Bucharest. Gukesh shouldn't be disheartened, dip after such a high is common only. He will bounce back soon, and then stabilize. Gukesh has far more resilience and control over his emotions than the rest of our guys. He is still world #3 and the world champion. So what dip are you referring to?
Gollum Posted May 17, 2025 Author Posted May 17, 2025 17 hours ago, Mariyam said: Gukesh has far more resilience and control over his emotions than the rest of our guys. He is still world #3 and the world champion. So what dip are you referring to? His performances since Wijk. Mariyam 1
Gollum Posted May 17, 2025 Author Posted May 17, 2025 Follows up Wijk win with a win here in GCT, Bucharest classical. Elite field, apart from these 3 guys also had Caruana, Gukesh, Aronian, Nodirbek, Duda, So. 2 supertournament victories for Pragg in WC year. Let's go boy....world number 7 now and within striking range of number 3. This is his and Aravindh's year. Mariyam and Vickydev 2
Gollum Posted May 17, 2025 Author Posted May 17, 2025 #3 Arjun #5 Gukesh #7 Pragg #11 Aravindh Chithambaram (biggest gainer this year) This can be a kickass world beating starting team in next year's Olympiad. With Vidit/Hari in reserves. PS: Top 2 Carlsen, Naka have hardly played classical this year, this protected rankings crap should go. If you don't play you should lose points like in ICC ratings. New guy, Mariyam and Vickydev 3
Tillu Posted May 20, 2025 Posted May 20, 2025 Chess is soon coming to television. Checkmate ventures is planning a bilateral series between India and the US. “What makes this event different is its design: a high-stakes, fan-friendly and broadcast-ready showdown. Every game has a winner, with patriotism as a narrative. The atmosphere will be electric: national anthems, walkouts, crowd energy, and real-time graphics powered by tech. Its goal is to appeal to both casual and serious chess players. In short, it’s chess built for the spotlight,” he added. https://www.firstpost.com/sports/chess/checkmate-usa-vs-india-chess-organiser-salim-belcadi-exclusive-interview-13888863.html Mariyam 1
Mariyam Posted May 29, 2025 Posted May 29, 2025 @Gollum @Tillu @randomGuy @nevada @rangeelaraja Norway Chess is underway. Gukesh lost his first game against Magnus, then lost of Arjun and won on the eve of his birthday against Hikaru. Today, i.e. on his birthday, he is playing against Caruana. He's had Caruana's number since the Chennai Olympiad. Gollum, Tillu, randomGuy and 1 other 1 3
Tillu Posted May 29, 2025 Posted May 29, 2025 9 minutes ago, Mariyam said: @Gollum @Tillu @randomGuy @nevada @rangeelaraja Norway Chess is underway. Gukesh lost his first game against Magnus, then lost of Arjun and won on the eve of his birthday against Hikaru. Today, i.e. on his birthday, he is playing against Caruana. He's had Caruana's number since the Chennai Olympiad. Gukesh lost his edge after winning the World Championship title. He has been losing games consistently. Glad he won the game against Hikaru who has been calling him the weakest player to have won the championship. Hope he wins the game against Caruana. If I remember correctly Gukesh never won a classical game against Arjun. Gollum and Mariyam 2
neel roy Posted May 29, 2025 Posted May 29, 2025 2 hours ago, Mariyam said: @Gollum @Tillu @randomGuy @nevada @rangeelaraja Norway Chess is underway. Gukesh lost his first game against Magnus, then lost of Arjun and won on the eve of his birthday against Hikaru. Today, i.e. on his birthday, he is playing against Caruana. He's had Caruana's number since the Chennai Olympiad. Win against Hikaru was amazing.. last 5 moves Hikaru played knowing well he ll lose.. Mariyam 1
neel roy Posted May 29, 2025 Posted May 29, 2025 What a game against Caruana. Pawn down immaculate calculation by Gukesh to draw it. Wow randomGuy and Mariyam 1 1
Tillu Posted May 30, 2025 Posted May 30, 2025 5 hours ago, neel roy said: What a game against Caruana. Pawn down immaculate calculation by Gukesh to draw it. Wow He actually won the game against Fabi. Thought he will lose the game after Fabi had a slight advantage. Mariyam 1
Mariyam Posted May 30, 2025 Posted May 30, 2025 20 minutes ago, Tillu said: He actually won the game against Fabi. Thought he will lose the game after Fabi had a slight advantage. The game ended in a draw. Gukesh won the tie breaker/Armageddon. randomGuy and neel roy 1 1
Tillu Posted May 30, 2025 Posted May 30, 2025 12 minutes ago, Mariyam said: The game ended in a draw. Gukesh won the tie breaker/Armageddon. Yeah just saw the tie breaker on Agadmator chess. Mariyam 1
Mariyam Posted May 30, 2025 Posted May 30, 2025 1 hour ago, Tillu said: Yeah just saw the tie breaker on Agadmator chess. Agadmator chess chessbase India Ben Finegold chess ^ my favourite chess YT channels. I don’t like Levy or Hikaru much. C squared is very technical. Used to like Samay Raina’s streams for the chess entertainment quotient. Nigel Short used to stream. But he deleted his channel/twitter ID. No idea what happened there. He was also very instructive and structured in his approach. And funny. He always said the same unfunny joke Short is tall (Tal) and Tal is short. randomGuy and Tillu 1 1
rangeelaraja Posted June 1, 2025 Posted June 1, 2025 On 5/29/2025 at 12:11 PM, Mariyam said: @Gollum @Tillu @randomGuy @nevada @rangeelaraja Norway Chess is underway. Gukesh lost his first game against Magnus, then lost of Arjun and won on the eve of his birthday against Hikaru. Today, i.e. on his birthday, he is playing against Caruana. He's had Caruana's number since the Chennai Olympiad. Gukesh is clearly not in the red hot form that he can be when the stakes are very high. Hope he has got over the World Championship hangover on focussed on being more consistent and hungry to win super tournaments. At half way stage - he is at the bottom of the points table - very uncharacteristic. Mariyam 1
Gollum Posted June 1, 2025 Author Posted June 1, 2025 Aravindh crosses 2750 in live ratings, that guy is on fire. Also wish Pragg played in Norway. Mariyam and Tillu 2
rangeelaraja Posted June 1, 2025 Posted June 1, 2025 Great job Gukesh !! Kicked Magnus' butt with white. Grinded him, like Magnus likes to grind others. His confidence is going to be sky high after this.
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