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It's not everyday where a chess news is published on a tech site. Cheating caught with picture inside a bathroom. https://idle.slashdot.org/story/19/07/14/0610256/chess-grandmaster-caught-cheating-in-tournament-with-hidden-cellphone-in-bathroom Serious problem for human-human chess. There already e...

https://youtu.be/9n2IzwzLpD0
How could they video cam him in the toilet? Is that legal? Is it moral?

I am waiting to buy a new desktop myself. AMD is going to release its next generation ryzen 9 cpus with 12-core (24 threads) tomorrow. I think it will be very good hardware for stockfish at the half price of intel's cpus (500$ compared to 1100$). There 16-core version will not come out until septme...

There should be more computer with 2 pawns or Knight vs pawn odds that will bring back the challenge of Humans GMs vs top Engines. :shock: I believe that top GMs like Nakamura or MVL can bring back the excitement of Computer Vs Humans. Because, when does small material count? Mainly at the end of t...

Now Top 3 engines tied in TCEC! The best engines are all very active in improving. And all the best engines are free. Komodo is the only commercial engine at the top that is still active. And why must we watch Houdini 6 from 2017 lose again. Tcec needs a rule to not play engines season after season...

https://youtu.be/Oj66CNQE4_g

Talent never used to look like that!
This, slightly older boy was 14 and had just become a GM!

In this day and age, the young people seem to have completely overtaken the talent industry. Talent is so much wisespread today, that it seems to be a much cheaper commodity than slightly earlier times. Did young children, especially girls, used to have such great violin playing abilities 50 years a...

https://en.chessbase.com/post/altibox-norway-chess-live Here are some of the best games on Youtube, if only Judit can lose 30 pounds, what a waste of a beautiful lady in a fat body ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=2Z_YaFDluIg Yes! What a waste! She is still the greatest woman play...

I learned in one-two hours of analysis more than they have learnt in decades of study and practice. I guess they are natively not that gifted. Lack of vitamins. I would honestly hope that chess players are the most intelligent humans (apart of course from top talmudic scholars). Ok, to put it anoth...

Laskos wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:53 pm

I learned in one-two hours of analysis more than they have learnt in decades of study and practice. I guess they are natively not that gifted. Lack of vitamins.

I would honestly hope that chess players are the most intelligent humans (apart of course from top talmudic scholars).