Is anybody else interested in Ng5?
If it was a local game, I would have played it. I am not sure if it is the right move against a Grand Master.
Black can just play h6 and force you to retreat. If your idea is to eventually play d4 (or dxc4 after c4) opening the queen and then e5 hoping the f6 knight will move so you can play Qxh7 check, it wont work. If it does work it will prove we are not really playing a GM. |
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I like h3 too.) b3 doesn't save us at the queen side in any case, h3 is uncomfortable for black at the king side, we can quickly open the center after black c4 and start active game at the king side.
16. h3 Looks okay to me too and is my 2nd choice after b3. I say its my second choice because I would rather black be forced to recapture on c4 with his pawn instead of his rook. After 16. h3 c4 17. dxc4 Rxc4 Material is still even but his rook is active and he can make threats against our e pawn and our knight that is pinned to our queen on c3. We may have the chance to defend by playing Ne5 (which defends e4 again) and trading off some pieces. |
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I like both the suggested b3 and h3. With b3 we'll have a better final position after reacting to the Black c4, while with h3 we could then move the Bishop to e3, where I think we really need it to be. But before my vote, I would like to ask you what do you think about the following move, if it could work or if it deserves one or more question marks.  Let me introduce... 16. e5After this, Black will need to move the Knight in f6 (he can't take our pawn with the other Knight because of our Bishop). Now, where can he move? There are only few options, and they all seem favourable to us: Ne8 (the Knight has been pushed back to the starting line, we can move Be3) Nh5 (sort of like above, we can move Be3) Ng4 (now we can play h3; after that the Knight in g4 will not take the e5 pawn because it isn't a favourable swap for him) Ne4 (forget about it: we would take the Knight with dxe4 or Nxe4) Nd5 (now Be3 is precluded to us, but we could decide to swap the Knights with Nxd5. Black'll then move exd5 letting us, if it's worth it, to move our pawn to e6 with suicidal tendencies to break the castle wall). What do you think? 16. e5 is reasonable Nd5 is clearly the best square for black to move to. I don't think black will play exd5 as it would block in his bishop. Instead this looks good for black 16. e5 Nd5 17. Nxd5 Bxd5 Its not a horrible position for us but black looks better developed to me |
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16. b3 looks good
We cant actually stop c4 but we can force him to recapture with his pawn instead of his rook.
One possible continuation is
16. b3 c4
17. bxc4 bxc4
18. d4
He will be on the attack but our center pawns are finally looking more aggressively placed
Indeed b3 is a good move. with your line is even 18. Ld3 stronger I guess. What is 18. Ld3? Do you mean Bishop to e3? I know L means bishop in some languages. We cant move a bishop to d3 but we can move one to e3. 16. b3 c4 17. bxc4 bxc4 18. d4 Bb4 puts pressure on e4 by attacking our knight which defends it. If we have to play e5 then black will have nice d5 square for his knight I thought some more about your comment (if 18 Ld3 means Be3 somehow). If we want to play Be3 on move 18 then maybe we should play dxc4 on move 17. That way if black captures our pawn he must capture cxb3 and allow Qxb3 which I think is a better square for our queen than if we allow cxd3 and Qxd3. 16. b3 c4 17. dxc4 bxc4 18. Be3 forcing black to retreat his queen or allow us to trade pieces on c5 |
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16. b3 looks good
We cant actually stop c4 but we can force him to recapture with his pawn instead of his rook.
One possible continuation is
16. b3 c4
17. bxc4 bxc4
18. d4
He will be on the attack but our center pawns are finally looking more aggressively placed
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I think I'd rather see us survive as long as possible, maybe go for 1/2-1/2 by getting stalemated or pulling the fifty move rule.
