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Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - May 13, 2024 [Mod Applications Welcome]
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Event: Casablanca Chess 2024
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CASABLANCA - A grand chess spectacle begins in Morocco. Four top grandmasters – Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, and Bassem Amin – will test the new Casablanca Chess Variant, introduced by the Casablanca Stock Exchange. They will start their rapid games from carefully selected positions derived from historical games. The event coincides with the centenary celebrations of FIDE. To further engage the audience, each position will be chosen from a historically significant game by GM Hicham Hamdouchi and GM Laurent Fressinet. After each game, it will be interesting
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GothemChess Road to GM
submitted by /u/TheCookieMonsterYum [link] [comments]Is anyone else enjoying his new road to GM YouTube videos? I love them, I love how he's beating his own battles with himself. I love the training. I generally hope he gets the GM title. I believe he can do. Probably my favourite series he's done so far.
Might need some of his opening training as that's something I've not really studied much. I know the basics and I get fine results so maybe they might push me
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Fabi and Anish with a bit of humor about the inaccuracies by Magnus and Hikaru from the historical starting position in Casablanca Chess!
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It's a travesty we are removing Fischer's name from "Chess 960"
...Yes Fischer went quite mad in his later years but his madness was caused, or at least intertwined with his years of dedication to the game.
He invented Fischer Random to help chess prevail through the computer era, where memorization and opening theory takes up a lot of pro's time, and the spirit of the game is lost.
He invented it, put his name on it, we still call Ford cars Fords, even though Henry Ford was a Nazi collaborator, and there are countless other examples of us still using the names of bad people to refer to their inventions, and I am not sure Fischer is even a bad guy, he just went mad in his old age.
It's just a damn shame the man gave and arguably lost his life for chess, now the higher authorities in chess are trying to remove what in the future may be his greatest contribution to the game, and I'm not even entirely sure why. For myself at least, I will always refer to the chess variation that Fischer created as Fischer Random.
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Going through a difficult breakup with my longtime partner, the Pirc. Can anybody hook me up with a rebound opening?
submitted by /u/Chozo003 [link]Title. I had a great, 10ish year relationship with the Pirc against e4 but things are feeling really stale and I feel like there's just no spark anymore. I feel really suffocated, I'm not enjoying myself anymore, and I think I need a big change in my life. That said, I've been with the Pirc since high school and I'm having a difficult time figuring out where to go from here now that things are ending.
Side notes, not sure if I'm in the right headspace to pursue anything too serious or long term right now but I'm open to the possibility. Also, I've never experimented with e5 and I'm very intimidated by it.
Thank you for any insight you can provide in this trying time.
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