I haven’t seen a bigger hypocrite person than you in my life. 😂 I thought you are American bcoz you were taking sides of a cheater. Now you are taking side of someone who doesn’t even want to play under his real nation’s flag.
My name is Nic Bentulan. I was made a moderator of r/chess960 in 2022Feb. Then I was removed in 2023Dec I think lol.
I’m a dual citizen of Hong Kong and the Philippines. I became a Hong Kong citizen ( ie Chinese citizen with Hong Kong residence ) in 2020 and then after that I regained my Philippines citizenship in 2021 the same year Wesley So, nephew of Bobby Fischer, became an American citizen.
I got into chess a kid when my dad taught me, but I didn’t play much until my ( paternal ) cousin re-introduced me in 2010. Soon after, I started to hate chess and love chess960 aka chess9LX aka 9LX. I met Wesley So, nephew of Bobby Fischer, in Manila in 2012Feb ( I think on 2012Feb05 or another Sunday in February so 2012Feb12, 2012Feb19 or 2012Feb26 ) , Wesley’s last year in the Philippines, when e was still playing for the Philippines ( see https://mathematiciowned.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-6.png – Note: I’m not taller. I was on a platform ). I got bored w/ chess around 2015-2016 but then got back in 2019-2020 w/ The Queen’s Gambit and COVID. Imagine how I felt finding out in 2019 that Wesley So fatefully beat Magnus Carlsen to become inaugural World Fischer Random Chess Champion!
Thus, I have a huge bias for Wesley So ( nephew of Bobby Fischer and a huge bias against Magnus Carlsen. By extension, I’m biased for Hans Niemann and against Garry Kasparov ( re Judit Polgar at 1994 Linares ) and Hikaru Nakamura ( for siding with Magnus over Hans ).
6 – Quote: ‘In many ways, Wesley So’s life story reads a bit like the script of a Hollywood movie.’
Also please help get Wesley So on Lex Fridman’s podcast by emailing lex lexfridman@gmail.com that’s Gmail email with username lexfridman and voting and commenting on my pitch :
( There’s also some news on Sergey Karjakin who said Wesley So is a hero, Hans Niemann might not have cheated and Sergey likes 9LX. Why would a pro-Putin Ukrainian-born Russian side w/ 3 Americans over Magnus, a fellow non-Ukrainian European? https://mathematiciowned.wordpress.com/?p=798 )
Duplicate: Chess Federation Fines Player Over Her ‘Sports Shoes’ – dated 2023Dec28
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Chess Federation Fines Player Over Her ‘Sports Shoes’
The Dutch chess player, who received an official warning, said she did not intend to violate the dress code when she wore her canvas Burberry sneakers at a chess championship in Uzbekistan.
Anna-Maja Kazarian said that leaving the venue of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, to change her shoes made her feel stressed and unfocused during Thursday’s rounds.Credit…Jeroen Jumelet/Alamy Live News
The International Chess Federation fined a 23-year-old chess player from the Netherlands at its World Rapid and Blitz Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for wearing “sports shoes.”
FIDE, as the federation is known, fined Anna-Maja Kazarian 100 euros ($111) for wearing what the organization’s arbiters deemed “sports shoes” during the tournament this week. It also required Ms. Kazarian, who streams her games to more than 34,000 followers on Twitch, to change into more formal shoes in between games.
Failing to change into other shoes, which she needed to retrieve from her hotel room across the river from the tournament’s venue, would “result in not being invited in the pairings for the next round,” according to the official warning, which she received on a yellow laminated card.
The shoes in question are plaid, canvas Burberry sneakers with white rubber soles. She held them up in a YouTube video that she recorded after the incident, and said that the shoes had been a gift from her sister.
“I barely ever wear them because they’re fancy,” Ms. Kazarian said in the 48-minute video, in which she recapped the day and her games.
The first rule of FIDE’s dress code for the tournament is “dress to impress,” the federation’s website states. The dress code is supposed to promote a “good and positive image of chess” and “shall be strictly enforced,” according to the website.