Coming from a chess player, the best chance we have (should we lose a pawn) is either opposite colored bishop ending or rook ending. Keep your eyes peeled for possible queen trades. Though an endgame will be difficult against an experienced player, if we pool our resources together and pick the best moves, it will eventually turn into a draw. Both 50 move rule and stalemate are extremely rare at high level. I did find one very recent example (from World Cup) where 50 move rule should have ended the game until Bruzon blundered at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjsHwPYjAPAI saved a game once at rated expert club level by claiming threefold repetition, but it was kind of not an obvious case (it was over the course of a lot of moves). The opponent was furious that I made the claim and even accused me of lying, until the TD came over and certified it during a clock stoppage. Congratulations! You opponent should be mad at himself not you. You just counted correctly. Counting is easier if the repetitions are consecutive instead of spread out over many moves with lots of random maneuvering. |
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I just ran a Mint 17.2 livecd to test this and I'm seeing the same thing. Looking into it. Nice to see the testing going on. I will run the new db version on Ubuntu later and post if I have any problems |
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Both 50 move rule and stalemate are extremely rare at high level. I did find one very recent example (from World Cup) where 50 move rule should have ended the game until Bruzon blundered at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjsHwPYjAPAReason why they're so rare? This should be obvious, but GMs already know if a game is drawn or not and they'll agree prior to any forced drawing conditions. I agree with you. I just posted an interesting example of where it almost happened. |
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I think I'd rather see us survive as long as possible, maybe go for 1/2-1/2 by getting stalemated or pulling the fifty move rule.
Coming from a chess player, the best chance we have (should we lose a pawn) is either opposite colored bishop ending or rook ending. Keep your eyes peeled for possible queen trades. Though an endgame will be difficult against an experienced player, if we pool our resources together and pick the best moves, it will eventually turn into a draw. Both 50 move rule and stalemate are extremely rare at high level. I did find one very recent example (from World Cup) where 50 move rule should have ended the game until Bruzon blundered at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjsHwPYjAPA |
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If we vote e4 then that's going to cause a serious backward pawn weakness on d3. You also hem in your fianchettoed bishop. Honestly, I'd still want b3 to be played.
I hate being stuck on the defensive. I liked the plan of going for d4 after we played Rfd1. It looks like d4 is harder to play than I thought for tactical reasons. It sounds like we know black is planning Rac8 and c4 I will support b3 now to slow him down. Definitely d4 cannot be played due to c4 by black. If we want to play d4 ourselves we need to go h3 Be3 b3 then d4 which allows black a lot of time to generate counterplay, maybe in the form of a kingside attack I mentioned h3 and Be3 a few moves ago ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148538.msg12458977#msg12458977) but you are right about it being a slow plan The more I look at the current position the less I like it:( |
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I'm an idiot, so take what I say with a grain of salt but I went 100% Monero a long time ago.
The way I see it, if Bitcoin rises significantly, so will other promising crypto. In fact, if Bitcoin rises significantly I am pretty sure it's flaws will only be highlighted more and people will say: 'well what else is there?' and will find Monero.
I see very few situations where bitcoin has a massive rise that Monero doesn't at least equal.
I also think we have tested the support at 40 to 50 cents for too long now, and it's unlikely we would drop below 40 cents again.
But you know, on the other hand, I don't own all the Monero I want yet.... (I get my bonus next month) - so fuck it: "Monero is dead, and sell them to me cheap before you lose everything."
You are not an idiot and I enjoy your posts. I really like Monero and consider myself a bull. Maybe some other Monero fans will agree with me. I don't think it is wise to go all in (100% allocation) for any investment. |
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If we vote e4 then that's going to cause a serious backward pawn weakness on d3. You also hem in your fianchettoed bishop. Honestly, I'd still want b3 to be played.
I hate being stuck on the defensive. I liked the plan of going for d4 after we played Rfd1. It looks like d4 is harder to play than I thought for tactical reasons. It sounds like we know black is planning Rac8 and c4 I will support 15. b3 now to slow him down. |
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is it just me or is it hat the last year there becomes suddenly a lot a strong Chinese players? And if so, why us it? Do they rediscovered Chess. There are lot of strong Chinese players now. I am not sure about the reason. It is a large country. Russia (and former Soviet Union) always had a lot of strong players. Maybe now the rest of the world is just catching up. Wei Yi seems like a special talent based on his age and rating |
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I much prefer axb5 over a5, so that's my vote if e4 isn't popular. Which I believe gives us three votes for axb5 (jjacob, Timelord2067, and myself), three votes for a5 (Taras, abacus, and ErisDiscordia), and one vote for e4 (gotmilk_). Greenlion voted for Rf2, but that is not a legal move.
