World champion Magnus Carlsen abruptly resigned after making a single move in his highly anticipated rematch with Hans Niemann. Calls have increased for an investigation.
Magnus knew that Newman was a chess.com cheater. He shouldn't have played him. Now he loses to Nieman the first time and then calls him a cheater, it looks like sour grapes instead of I don't play cheaters. Yeah you do. Your issue is losing.
Magnus Carlsen rubs me the wrong way. What is it with chess masters being weirdos?
The game Magnus lost was in person, the game he refused to play was online. Perhaps if he clarified that he doesn't think a known cheater should be allowed to play except for in person this would all make more sense.
yes, a game that predates the development of capitalism by hundreds of years, which has a player base well represented by non-western nations, and which only requires a board and some pieces, is bourgeois.
yes, very strange and unfair that a game that trades on deductive reasoning is viewed as intellectual pursuit/affair, as compared to, "counter strike".
Are you talking about this latest match? If so then hopefuly you should realize that they all had contracts signed well before(months perhaps) the controversy started and dropping out suddenly would be an even worst choice.
Now if you are talking about the original OTB match then well you don't want to go down that rabbithole because apparently there are multiple(dozens perhaps) of GMs with such suspicion.
And if you want to go even deeper then maybe realize that getting GM norms in certain regions of the world is a pretty touchy subject.
Heck even the westerners were malding when Ding got his last minute qualification for the candidates in China by organizing his own tournament.
Magnus knew that Newman was a chess.com cheater. He shouldn't have played him. Now he loses to Nieman the first time and then calls him a cheater, it looks like sour grapes instead of I don't play cheaters. Yeah you do. Your issue is losing.
Magnus Carlsen rubs me the wrong way. What is it with chess masters being weirdos?
The game Magnus lost was in person, the game he refused to play was online. Perhaps if he clarified that he doesn't think a known cheater should be allowed to play except for in person this would all make more sense.
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Yes, that's precisely why it was promoted so heavily in the Soviet union, because it's bourgeois.
Death to America
All sports are bourgeois. I haven't smiled since December 25 1991... (you know the thing)
yes, a game that predates the development of capitalism by hundreds of years, which has a player base well represented by non-western nations, and which only requires a board and some pieces, is bourgeois.
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yes, very strange and unfair that a game that trades on deductive reasoning is viewed as intellectual pursuit/affair, as compared to, "counter strike".
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Lol seriously, reads a bit insecure to me
you can make a chess board and pieces with 2 pieces of paper and writing letters on torn off scraps
Bullshit
Are you talking about this latest match? If so then hopefuly you should realize that they all had contracts signed well before(months perhaps) the controversy started and dropping out suddenly would be an even worst choice.
Now if you are talking about the original OTB match then well you don't want to go down that rabbithole because apparently there are multiple(dozens perhaps) of GMs with such suspicion.
And if you want to go even deeper then maybe realize that getting GM norms in certain regions of the world is a pretty touchy subject. Heck even the westerners were malding when Ding got his last minute qualification for the candidates in China by organizing his own tournament.