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Kenyan Player Expelled After Pretending To Be A Woman To Win Lucrative Prize
Peter Doggers
Updated: Apr 13, 2023, 9:00 AMA mysterious participant in the women’s section of the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, Kenya was exposed as a male impostor and removed from the tournament. The player, whose identity was not made public, admitted to the cheating and said it was motivated by financial problems.
The player had registered under the name Millicent Awuor for the women’s section of the Kenya Open, which is currently underway. He raised suspicion when he won two games in a row, including a win against the former national champion Gloria Jumba (rated 1487), before losing to the Ugandan top player Ampaira Shakira (rated 1702).
To keep his identity hidden, he was wearing a niqab each day which left only his glasses and eyes visible. After the end of his games, he wouldn’t talk to anyone. When registering for the tournament, the player “never uttered a word” and “simply wrote on a paper his name,” according to organizer and Kenyan Chess Federation President Benard Wanjala.
Chief arbiter Antony Kionga told Chess.com that the staff initially was cautious to interfere, as they were taking into account the possibility that they were dealing with an orthodox Muslim woman. However, as the tournament went underway, both players and arbiters noticed that the person in question had an odd walking style and was wearing shoes commonly used by men.
After the fourth round, Kionga decided to take the player to a private room, where he asked for an identification document. The player, a university student, then admitted to his wrongdoing. “The reason was due to financial needs but I deeply regret my action and [am] ready to accept all consequences,” he wrote in a letter.
What a primitive country Kenya is, where an impostor feels bad, apologizes, and is willing to accept his punishment for dressing up as the opposite sex in order to cheat his way to victory.
Thanks to exceptional sponsorship, this year’s Kenya Open tournament has a total prize fund of $42,000. There are 10 prizes in the women’s section, which has a first prize of 500,000 Kenyan Shillings ($3,815). The open section, where the first prize is one million Kenyan Shillings ($7,630), attracted seven international grandmasters.
The impostor player, who has an international classical rating close to 1500 and a blitz rating close to 1750, has been expelled from the tournament pending disciplinary action. The points that he scored were reversed and awarded to his opponents.
We’re so much more advanced in our Ivy League.
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I’m betting he actually said “Show us your tits!”
Seriously though, great story. Has everything.
Notice how the shoes were a tell. I hear the fashion statement is done by the feet in cloaked societies.
OTish…
When I was kid, the press used to have fun stories about the person with the world’s longest fingernails or moustache.
Now:
‘It’s about pride’: Louisiana woman sets record for world’s largest afro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/15/largest-afro-guinness-world-record
Is there nothing interesting about black women apart from their hair?
OTOH chess could be said to be a game in which males have no physical advantage, unless that is you’ve seen that the intelligence Bell Curve is flatter for men than for women i.e. more male morons but also more male genii. Nature throws the dice more with males.
Played a lot of chess in my teens at school, losing to a girl always felt slightly humiliating (same with fencing but I only dabbled at that while at uni), unlike losing to a boy where you just think ‘he’s better than me’ and forget it.
The Kenyans are obviously well up on these Bell Curve stats.
The leaks reveal that more than ONE DOZEN US troops are now in Ukraine. Do you hear that? More than ONE DOZEN! I would restock the fallout shelter if I were you!
Perhaps the rumors about America’s first Kenyan President’s “Wife” make them more cautious.
Great. Welcome to caution city...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TYkGa0NOY8uC/Replies: @BB753
Played a lot of chess in my teens at school, losing to a girl always felt slightly humiliating (same with fencing but I only dabbled at that while at uni), unlike losing to a boy where you just think 'he's better than me' and forget it.
The Kenyans are obviously well up on these Bell Curve stats.Replies: @Wokechoke, @Renard, @Bill Jones
Women don’t play chess well apparently. They lag badly on world ratings with a separate league, which I find surprising as it is a purely intellectual expertise.
Women tend towards cooperation and nurturing: all the pieces should have a nice tea party together.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I know, I'm proud of him. Especially these couple of days, that is, as I've got him doing our Fed and State income taxes on paper. Not my job anymore.
