Lets play a game of Chess

[Taras]

I vote 14. a5

Also, I recreated the vote chart in Powerpoint:

This is the current standing, not the final vote.
When I get back to my PC, I will go back to the old design.

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[letsplayagame]

COIP (chess over IP) doesn't work with money involved. it's impossible to prevent cheating.

I agree. It is an issue organizers are dealing with at major live tournaments:

http://www.chess.com/news/unprecedented-anti-cheating-measures-at-baku-world-cup-9609?page=4

Cheating online is extremely trivial and the incentive to do so would increase exponentially when btc is at stake

[dre1982]

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?

[languagehasmeaning]

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

[Taras]

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

[actmyname]

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

[languagehasmeaning]

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?

[Taras]

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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%).

[languagehasmeaning]

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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

[jjacob]

My vote for axb5.

About a5, I see the Queen being pushed to a7 (I don't think Qc6 will be played, because we can play Ng4 or Ne1 and attack the Queen). We can then play Be3 or Bc7, but I don't see it developing.

e4 appears to weaken the d pawn and I am not in favour of it.

[dre1982]

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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%).

Nakamura is also the look a like of the younger satoshi. :-)

I also think he is the one. I don't see others maling scripts to do this.

If this game becomes a draw it must be Giri or Leko.

[Foxpup]

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.

[Taras]

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:

[Foxpup]

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.

[dre1982]

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.

[languagehasmeaning]

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

[bitcoinboy12]

I vote for a5 50% and 30% for axb5 and then 20% for e4...  

[dre1982]

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

I also think that. Rf2 make no sense.

Just read whole topic. Very nice to play a game like this.

Kind of the games Magnus Vs The World.

[languagehasmeaning]

I vote for a5 50% and 30% for axb5 and then 20% for e4...  

Just choose one move please so it can be counted:)

Check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nbsr5E9HKk

Could this 16 year old become the next Magnus Carlsen?

By winning this tournament (challengers section) he qualified for Tata Steel Masters Section 2016
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/news/view/id/852/c/Carlsen_wins_Tata_Steel_Chess_Tournament_2015

[dre1982]

I vote for a5 50% and 30% for axb5 and then 20% for e4...  

Just choose one move please so it can be counted:)

Check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nbsr5E9HKk

Could this 16 year old become the next Magnus Carlsen?

By winning this tournament (challengers section) he qualified for Tata Steel Masters Section 2016
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/news/view/id/852/c/Carlsen_wins_Tata_Steel_Chess_Tournament_2015

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.