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Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#76

@peppie23 said in #73: > I believe it was 10 minutes each. I think this explains a lot. This is not nearly enough to feel the richness and beauty of the game, even for a very good player. 25 minutes i…


GM Former_Player
Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#70

@peppie23 said in #68: > My son of 13 years old is exactly doing that so picking up a readily available video game. I taught him at the age of 3 !! chess and he became multiple champion in my country.…


GM Former_Player
Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#69

@peppie23 said in #66: > 2) Fide has always concentrated on their core business which is standard chess. Really? The post by GM Durarbayli is the best illustration of FIDE's "efforts". The fact that c…


GM Former_Player
Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#65

@peppie23 said in #59: > I don't think it is just fide. I see around me very little interest for chess960. Even here at lichess you can see not more than 0,5% of the games are played with chess960. So…


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Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#63

@peppie23 said in #58: > I agree that professional chess is deteriorating but I don't agree that playing standard chess doesn't make sense anymore because of computers. Playing standard chess does mak…


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Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#62

@peppie23 said in #61: > I and some friends tried to use ChatGPT for annotating chessgames but that clearly doesn't work yet. You don't get more than some nonsense like you get from Fritz. "Yet" is th…


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Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#57

Some of the previous poster's points make a lot of sense, some are strongly disagreeable as to me; the info about millions of people starving in Germany doesn't look trustworthy (no proof presented), …


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Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#54

To sum it up: Chess as a profession is dying or rather already dead, except for a few countries like India. Our beloved hi-tech have killed the game. We've got around 2000 GMs (my estimation) and even…


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Community Blog Discussions - Am I a “Chess Tourist”?#21

@Azice said in #3: > Here are my suggestions: > 1. Setup a program where professional chess players commit to going to jails/schools for troubled children to help them direct their energy to something…


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Community Blog Discussions - FIDE World Fischer Random Championship - Knockout Stages#13

@RealDavidNavara said in #11: > In my opinion, it is a real world championship, though an imperfect one. You make many good points in your comment, but this is something I can't agree with. I think it…


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