10th Annual Chess Tournament: Joffer wins 1st place (1 Viewer)

[Zow]

He makes it look easy - mostly because he's incredibly clear with explanations.  He's also the most sanguine person I've ever seen about the clock.  "Yes, I am looking at Bb7 here and there is 10 seconds on the clock to respond to GM Hikaru.  Maybe I should go ahead and play this move here..."  Blows me away.

I believe he's the most watched chess person on Youtube.  For good reason - he really excels at teaching.

Yep. Easily the best teacher. 

Though the GMs probably smoke him in actual play. He's to chess like Butch Harmon or Dave Stockton are to golf. 

 

[cashman88]

Any chess players here play blitz games?  I've been playing chess for 35 years, and for the last 10 years have mostly been playing blitz chess - 3 minute games or less.  I like being able to finish a game quickly.

 

[timschochet]

Joffer defeated BigJim. 

6-0! Congratulations on winning the tournament. 

 

[timschochet]

Any chess players here play blitz games?  I've been playing chess for 35 years, and for the last 10 years have mostly been playing blitz chess - 3 minute games or less.  I like being able to finish a game quickly.

Yes find me on lichess- timschochet

I like 5 minutes but will play 3

 

[Juxtatarot]

Congrats @joffer!

 

[cashman88]

Yes find me on lichess- timschochet

I like 5 minutes but will play 3

OK; I'm on chess.com - under cashman88

 

[Zow]

Congrats @joffer!

This

 

[Sand]

This

 

[joffer]

Thanks. I’ve been playing a lot lately.  Best my game has been in a while.

 

[cashman88]

Congrats, Jofffer

 

[kutta]

Thanks. I’ve been playing a lot lately.  Best my game has been in a while.

Congrats! I’m gonna try to play in the next one so you may want to be busy for that one

 

[Zow]

Woz beats @shuke

 

[Nick Vermeil]

I highly recommend the NY Times daily Chess puzzle.  It's my new favorite morning stop.  

 

[Zow]

We have final standings/win totals?

 

[Sand]

This seems the most appropriate place for this. It seems the Niemann Carlson imbroglio has gone nuts. It has even crept into mainstream news, Elon's tweets, etc. This is easily the best take on the whole situation:

https://i.redd.it/83ad3kd6okm91.jpg

So, if I ever start a band it will definitely be named Poopchute Stockfish.

 

[Psychopav]

I basically got nothing done at work yesterday just watching YouTubes about the controversy.

 

[Dezbelief]

There was some discussion here

Any Chess fans? ***Controversy at Sinquefeld Cup Sep 1-13***

Top two classical players in the world not named Magnus facing off in a blitz tie break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS2O1zyoiHI Updated link to start of blitz match

forums.footballguys.com

 

[Zow]

@timschochet seems like it’s about time for another one of these.