World Chess Championship

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I came across this randomly.. currently going on in London. Any nerds out there following this? Got an American in it.

I was reading an article and it was explaining how chess has become popular, even getting on tv and payper view in some countries, with people paying up to $60 to get in (hah). Then I go onto read 'excitement was in the air as the people rushed into the 200 person venue'. 200 people bwahahah.

I enjoy chess, but looking into the world of these professional chess players makes me chuckle. Apparently some video of one of the contestants going over opening moves was leaked onto youtube, then removed.. and all this conspiracy is about as to whether it was an accident or maybe on purpose to throw off the other player. There is controversy over a logo of the championship, some people saying it's too sexy. Head of World of Chess claims it would be nice to bring sex appeal into chess.

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I bet an Asian wins.
toucan82
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always bet on black
Martin Q. Blank
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Asians have no creativity. They are good at copying and following orders. Bad chess players.
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Chess claims it would be nice to bring sex appeal into chess.


Scantily clad female "polishing the Bishop"

Or King jumps Queen reference perhaps?
The Future is here, the Future is now.
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NoahAg said:

I bet an Asian wins.
More likely a Russian or Eastern European.
Frederick Palowaski
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Sarduakar said:

NoahAg said:

I bet an Asian wins.
More likely a Russian or Eastern European.


THE SPASSKY BISHOP BLOCK???


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Bayside's former "friend's" cousin will be the champion.
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Sarduakar said:

NoahAg said:

I bet an Asian wins.
More likely a Russian or Eastern European.

Aren't Russians Asian?
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quanah said:

Sarduakar said:

NoahAg said:

I bet an Asian wins.
More likely a Russian or Eastern European.

Aren't Russians Asian?
Not if they're European.
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Martin Q. Blank said:

Asians have no creativity. They are good at copying and following orders. Bad chess players.


Yeah, they're not good at using the horsey
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NoahAg said:

I bet an Asian wins.
Oriental or brown Asian?
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Future said:

Quote:

Chess claims it would be nice to bring sex appeal into chess.


Scantily clad female "polishing the Bishop"

Or King jumps Queen reference perhaps?


Queen takes a hung Knight in front of the Castle to protect the King.
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Is Bobby Fischer winning?
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Claude!
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For the record, it's a Swede against an Italian-American
quanah
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What happened to Magnus Carlsen?
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Claude! said:

For the record, it's a Swede against an Italian-American
No it's not.
Claude!
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Norwegian - those people all look alike.
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Scimitar said:

NoahAg said:

I bet an Asian wins.
Oriental or brown Asian?
Neither. But either will win the spelling bee.
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My chess crush. Ironically a couple years ago she was accused of having a mini chess computer in her lip balm that was sending her moves.
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Why is that ironic?
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It was good advice that she just didn't take.
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toucan82 said:

always bet on black
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Woody2006 said:

Why is that ironic?
It's like a black fly in your Chardonnay, that's why.
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Non-H1b Asians only care about Go.

Reminds me, I heard something about a Spanish spelling bee yesterday. A spelling bee for an almost perfectly phonetic language. I guess it just comes down to accent placement.
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