New Horrifying Development in WCC!
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SoupSailor
Apr 16, 2023
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Game 6 of the World Chess Championship just started with a terrible surprise. Ding Liren decided to play the London System with white, prompting myself and over 10,000 viewers to immediately leave the stream. We are planning to write a letter to FIDE to ask for regulatory measures to prevent a disgrace such as this from occurring ever again. What are your thoughts on this catastrophic travesty?
Apr 16, 2023
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#3
We cannot sit back and relax as this disgrace carries on. There must be consequences. Is anyone in favor of sentencing Ding [not appropriate -- MS]? This is completely unacceptable behavior. We need to make an example of him.
Apr 16, 2023
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#4
You sound like an immature troll. Also jokes about hanging people will probably result in some disciplinary action from chess.com
Apr 16, 2023
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#6
SoupSailor72 wrote:
Game 6 of the World Chess Championship just started with a terrible surprise. Ding Liren decided to play the London System with white, prompting myself and over 10,000 viewers to immediately leave the stream. We are planning to write a letter to FIDE to ask for regulatory measures to prevent a disgrace such as this from occurring ever again. What are your thoughts on this catastrophic travesty?
Good! Maybe today's stream won't keep dropping out like it did yesterday! ;-)
Apr 16, 2023
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#7
Just think - If Ding wins the game, everyone will start playing the London!
Apr 16, 2023
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#9
If he played the London at the world championship, you should know the London opening is not a bad opening. It is in fact a good opening if a super GM can consider it in a high stake match.
Ohh, Ding is completely winning. What a disaster 
Apr 16, 2023
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#11
“Ohh, Ding is completely winning. What a disaster”
Lol he’s +4 with the London. Simply insane
Lol he’s +4 with the London. Simply insane
The saddest part of this WCC in terms of coverage and commentary on chess.com is that we have so many decisive games, and a mate in 10-11 moves seen by Ding, and yet there's barely a peep on the forums, just more inane threads about nothing...AMAs, trolling threads, etc.
Apr 16, 2023
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#13
That mating net was spectacular… etiquette aside, Nepo should have let him put the mate on the board.
Apr 16, 2023
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#14
I was watching and really surprised folks are amazed by Ding's London system. He played for 4. h3 before so not sure what's surprising about this.
If Ding lost this game, I think his choice is still fine. I don't get what the distaste is against the London in WCC. Can someone explain?
Aaaand the game turned out to be very exciting. Who'd have thunk it?
UpcommingGM wrote:
If he played the London at the world championship, you should know the London opening is not a bad opening. It is in fact a good opening if a super GM can consider it in a high stake match.
Not only that but Gata Kamsky was a big believer in the London and everybody knows he would've been world champion if he hadn't quit for 8 years.
Magnus Carlsen plays and wins with London System against some of the best players in the world...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=magnus+carlsen+london+system+chess+games+
Introduction To The London System & Jobava London System...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/the-london-system