"I will NOT wear the hijab!"
If Nazi wins the championship again she will officially be a legend
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Already seven years ago she came an inch from winning the very strong Russian Superfinal, leading before losing her last game:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=72533
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Apr 6, 2017
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she's amazing I hope she wins. I'm also rooting for Carissa yip. only 13 she's AMAZING
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! After 9 rounds, both Caruana and Nakamura are at 50%!
I did predict at the beginning of the year that Caruana would drop below 2800 in 2017 before rising back up again (https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/will-caruana-drop-below-2800-again-in-2017). Right now he's at 2801.5, and the first part of my prophecy will happen if he scores 50% in his last two games. But I never expected that this would be how it happens!
Apr 7, 2017
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#7
From the looks of it she will have effectively placed ahead of a field of grandmasters twice winning the u.s. championship without having earned the grandmaster title herself... absolutely impressive!
philekehorton wrote:
From the looks of it she will have effectively placed ahead of a field of grandmasters twice winning the u.s. championship without having earned the grandmaster title herself... absolutely impressive!
Well, not exactly a field of grandmasters - there's only 1 GM in the field. But she will have placed before two players well over 2400, who have won the tournament 11 times between them, while never having crossed 2400 herself.
if nazi wins, hitler will be smiling in his grave!
ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!!!!!!!
@fabelhaft
Do you know, what's the record of the longest unbeaten streak in proffesional chess?
What about since 1980 for example?
MSC157 wrote:
@fabelhaft
Do you know, what's the record of the longest unbeaten streak in proffesional chess? What about since 1980 for example?
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/longest-unbeaten-streak
Kramnik wow.
Apr 8, 2017
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#14
She played like a champ today to turn around a bad position and SCORE.
Tied for 1st going into the last round.
Tied for 1st going into the last round.
It's going down to the wire!
Apr 8, 2017
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#16
I just looked it up and apparently Nazi is a girl's name that means “cute” in Farsi.
Tomorrow Nazi has white against Jennifer Yu, and Sabina has black against Apurva Virkud. Hard to say which of them has the more favorable game.
macer75 wrote:
philekehorton wrote:
From the looks of it she will have effectively placed ahead of a field of grandmasters twice winning the u.s. championship without having earned the grandmaster title herself... absolutely impressive!
Well, not exactly a field of grandmasters - there's only 1 GM in the field. But she will have placed before two players well over 2400, who have won the tournament 11 times between them, while never having crossed 2400 herself.
Correction: Nazi was actually rated 2455 in 2009 (at the age of 16), and was the #35 woman in the world at the time. I had unconsciously assumed that she is at her peak rating now, considering that she only rose to fame recently (as far as I'm aware) and how young she is.
steelers1863 wrote:
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urk wrote:
I just looked it up and apparently Nazi is a girl's name that means “cute” in Farsi.
More common Slavonic name as it is originally Georgian. But the Persian language seems to have adopted it hence the word in Farsi.
http://www.behindthename.com/name/nazi/submitted
She's in a good position right now, leading the field with +3, and with Irina Krush and Anna Zatonskih a full point behind her. If she does manage to repeat, she will have won the championship as the #4 and #3 seed, respectively, in consecutive years. She would be, without a doubt, a living legend of US chess, and an inspiration to underdogs everywhere.
Thoughts, anyone?