You litereally have to be an intelligiant to invent words like irrashly.
You litereally have to be an intelligiant to invent words like irrashly.
Why do the French have the hand-washing facilities inside the stall?
http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/files/u5/Foto-8/rausis-toilet.jpg
Interesting that Grischuk cares about Rausis although there are not in the same league (Grischuk is so much stronger OTB).
Rausis was the only player of the Top 100 against whom I have 50% so for me it is bad news, but the fact that I could draw against him year ago shows that when he was not cheating yet, he did not come close to 100% against weaker opponents like he has done in the last few years.
It is sad because I use to like is style and had a few openings in common with him in the past, but computer cheating can kill chess even faster than PEDs can kill running (since beginners can play at 3300 elo with the right engine - maybe not on a phon app but you get the picture).
I would have hoped that he did it for money, underlining the modest earnings for many grandmasters, but since he did not play tournaments with big prizes (though he probably earned the 1st prize every time), it is quite strange.
One more remark: O. Rause (his ex-wife, it seems) reached almost 2700 elo in correspondence chess 15 years ago. For me, there is no question that Rausis has a good understanding of chess AND a good understanding of computer chess as well.
0-1-0 wrote:
I would have hoped that he did it for money, underlining the modest earnings for many grandmasters, but since he did not play tournaments with big prizes (though he probably earned the 1st prize every time), it is quite strange.
One of the great conundrums when it comes to cheaters is why?, so yes, "strange" indeed.
Why do the French have the hand-washing facilities inside the stall?
I'm guessing the plumbers union is involved somehow.
SomethingFishy wrote:
Not drugs but cheating in bass fishing. A life of it apparently.
https://sdfish.com/general/dark-secret-americas-big-bass-guru-mike-long/
I spent the last three hours reading that story and now I'll probably miss work tomorrow and be fired. Thanks.
Dude not cool wrote:
I spent the last three hours reading that story and now I'll probably miss work tomorrow and be fired. Thanks.
In that case and to avoid more of us getting fired can you give us a summary so we don't have to read it? Thanks.
Yep, just as predicted. Nepo made the necessary hairdo adjustments and won his final 2 games in Dortmund.
https://cdn.chess24.com/TES3vUo-TAWtT0fmsnf-qQ/original/nepo-dishevelled.jpg
You'd think that his coach Potkin would have been on top of this issue a-head of time and not let it occur in the first place.
Peter Svidler took time out from chess analysis to comment of Nepomniachtchi's "man bun", "he's giving a concerted effort to make it work, but I'm not sure I agree with it!"
https://cdn.chess24.com/-GoPNECFTLykove7n_z8wg/original/nepo-bun.jpg
abandon all hope wrote:
Peter Svidler took time out from chess analysis to comment of Nepomniachtchi's "man bun", "he's giving a concerted effort to make it work, but I'm not sure I agree with it!"
Oh, no!!! Nepo just beat Caruana wearing the man-bun! This is horrible for the game!
Peter Svidler, by the way, is one of the game's treasures.
https://twitter.com/polborta/status/1155482009298460672?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet"Maybe classical chess can be compared to the Tour de France, because it's very boring and goes on for days"
Nepo likely would have won Paris w/o the man-bun. But it stopped him in the end.
For two days he led the battle to overtake Maxime. For 7 of the last 9 rounds he was the closest pursuer, and he cut the lead to a single point in the most dramatic fashion in Round 14 when he crushed Maxime in just 22 moves:
In the next round there was finally a chance to catch Maxime, who was put to the sword by Giri, but Nepo fumbled the opportunity to beat Dubov:
Nepo was still poised to challenge Maxime with two rounds to go, but instead he lost to Grischuk and Anand and finished in third place.
He's embarrassed he can't even look at opponent.
https://cdn.chess24.com/R9K0GHbmTACdCD3esSHrow/original/grischuk-nepo-shake.jpgWow, what a blunder by Nepomniachtchi.
Buns matter wrote:
Wow, what a blunder by Nepomniachtchi.
You just don't make blunders like that without the hair-bun. Clearly it needs to be axed (literally even).
https://cdn.chess24.com/rdnm7FCfRdiH02p3kEDLLg/original/nepo-resigns-lo.jpgHe takes 3 minutes (2:58 officially) to blunder away a rook to a 2-move tactic?
A. The Czechs didn’t accept you as one of them?
GM IGORS RAUSIS: In 2007, I became a Czech chess player, which was in the interests of my Czech chess club. However, from the outset, I felt that I didn’t have a good relationship with the coaches, because I was a foreigner....
It’s understandable. I don’t speak Czech and I was older than anyone in the Czech team. Formally, I was among the ten best Czech players. These ten are awarded the federation’s money. For twelve years, I didn’t receive a copeck from them. I totally understand them and don’t want to complain.