Generally, sneakers are allowed, but “sports sneakers” are not. The difference between the two is not clearly stated in the dress code.
For women in particular, the following is not allowed: “sport’s sneakers, clacking shoes, any kind of jeans, any kind of inappropriate cloth (e.g. torn cloth or cloth with holes, unclean cloth), sport caps, sun glasses, revealing attire.”
The rules for men are similar. “Sports sneakers, T-shirts, any kind of jeans, any kind of inappropriate cloth (e.g. torn cloth or cloth with holes, unclean cloth), sport caps, sun glasses” are not accepted.
The ambiguity of the definition of “sports shoes” is tricky for players deciding what to wear, said Pavel Tregoubov, FIDE’s technical delegate at the tournament and a chess player. “I understand her point of view,” he said of Ms. Kazarian. FIDE will work on a clearer definition of sports shoes for future dress codes, Mr. Tregoubov said.
Ms. Kazarian wasn’t the only one who received a yellow card with a warning during the tournament this week. Arbiters gave out two yellow cards in the open section for all players and three in the women’s section, Mr. Tregoubov said, adding that all of them were issued because of sports shoes. The arbiters gave out the cards only in cases in which they were 100 percent sure that the shoes were too sporty for the tournament, he said.
The yellow cards that were given out at this year’s tournament, which has 330 participants, were a new feature to make sure that more people followed the dress code, Mr. Tregoubov said.
Ms. Kazarian was the only player who objected, Mr. Tregoubov said, adding that “all other players accepted it.”
Critics on the internet were quick to condemn the strict dress code, with some people arguing that the chess organization has the wrong priorities.
Others questioned why a male player was allowed to wear white sneakers at the tournament, as seen in a picture posted by FIDE itself, while Ms. Kazarian’s were deemed inappropriate.
In a phone interview on Thursday, Ms. Kazarian expressed her disappointment with how FIDE had handled the situation and said that being rushed from the venue and driven to the hotel had been stressful and unpleasant. In the YouTube video, Ms. Kazarian also said that she felt she had been treated as if she were a criminal.
“If she felt like a criminal, I’m very sorry for that,” Mr. Tregoubov said. “Usually the arbiters are shy,” he added. “It’s not like in football.”
Ms. Kazarian said the experience left her stressed and unfocused during her rounds of chess games on Thursday, a day after the incident. On Thursday she wore heels, she said.
“They should adjust the rule so it’ll be clearer,” Ms. Kazarian said, adding that a blanket ban of all sneakers would have been easier to follow.
After Ms. Kazarian took a car to her hotel on Wednesday and changed out of her sneakers, she returned to the venue to finish the day of games. But she was preoccupied by the situation, she said, which reverberated into the next day.
“They acted as if I didn’t read the dress code,” she said. “Their attitude toward me just was not friendly.”
I can’t believe chesstempo has no Wikipedia page. It’s like the greatest puzzle site ever.
Part1 – Unbelievably unique puzzle rating system.
Like chessc*m, lichess & whatever, you get your usual ( untimed ) puzzles. But chesstempo also has timed puzzles. And it’s not like ‘puzzle rush’ or whatever. The puzzle pool for untimed ( called ‘standard’ ) / timed ( called ‘blitz’ ) is the same, i.e. the puzzles, just like the users, have a rating for both untimed & timed. Expectedly, a puzzle or a user has a higher untimed than timed rating assuming the user really treats the untimed the way you’d treat a correspondence game if you’re really making notes and stuff rather than just playing ‘asynchronous live’ ).
Implication :
Your chess / 9LX rating is correlated more to your chesstempo timed rating than your chesstempo ( or lichess or chessc*m ) untimed rating. So, you can have expectations of your chess / 9LX rating based on your chesstempo timed rating.
