Oliver Roeder's Seven Games enticed me to try Go as well as backgammon. I have a much easier time with backgammon than chess. And chess is easier for me than go .

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Chess dot com's KZbin and Twitch, should be fun!

@@perpetualchesspodcast9143 they are asking me to buy tickets🥲

I doubt Ben has any condition, but we can all see that you got a bad case of massive jerk.

It's true he took too long

Check the video description

She did great! Its not easy to compete on that stage when she was rated 1000 less than two years ago.

Rooting for a close match, so I hope you are right!

Thank you!

Cheers, should be an entertaining match.

Bro, it takes efforts to speak and think at the same time, especially publicly speaking

He's still blundering, acting spoiled. He's a professional and he should act like one.

Honestly, if he had just humbled himself and apologised so much would not have happened. He’s lost to other low rated opposition before and never done anything like that, really strange and sad, he is a big ambassador for chess and should have been more mindful of how he acted towards a player of Hans’s age.

Original sin here is St. Louis Chess Club in my opinion. More than one player expressed concerns about Hans being a last minute addition because of his reputation as a cheater, and SLCC should have addressed those concerns by increasing security measures and helped everyone feel more secure in the fair play of the tournament. Instead, they basically told them to stuff their concerns and file an official complaint that wouldn't be processed before the tournament ended because of the last minute nature of Hans' addition. SLCC had the opportunity to allay concerns and help Hans have greater air of certainty about his games. Instead, they did nothing (which seems to be something organizers have been doing given other tournaments that have had concerns brought up publicly), so Magnus did something he had done before, made something he saw as a wrong committed by SLCC and made it public to force change. Last time it was because 3 players tied for 1st and one of them was going to be cut out of the elimination games, Magnus made public that he wouldn't stand for that and Sinquefield changed course. This time, SLCC had the ability to increase security (they pretty quickly instituted more security measures that they still use) and instead hoped the players would let it go. Magnus was wrong, but his sin was because of SLCC's original sin.

​@@johncreekpaum4998 Extra security takes time and money, and they ignored what was obvious hysteria caused by unfounded suspicions and personal feelings about Hans. It's hard to fault them for that.

@@bluefin.64 Extra security they were able to get at the drop of a hat after the blow up, and hysteria that was ultimately founded in the fact that Hans had cheated online against one of the players in the tournament (Nepo). SLCC denied the "hysteria", then Hans admits to cheating in the past which proves the players right and SLCC should have listened. They ended up having to spend the extra money, probably spent more because they needed to rush everything, and all the drama is avoided if SLCC does the right thing for both the players and Hans. Say they believe his play is above board, and to make sure everyone knows that they beef up security (which they had to do anyway).

Did you hear the list of chess luminaries Hans has recently beat? He’s top 20 in the world. He also beat Magnus twice…

There aren't going to be 'better' players for very long.

Hmm hans chessbots and fake account

On the live list Hans is currently tied for 16th with Shak, ahead of Duda, MVL, Keymer, Aronian, Giri, and Vidit, among others. You don't get there by playing bad chess.

@@bluefin.64 if I wanted any of you ya all opinion I'd call it off my zipper

Can is a great guy and an awesome trainer.

@@perpetualchesspodcast9143 You are for sure a great guy too and I really love your podcasts. Amazingly information rich and interesting. Keep on going like this and I hope you will have some time to enjoy the chess game yourself too 😀 (Plus all the other aspects of life!)

Totally agree!

Anyone in particular you want to hear from?

Fair point, always open to suggestions!

@@perpetualchesspodcast9143 Sorry, I have no suggestions. You have over the years done an amazing job in finding a lot of interesting trainers, adult improvers, topplayers etc., so I better leave that all up to you 🙂 I just vote for less of the mentioned trend.

Mic could be better but it was understandable at 2x