Q. Around 2013, your rating started to climb rapidly. How do you explain this?
GM IGORS RAUSIS: My rating rose and fell. I also had unsuccessful tournaments. For the first time in my life, I paid more attention to my rating and I had good pupils. I started doing a lot more work on openings. I’d always found it interesting to study endgames, and to solve compositions, but in regard to openings … Unlike Zigurds [Lanka, Latvian grandmaster and coach], openings were my weak spot. I recall that one time I was visited by a grandmaster from India, and I asked Zigurds to help coach him on openings. However, computer capabilities and databases changed rapidly. Previously, I was thrilled to buy any chess publications; now there are thousands of them. In principle, with a good computer, good database and good engine, you can quickly prepare any opening. You also require patience and motivation. There are many factors. And you need to be in good health.
Q. From 2013, did your rating rise, because you started working on openings, you had good pupils and you kept track of your rating?
GM IGORS RAUSIS: I became more serious about my rating, because I realised that it was significant. Until then, it had been different. I would turn up at tournaments ill, but now I started to pick my tournaments and to avoid double-rounds and blitz chess games and so on.
Q. People say that nobody has ever raised their rating to such a degree at such an age.
GM IGORS RAUSIS: Raised? That’s a good word. During the past year, I deliberately raised my rating. I didn’t want anything to do with the Czech grandmasters. And so I started attending small tournaments, so small in fact that at one tournament, the German Seniors’ Open Championship, I won all nine games. At first, my goal was to attain a rating of 2600.
Q. Was this was a strategy? To specially play in the weakest tournaments to attain a high rating?
GM IGORS RAUSIS: My target was 2600. After that, the backroom gossip began. I decided to maintain my rating. Believe me, I earned it myself, not sitting on a toilet. And I also played in good tournaments. This year, I was tested [for using unauthorised devices] before games during tournaments in the Czech Republic. Because they had to placate all the people writing in.
Q. Has anyone else been accused or suspected of cheating in chess?
Lots. Unfortunately, lots. I don’t want to talk about the others. I don’t want to name any specific surnames. I don’t know why people came up with this idea of making phone apps for chess. It all started with that.
Q. When did the rumours about your possible cheating start?
That was in 2017. Starting from 2017, the pressure was considerable. There was no need for me to pay attention to social media. But nowadays that’s practically impossible. If you don’t read it yourself, one of your friends will send it to you. I also got calls from colleagues, who said: “Do you know what’s being written about you?”...
The Czechs blackmailed me with these (accusatory) letters for a year and a half. I don’t want to moan now. I made a huge mistake in Strasbourg, and that’s a fact. People make mistakes sometimes. That was an awful moment.
Q. Did you use a chess programme?
GM IGORS RAUSIS: The phone was in my hands. ... But it was against the rules to film me. I don’t want to complain. I had a phone in my hand. Why was I holding a phone? Maybe I was provoked by the unpleasant rumours concerning me. This was all in my head. The Strasbourg tournament was quite weak. Every other player had a phone with them. Even the player who filmed me had a phone with him....
I signed the form. I withdrew from the tournament. I signed the statement that I’d used a phone and left.
Q. Was this the only time that you used a phone during a tournament?
GM IGORS RAUSIS: FIDE is trying to get the answer to this question from me all the time, because it matters to them. The sanctions will depend on it. In this situation, nobody is going to believe me. Trust has vanished. What I can say is what was done to me. A provocation. On the part of the Czechs. I was expecting it.
Q. So is chess a disease?
In a manner of speaking. A great pyramid has been built. I can now say something controversial aimed at the functionaries. ... there are a lot of sick people in the world. Previously, this sickness (using apps to cheat) didn’t exist. Gaming mania. Unfortunately, it’s a contemporary illness.
Carlsen's managed to get his hair the talk now, but in reality the real story is whether Anand's hairpiece is to blame for his 3 missed wins so far. The winning blow against So he just "couldn't get to work", then Giri survived a lost ending, and now the once-indefeasible Ding was lost too many times to count but with no ultimate Zero on the scoreboard.
https://cdn.chess24.com/8aOYZxrJSeezoxNzPQR0AA/original/magnus-hairday.jpg
Sasha FTW wrote:
"Maybe classical chess can be compared to the Tour de France, because it's very boring and goes on for days"
What has the world become, I am sure you even do not like 10000 meter skating, 50 k skiing, climbing the highest peaks, ultramarathons, hiking to the poles or tv minute by minute. You miss out on all the best of life!
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/reinflytting-minutt-for-minutthttps://tv.nrk.no/sok?q=minutt+for+minuttBridge is similar.
http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/a-potential-cheating-story-without-any-clues-how-about-that-bw/The "toilet rumours" are more fact than fiction.
Players from a particular country would play in big-money European events of the 1970s, and leave slips of paper with a board number and optimum contract/lead/defence secreted about the men's loo.
Later, they would split the prize-money.
How do I know?
In 1982, one of the players who participated in this scheme spent some time telling me the details over a few beers...
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Guys between age of 45 and 55 do you think about death or does it seem far away
2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
adizero Road to Records with Yomif Kejelcha, Agnes Ngetich, Hobbs Kessler & many more is Saturday