The closest I’ve seen to chesstempo’s timed puzzles is ‘rated‘ in BlitzTactics.com. But yeah there isn’t like a corresponding ‘unrated’ rating. But hmmm…maybe there is some correlation between this rating and your chess / 9LX rating, so you can have similar expectations.
Part2 – Comparison to deathmatch & training in csgo / cs2 or valorant.
The analogy I see is :
Aim / spray training = Untimed puzzles
Deathmatch = Timed puzzles
Your rank is correlated more to how well you’re doing in deathmatch than to how well you’re doing in aim / spray training ( however you might quantify these ). But obviously, the correlation between timed puzzles & chess / 9LX rating is much greater than the correlation between ‘how well you’re doing in deathmatch’ & rank.
Part3 – 2 things not in chesstempo that lichess has :
despite their prior racism, sexism, treason, blacklisting, cheating, discrimination, etc, I guess Magnus & Garry as chess players are evil while as 9LX players are morally good or at least no evidence so far to say they’re evil… or at the very least they’re more evil when they were chess players as compared to now as 9LX players. Explicitly:
Magnus Carlsen the chess player is more evil than Magnus Carlsen the 9LX player.
Garry Kasparov the chess player is more evil than Garry Kasparov the 9LX player.
It’s a similar idea as to how I say Magnus, Garry, Hikaru, Daniil are evil in chess as adults but morally good in politics or as kids while Wesley, Bobby, Hans, Sergey may be or may have been evil in politics or as kids but they are perfectly morally good inside chess and as adults.
Like wins / draws / losses are ( 0W, 1D, 6L ) and ( 0W, 2D, 4L ). Liren has never won a classical or rapid 9LX game. Liren is the exact opposite of Liren’s corresponding member in my good guys vs bad guys list Nepo – the top player in an equal combination of classical 9LX & rapid 9LX ! And as for knockouts, I know I’ve said knockouts don’t really determine 2nd or 3rd places, but well I believe they certainly determine 1st & last places, at least in 4 players if they do 3rd place match and also eg here & in 2022 rapid ( not classical ) WFRCC w/ 8 players where they do Xth place matches.
Part2 – Sergey
It’s so sad like making fun of Liren would be adding insult to injury or kicking someone when they’re down, like how Sergey Karjakin ( indeed on the good guys list ) made fun of Garry Kasparov’s ( indeed on the bad guys list ) 0.5/9 in the 2022 St Louis Chess9LX. ( Also I know Sergey made fun of Garry because Sergey hates Garry more for political reasons than for chess reasons, but well all 3 of Sergey, Garry & Judit Polgar are Jewish, sooo yeahhhhh… )
Part3 – Ok so why?
You could say like ‘Oh Liren doesn’t have experience in 9LX ( as if that’s a thing ) and so sucks.’ But well for me it’s a 3rd variable like evil players are less inclined to 9LX hence both why Liren had never played and why Liren is last place.
But seriously, it’s probably related to how Liren was supposed to retire from chess ( I guess chess1 in both classical & rapid / blitz but well probably even for 9LX ) had Nepo won 2023 classical WCC but still WOW.
Another axis of evil vs allies of evil thing. Yet to start a full post about this but hope to soon. For now I have just politics applied to chess & the Australia thing.
Garry is CORRECTLY / JUSTLY treated by a DICTATORIAL / an UNJUST regime Russia, specifically a dictator Putin since Garry cheated Judit.
Bobby was INCORRECTLY / UNJUSTLY treated by a DEMOCRATIC / JUST regime ‘the great US‘, specifically supposed democratically elected leaders George Bush Sr & Jr since Bobby never cheated, baselessly accused, discriminated against, betrayed anyone in chess as an adult or sided (as an adult) w/ someone who did any of the preceding.
Even the 2019 WFRCC wasn’t in a way : The 2018 unofficial WFRCC was classical, but well yeah it’s unofficial and involved only 2 players – a talentless patzer, racist & sexist cheater, future traitor & fake world champion Magnus Carlsen and then Magnus’ minion a future talentless patzer, racist cheater, future traitor ( or already traitor if you view Levon & Hikaru as Jews-or-Americans ) & fake world champion Hikaru Nakamura.