This is a very low rating. It describes an average player who knows the rules and doesn’t make trash mistakes. I’m glad that AI is being created. The future doesn’t seem like it will have a lot of surplus biological computing power.
There are somewhere between 600,000,000 and 800,000,000 people in this world who play chess, and 36,000 with a rating of 1500 or above.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“What a primitive country Kenya is, where an impostor feels bad, apologizes, and is willing to accept his punishment for dressing up as the opposite sex in order to cheat his way to victory.”
So if we’re going to use one individual’s actions to represent an entire country’s morality, ok fine. He admitted his guilt and apologized. But he did, you know, dress up as a woman and cheat before that.
After he'd lost (as he did) he then could have gone on to identify as a man... until the next high-prized chess tourney.
When I was kid, the press used to have fun stories about the person with the world's longest fingernails or moustache.
Now:
‘It’s about pride’: Louisiana woman sets record for world’s largest afro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/15/largest-afro-guinness-world-record
Is there nothing interesting about black women apart from their hair?Replies: @Renard, @Meretricious
Well, there’s the fact that they’ve achieved approximately 90% representation in advertising.. That must count for something.
But like Beyoncé and awards, until that 90% is 100% we still have a long, long way to go.
Played a lot of chess in my teens at school, losing to a girl always felt slightly humiliating (same with fencing but I only dabbled at that while at uni), unlike losing to a boy where you just think 'he's better than me' and forget it.
The Kenyans are obviously well up on these Bell Curve stats.Replies: @Wokechoke, @Renard, @Bill Jones
Personally I think genii is the plural of genie. In which case it’s still true. Except for Barbara Eden and a couple others.
This sperg bait post brought to you by the Fox of iSteve.
“The queens we use would not excite you.”
Seriously though, great story. Has everything.Replies: @bomag, @DinduNuffins, @Shamu, @AndrewR
Agree.
Notice how the shoes were a tell. I hear the fashion statement is done by the feet in cloaked societies.
Best African chess player? Is that like the world’s tallest midget?
https://www.goodthingsguy.com/people/6-saffas-maths-olimpiad/
(OK, so the reporter needs to work on their spelling skills)Replies: @International Jew
Has components that favor classical male traits: combativeness; martial acumen; strategic planning; tactical execution; etc.
Women tend towards cooperation and nurturing: all the pieces should have a nice tea party together.
What is the most passive-aggressive move in board games or sports?Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
‘Rapists in our Rooms’ Insider Footage Shows Inmate Distressed Over Transgender Assaults on Women – O’Keefe Media Group
Footage inside Washington State’s Correctional Center for Women shows a distressed inmate sounding off about the prison’s transgender friendly policy. As a result of the policy violent male offenders are put in positions where they can take advantage of female inmate including in the same cell.
Played a lot of chess in my teens at school, losing to a girl always felt slightly humiliating (same with fencing but I only dabbled at that while at uni), unlike losing to a boy where you just think 'he's better than me' and forget it.
The Kenyans are obviously well up on these Bell Curve stats.Replies: @Wokechoke, @Renard, @Bill Jones
Apart from the average 7% or so larger brain?
Maybe the extra 7% brain is devoted to throwing things ('he throws like a girl!') which would be useful for hunting and fighting, hitting things (ditto), and catching things?Replies: @Bill Jones, @Bill Jones
What a primitive country Kenya is, where the media is willing to report that an impostor feels bad, apologizes, and is willing to accept his punishment for suiting up as the opposite sex in order to cheat his way to victory.
https://babylonbee.com/news/pentagon-leaker-kicking-himself-for-not-just-leaving-classified-documents-strewn-around-his-garage
Musk’s favorite news site does it again.
Obviously doing this in hopes of collecting the ~3k prize rather than to make a mockery of the situation already shows a lack of foresight, but a complete beginner could probably get better than 1487 in a few weeks of study/online chess.
Seriously though, great story. Has everything.Replies: @bomag, @DinduNuffins, @Shamu, @AndrewR
“decided to take the player to a private room” ok then.
