Why are we even bothering to learn chess well ?

http://www.chess.com/article/view/nicky-nip-master-at-9 😵

Originally posted by ivan2908
http://www.chess.com/article/view/nicky-nip-master-at-9 😵

Also depressing is FM Illya Nyzhnyk. (See photo at the bottom of this Chessbase News article.)

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4491

Originally posted by ivan2908
http://www.chess.com/article/view/nicky-nip-master-at-9 😵

Eh. Looking at the games, that was really lousy play for a FM.

Originally posted by Heroic Metool
Eh. Looking at the games, that was really lousy play for a FM.

Yeah, lousy 9 y old FM.

Originally posted by Mad Rook
Also depressing is FM Illya Nyzhnyk. (See photo at the bottom of this Chessbase News article.)

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4491

Yeah Nyzhnyk carries around a teddy bear with him when he gives simuls. Lose to that. 🙁

Originally posted by ivan2908
Yeah, lousy 9 y old FM.

Sorry, but Nicky is a USCF master, but not a Fide master. Still mighty impressive, though.

Originally posted by Mad Rook
Sorry, but Nicky is a USCF master, but not a Fide master. Still mighty impressive, though.

And he is ONLY 9!!!! Just how good is he going to be ? Very Impressive !!!

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
Yeah Nyzhnyk carries around a teddy bear with him when he gives simuls. Lose to that. 🙁

Yep, I'd heard that also. I don't mind getting beaten by kids - It happens to me all the time. But darned if I'm gonna let myself get beaten by a kid carrying around a teddy bear. That's just sick!

Video proof of the teddy:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3655

Originally posted by Very Rusty
And he is ONLY 9!!!! Just how good is he going to be ? Very Impressive !!!

like most prodigy's he'll probably fall off when he's older. probaby plateau at a point here soon, from their he won't get to much better.

Very few keep improving beyond a certain age (untill they're much older)

Originally posted by Adorea
like most prodigy's he'll probably fall off when he's older. probaby plateau at a point here soon, from their he won't get to much better.

Very few keep improving beyond a certain age (untill they're much older)

Yeah, like the way Magnus Carlsen is plateauing? 😉

Originally posted by ivan2908
Yeah, lousy 9 y old FM.

I mean the guy that lost to him. The boy isn't an FM yet.

Originally posted by Heroic Metool
Eh. Looking at the games, that was really lousy play for a FM.

Maybe Eric Schiller's been reading too many of his own books. 😉

Originally posted by Mad Rook
Maybe Eric Schiller's been reading too many of his own books. 😉

Game 2 was particularly awful.