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[BipolarBob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztInWGB51f8

[Steely Tom]

Chess is racist. FIDE is racist.

[Paal Gulli]

Caruana was made an international master a year younger than Bobby Fischer was, so he almost certainly is the greatest talent the US has produced since Fischer. However, Carlsen's Elo ranking is the highest in the history of the scoring system. The highest. Ever. And he became the #1-ranked FIDE player nine years younger than Fischer had reached that same ranking.

Fischer complained that with all the canned openings and defenses that had been created over the years, that modern chess had become too formulaic and, in a sense, too easy. So he invented different adaptations of the game, including new styles of 'speed chess,' to showcase the players who (like himself) were brilliantly innovative.

And as this tournament shows, he did have a point. Twelve draws out of twelve matches in regular chess, when the formulaic approach was sufficient. But the tie-breaker rapid chess matches showed that one man -- Carlsen -- was far superior at thinking on his feet.

[ml/nj]

Absolutely amazing commentary on Chess24, especially from Game 9 on when Anish Giri replaced the beautiful but not nearly so strong Sopiko Guramishvili.

Giri is 4th in the world. Alexander Grischuk (9th) and Peter Svidler (20th ?) discuss and analyze as the games are being played. I only started around Game 6. I could only follow about 20% of what they were saying, but I thought the commentary really gave me some insight about how strong these guys are.

I believe all the full Game Videos and shorter Game Analysis videos (with just Svidler) are available here.

ML/NJ