What action is being taken?
Google search "aronian chess" limited to the past week returns some videos, top non-video results are first, a reddit thread criticizing his commentary on a match between two streamers and second, your comment.
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Feb 17, 2025
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give context when you make a post like this, I briefly saw him commentating on the 960 event but no clue what happened or what comments you are talking about
Feb 17, 2025
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mercatorproject wrote:
Context you will have to find out for yourself.
If you don't want to talk about the subject, then just don't post and waste peoples time
Feb 17, 2025
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A few days ago, Levon Aronian did commentary for the Anna Cramling vs. Alexandra Botez freestyle match and I was surprised to hear him be so critical of the players throughout the match, saying multiple times that Anna and Alex were playing terribly or their moves were terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aT4Ldst7RU
At one point, he seemed to imply that women are illogical saying: "Girls have a world of their own. You're kind of seeing the logic, at the very moment when you see the logic, what happens is they change the logic." 26:22.
He also told a story about Bronstein and other GMs watching Soviet female players play and making bets trying to predict the moves; Aronian said he thinks it is impossible to do so (again seeming to imply that women play illogically). 30:40.
Previously, in 2008, Aronian was quoted as saying: "Women cannot play chess. ... [W]omen are generally much too emotional for chess. If they want to play really well they have to change their character and suppress their natural instincts. They have to take on male qualities. After all chess is a rough and hard game." https://en.chessbase.com/post/aronian-i-have-a-lot-of-blood-in-my-brain-
Feb 17, 2025
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#7
Sorry, I should have realised that not all members have yet learnt of how Google can help find things out for themselves..
mercatorproject wrote:
Sorry, I should have realised that not all members have yet learnt of how Google can help find things out for themselves..
Yeah, sure, why not give a little homework to people? It's much better than waste a precious 20 seconds trying to explain the situation in a nutshell. Heaven forbid.
mercatorproject wrote:
A few days ago, Levon Aronian did commentary for the Anna Cramling vs. Alexandra Botez freestyle match and I was surprised to hear him be so critical of the players throughout the match, saying multiple times that Anna and Alex were playing terribly or their moves were terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aT4Ldst7RU
At one point, he seemed to imply that women are illogical saying: "Girls have a world of their own. You're kind of seeing the logic, at the very moment when you see the logic, what happens is they change the logic." 26:22.
He also told a story about Bronstein and other GMs watching Soviet female players play and making bets trying to predict the moves; Aronian said he thinks it is impossible to do so (again seeming to imply that women play illogically). 30:40.
Previously, in 2008, Aronian was quoted as saying: "Women cannot play chess. ... [W]omen are generally much too emotional for chess. If they want to play really well they have to change their character and suppress their natural instincts. They have to take on male qualities. After all chess is a rough and hard game." https://en.chessbase.com/post/aronian-i-have-a-lot-of-blood-in-my-brain-
Okay... so the evidence is essentially tweets that are expected to provide a novel's worth of information and an interview from 17 years ago. This hatchet job is "Temu-Vlad-the-Implier" quality work that is nothing but a waste of time.
Feb 17, 2025
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magipi wrote:
mercatorproject wrote:
Sorry, I should have realised that not all members have yet learnt of how Google can help find things out for themselves..
Yeah, sure, why not give a little homework to people? It's much better than waste a precious 20 seconds trying to explain the situation in a nutshell. Heaven forbid.
Pretty big nutshell!
Feb 17, 2025
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lostpawn247 wrote:
mercatorproject wrote:
A few days ago, Levon Aronian did commentary for the Anna Cramling vs. Alexandra Botez freestyle match and I was surprised to hear him be so critical of the players throughout the match, saying multiple times that Anna and Alex were playing terribly or their moves were terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aT4Ldst7RU
At one point, he seemed to imply that women are illogical saying: "Girls have a world of their own. You're kind of seeing the logic, at the very moment when you see the logic, what happens is they change the logic." 26:22.
He also told a story about Bronstein and other GMs watching Soviet female players play and making bets trying to predict the moves; Aronian said he thinks it is impossible to do so (again seeming to imply that women play illogically). 30:40.
Previously, in 2008, Aronian was quoted as saying: "Women cannot play chess. ... [W]omen are generally much too emotional for chess. If they want to play really well they have to change their character and suppress their natural instincts. They have to take on male qualities. After all chess is a rough and hard game." https://en.chessbase.com/post/aronian-i-have-a-lot-of-blood-in-my-brain-
Okay... so the evidence is essentially tweets that are expected to provide a novel's worth of information and an interview from 17 years ago. This hatchet job is "Temu-Vlad-the-Implier" quality work that is nothing but a waste of time.
Vlad was am Impaler when I last looked. He probably was a part-time implier when he was at home relaxing after a hard day's stabbing..
Aronian is one excellent commentator, affable and knows his Chess and the participants intimately. I hope that any action being taken against him for recent comments is lifted, even if he was a bit naughty..