Magnus vs World predictions?

The world moved 14. ... b6... it shows the move I voted for, not the move that actually won :p so many bugs. Good luck guys

Actually it moves correctly, but it says "world moved x" even when the moves tab and the board shows the move that won.

It's not the real players playing in the test game... No way would a GM have suggested 20... Rg6 just now, it would have lost a piece.

Is this how the real thing is going to be displayed? I was under the impression we would be given reasons, there would be some discussion, rather than just pick from the three moves.

How did it lose a piece exactly?

I know these are not the real GMs, but simply the move voting tendencies swing from one way to another, it won't be much of a coherent game. But hell the more drama and inaccuracies the better. Carlsen won't be affected much by this format...

Okay, so it only loses an exchange: 21. Nf4 threatens the rook, which can't stay on the f-file if it wants to protect the knight on g3, which is threatened by the white king.

Also, 20... Nf5 would probably have been better than Ne4, but nobody suggested it. And Judit's suggestion of Qd7 before Re6 was played would have doubled black's pawns and opened up the defense with Nf6+ gxf6 Qg4+ gaining back the knight.

21. Nf4 Ne4+ I don't see the problem

What's more interesting is the consequence of 15. ... c5... doesn't it pick up a full rook on a5? If so why didn't the world vote for it - this should be a major inhibiting factor. A tricky winning move is picked up by one of the GMs, and then mercilessly discarded by the audience. Ha ha. Maybe there is something wrong about c7-c5 though but I did intend to check it as careful as is possible with these clumsy G-Star chess icons

Doesn't matter, Magnus won by checkmate...

Damn... the world walked into mate in one :p

Practice game, Vachier-Lagrave and 58% of "the world" missed a simple mate in 1 on g7, gifting the win to Carlsen....

I played the move on purpose for a laugh, I'm guessing a good part of the world did the same.

Still, it's not very encouraging for the game against Carlsen...

15)...c5 wasn't even suggested

were the real GMs giving suggestions in the test game??

And I still can't believe that GMs are allowed to suggest a move that leads to a mate in one...I think they were just ending the sessions, how lame

lol

Was that really 2700+ GM's move?? (we need smile for rofl)

For all it's worth I'm just praying the site doesn't break down into a million pieces. It keeps refreshing which makes the screen flicker like crazy...maybe the testing should have been done just a little bit sooner

Do we know how many users were connected??

Does anyone has PGN of the game?

It was a test game. They even said at the beginning that the real GMs were NOT playing. They needed to bring out some bugs, and when they had found out enough about the workings of the software, they brought the game to a halt. The real game will take place in about three hours.

what test game? haevn't heard of it before

Kacparov - there were one or two last night and one this morning. They had to work out some bugs and what not. Hopefully everything will be ok for the match.

can I see the game somewhere? and who played them?

  I don't know if the games were saved or have a link to them. But the GMs were NOT involved in any of the matches, they were just test runs on the voting methods and working to get the glitches. A red banner was on each page and you just had to click on it to help test the games.