Posted on 11/28/2021 11:23:28 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
As far as chess goes, very impressive would be kind of an understatement—like saying the Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods is very impressive (or maybe, to go down scale slightly, Magic Johnson). Perhaps you are meaning as a person generally?
What app is it? More than likely, it’s stronger than any human player.
No, I mean as a chess player. I know him personally but never played him, though—just watched some matches. It would be like me challenging Jordan to some hoops… ;)
And he’s a fan boy of Paul Morphy!
His accent is clearly Russian
And of Fischer and Capablanca, but his adulation of Mikhail Tal is enormous.
Antonio grew up and lives in Croatia, and Croatian appears to be his native tongue.
“brief commentary” — whew, listening to him fly through the game is tough.
I use the pidgeon style of play.
You can always pause the video.
OK, I’ll bite: what is it?
Thanks a lot!
I had missed this was happening. Great comments. The first two games really exciting. The third one more of a dud.
Magnus is going to be hard to beat, but in the last two championship matches he only drew in the classical part of the match (1-1 against Karjakin, 0 - 0 in the last one against Caruna).
Yes, too many draws these days. As a result, the first to win a game will have a sizable advantage. Incredible pressure....
I recall Fisher beat Spassky 12.5 - 8.5 in 1972.
FIDE changed the rules from best of 24 to “first to win 6” with draws not counting anything in 1975. Fisher refused the new format, and Karpov was declared champion. A 12-12 outcome would have meant Spassky would have retained his title. I’m not sure but Fisher might have gotten a rematch the following year.
Karpov vs. Korchnoi in 1978 went with the new format. As I recall the tournament went on for months. Or maybe that was 1981...or both.
Seems more placid these days.
I do pause it frequently. I’m always astounded at how they can keep all the alternatives at any one position in mind and how he can keep the steam-of-consciousness dialog going. When he’s looking four or five moves ahead, it’s a challenge just to remember where he started the current analysis.
A couple of weeks ago, Tony explained he’s a bit groggy from interrupted sleep due to his baby, and as a result sometimes he loses his train of thought. Five minutes later he did just that and then said, “See what I mean?”
Patterns.
And you just marker the new variant.
Not difficult.
Fischer “scrambled” it before computers.
Then Kasparov due to vast computer tree failed Deep Blue.
Fischer scrambled it within the patterns. Brilliant.
Morphy created them.
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