It is funny that Kasparov ended up consulting on a show about a young girl prodigy that takes over the Chess world, after he was a total asshole to Polgar and blatantly cheated against her when she was 14.
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Idk guys, ‘feats of the guy in the sports movie are unrealistic’ is a pretty stale take iyam.
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I think fans of Queen’s Gambit will enjoy this 40 minute doc on Netflix
David Samson former Marlins President recommended it. That’s all I have to add I didn’t watch it.
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Hellmuth’s poker brat nickname has nothing on Kasparov, that and a 10 minute rant at a podium saying someone didn’t deserve an award at the timing of awarding it is unreal.
BUT SHE’S A GIRL!
It’s a really good doc that hits the feels too. The friendship between the two mains is really touching
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That’s a good heart warming doc
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Thanks for this rec. Looks good.
Here’s another really good documentary that might be of interest to classical board game fans. 
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I wish it was about humans playing Go. I don’t really get the love for AI porn. Aren’t they the baddies?
Nah we’re the baddies, and our only hope is that the AI decide we are worth saving from ourselves.
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Sooooooo…more misogynism.
after spending a month or so watching chess streams, I find her overall behavior to match the attributes of top chess players quite accurately. it was pretty funny to listen to chess GM’s basically rip each other apart simply because they lack the ability to use language in a different way.
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Seriously, I was watching the finals of skilling open and Vladimir Kramnik (ex world champion) was doing some guest commentary that would be the equivalent of prime Antonio Brown in how direct/ruthless it was and I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean to.
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The actors were trained on set by a couple of GMs, though I did spot one scene where a player hit his clock with the hand that didn’t make the move.
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If the best player in the world faced the 20th best player 10 times what would their record be? Just curious on how much variance there is in the game.
At the moment that would be Carlsen(2862)-Nakamura(2736). At that difference Carlsen is expected to score 0.67 points per game, so in 10 games around 6.5-3.5 or 7-3 would be the most likely scores. Of course this is short enough that Naka still has a shot.
(You can’t use a binomial distribution to determine chances of winning, because every game has 3 possible outcomes)
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The expected score doesn’t take that into account. Here’s the lichess master database showing roughly the difference in expectation between white and black 
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