Seriously though, great story. Has everything.Replies: @bomag, @DinduNuffins, @Shamu, @AndrewR
Right now, there are American Numinous Negroes trying to figure out how to get this guy over here so a ‘black woman’ can win the US college chess championship. Because the ‘black woman’ would get double Affirmative Action helps.
My understanding is that women and men have approximately the same average (mean) IQ, despite whatever brain differences there may be, but more IQ variance i.e. more nitwits and more clever-clogs.
Maybe the extra 7% brain is devoted to throwing things (‘he throws like a girl!‘) which would be useful for hunting and fighting, hitting things (ditto), and catching things?
Alas, finishing the Puttanesca sauce calls.
https://front.emilkirkegaard.dk/
“The player had registered under the name Millicent Awuor for the women’s section of the Kenya Open”
It was his choice of name, Millicent which gave him away. Only a man would choose an old fashioned name like that. Also, how many women wear burkhas in Kenia?
Musk's favorite news site does it again.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Nicholas Stix
I like this one
I love the States, but chocolate, beer and bacon are three areas where they fall down. Californian wine can be excellent though.
Footwear used to be the ‘tell’ for undercover police in the UK. Every radical leftist and environmentalist group had people with dyed and dreadlocked hair, scruffy clothes etc. And then there was Paul who had the same hair, but also wore police boots and had a neat moustache.
Ah yes Here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171
Isn't montebello some sort of mushroom?
WWT insanity … what’s left to be said?
I will say, that from the stories I’ve read this Will Thomas dude is one particularly obnoxious prick. Pretty clear he’s not remotely into being a girl, but he gets off emotionally (sexually?) on abusing and humiliating the girls.
He’s a narcissistic sociopath … aided and feted by our establishment.
What does it say about America that he hasn’t gotten the beatdown from the girl’s fathers/brother/boyfriends he has been begging for?
Apparently Steve cannot.Replies: @AnotherDad
Seriously though, great story. Has everything.Replies: @bomag, @DinduNuffins, @Shamu, @AndrewR
It sounds like Kenya needs some Freedom and Democracy.
It seems this sense of shame has been largely eliminated here in the US.
Wasn’t it in Canada where the filth finally admitted that they sparked the “riots” after the intertubes showed all the “leaders” wearing the same boots?
Ah yes Here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171
Isn’t montebello some sort of mushroom?
I will say, that from the stories I've read this Will Thomas dude is one particularly obnoxious prick. Pretty clear he's not remotely into being a girl, but he gets off emotionally (sexually?) on abusing and humiliating the girls.
He's a narcissistic sociopath ... aided and feted by our establishment.
What does it say about America that he hasn't gotten the beatdown from the girl's fathers/brother/boyfriends he has been begging for?Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anonymous
He could at least had the surgery done to his size 14 feet, the hairy toes sticking out of the Louboutins were the giveaway.
What? Haven’t you watched The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix? It literally proves women are just as good, if not better, than men at chess!
While that insanity was taking place, I had wondered what would happen if the guy defeated the daughter of someone in the Outfit. He might have gotten paid a visit. “Hey you. Hey Thomas. We hear to like to be in water”. Fortunately for him, he defeated only daughters of polite people who peacefully accept their own humiliation.
So if we're going to use one individual's actions to represent an entire country's morality, ok fine. He admitted his guilt and apologized. But he did, you know, dress up as a woman and cheat before that.Replies: @Anon
Good point. He should have just identified as a woman before the tourney and competed straight up in his bass voice and unshaven face. That would have been far more fair and moral.
After he’d lost (as he did) he then could have gone on to identify as a man… until the next high-prized chess tourney.
All the ads for Disneyland that show up on my Facebook feed depict African Americans on vacation. Have its executives decided to market Disneyland as black thing? Seems weird.
If they showed whites, goodwhites would avoid it like the plague, as they've been trained to do.
When I was kid, the press used to have fun stories about the person with the world's longest fingernails or moustache.
