For a genuinely strong player, I don't disagree.
Does chess.com have the toughest pool of players?
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MGleason wrote:
Fabiano Caruana can find competition at his level on any major site. The only player who can't is Carlsen, simply because he's a class above everyone else.
Carlsen recently lost to MVL in the speed chess championship hosted by chess.com.
Even he is not invincible.
Dec 28, 2020
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#44
Nobody is invincible. Anand once blundered a Knight on move SIX (against Garcia, perhaps?).
EDIT: It was against Zapata! Alonso Zapata vs Viswanathan Anand (1988) (chessgames.com)
Chess.com has the toughest pool of player in 2020.
In 2008, it didn't.
I know. I played on chess.com in 2008.
SuperiorConfidentHot wrote:
MGleason wrote:
SuperiorConfidentHot wrote:
I think there are amateur players that are very competitive with if not better than the top GMs but that's besides the point.
That's true, but they get banned pretty quickly. For some reason these amateur players are only good at online events.
Disagree, I think that in the case of strong players playing online or with a physical board makes no difference because by that point visualization and working memory is strong and utilized more than enough to compensate for how the board might look and a board shouldn't be needed at all!
I don't think you got it, lol.
Aarushi-Talwar wrote:
Chess.com has the toughest pool of player in 2020.
In 2008, it didn't.
I know. I played on chess.com in 2008.
Based on what exactly?
Dec 29, 2020
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#48
SuperiorConfidentHot wrote:
explain?
MGleason is talking about Engine Monkeys.
SuperiorConfidentHot wrote:
blueemu wrote:
SuperiorConfidentHot wrote:
explain?
MGleason is talking about Engine Monkeys.
Oh I understand. When I suggested amateur players who were very superior I meant people who were just really talented or well suited. We talked right past each other. Thanks for clearing that up.
They didn't take that idea very seriously. The idea of there being amateur players who could take on the best in the world is... unlikely. After all, the best in the world are constantly practicing and playing vs each other. There's no reason for there to be random players out there who could take them on.
Dec 29, 2020
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catmaster0 wrote:
They didn't take that idea very seriously. The idea of there being amateur players who could take on the best in the world is... unlikely.
Albin Planinc.
Untitled (not even CM).
Qualified for the Vidmar Memorial in 1969, and won the tournament ahead of GMs Gligoric, Unzicker, Tringov, Byrne, Matanovic, Georghiu, Parma, Robatch, etc.
Vidmar Memorial (1969) (chessgames.com)
ELO is pretty much specific to a website, unless it's a chess server that offered rated games based on an OTB system. -Usually either USCF or FIDE. Even then, its only rated that way if you have 2 players with memberships in the OTB organization, and they agree to play a game based on whatever rules are used to rate such games under the OTB rating system.
Dec 29, 2020
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#52
In a Chessclub you get to meet very good players, but hardly any of them can beat the Top Members, I mean I played in 3 simuls OTB against two IMs and one GM.
Nobody won a game, and their were 3 draws out of roughly 60 games in total.
So that proves how difficult it gets.
blueemu wrote:
catmaster0 wrote:
They didn't take that idea very seriously. The idea of there being amateur players who could take on the best in the world is... unlikely.
Albin Planinc.
Untitled (not even CM).
Qualified for the Vidmar Memorial in 1969, and won the tournament ahead of GMs Gligoric, Unzicker, Tringov, Byrne, Matanovic, Georghiu, Parma, Robatch, etc.
He probably used Stockfish on his iPhone
Dec 29, 2020
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nTzT wrote:
blueemu wrote:
catmaster0 wrote:
They didn't take that idea very seriously. The idea of there being amateur players who could take on the best in the world is... unlikely.
Albin Planinc.
Untitled (not even CM).
Qualified for the Vidmar Memorial in 1969, and won the tournament ahead of GMs Gligoric, Unzicker, Tringov, Byrne, Matanovic, Georghiu, Parma, Robatch, etc.
He probably used Stockfish on his iPhone
If that's the case, he deserves the Nobel Prize for inventing a functioning time machine.
blueemu wrote:
nTzT wrote:
blueemu wrote:
catmaster0 wrote:
They didn't take that idea very seriously. The idea of there being amateur players who could take on the best in the world is... unlikely.
Albin Planinc.
Untitled (not even CM).
Qualified for the Vidmar Memorial in 1969, and won the tournament ahead of GMs Gligoric, Unzicker, Tringov, Byrne, Matanovic, Georghiu, Parma, Robatch, etc.
He probably used Stockfish on his iPhone
If that's the case, he deserves the Nobel Prize for inventing a functioning time machine.
I know right... he was robbed of his Nobel Prize just like he was his GM title!
Noice
Dec 29, 2020
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#59
I bet five-thousand monopoly dollars that this forum topic will soon be locked by a moderator.
I think there are amateur players that are very competitive with if not better than the top GMs but that's besides the point.
That's true, but they get banned pretty quickly. For some reason these amateur players are only good at online events.
Sure, there will be slow times when there aren't as many GMs online. But only a tiny percentage of site members are titled. The typical site member is rated somewhere between 800 and 1400. Even if you're well outside that range, only a tiny percentage of site members need to worry about slow times and whether or not the other GMs will be online right now.