As a casual viewer, it’s hard to know what’s going on but appearances matter. Like Maurice was saying that people got upset at some of the banter between him and Cristian but they’re good friends and just like to trash talk, which is fine afaic; they’re equals. Otoh Yasser consistently gives some of the younger women a hard time. He seems to be trying to be playful and they mostly take it in good spirit but it feels inappropriate. He needs a talking to from human resources.
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It does feel like Yasser is a bit “untouchable” because he’s generally such a positive and upbeat and pleasant part of US chess culture. He does seem like a genuinely nice guy so with a little coaching he can probably clean up some unintended by still wrong condescension.
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It feels like Yasser has been slipping cognitively for the past couple of years, despite being relatively young. Rex should have taken him off the anchor desk by now.
I’m watching a streamer in Union Square right now and the deal she had with Russian Paul (the most famous hustler?) was he gets $25 for a win $10 for a loss and $18 for a draw
Paying $10 if you win seems kind of lol but maybe if she’s significantly better than him it’s wasting his time to play her otherwise?
No I think that’s just the standard terms. You pay him for his time.
I have come around to the opinion that my chess hustler experience was atypical. My experiences (mostly Boston but once in NY) were $5-10 for the winner. Draws are no action.
These guys that I was playing against didn’t exactly have a ton of demand, though. The guy in Boston would just sit there reading a book and have a little sign up. Periodically he would have a challenger and they would play heads up for $5.
There must have been some early Sockfishermen that hustled some hustlers, right?
I laughed at that line though
you’d think some ex 2p2ers would appreciate the firing of a few shats
wild that all of this snowballed to here from when rapport couldn’t make an event and hans was the replacement
chess.com’s report basically saying “we didn’t collude with magnus” should’ve been a flag they were all thinking let’s not get sued
then they got sued anyway
yeah this case seems ridiculous as so far I haven’t seen any evidence of direct collusion between those parties but that doesn’t matter cause who the heck is gonna understand any of this if they’re not at least following the chess world pretty well (and hans certainly won’t get invited to as many events as he would’ve before without all of this he noted a few in the suit, though if he has direct evidence anyone he’s suing had any part in that it wasn’t in there or I glossed over it cause I ain’t reading all that)
hikaru being who he is as you noted is the most likely explanation, magnus has still kept it all to himself, chess outed everything they had. none of them have handled it great but humans gonna human
An apocryphal story about Capablanca goes that he was sitting in a cafe in Paris once drinking a coffee and reading a book, with a chessboard in front of him, and a man came up to challenge him to a game. Capa said, “ok I’ll play you without my queen”. The man said “You think you can beat me without the queen? Do you know who I am?” Capa replied “If I knew who you were, I’d be giving you a rook”.
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Haven’t listened yet but Lawyer joins at about 8 minutes mark
David is a Constitutional Law Professor and an appellate lawyer, who is also a chess enthusiast who had already been following the Carlsen/Niemann story closely. In our conversation, David answered important questions about the legitimacy of the lawsuit, and which potential scenarios are likely to unfold from here
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According to Yasser, a newly minted GM once came up to Korchnoi during a large tournament and said “Hey Victor, I’m assuming you heard the news. That makes us colleagues now.”
Korchnoi lifts his head, scans the room, points to some middling GM and says, “No, you’re his colleague now.”
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Hikaru versus Magnus up in a couple of minutes
I was about to post this myself and I am currently looking at this with an engine.
would take several moves to get the queen out of there right?, would get some compensation being well ahead in development anyway
Queen gets trapped in I think four moves. White can end up with the bishop, a rook and pawn for the queen, but the resulting position is -1. Hikaru just said all the players were discussing what happens if white takes during the break, and it was unclear to them how bad the resulting position would be. The line he showed ended up with white -. 5
Magnus versus Hikaru
Magnus just completely blundered a rook for no compensation