nimzomalaysian wrote:
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Hou Yifan plays the Fool's mate. Resigns after move 5 in 2017 Gibraltar Masters.
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Feb 2, 2017
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#63
Lord_Marvin wrote:
nimzomalaysian wrote:
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Have a nice day, you're blocked.
Feb 2, 2017
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#64
Does anyone know what the tournament organisers would have to gain by pairing women against women?
Feb 2, 2017
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#65
IpswichMatt escribió:
Does anyone know what the tournament organisers would have to gain by pairing women against women?
Shh, dont ruin the conspiracy theory! they are misogynists.
kingofshedinjas wrote:
I would feel insulted if someone played that against me.
I would happily take the free rating points, and the free publicity.
It can definitely be bad luck but the vast majority people don't understand probability (they overestimate the "homogeneity" of random series and see conspiracies everywhere).
Hou Yifan seems to be poor sport here. On teh other hand I totally support the usage of "garbage" (or seemingly) openings to add fun and taunt your opponent.
I hope 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Nxe5! is played soon.
And while we're on the subject of conspiracy theories... maybe Hou is in cahoots with the organizers of the Womens' WCC, and the organizers told her to do this as a way to create hype for the championship?
Then again, it's not like this year's Womens' WCC needs more controversy.
Feb 2, 2017
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#69
Wtf?
I wake up to Hou Yiifan doing this? "The Scream" demonstrated on a chessboard.
I wake up to Hou Yiifan doing this? "The Scream" demonstrated on a chessboard.
But hey... you know what I would LOVE to see? This Womens' WCC commentated by Hou Yifan and Nazi Paikidze. I would pay actual money to see that.
macer75 hat geschrieben:
Then again, it's not like this year's Womens' WCC needs more controversy.
Hardly worth calling it a championship without Hou Yifan, and the other controversities are not likely to help that weird tourney either.
But then, we have seen female players compete about a "Women's Championship" title before without the player deserving that title participating.
Judit Polgar was 13 or 14 iirc when she decided to have nothing to do anymore with the type of second-rate tourney's FIDE offers for women (my words, not hers) and instead played against everyone in the open tournaments.
FIDE *claims* to offer the women-only section to help promote chess among women as if they were somehow handicapped and helpless without their own special needs section when in reality players like Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan show that women are very well able to compete with their male peers.
Feb 2, 2017
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#72
Colin20G wrote:
(they overestimate the "homogeneity" of random series and see conspiracies everywhere).
Exactly. Yifan's pairings were just as unlikely as anyone else's pairing in the event.
Well, there is no way Hou Yifan would intentionally fall for that, so I think I believe her protest.
Feb 2, 2017
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#74
FIDE's Secretary in Swiss Pairing commitee checked all Yifan Hou's pairings: "She has no pairings related reason to complain"
https://twitter.com/TarjeiJS/status/827201940237012992
Feb 2, 2017
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#75
This is being called as a "terribly sexist protest by a woman against women".
Feb 2, 2017
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#77
She said that the pairings were unfair to the other women as well as herself.
Right or wrong, that's how she felt.
She had already complained about it to the tournament director and the next round she was paired with ANOTHER woman.
Right or wrong, that's how she felt.
She had already complained about it to the tournament director and the next round she was paired with ANOTHER woman.
Feb 2, 2017
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#78
urk wrote:
She said that the pairings were unfair to the other women as well as herself.
Right or wrong, that's how she felt.
She had already complained about it to the tournament director and the next round she was paired with ANOTHER woman.
Right or wrong, that's how she felt.
She had already complained about it to the tournament director and the next round she was paired with ANOTHER woman.
Why is the gender of your opponent a concern here at all? Just play the damn board. It would have been different if she was paired against under rated players, but this was not the case.
Feb 2, 2017
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#79
Did she really think she was gonna get paired with the big fish like Topalov, Caruana or MVL? Lol, they would destroy her so bad the broadcast would be 18+.
Just want to point out a few things:
1. This is an open swiss with players from 2800 to 1600 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1860849
2. Some women players got to play very few women. This is a consistent observation if there is no attempt to force gender pairings
3. Ratings-wise there is nothing obviously wrong with her pairings. It could have been much worse
4. She lost key matchups including the game versus the next strongest woman player in her country. Their rating gap is no more than 100
Wow, those playoffs are exciting...