FideTrainer
@fidetrainernet
Probably the world's best coach - too hot for snowflakes
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https://www.chess.com/member/fidetrainerNET 19-09-2017 18:14:03
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Quite disgusted by current Greek chess scandal, unheard of even by Greek standards: current right-wing chessfed prez Stathis Efstathopoulos joined left-wing Makropoulos to oust GM Thanos Mastrovasilis, national coach,because the fed approved a team composition without wife Marina Makropoulou
Mystified by the bullet portion of Nihal Sarin vs Alexander Grischuk , true, an old-timer like Sasha is going to be 20 seconds too slow against a cyber-native in bullet, but there are Candidate Masters who would have brought home some of those points from Sasha's winning positions.
today's endgame brings Anish Giri to mind, when he said "of course Magnus is so accurate, he gets positions where all his moves are good". Tablebases show that almost any Ian move draws, but, and it's a huge but, he will have to see accurately the saving combo at the very end
When Magnus Carlsen namedropped Dlugy, I felt he gave more credence to theories of prep stealing and such, versus Hans cheating. The other interpretations are a) Dlugy should be disciplining his protege b) Dlugy is the cheating assistant, but they're even more far-fetched
There's been a lot of support for the way Magnus Carlsen handled things, "serving chess" and whatever, but let's face it: in hindsight it's clear if he should have left this dirty job to another top-10er. Maybe he was hoping Hans would be caught with something, hasn't happened!