You missed languagehasmeaning:  Man, I suck at counting votes. Okay, four votes for a5, three for axb5, one for e4. I would also prefer a5. That makes five votes for a5, three for axb5, one for e4. I am pretty sure Greenlion meant Rf1 not Rf2 |
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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  Nakamura is, name aside, actually a good candidate. He speaks perfect English, played games with the internet, usually sacrifices a pawn in the early game, and has a reddit account. However, Nakamura uses emoticons frequently, which OP has yet to do at all, even with the   SMF smilies. Additionally, 36% of Nakamura's sentences end with an exclamation point. This is far, far more than OP's ratio (<.1%). Nice analysis! I think the 36% of sentences ending with an exclamation point is solid evidence it is not him...... unless he was cognizant of this habit and purposely changed it to obscure his identity. Despite all the Eastern European and Asian names on the list I think that most of them read and write English pretty well. Have you heard Peter Svidler speak? No accent at all. I am not sure if this is related to anything but I think some chess players speak multiple languages (such as the Polgar sisters). I think many of the chess players on that list are active online on Twitter and Reddit. Several are very good poker players. Many have online chess accounts under a pseudonym (Smallville" and "Capilanobridge" for Nakamura and "thetwits" for Carlsen are two well known examples). Do we have consensus yet? 14. a5 appears to have a solid lead but some have not voted |
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I am wondering whether it is possible to make Bitcoin transactions untraceable or not? As long as I know, Altcoins like Monero, BitcoinDark or Dash are using different concepts in order to make transactions untraceable. Is it also possible for Bitcoin by using some extra tools?
xmr.to allows you to pay anyone that accepts btc completely anonymously by using monero |
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A lot of action over at MoneroDice tonight. User othe ended up with +15480 XMR profit today! At one point he was down -4k and the high was almost 20k.  Those are some big numbers |
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I did the queries , here are the candidates: 2816 Veselin Topalov
2814 Hikaru Nakamura
2808 Fabiano Caruana
2793 Anish Giri
2784 Dmitry Jakovenko
2782 Liren Ding
2777 Vladimir Kramnik
2773 Wesley So
2771 Alexander Grischuk
2765 Levon Aronian
2762 Sergey Karjakin
2758 Evgeny Tomashevsky
2744 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2742 Michael Adams
2741 Radoslaw Wojtaszek
2738 Teimour Radjabov
2737 Pendyala Harikrishna
2736 Shakhrivar Mamedyarov*
2734 Yi Wei
2732 Leinier Dominguez Perez
2728 David Navara
2727 Peter Svidler
2726 Vassily Ivanchuk
2725 Nikita Vitiugov
2721 Yangyi Yu
2720 Dmitry Andreikin
2717 Pavel Eljanov
2712 Hao Wang
2707 Peter Leko
2705 Ian Nepomniachtchi
2700 Anton Korobov* Maimdiarove's name is butchered horribly all the time and the correct spelling is unknown 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 Do you have any particular reason to thinks he likes bitcoin? |
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Some of you guys also follow the World Chess Cup?
There are some very nice games already be played an there will also be a lot of nice games. I follow the games by Chessbomb.
I am watching it. OP is playing in it! We don't know who he is but he has provided a few clues ow nice. And who do you think it is? OP still playing at the last 16? Your guess is as good as mine. These are the clues I have seen so far 1. He is not Magnus Carlsen: 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
2. He is not Ed Trice (impossible per #4) I am not Ed Trice.
3. He is not Bruzón Batista (impossible per #4)
It also looks like our esteemed opponent does not wish to confirm or deny that he is Bruzón Batista. I figured I was right.
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): 4. Rated over 2700 OP, are you a GM, IM, ranked on 2700chess, etc?
Yes I am a GM and ranked on that list. 5. He won round 1 in Baku 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.
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 |
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