I theorise that in the term ‘freestyle’ comes / is derived from the original term ‘Fischer random’.
The ‘FR’ in ‘freestyle’ stands for Fischer Random.
The ‘ee’ in ‘freestyle’ comes from the homophonous / heterographic suffix -y.
Theory 2 :
Or it’s just a happy coincidence.,
Theory 3 :
Or like semi-derived & semi-coincidence since both ‘free’ & ‘Fischer Random’ does have the letters F, R & E and also 9LX is freeing the world from chess opening theory. And well 9LX was both created by an American and announced on the same day as the end of slavery in the US.
Had this idea about maybe early 2023, probably around the same time as 2023 classical WCC. It’s unlikely someone hasn’t thought of it, but I’m not sure what terms to look up to find out if someone bothered to write up this folklore.
Black has draw odds and thus has a ( huge ) advantage and thus has lower time.
This eliminates BOTH white advantage & draws. Specifically : Armageddon eliminates draws by giving black draw odds and then the draw odds eliminates white advantage because chess favours draws more than white ( or black ).
In armageddon : Since draw odds make black more favoured, black has lower time. The amount of time can be stupidly pre-determined, or both players have an auction ( usually blind ) where the lower bid for how much time they’re willing to have ( i.e. the higher time for how much they’re willing to give up ) gets black ( unless the winning bid is insane enough to choose white … at least in chess1 ).
You play the same game except white just has lower time.
This eliminates just white advantage.
In semi-armageddon : There are no draw odds. Since white is more favoured, white has lower time. The amount of time can be stupidly pre-determined, or both players have an auction where the lower bid gets white.
Part3 – Notes :
I believe semi-armageddon is better than pie rule ( or cake rule ) for balancing chess w/o getting rid of draws.
1.1 – I don’t believe pie rule works at all for 9LX.
2.1 – Normally, it’s not that players are randomly assigned colours for each round but that players do get a near even amount of games of white & black. But still, it’s necessarily uneven for round robins of an even number of players. And even ( lol ) in an odd round robin, any single player might’ve done better if not for luck of the draw. This also has implications for head-to-head score. In chessgames.com, they don’t count colour in summary statistics of head-to-head between 2 players. This wouldn’t matter if games were played in pairs like in knockouts or double round robins, but tournaments are often single round robin or single swiss!
2.2 – A double round robin or double swiss where each pair of players gets to alternate colours, like in the candidates ( eg 2022, 1962 ), would be fair. (Also, quadruple, sextuple, n-tuple for any even natural number n.)
2.2.1 – I’ve never heard of double swiss. Like, what, you play new opponent and then the next day you play them again but reversed colours? I think then semi-armageddon swiss makes more sense than double swiss. I think of 1st rounds of a swiss where you lose so badly that you know Gasai you’re going to lose the next day even if you were black today s.t. you’re white tomorrow. Or maybe hybrid : 1st rounds of swiss could be semi-armageddon. ( But if you’re going to do this for 1st round, then why not for all the rounds? )
Another way is of course semi-armageddon to eliminate the concept of white vs black. Like baseball but it doesn’t matter which if you’re batting or fielding. Csgo / cs2 / cs / Counterstrike or valorant but it doesn’t matter if you’re CT or terrorist. Tennis but it doesn’t matter if you serve or not. But in these cases what they bid is probably points or cards drawn rather than time similar to go / baduk‘s komi, w/c I understand is more like if chess used pie rule. ( So ‘pie rule’ makes sense in all those games but not chess! )
You can have an odd number of games in matches. Such matches can be won by a point without having a 0.5 or 1/2 in the score. Eg the 2010 classical WCC could’ve been 6-5 instead of 6.5-5.5 by having 11 games instead of 12 games. ( But well, you could win by a point by pairing games into mini-matches and then counting points by winning mini-matches. )
Duplicate : I had this idea in 2021 soon after I started to get back into chess & 9LX, w/c was in late 2020.
