2024 Chess.com Classic: Who are you rooting for?

Firozjaaaaa

magnus in the best but hikuru might win.

That's like a trick question.

I'm rooting for nobody.

The bigger picture.

The Internet is a new frontier.

Commercializing chess is a new frontier.

Hustling is as old as time.

Background.

I played chess in a real chess club that is 70 years old.

Time control was 90 minutes for 40 moves + 60 minutes.

The average game took 3 hours.

I once played a 5 hours games.

Speed chess was invented by street hustlers to make a quick buck.

In my opinion, and others, it is prostituting the art. (I choose my words carefully).

10 minute games?

Over the Internet?

What is this?

This is a cheap facsimile of real chess.

Chess.com is ruining the art.

Like Tae kwon do schools called McDojos.

Chess.com is turning chess into fast food.

In real life, I play chess with 1 hour on the clock.

I don't like the direction Chess.com is taking chess.

I'm smart enough to know that in selling the most important thing is to "get your foot in the door."

Chess.com got a lot people interested in chess.

I think, on balance the bad outweighs the good.

Botez is great. (I couldn't distinguish which is which).

Does she play speed chess? Of course.

She knows it and i know it. Any semblance of real chess cannot translate through the visual medium (that's a fancy way of saying YouTube, for you 'young ins'). She said so, not in so many words.

She hams it up. She goes full WWE.

It is not what you do, it's in the spirit of what you do.

She's bringing chess back into the street. (As it originally was.)

She's not selling anything. (Not directly, I'm smart ok?)

It's in the spirit of what you do.

People used to play chess in real life.

Then people play chess in chess clubs. (No longer real life.)

Now Internet?

I saw a ballet performance. Don Quixote.

I realized something.

People used to dance in real life.

What I saw on stage was only a memory of what people used to do in real life.

Even chess clubs are not real.

I'm bringing chess back to real life.

Chess as a part of everyday life.

Magnus is the GOAT though?

ya

Magnus Carlsen Maybe?

I want hikaru

Hikaru

fabi

Lol he must

fabi or magnes

maybe hikaru

I’m going to be there

GO GUKESH HE MUST WIN!

or magunus or fabi or hikaru

i doubt liren will win