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Comment on An Ethical Guide For Chess Players by armenak sabciyan

armenak sabciyan — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:51:32 +0000

Very Useful and Honest Points are handled.Many Thanks

Comment on Is Chess A Sport? I Think Not, And Here’s Why! by Mark Brio

Mark Brio — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 06:04:50 +0000

Well I think chess is a sport, Chess requires mental stamina, strategic prowess and physical endurance during chess tournaments. It’s time to recognize chess board as a sport, its a unique blend of intellect and athleticism.

Comment on Women’s World Chess Championship 1930 by Yusuf

Yusuf — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:44:57 +0000

Interesting article.

How big, would you say, is the difference in chess ability between male and female players back then compared to now?

In my opinion, there are many sides to it. For starters, chess is a very ancient game, so generations pick up where previous generations left off — learning from their shortcomings and building on top of their experience. The fact that chess has been viewed as a male game for a very long time means that male players today naturally have so much more of that chess “heritage”.

On the other hand, with the chess supercomputers available today, the role of preparation and theory knowledge is immensely larger, so one may argue that the gap is nowhere near as big as it used to be.

There’s also a lot more media coverage nowadays, so I’m sure that has a role to play.

I’d love to know what you think.

Comment on Norm Factories Or: The Problem(s) With Round-Robin Norm Events by Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:05:20 +0000

Just bumped into your article – great analysis and very thoughtful! I’d like to comment that Andy W. had several quick draws in the round robin tournaments in Serbia and in Hungary because he was very sick both times (covid in Serbia and a bad cold after soaked in the rain on the way to the hotel in Hungary). Since withdrawing from a round robin tournament was not an option. He had to keep the tournaments going by offering draws when he felt the worst. Both times he couldn’t even get out of the beds to go to the tournament hall for a couple of days. Andy was more disappointed than anyone else to have those quick draws 🙂

Comment on Robert James Fischer Birthday by Anthony Fereday

Anthony Fereday — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:32:37 +0000

You say RJ Fischer won the 1963 USSR championship. I think that you mean that he was the US champion with 11 wins.
He did not absolutely give up chess after becoming champion in 1972. There was the rematch with Boris Spassky.
He was one of the greatest chess players of all time.

Comment on How To Deal With Computer Cheating In Online Chess by Stéphane

Stéphane — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:32:43 +0000

I do understand lost of cheating, but some of your openings are weak, a unreliable openig ofte leads to defeat, your middle of games also are questionnable, I never cheat, i would of take advantage of your mistakes as well , dont think some of these games been cheated.