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Maybe these top GMs are not as good as we thought??

@jonesmh You read my comments, and then go on to link some anecdotal moments of top players making mistakes. Dude, in blitz they commit even more mistakes. The reason they are so good is that they almost always avoid these mistakes. Carlsen has over 5000 games in the Mega Database. Please check every single game and then tell me in how many of these he blundered.
Why can't you people understand simple maths and logic?
@Chillkroete77 then explain why chess is the only game in which professionals ever make mistakes!

Checkmate! It is all fixed, which is why I stick with wrestling.
@Dixie2011
What games are you watching. I've seen many mistakes in football, the other football, tennis, basketball.... Even with board games, they still play checkers professionally, even though it's been solved, because someone will make a mistake.

@Chillkroete77
I understand probability. I also understand that I'm an amateur compared to them, yet I have never "forget" what the time control was.
I did excuse their mistakes due to stress (and fatigue), but I've seen 1100s who wouldn't make these mistakes. However, the classical players don't have howlers like the ones seen today, yet the modern player is suppose to have better technique.
I'm just saying--that logically--chess is a boring game, and the drama keeps viewers. If "reality shows" were actually based on reality, no one would watch.

BTW, dude, "maths" is illogical. Just because you humans have improperly been using this "word" for so long that it made it into the dictionary, doesn't make it proper, it just shows that society bends it's own rules to accommodate it's lesser versed members. (I assume that English isn't your first language, but just look up how words have added--often antonym meaning--because of slang and misuse. You know, like, literally everyone does it.)
@jonesmh "you humans"? What are you then? A reptiloid? That would explain your level of understanding of maths. Because if you understood propability then you would know that sometimes an 1100 will make a good move and a 2800 will do a worse move. But that happens in just a tiny fraction of all games.
You also got trolled really hard by @Dixie2011...
I have noticed that the only reason people ever loose to Magnus Carlsen is because they don't just make 35 waiting moves until he makes a mistake and then punish him.
@Dixie2011 I played two bullet games against him on lichess. In the first I tried to trick him by blundering material but he just took it. In the second game I did nothing and achieved a position with -0.7 evaluation. But somehow, I don't know why, I lost that game in a rook ending after 76 moves. Seems like I didn't wait long enough for his blunders...
I wonder what kind of software he used to make this creepy faces.
It's sad to come across answers like the one by Chilkroete77, where the limits of his wits do not seem to reach farther than calling somone an "idiot" over something which he simply doesn't understand.
I wonder what contributions he's made to the chess comunity, apart from insulting people who spend great amounts of time and effort creating chess material because they just want to share their thoughts and ideas in a friendly way.
I've managed a chess forum for 18 years, answering more than 20.000 chess posts, and sadly I've learned that the only way to deal with people like this is to make the moderators and the managers of this site know about his hateful behaviour. (I've already done so, making copies of his comments. I can take this behaviour, but there are many sensitive people out there who do not deserve to be exposed to gross people like this).
If you watch the video, you'll understand that there are 2 critical moments in the game: First, taking on d4, which opens up the third rank for the White Rook, and I believe this to be a very dangerous move. Second, the missed opportunity to sacrifice on h6.
Chilkroete77 seems to think that you need to have access to a strong computer in order to come up with these ideas. I think any serious player over 2000 will be able to see this by himself after watching the video. You don't need to calculate very much...
I've covered the topic critically but respecfully.
As for those people who like to talk about the talking head and have little interest in the chess content of the video, all I can say is that I'm sorry for you. Grow up, create something worthwhile, something you can be proud of, do something with your time rather than spreading your hate. Cheers. ;)

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