Now:
‘It’s about pride’: Louisiana woman sets record for world’s largest afro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/15/largest-afro-guinness-world-record
Is there nothing interesting about black women apart from their hair?Replies: @Renard, @Meretricious
“Hair” is just a symptom: the underlying pathology that makes black women so damn funny is tsunamis of narcissism
a deeper question is why we need sex segregated chess tournaments. I understand the reason in physical sports, but feminists have always tell us that intelectually women are equal with men
Yoko Ono, “Play It By Trust” (1966)
https://camstl.org/exhibitions/yoko-ono-play-it-by-trust/
See, she really *is* kind of an interesting critter after all.
Why are there two chess sections, male and female? There should be just one.
I will say, that from the stories I've read this Will Thomas dude is one particularly obnoxious prick. Pretty clear he's not remotely into being a girl, but he gets off emotionally (sexually?) on abusing and humiliating the girls.
He's a narcissistic sociopath ... aided and feted by our establishment.
What does it say about America that he hasn't gotten the beatdown from the girl's fathers/brother/boyfriends he has been begging for?Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anonymous
It is good for America to end segregation in sports. Can you not see that?
Apparently Steve cannot.
For example, separate male and female colleges, allowing male universities the opportunity to return to scholarship would be pretty helpful. You can have mixers and dances and stuff. Maybe there would even be a return to a little "mystery" and "romance".
Immigration is issue #1, but we will never have a real health path forward unless we return to the idea that men and women are indeed different. Complementary pieces of the puzzle. Seems like the trannys and sports can push a little understanding of that.Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anonymous
Given the size of its population, sub-Saharan Africa has produced very few strong chess players. (Unlike India, which is lousy with them). I have been led to believe that there are couple of black Africans who are lower tier Grandmasters (which is still extremely strong), but I couldn’t find them in a quick non-exhaustive country by country search on the FIDE site. Nigeria for example has zero Grandmasters and eight International Masters (the next level down). For comparison, Slovenia, population around 2,000,000, has 11 Grandmasters and 28 International Masters.
BTW, the world chess championship match, between a Russian and a Chinaman, is currently ongoing. As of today the Russian is up one game.
Or hell, give anyone an extra move, and he'd beat the world champ.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Fwiw, Nepo is Jewish.
Some Africans are quite good at mathematics, the South African International Math Olympiad team didn’t win the competition, but they placed well up in the results.
https://www.goodthingsguy.com/people/6-saffas-maths-olimpiad/
(OK, so the reporter needs to work on their spelling skills)
Thoroughly Modern Milli?
What is the ranking of the top male Kenyan chess player who Milli should have been playing against?
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What is the latest (final?) story behind the weird scandal with the Magnus Carlsen opponent who was reportedly cheating?
Right. That 1500 for normal time control is pretty sad for best woman in Kenya. My 11 1/2 y/o could get there if he’d stop playing the weird-ass variations on-line (like try to lose all pieces first, weird new pieces, etc) and get in a few months of improvement.
I know, I’m proud of him. Especially these couple of days, that is, as I’ve got him doing our Fed and State income taxes on paper. Not my job anymore.
Thanks!
This story brings up something to keep in mind if you’re trying to be anonymous for… reasons. People are easily recognizable by both other humans and software (so I’ve read on the latter) by their gait. Long ago, I saw my brother’s college roommate, an acquaintance more than close friend, out of the blue at a location 500 miles from where either of us lived… coming out of a bar at 5 in the afternoon. The only way I recognized him was by his walk.
If you keep this in mind, you could purposefully walk like that Verbil guy in The Usual Suspects or put a small screw in one shoe or something, I mean, if you were up to something …
I forgot to mention that no burkha -wearing Muslim woman would ever be called Millicent. A good old Saxon and Christian name.
Since Kenya has a sizable Muslim minority, my guess it’s for purposes of religious belief
No, a 1500 player is a lot better than that; he’d be the best player in a Midwestern town of 10,000, or the best player of the decade at your high school. A 1500 player would crush your brainy uncle at Thanksgiving.
