Fide candidates...

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The Candidates Tournament is a big deal even when we have quitters who are scared to lose the title eventually which always happened to the greats of the past who went down in battle like they should but what can you do 🤷 I guess Magnus doesn't respect the game or its past and his ability to realize you had it but all the greats go down.

I absolutely hate him.

Nepo going to win 💪

Most mortals would have quit after making it to the WC twice and losing both times but Nepo is a fighter.
Is he a quitter? No no no!!!

Kortchnoi found a way to rise from the grave and watch a player, much like himself, try one last time.
Kortchnoi is watching Nepo this time.

So an edit.

I grew up with books and it was written Kortchnoi.

Now the internet has it as Korchnoi.

I dunno 🤷

@fartacus said
Support the Lichess stream. 💪 Although I watch just about everything about chess on YouTube and I follow all of the drama ...so I encourage everyone to explore all of the fun chess stuff going on. Even this website that we play on!

The Candidates Tournament is a big deal even when we have quitters who are scared to lose the title eventually which always happened to the gr ...[text shortened]... its past and his ability to realize you had it but all the greats go down.

I absolutely hate him.

I absolutely hate him.

Why? He won the world title, defended his title a few times, and is now living the life he wants. This man has nothing left to prove and has more than "enough respect for the game" to conduct himself in a friendly, but professional way in the competitive format of his choosing. Many chess players would happily trade places with him. So, what's the problem?

P.S. I read your profile and played thru a couple of your games, and DO NOT think you'd be terrible even if you took more time to think. 🙂

@ketchuplover


For those who want to follow the event, here is a link:

https://candidates2024.fide.com/


Personally, I'm routing for Caruana. A fine field of candidates, including Nakamura. But where is Wesley So?

@mchill

Let me know when you're going to enter a tournament on this site. We are the same rating and I'll crush you. (Try to anyways)

@fartacus said
So an edit.

I grew up with books and it was written Kortchnoi.

Now the internet has it as Korchnoi.

I dunno 🤷

Just seen an interesting take, in Russian sounds something like Korchni the "o" normally silent. Depending on whether you are German, French, Swiss etc the name can be spelt differently.

How do you spell 'Korchnoi'? The questions rears its ugly head from time to time on chess forums and blogs. At first, it seems a very straightforward matter: you just transcribe the letters from the cyrillic alphabet into Latin letters and there you are. But of course the problems only start there, because the Russian sounds are written down differently in different languages. For instance, the 'ch' in Korchnoi is written 'tsch' in German and 'tch' in French. In English, it's either 'tch' or 'ch' (depending on, if nothing else, taste) and in Dutch, it's 'tsj'. And this is just the 'ch' sound: similar discussions can be held about the final 'i'.

On top of that, Korchnoi hasn't been a Russian citizen for quite some time now, so there's actually no need to spell his name with cyrillic letters at all anymore. Perhaps we should always spell it the 'Swiss' way? But Switzerland itself has many official languages, so which one should we choose? Or should we write it the way Korchnoi himself prefers to do it? These are all tricky questions, but with the rise of internet, the English version seems to have gained preference in most cases where the cyrillic alphabet is involved.

Even so, problems remain. Even if we could agree on how to spell foreign names, we're often unsure how to pronounce them. Korchnoi, again, is an interesting case in point. A Russian would probably pronounce his name as sounding, to us, something like 'Kahrchnoi', with the emphasis on the last syllabe and the kah in the first pronounced a bit like the English word 'car'. The 'o' in Korchnoi's name, not being pronounced with emphasis in Russian, sounds much more like what Western-Europeans would call 'a'. (This in turn raises the question why we don't write 'Karchnoi', too. The answer is, I'm afraid, quite unfair: convention.). Thus, a true formalist should probably insist on pronouncing 'Kahrchnoi'. The reason, I suppose, for why almost nobody does this (except, of course, Russians) is that it sounds so obviously pedantic. And, of course, even if people could approximate the Russian sounds with any certainty, the fact would still remain that most Russians would immediately hear, from their intonation and other clues, that the speaker is in fact not Russian at all.

@fartacus said
@mchill

Let me know when you're going to enter a tournament on this site. We are the same rating and I'll crush you. (Try to anyways)

fartacus - I'm doing OTB tournaments right now. Perhaps another time.

@congruent

Thanks for that 😊

@mchill said
fartacus - I'm doing OTB tournaments right now. Perhaps another time.

Rich guy eh? OTB is so expensive. Club play was fun and cheap but weekend tournaments were expensive for me so I had to quit.

@congruent said
Just seen an interesting take, in Russian sounds something like Korchni the "o" normally silent. Depending on whether you are German, French, Swiss etc the name can be spelt differently.

How do you spell 'Korchnoi'? The questions rears its ugly head from time to time on chess forums and blogs. At first, it seems a very straightforward matter: you just transcribe the lett ...[text shortened]... diately hear, from their intonation and other clues, that the speaker is in fact not Russian at all.

On top of that, Korchnoi hasn't been a Russian citizen for quite some time now,

Just to be pedantic, he hasn't been a Swiss citizen for quite some time as well.

Nakamura Vs Vidit, 11.. Bxh3 and Nakamura lost with Ra1 and Nb1 not having moved.

Nakamura who Carlsen felt was favourite to win the candidates, fell for some home prep in this game.

I'm thinking Nepo and Fabi will be the two at the top.

Commentary by Vishy Anand and GM Irina Krush interesting on the FIDE video stream