I got back into chess & 9LX then largely because of The Queen’s Gambit, w/c might explain how I came up w/ this idea to combine move sealing / adjournments w/ correspondence. It’s unlikely someone hadn’t already thought of it, but I’m not sure what terms to look up to find out if someone bothered to type up this folklore. But perhaps I’m the 1st to type this up because only a 9LX fan really thinks of ways to fix chess.
In 2020Nov, PastLie suggested this in r/chess960 ( post ID k344zd ) & r/chess ( post ID k343wb ).
Quote :
chess960 correspondence?
Recently started playing correspondence chess (2 days per move) and its awesome. These are the pros i noticed:
You can play whenever you want. Just 5-10 minutes a day is enough.
You can enjoy chess without time trouble pressure.
You make way less silly mistakes. Your games end up being beautiful, whether you win or not.
The problem i am facing now is that the openings that worked for me in bullet and blitz are sometimes going into very dull equalish positions. I dont really want to learn new openings either. Which brings me to chess960.
If there are any chess960 lovers who haven’t played correspondence, you should give it a try.
Or any correspondence players who haven’ t played chess960, why not try it? could be interesting.
I am on lichess.org and chess.com. Anyone interested in having a chess960 correspondence game can dm me.
Soon after I read the post in early 2021, I started … and then soon ended playing correspondence. Lol. In 2021Oct, made posts in r/chess ( post ID q9c7hv ) & r/chessbeginners ( post ID q9ctpl ).
Quote :
Why isn’t there an option (not replacement) for correspondence chess to be about move sealing/adjournments instead of just the usual 0 increment + 3 day delay? Would you like an option? I think you could play LIVE games with friends asynchronously this way.
Update: I think I’ll call this ‘asynchronous live.’
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note 1: I am a 9LX player. 9LX convinced me to try correspondence 9LX/chess: chess960 correspondence?
note 2: this doesn’t replace the regular correspondence. it’s just another option.
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Question 1: Why isn’t there like this? (Or is there?)
Question 2: Would you like something like this?
i don’t really wanna play correspondence as is because it’s like the winner is whoever puts more time into playing the game (instead of more time into training for the game)…in the following sense:
correspondence currently is like…0 units of time + 3 day delay + 0 units of time increment. there’s not quite an incentive of moving early. people see the move and get 3 days to think.
however, i wouldn’t mind getting 3 days to think BEFORE you see the move: you have 3 days to think BEFORE you see the move and then you see the move and play. i believe it’s very different because you would have to prepare for several moves. in ordinary correspondence you ‘postpare’ after seeing only 1 move.
what i’d like is for a different correspondence option have like adjournment/move sealing (like possibly for chessboxing see here or here or here) and like normal time controls eg 10min+3sec (rapid) or 3min+2sec (blitz) like this:
instead of 3 days as the delay, let it be the deadline to make the move
white has 3 days to make the 1st move: what does white have to do?
white has to open the board to see the starting position during the allotted 3 days to see the position at which time white’s time will start running.
then white will move.
then the move is sealed and then white’s time stops running. BUT black’s time doesn’t start running. this is different from original correspondence because black doesn’t yet see white’s move!
black has 3 days to make the 1st move: what does black have to do?
black is notified that white has made a move.
black has 3 days to open the board to see the move.
black is shown the move at which time black’s time will start running.
then black will move.
then the move is sealed and then black’s time stops running.
white has 3 days to make the 2nd move.
and so on.
note: 3 days can be either the deadline for just opening the notification to see opponent’s move or for both opening and then submitting your move. technically there is a few minutes-seconds of difference here (eg in a 25min+10 sec, you can/can’t take 2min to make your move if your your deadline is 11:59pm and your clock started at 11:57pm.)
it’s basically like the tournaments with adjournment before the age of computers. now we adjourn after every move.
the similarity with correspondence here is that it’s flexible. you’re basically playing a live game at your own pace.