But as the national champion — even the female national champion — of a country of 50 million, that really is utterly pathetic.
If Chess mattered more, they’d soon be instituting affirmative action. Give those Nigerian geniuses rook odds or something and they’d be up there with the best.
Or hell, give anyone an extra move, and he’d beat the world champ.
https://www.goodthingsguy.com/people/6-saffas-maths-olimpiad/
(OK, so the reporter needs to work on their spelling skills)Replies: @International Jew
Um, did you see the team photo? Two whites, three Asians, and one black.
The series of subjects and nouns in this post cannot be real so presumably chat GPT has finally captured @Isteve and is making an attempt at impersonation by focusing on his studies of transvestitism
smh
Kenyan tranny chess players….
nice try bots
Showing all black people and only black people is how they get goodwhites to show up.
If they showed whites, goodwhites would avoid it like the plague, as they’ve been trained to do.
https://camstl.org/exhibitions/yoko-ono-play-it-by-trust/
See, she really *is* kind of an interesting critter after all.Replies: @Renard
Why did you emphasize the word *is* when your example is nearly 60 years old?
Believe it or not, I actually *like* this. But then again I also like Sun Ra and Hawaiian cooking, so don't mind me.You have to always remember: Yoko is fucking with them.
The answer to the question of why we need sex-segregated tournaments is simple: so females win as many awards as men.
You may be certain that before long they’ll take the men’s earnings as theyve done in fútbol.
What is the ranking of the top male Kenyan chess player who Milli should have been playing against?
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What is the latest (final?) story behind the weird scandal with the Magnus Carlsen opponent who was reportedly cheating?Replies: @jb
Kenya has no Grandmasters or even International Masters. Its highest rated player is Aslam Adam, currently ranked 19,450th in the world with a rating of 2205, which is enough to kick my sorry ass, but wouldn’t even make him the top chess hustler in Washington Square Park.
I don’t know why they hold women’s tournaments but unlike tennis or boxing women regularly compete against men in chess tournaments and (at least in the USA) there’s a single numerical rating system so no one is ever in doubt as to where any women stacks up against the men. Right now, the #1 US woman is #78 overall: https://tinyurl.com/y2s8s6sj
Guy should never have copped to anything.
Just keep insisting you’re a woman, dude. That’s how it works.
give up!let 'em see your penis!Or hell, give anyone an extra move, and he'd beat the world champ.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Do you mean an extra move at any time during the game? Otherwise, well, just let the fake women and real Black! players always be White… wait… PLAY as White.
BTW, half disagreement on your other comment: I agree that a 1500 rated player doesn’t just know the rules and that. I don’t think he’d be the best player in a Midwestern (or any American) town of 10,000 people. There’d probably a dozen or couple of dozen. They tend to be not very popular, you know …
Just keep insisting you're a woman, dude. That's how it works.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Right! Never, never, never
give up!let ’em see your penis!https://media.wnyc.org/i/800/0/c/85/1/murray_head.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @Burnett
When we wuz Kweenz…
Maybe the extra 7% brain is devoted to throwing things ('he throws like a girl!') which would be useful for hunting and fighting, hitting things (ditto), and catching things?Replies: @Bill Jones, @Bill Jones
Last I saw there was a 3-4 point difference in IQ. Can’t recall who did the study might be my favorite Dane, Kirkegaad.
Alas, finishing the Puttanesca sauce calls.
https://front.emilkirkegaard.dk/
I’m sure you’ve noticed that blacks are about 10x over-represented in all ads, web sites, etc. For example, from the splash page at Bank of America, you’d think that 80% of all banking customers were black females.
Do you want to be the guy who speaks up at the staff meeting and says “I think our advertising has become too black.”
“Why did you emphasize the word *is* when your example is nearly 60 years old?”
Riddim, mon.
Believe it or not, I actually *like* this. But then again I also like Sun Ra and Hawaiian cooking, so don’t mind me.
You have to always remember: Yoko is fucking with them.
Apparently Steve cannot.Replies: @AnotherDad
Actually, I think we’d be much better off with much more acknowledgement of male/female differences and re-establishing segregation in a lot of areas.
