I like e5 because if he doesn't play Nd4 he will have to retreat his knight at f6 to some position where it doesn't do much or else we take it. Also contrary to Ne2 it still leaves the door open for the Nxb5 plan dre1982 suggested.

I am looking at Nxb5 for trading the Knight for 2 pawns and after that we can build up pressure at the c5 pawn to even win this one.

150 votes already.
Hopefully we can get to 200 :-)

That worked for me. Thanks!

What are you talking about? The queen is on b3.

Both of what? We have one bishop, after trading the other for Black's knight.

I will be lecturing about investing to the junior college students in a few weeks. The course is all about investing (and maybe some entrepreneurship). Other guest lecturers are from banks.

I had thought to start the slideshow from a mock-up of a generic bank presentation, with title "diversification" and then 2 classes: stocks and bonds. Then the next slides would zoom this out so that eventually the listeners would realize that what was presented to them as the extent of diversification by the banks, would fit in a tiny corner of mainly-correlated instruments with mainly the same risk profile and total loss profile.

I vote for playing c5 (sicilian defense)

I would go here for 18. Nd2.

This will be a extra defense for our queenside and it also activates our bishop on g2.

A good candidat for OP is Giri Anish.



Young (21yo) from Netherlands where Bitcoin is quite popular there. He played many times Magnus Carlsen when junior, >2700, is very deep now in the Baku Tournament... and lived in Japan during 2002-2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Giri

I'd like to thank whoever it is because this thread is highly valuable (OP is world top best player !!), due to this thread for a week now I'm learning from zero Chess and it's a real blow, I like it very much spending a lot of time to learn openings and play. I was also digging a lot of information about the best players, their games, the history of Chess and when doing this I fell on this player and thought... well it could really be him !

BTW, the best free and ad-free chess website I've found is http://www.lichess.org have a look (they also have an app).

I will not be playing chess for either side in this game (visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148538 for that).  I am here because happy to see more people interested in chess and because of my interest in privacy.

My primary goal is to promote the adoption of bitcoin. I do not own any Monero or Boolberry.
 
I am interested in hearing some technical debate on the advantages and disadvantages of CryptoNote versus some of the alternatives mentioned and what BTC could potentially implement.  Please remain as unbiased as possible. If I can acknowledge that bitcoin has some potential weaknesses you should be able to do the same.

If you can provide sources to support your arguments that would be ideal. The more technical the better.

Has anyone seen Pawn Sacrifice yet? What did you think?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596345/releaseinfo

Parts of it are not accurate but I expect that with most movies.  

Chess problem time!

This was the position after you played 15. e4



If instead of 15....Rac8 I had played 15....Nb8 How should white proceed?

Some of you will see the answer immediately. Please give others some time to think before responding.  I can make more difficult puzzles on another occasion.

Your guess is as good as mine. These are the clues I have seen so far

1. He is not Magnus Carlsen:

2. He is not Ed Trice (impossible per #4)

3. He is not Bruzón Batista (impossible per #4)

4. Rated over 2700

5. He won round 1 in Baku

We don't know how he did in round 2 or 3 but most (maybe all?) people rated over 2700 were paired down in round 2 implying he had a >50% chance of advancing past round 2.

6. He is not Viswanathan Anand because he decided not to play in Baku

7. He is not Gata Kampsky (upset in round 1) but his current rating is below 2700 anyway (impossible per #4). From the top of my head I am not aware of any more major upsets of people in round 1 or people over 2700 who did not show up (aside from Carlsen and Anand already mentioned).

8. He is not satoshi (we don't know if Satoshi is a chess player or not but it would be funny if letsplayagame and satoshi played each other and were unaware of each others identities):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3lj2t9/long_term_goal_promoting_bitcoin_usage_for/cv757pc

If I am right it means that letsplayagame (Eljanov) just took out world #2 Nakamura (won yesterday and drew today to win 1.5-.5) and has advanced to the World Cup Semi Finals



http://www.bakuworldcup2015.com/content/26

Instead of Nakamura why not his opponent live right now?
http://en.chessbase.com/post/interview-with-pavel-eljanov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Eljanov

Nakamura vs Eljanov started 30 min ago
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/baku-world-cup-2015#live

Some evidence:
http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2015-worldcup/04-3-Jakovenko_Dmitry-Eljanov_Pavel (look at first 6 moves and compare to our game)

Exact same opening today in Nakamura vs Eljanov except he played Bd7 instead of Nbd7 on move 5?

If he afraid Nakamura is reading this thread and getting all his ideas (and switched his 5th move to throw him off)?

Will many GMs start following this thread now?

WTF!

ow nice. And who do you think it is? OP still playing at the last 16?

http://www.chess.com/news/magnus-carlsen-proposes-different-world-championship-format-2693[/url]

Before you draw any conclusions, I will give you one hint regarding my identity. I am not Magnus Carslen

I am not Ed Trice.

I prefer not to confirm or deny every guess or I may reveal myself quickly.   However I can deny in this case since I already provided a clue that eliminated him as a possibility (based on current ratings):

Yes I am a GM and ranked on that list.

http://www.bakuworldcup2015.com/[/url]

I don't plan to announce my results from my round 2 match because that would significantly narrow down the number of people I could be.

damn.. we have a lot of weakpoints now.
that even a child can exploit.
well i think the "GM" have the advantage in here.
since he can read all of our discusion in this game.
and even 1 person saw the best move but the others,
cant see the objective of it. it will be useless
since this is a majority votes where common moves
are following with common thinkers.
like if ones says i want to move e4. well others will just follow it.
even its not the best move.
i cannot see now the real purpose of this game for the "GM".
well ima out here. Goodluck guys.

I feel like Nakamura would be the bitcoin contender on this list. I don't know if that's our secret grandmaster, but I can hope