My article on the Carlsen-Caruana championship match through 11 games: rjlipton.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/far…

Using the same standard as for classical chess, I measure Carlsen's tiebreak performance at 2945 +- 190. Richard Lipton and I also discuss WCC format changes to reduce draws: rjlipton.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/a-t…

My Godel's Lost Letter blog post on whether anyone has simulated how the Election Night count (and later) will unfold: rjlipton.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/the… Diagram from Geoffrey Skelley of FiveThirtyEight FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver Nate Cohn tylercowen

My entry for the "extrapolate from 1 data point" prize: One voter (Indept) told me he decided for Trump while walking to a nearly empty polling place in Dem area (not in my state). Maybe lack of a blue crowd vibe at polls was a factor? My family voted early in-person.

Norway's golfer Viktor Hovland on ESPN SportsCenter just now after winning an event on the PGA tour gave a shout to Magnus Carlsen as an inspiration from his country. Queried, "you really mentioned a chess player?" he replied "Of course---he's the GOAT."

Sasha Starr Chess Show also with James Eade. In the second half I discuss some of my findings on Vladimir Kramnik's accusations against Hikaru Nakamura: youtube.com/watch?v=wPdJYJ… See also independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

The beginning of my responses to Vladimir Kramnik. Besides giving my particular results on Hikaru Nakamura's streak, my article sets expectations for thinking about such streaks. rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/2023/12/21/hav…

My own statement of evidence against any large-scale cheating in Titled Tuesdays, concurring with the report released yesterday by Chessdotcom and reproducing their results in my independent (possibly stronger) fashion: cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/f…

IPRs (per Stockfish 7 so far only) for Jospem and Kramnik in the 14 OTB blitz games---transposed up by 575 Elo so as to jive with FIDE (Blitz) ratings: Jospem 2755 +- 170 Kramnik 2670 +- 170 These error bars allow concluding only that Jospem is not substantially inferior to K.

IPRs for K vs M Online and amended IPRs for the OTB games---see tinyurl.com/22xxd3wa (on my Facebook) for full details. Kramnik: 2675+-155 OTB, 2460+-175 online (but 2665 if moves beyond turn 60 ignored) Martinez: 2720+-165 OTB, 2620+-155 online (latter 2700 w turn-60 cutoff)

SC IPRs thru 9 All 2765+-90 (same) Aro 2555 vs 2760 Carl 2915 vs 2775 Caru 2890 vs 2510 Naka 2685 vs 2920 Top 2690 vs 2825 MVL 2785 vs 2785

Final Sinq'dCup IPRs: All 2780+-85, Aro 2570 vs 2775 Carl 2920 vs 2775 Caru 2900 vs 2525 Naka 2720 vs 2930 Top 2690 vs 2830 MVL 2815 vs 2820

Baku IPR thru6 All 2745+-80 DAnd 2535 FCar 2875 LDP 2465 BGe 2915 AGri 2860 SKar 2560 RKas 2800 SMa 2835 HNa 2635 TRa 3025 PSv 2850 ETo 2715

Tashkent IPRs thru4 All 2830+-75 DAn 3030 FCa 2710 BGe 2830 AGi 2745 DJa 2915 BJo 2870 SKa 2870 RKa 2585 SMa 2755 HNa 2905 TRa 2810 MVL 3000

TashGP IPRs thru8: All 2795+-60 DAn 2930 FCa 2745 BGe 2640 AnG 2760 DJa 2940 BJo 2865 SKa 2635 RKa 2535 SMa 2815 HNa 2925 TRa 2840 MVL 2900

Sochi Wch IPRs thru 5 games: Anand 2860, Carlsen 2860. As tied as can be, and high quality (at least high accuracy) from both.

Blog article by me on TCEC: rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/the…

DON'T BLAME IMMIGRANTS! x.com/barrydeutsch/s…

My contribution to the trending hashtags #jiggerypokery and #applesauce, toward end of rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/we-…

Post on Maryam Mirzakhani, the tragically deceased Fields Medalist: rjlipton.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/mar… … Includes beautiful drawing by Assad Binakhahi