For example, separate male and female colleges, allowing male universities the opportunity to return to scholarship would be pretty helpful. You can have mixers and dances and stuff. Maybe there would even be a return to a little “mystery” and “romance”.
Immigration is issue #1, but we will never have a real health path forward unless we return to the idea that men and women are indeed different. Complementary pieces of the puzzle. Seems like the trannys and sports can push a little understanding of that.
In just 60 years women have destroyed Switzerland's hallowed tradition of neutrality, starting in the 1500's and nailed in stone in 1812.
https://media.wnyc.org/i/800/0/c/85/1/murray_head.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @Burnett
Well played sir!
BTW, the world chess championship match, between a Russian and a Chinaman, is currently ongoing. As of today the Russian is up one game.
Fwiw, Nepo is Jewish.
Yeah, one extra move, at a time of the player’s choosing.
Men are better than women at almost everything, including and especially at “purely intellectual expertises”. Here, the word “better” means that “The top n%(n can be any positive real number<10) of men in (insert any “purely intellectual expertise” here) are always better than the top n% of women in that expertise, and the performance gap between the sexes grows exponentially as n decreases.” And the word “exponential” here is used as the precise mathematical meaning of exponential growth, not a figurative one.
Maybe the extra 7% brain is devoted to throwing things ('he throws like a girl!') which would be useful for hunting and fighting, hitting things (ditto), and catching things?Replies: @Bill Jones, @Bill Jones
From top 3 results of a Brave search on ” iq difference between the sexes”
For example, separate male and female colleges, allowing male universities the opportunity to return to scholarship would be pretty helpful. You can have mixers and dances and stuff. Maybe there would even be a return to a little "mystery" and "romance".
Immigration is issue #1, but we will never have a real health path forward unless we return to the idea that men and women are indeed different. Complementary pieces of the puzzle. Seems like the trannys and sports can push a little understanding of that.Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anonymous
And one area of segregation would be at the voting booth. Women file their votes directly into the shredder.
In just 60 years women have destroyed Switzerland’s hallowed tradition of neutrality, starting in the 1500’s and nailed in stone in 1812.
Musk's favorite news site does it again.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Nicholas Stix
I’d wondered what Mark Texeira was up to, since retiring from the yankees.
Well, I hope you got the message, Steve, re putting this in your book of one-liners. Having read you for just over 23 years and millions of words, I’m not much use when it comes to phrases, as opposed to topics.
Would they make you more cautious?
Great. Welcome to caution city…
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women can’t compete with men in a non-physical strategy game like chess. Are there other games where women are worthy opponents? How do they fare at elite levels in Scrabble or Go for example?
For example, separate male and female colleges, allowing male universities the opportunity to return to scholarship would be pretty helpful. You can have mixers and dances and stuff. Maybe there would even be a return to a little "mystery" and "romance".
Immigration is issue #1, but we will never have a real health path forward unless we return to the idea that men and women are indeed different. Complementary pieces of the puzzle. Seems like the trannys and sports can push a little understanding of that.Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anonymous
The best pathway available right now toward that acknowledgment is de-segregation of sports, either de jure by having only all-sex categories or de facto by allowing transgenderism. Let it ride.
You also mentioned mystery and romance. The showcasing and emphasis of men’s natural athletic abilities that would come from de-segregation would help develop a healthy sense of awe and respect in women toward men, increasing attraction. Also, a lesser emphasis on women’s sports would mean less woman-hours spent on weekend traveling (away from local men) and competing against other women and on excessive athletics training, and more woman-hours spent dating and developing family-formation conducive skills.
No, it isn’t
There are somewhere between 600,000,000 and 800,000,000 people in this world who play chess, and 36,000 with a rating of 1500 or above.
If you notice a 90% black female representation in advertising, you should probably watch something other than BET once in a while.
Well if Tucker Carlson has declared war, then who needs Congress?
The leaks reveal that more than ONE DOZEN US troops are now in Ukraine. Do you hear that? More than ONE DOZEN! I would restock the fallout shelter if I were you!