Like you want to play blitz against someone who lives in a 12hr timezone away from you. This is I believe how you do it. (Or alternatively you trust each other to really start and stop clocks when you see moves or something…? idk)
like attending lectures in online class:
1 – it can be live or recorded.
analogue: you get to choose when you want to see your opponent’s move.
2 – but you still have the same deadlines as regular in person class like submit homework after a week.
analogue: you’re still within the 10+3 or 3+2 deadline.
And then on 2022Jan29 I cross-posted to r/lichess ( ‘Is the 1st site with such a hybrid of correspondence and live going to be lichess ?’ – post ID sff4o4 )
Part0 – An alternative to correspondence chess :
Correspondence is essentially ‘whoever spends more time on this game wins’. The time control can be described as having 0 minutes + 0 seconds + no increment + X time delay. Eg a 3 day per player correspondence game is 0 minutes + 0 seconds + no increment + 3 days delay.
An asynchronous live game is a game played online where after every move, a player immediately adjourns. You’re playing a live game but asynchronously, like watching or listening to a recorded lecture in school.
Presumably, the idea of correspondence is to be able to play a game remotely w/ people of not just different locations but different timezones, just as online chess is to be able to play a game remotely w/ people of different locations ( but essentially your same timezone since they’re awake at the same time as you … usually ).
I guess correspondence started out w/ post mail, where you couldn’t do asynchronous live. Now w/ chess websites, there’s no excuse!
Part2 – Example :
Here’s an example of a 3min per player game w/o increment ( & w/o delay lol ) :
White : White moves like in correspondence. Then, the server seals this move and notifies black.
1.1 – Flexible : This might be different for 9LX but I guess for chess1, white’s time needn’t run for the 1st move.
Black : Like in correspondence, black has a deadline, say, 3 days to make a move. Black goes to the game but doesn’t see white’s move right away. Black sees instead a button that says ‘Reveal move.’ Black clicks the button to reveal white’s move and then black’s time starts running. Black moves and then black’s time stops.
2.1 – Again, this move is sealed by the server.
2.2 – However, unlike live games but as w/ regular adjournments, white’s time doesn’t start running as soon as black’s time stops. Let’s say black takes 12 seconds to make this move. Black’s remaining time is 2min48sec.
2.3 – Flexible : Not that this make a big difference, but black needn’t have 3 days to make a move. Black could have 3 days to reveal the move.
White : Likewise, white opens account but doesn’t see black’s move right away. White’s time doesn’t start running until ‘Reveal move.’ However, white of course sees the position before black’s move.
3.1 – Flexible : Before black’s move is revealed, white may or may not see also black’s remaining time & elapsed time for the move, i.e. white may or may not get information from the move based on the time taken for the move like ‘Oh, black took quite a while or not that long to make this move. Wow 12sec for last move – This gives me information about the move even though I haven’t seen it.’ ( Of course no one really spends 12 seconds on 1st move for either colour on a blitz game, but during the middle game, this could provide some info. )
Repeat until draw, resign, flag, checkmate, or, as in correspondence, miss the deadline to make ( or see ) the move.
Part3 – Miscellaneous
1 – Ok how is the really different from correspondence since in both cases, players still have 3 days to think?
Now, during the players’ time away from the board, technically the players could think about what moves to make just as in correspondence, but the decision tree is much smaller. In correspondence, players have, say, 3 days to think about what move to make in response to their GIVEN opponent’s move. In asynchronous live, they have 3 days to think about what move to make, UNCONDITIONED on what their opponent’s move is, i.e. they have to think also about what moves to make.
2 – What about cheating?
Actually, I think a pleasant surprise is that there should be far less cheating in asynchronous live than in correspondence.
