Chess: RIP Daniel Naroditsky

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My only brush with famous chess players is that I played a blitz game once against Fabi. We were raising some money for a charity and the top 3 donations got to play him online.

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I actually had two other paths to Bent Larson:

  1. I also played Pal Benko in a simul in the late '70s, and he played Larson numerous times.

  2. When we were both teens in the late 70ā€™s, I played a skittles game with Yasser Seirawan, who played Larson in 1979 at Lone Pine.

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I played Arthur Bisguier in a simul in the early 80s. Bisguier played Bent Larsen (in a somewhat famous game if YouTube is to be believed). I lost of course but I lasted a while and I got my picture in the local paper, looking pensive.

I wouldnā€™t be surprised if one or both of Korchnoi and Bisguier can get to Pillsbury in one step instead of two.

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I couldnā€™t find a path for Korchnoi, although there could be one, especially if including skittles games he might have played as a young man.

I couldnā€™t trace Korchnoi more directly even to Chigorin, whom Bernstein also played.

The other obvious route I checked was through Lasker, who was playing in the 1930s, but Korchnoi was in elementary school then.

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Chess dot comā€™s analysis is getting a bit sarcastic with me.

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The moderators of this message board, otatop, L.Washington, WichitaDM, Yuv, JonnyA, RiskyFlush, and SvenO, are cowards who let abusers dox and harrass other long time posters.

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So itā€™s chess960 with more rule customization?

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Itā€™s like standard chess but with rule customization imo.

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But the piece randomization from the screencap is already found in chess960.

Seems like it could be fun to mess around with.

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The moderators of this message board, otatop, L.Washington, WichitaDM, Yuv, JonnyA, RiskyFlush, and SvenO, are cowards who let abusers dox and harrass other long time posters.

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New chess tour just dropped.

Key Highlights:

  • A brand-new World Championship format in chess, organized by Norway Chess, has been officially approved by the International Chess Federation, FIDE.
  • The Total Chess World Championship Tour will crown an overall champion across three disciplines: Fast Classic, Rapid, and Blitz. The winner will be crowned FIDE World Combined Champion.
  • The tour will consist of four tournaments per year in various global cities.
  • Minimum $2.7M annual prize pool across the Tour ($750k per event for the first three events; $450k for the Finals), plus performance bonuses.
  • A pilot tournament is planned for fall 2026, with the first full championship season in 2027.

Looks exactly like what Magnus would design, so he probably did. Yesterday he was asked about what the chances were heā€™d participate in World rapid and Blitz. He said there had been no chance, but now itā€™s a maybe. Perhaps he made up with Fide when they agreed to approve this new world championship.

But thatā€™s all speculation. Maybe Magnus had nothing to do with this and itā€™s just a coincidence that itā€™s organized by Norway chess and uses the exact formats that he enjoys.

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Just discovered a chess book I hadnā€™t seen before that I love

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There is a clever move for white, and a clever move for black, but is it legal?

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Summary

Qd6

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That is correct for part 1

Part 2 O-O-O

Part 3, given this is a legal position, is castling legal?

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yes

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When I say this is a legal position, I mean it could occur in a legal game of chess. There are a few oddities in this position that need to be accounted forā€¦

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Naro was having some sort of breakdown on stream today. Erratic behaviour, falling asleep, muttering to himself in Russian, weird affect, crying at points reportedly.

Incredibly sad to see. His educational content on YouTube is far and away the best stuff out there imo and he has always seemed like a really good guy. I think the baby-brained cheating allegations from Kramnik really affected him.

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I suppose what you are asking is that is it possible to have this position without black having previously moved the king or the rook (which would make castling illegal). and my answer is i have no idea

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Looks like there was a Reddit thread that got nuked. Freaking sucks, Danya has always been a class act and one of the best educator.ls.

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Yeah, it actually calls for a few layers of logic.

The two central questions are

How did the pawns get to where they are?

What was blackā€™s last move?