Not unless that midget was taller than you, Old Sport, because the best chess player in Africa would whoop your ass.
Yep, met all five of them. 3 of them did that annoying robo-matic "prison-chess" thang, and out of the other two, one of them was close, and the other one did in fact whoop my ass. Out of a sample of 900 million. Odds are funny things.
Even with an extra move at the time of his choosing a 1500 player would have a hard time winning the title. Hikaru Nakamura, a very strong Grandmaster, did a “speed run” on YouTube recently where he deliberately blundered his queen against lower ranked players, and he was beating players rated as high as 2300 and 2400 before he finally ran out of steam. Unless the extra move allowed you to actually capture the king a 1500 rated player might have a hard time figuring out how to take advantage of it.
The Spectator just ran an article about “chess pie”. Which is all about faking it.
How to make chess pie
Anyone ever try the “mock apple pie” the recipe for which long graced the Ritz crackers box?
Women tend towards cooperation and nurturing: all the pieces should have a nice tea party together.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
…while quietly stabbing one another in the back.
What is the most passive-aggressive move in board games or sports?
What is the most passive-aggressive move in board games or sports?Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“What is the most passive-aggressive move in board games or sports?”
Castling queenside. Although actually, if you know how to storm a side in a blitz, it works. The other most passive-aggressive move is pressuring the center instead of controlling it. Do both, and surprise!, you win.
There are somewhere between 600,000,000 and 800,000,000 people in this world who play chess, and 36,000 with a rating of 1500 or above.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“There are somewhere between 600,000,000 and 800,000,000 people in this world who play chess, and 36,000 with a rating of 1500 or above.”
Well, there are 36,000 people who do something so tedious as “get rated.” Garcon! Another pernod over here, while my friend tries his tiresome variation on the Nimzo-Indian.
“because the best chess player in Africa would whoop your ass.”
Yep, met all five of them. 3 of them did that annoying robo-matic “prison-chess” thang, and out of the other two, one of them was close, and the other one did in fact whoop my ass. Out of a sample of 900 million. Odds are funny things.
Great. Welcome to caution city...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TYkGa0NOY8uC/Replies: @BB753
Truth, still transvestigatin’?
As white, on my second move I’d go Qh5 and my queen would be forking Hikaru’s king and rook.
He Transvestigated, I made an addition.
In that particular case Hikaru could protect his King with g6 and let you have the rook, because to take it you need to use your extra move, after which it’s just normal chess with Hikaru down a rook, and he can beat you without it. The only real issue is two move checkmates; protecting against those looks hard, but I suspect a top player like Hikaru might be able to manage it against a 1500 rated opponent.
The 1500 would need to hang in there long enough to get a piece where it's two moves away from Hikaru's king. Landing that sucker punch, hmm, I'd be interested to try but I don't know any strong players who'd want to waste their time with me.
Yeah, don’t put your WIC coupons on the line, bro-ham.
Then use all of the winnings to take my wife out for a nice steak and fries.
You’re right, a 1500 won’t beat a 2800 player with just rook odds. I was trying to illustrate the principle, but I was too lazy to work out a new opening all my own!
The 1500 would need to hang in there long enough to get a piece where it’s two moves away from Hikaru’s king. Landing that sucker punch, hmm, I’d be interested to try but I don’t know any strong players who’d want to waste their time with me.
Old Sport, I’d bet 5 of YOUR Paychecks on that happening.
Then use all of the winnings to take my wife out for a nice steak and fries.
Your description and my description do not contradict at their core. You have to be brilliant to get higher than that score without learning openings and/or without rote learning of moves etc (I was!), but any average player with a small amount of conscientiousness can score that highly, and higher, if they do the boring stuff first.
Rote learning of openings etc will do it for anyone average. It is boring as it takes the magic out of the game, but it really is all that is needed to play at that level. A lot of really intelligent people who played chess when young don’t know this, of course, as they didn’t spend 2-3 months learning this stuff, but, had they, they would be much better players than 1500.