we'll just have to wait for updates on his rating
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12482187
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strange, since 1991 only 2 games. lost a 2500 and drew a 1900 to get his 1899 rating???
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Jul 1, 2022
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#63
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
Ray lost his first round game at the world open
Why is he still in the same room? I guess he lives in the area and goes home between rounds? Dang, that's convenient. I've never had a tournament like that.
What do you all mean by: solve chess? Chess is a game, not a puzzle.
He didn’t invent the question mark!
Jul 1, 2022
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#66
LabMaster100Hat wrote:
What do you all mean by: solve chess? Chess is a game, not a puzzle.
Some games are solved. Game theory is a branch of mathematics that has various ways to solve various games.
Jul 1, 2022
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#67
LabMaster100Hat wrote:
He didn’t invent the question mark!
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament."
Jul 1, 2022
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#68
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
Ray lost his first round game at the world open
Some strange / bad strategic decisions, but he had fairly active pieces. I guess that's expected.
After move 12 as white I'd expected myself to win the game. A bad structure with no queens is a standard win, you just trade down and surround the pawns in the endgame. Looking a bit with an engine, it's not so easy, and I don't blame white for missing his chance to play b3 one move earlier... but yeah, some strategic decision making by black that I disagree with.
Jul 1, 2022
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#69
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
nMsALpg wrote:
It's too bad that psychology will be a big factor, I half expect him to withdraw mid tournament.
Well, you were right.
Eh, that's too bad. If he'd stuck with it he would have improved quickly. It takes anyone time to adjust. It's understandably hard to have such expectations and then lose... I guess all in all he's taking it pretty well, even made a video about it.
Jul 1, 2022
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#70
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
nMsALpg wrote:
It's too bad that psychology will be a big factor, I half expect him to withdraw mid tournament.
Well, you were right.
I have to confess that I haven't paid any attention to this thread before. I just watched the 0-3 video. Terminal illness? What's his condition? Or is this just more ramblings?
I feel like I saw a comment from Ray on a YouTube video. Is was pretty silly stuff. I only know cause of the profile picture.
Jul 2, 2022
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#72
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
EscherehcsE wrote:
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
nMsALpg wrote:
It's too bad that psychology will be a big factor, I half expect him to withdraw mid tournament.
Well, you were right.
I have to confess that I haven't paid any attention to this thread before. I just watched the 0-3 video. Terminal illness? What's his condition? Or is this just more ramblings?
I know that he's been claiming to be terminally ill since at least 2002. I'm sure there are things wrong with him medically, but I don't know the details, probably not as serious as he likes to make it out to be though.
I figured that might be the case.
This guy's all over the map. First he claims to have "solved chess", now he's making excuses over his poor performance at the World Open. Maybe all of this makes sense in his mind... Sad, really...
So, how many games did he play in the end? Just one?
Never mind, I see he lost his first three games and then withdrew (https://chessevents.com/event/worldopen/2022/standings/open)
Jul 3, 2022
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#76
The first player he lost to, the 2100 Rajesh Shanmugasundaram, drew his next 4 games... against 3 IMs and 1 FM, three 2300s and a 2400.
World open is tough. There will always be a lot of underrated people. A fairly extreme way to break your tournament inactivity.
Out of 225 entries in the open section, his rating was 5th from the bottom at 1712... and this is expected... the open section is for the best players. About 100 of those players are titled.
DrFrank124c wrote:
"He might be a new Nimzovich"
Then you evidently have not the slightest clue of who the great European chess professors were...
This is a diagnosis waiting to happen...
To your quest: Max Euwe has already delivered mathematical proof on the basis of intuitionist logic that chess cannot be 'solved'.
It is an illusion that these systems are finite. Is the universe finite? That end we think exists is only a social construct. The reality is that things are far more complex.
Never confuse someone who is reading up Wikipedia pages with the true mathematical minds.
zone_chess wrote:
DrFrank124c wrote:
"He might be a new Nimzovich"
Then you evidently have not the slightest clue of who the great European chess professors were...
This is a diagnosis waiting to happen...
To your quest: Max Euwe has already delivered mathematical proof on the basis of intuitionist logic that chess cannot be 'solved'.
It is an illusion that these systems are finite. Is the universe finite? That end we think exists is only a social construct. The reality is that things are far more complex.
Never confuse someone who is reading up Wikipedia pages with the true mathematical minds. Although the folk science genre is amusing.
Jul 3, 2022
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#79
nMsALpg wrote:
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Out of 225 entries in the open section, his rating was 5th from the bottom at 1712... and this is expected... the open section is for the best players. About 100 of those players are titled.
Once again, the Elo System is vindicated!
Jul 3, 2022
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#80
CastledSacrifice wrote:
Couldn't he just be a little rusty if he hasn't played in a while and locked himself up in a torn down studio without furniture?
He has a new video, I didn't watch the whole thing... seems to be blaming his losses on his disability which was... something to do with drinking a protein shake?
Like I said I didn't watch it. The whole thing is pretty depressing.
He seems to simultaneously understand this was expected, while also needing to make excuses, presumably because there are so few positive events in his life that it's intolerable.
but he miraculously predicted it just hours before!