2.1 – In correspondence, you cheat by seeing move and then asking engine to give the move. I can’t imagine people would really be so pathetic as to cheat in no-money unrated games of correspondence chess or 9LX , but actually I’m not sure how cheating is detected here. My naïve cursory / initial thought is I think it’s kinda the same deal w/ pre-arranged draws where the only way to prove is if it’s really blatant. In a regular live game, cheating is detected based partly on the time spent on certain moves.
2.2 – In asynchronous live:
2.2.1 – If you cheat after seeing the move, then of course this can be detected the same way cheating in regular live games is detected.
2.2.2 – If you cheat before seeing the move, then you’d have to cheat based on several possible opponent’s moves. And actually, I think this can be detected similarly. Maybe not quite the same level but maybe the same level as cheating by seeing only the evaluation of the position, which I believe is very close to seeing an outright engine suggestion.
3 – Alternative names :
2022Jan marklein suggested the name ‘correspondence X’ or ‘X correspondence’ where X is the time control eg ‘correspondence rapid’ if the game is rapid
4 – Someone in go/baduk uses this term ‘asynchronous live’ ! Username is dfan.
I’m curious. If skill is measured objectively by the quality of moves alone, then correspondence ranks should generally be higher than live game ranks. But if skill is measured relative to the limitations of each time control (i.e. live game 1 dan = correspondence 1 dan), then a difference in your two ranks could mean you have certain strengths/weaknesses that cause the inequality.
I assume the truth is closer to the former rather than the latter, because if it is the latter, we would probably not even need separate ranks. If anyone has any insight on the OGS calculations that would be cool to know as well.
Rank is determined by your win-loss results, not by the quality of your moves.
I assume that by far the biggest factor in whether you do better in correspondence or live play is not any particular strength or weakness but simply how much time you take in your correspondence games. A lot of people treat correspondence games like asynchronous live games; they check in, look around the board, and play a move that looks good. A lot of other people treat correspondence games like a different animal and spend 10+ minutes on many moves, or keep notes on their plans and variations. That’s easily a 2-stone difference, maybe more.
My notes :
So yeah correspondence rating is much like puzzle rating if you’re not timed ( cf chesstempo ), it doesn’t really correlate w/ your regular rating.
But I guess your asynchronous live rating might correlate… But it’ll probably be higher. Idk.
But anyhoo YEAH THERE YOU GO ‘ASYNCHRONOUS LIVE’ – WOW!!! 2.5 YEARS LATER – SOMEONE USES THIS TERM!!!
I’ve not been following the Pro scene munch recently, but I don’t think there’s been an AI cheating case at the very top levels yet (Kim Eunji promising young female pro probably the highest profile). Looks like that might be about to change, I spotted this post from Dai Junfu (top Chinese French amateur) on Facebook that appears to be Yang Dingxin 9p implying he thinks Li Xuanho 9p cheated vs him in the quarter finals of the Chunlan Cup on 19th December. Li beat Shin Jinseo today. https://www.facebook.com/861930111/posts/pfbid024RiqtibwHqcVaY4YPi3S6osAXdvhqKKbgbaQzHDa6kkGbjXbeRV8Fd7ncrciNisTl/
Is this a real accusation? I thought it was a comment made in jest. At the 9p level, players are expected to play on par with most public AI. It would be impossible to decipher whether someone at that level is cheating or not. Furthermore, the rigorous ranking procedure people need to make going from DDK all the way to the highest professional rank possible makes it even more unlikely that someone would risk their entire reputation over one match.
This isn’t a Hans Niemann case where some dude came from nowhere and cheated his way into top level tournaments, especially with a confessed past history of cheating. You’re talking about very well established top ranking players. If there was money on the line, this would be a very safe bet to stake that nobody was cheating.
Response by dfan :
FWIW, Hans Niemann progressed very rapidly but is a very well established top ranking player (currently #35 in the world and maintaining his rating while being checked rigorously) and did not come from nowhere. I think the cases are quite comparable.
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