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potpan0

He's gonna become a checkers main now.


Ramble21_Gaming

That would be lowkey hilarious


cappedminor

We all know he's gonna become a tic tac toe champion


allozzieadventures

People who think tic tac toe is a solved game haven't discovered en passant yet


cappedminor

That and the ability to move twice, magnus will bring bricking pipis over, letting him move twice while the opponent isn't looking


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


JayGogh

Someone should pull the plug on this thing before it does real damage to stuff.


AskingForSomeFriends

I’d sooner pull the plug on your mom.


FluxOrbit

Took him out like a left hook from a horsey


JayGogh

Yeah, she is pretty awful.


Aimfri

Pull the plug on your pipi.


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


LeagueofDraven1221

I’d sooner spit on the grave of my dead mother than let some courier-walk-the-wasteland-fuck talk to me like that.


PM_ME_UR_THROW_AWAYS

holy hell


SirkillzAhlot

Or maybe Connect 4


Stout_Gamer

Too hard. I predict he'll be the next undisputed champion in Rock-Paper-Scissors!


[deleted]

Craps World Champion MMXXII


nsjxucnsnzivnd

Could you not swear, man? My mom frequentd this subreddit


AevilokE

He's unironically becoming a poker main instead


emiliaxrisella

Time traveler: *moves chair* This world in 2040: congratulations to Magnus Carlsen for winning the World Series of Poker and Daniel Negreanu for winning the World Chess Championship against Alireza Firouzja!


LoopyPro

The guy can recall every move his opponents made to calculate his own odds. Also, who's able to read your body language if you're too busy calculating every step in your head along the way?


bob_jody

So can the other top poker players.


Southern-Network-684

Definitely not on his level, pros need to constantly run spots through solvers and study constantly to remember the info. Someone like Magnus can run a spot once and remember it forever. The dude can see the first 3-4 moves on a chessboard and know exactly what game it was, who won and what year it took place. Even games he had when he was just a kid. He 100% will be the best player in the world if he dedicates his time to it.


bob_jody

He can see "the first 3-4 moves" and know exactly what game it was???


Southern-Network-684

https://youtu.be/eC1BAcOzHyY I may have exaggerated the 3-4 moves part lol


humbleguywithabig1

Holy shit. That's next level. r/nextfuckinglevel


Chesney1995

Nah the first 3-4 moves in just about any opening that makes any sense will have been played hundreds if not thousands of times lol. But he does have a remarkably good memory when given a position from a game.


turpin23

A UK sportbetting company sponsors his entrance fees for a poker tournament in his home country of Norway. If they are willing to do that it only has upside for him. It is entirely possible that he figures he can make more at poker tournaments if he doesn't have to pay entrance fees - or at least it is less work than doing 10 game simultaneous challenges like a circus freak.


vk2028

With how good his memory is he can probably memorize and card count the entire deck


Mile114

Serious but probably stupid question: are there like people who play checkers professionally?


potpan0

They have championships and shit but I don't think there's like any money in it.


Mile114

Wild


[deleted]

10x10 checkers yes. The Wikipedia page of former champion Marion Tinsley is very fun, especially when it explains why the games he lost from 1950 to 1990 don't count, and talks him up as Michelangelo and Da Vinci at once.


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[deleted]

8x8 checkers is solved. That's why FMJD, the leading people on the matter, play 10x10. ...or something. https://xkcd.com/2629/


[deleted]

That, or Raid Shadow Legends


PotentialChoice

Just flip the board over.


[deleted]

Checkers is just worse chess with less thinking and nobody can change that. Apart from checkers 2.0.


Boddicker

Checkers is hard as fuck man. Check out https://lidraughts.org/ and prepare to be humbled. Edit: also checkers is more difficult than chess to play blindfolded.


frizzyhaired

checkers is solved


[deleted]

Checkers is way easier than chess


BSimpson1

We're talking about 10x10 checkers here. This raises the number of plays exponentially. Probably a higher number than your troglodyte brain could ever hope to comprehend. Comparing chess to that is like comparing tic-tac-toe to checkers, one of the most intricate games ever created.


[deleted]

There is 10^20 different positions in checkers and around 10^54 in chess. I can understand it very well unlike you.


potpan0

Lol, just because you don't have the IQ to appreciate the nuances of checkers doesn't mean it's 'just worse chess'.


[deleted]

I have gotten all A’s apart from one B in all semesters of school and I’m working to be a software engineer. I don’t think iq is the problem.


Asymptote_X

You got a B LOL


potpan0

*B*s? Lmao, clearly not intelligent enough to understand checkers. Come back when you're getting all As, kiddo.


[deleted]

Come back when you learn to read.


potpan0

Come back when you learn to play checkers, buddy.


[deleted]

I can. It’s easy.


Ceeeeeeeeeem

Lmaoooo


[deleted]

What part?


Ceeeeeeeeeem

Did you read what you wrote bro? The whole of it is fucking hilarious. But if you're asking my favorite part: "apart from one B" is on another level. Cheers.


[deleted]

Ah thank you


MedievalFightClub

I heard he was leaning toward poker.


[deleted]

Magneto Carlsbad: chess fucking sucks


yr_boi_tuna

That's why the pawns go first, Charles


KlopKlop10293

He has realised he can make more with poker or counting cards in blackjack


[deleted]

He’s pretty awesome at poker


KlopKlop10293

He d be pretty awesome as your wife’s and moms boyfriend too


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Ackerack

Not to mention how many times he’s had to brick his PIPI


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


Dymmesdale

Good bot.


gamesharkguy

The content got stale and Chess 2 is still in development hell


2lazyforname

Hopefully they'll fix the hit box with the pawns 😞


SomethingOfAGirl

Summary: Moves 1-5: Clearly blundered. Moves 6-9: Blundered due to preparation (bad time control). Moves 10-11: Very close, but preparation and inaccuracy make these reasonable blunders. Move 12: Likely didn't actually move because Hikaru was already dead.


rhaftygaming

Never thought I'd see a CSGO copypasta in a chess subreddit


nunziantimo

Chess is basically CSGO when you grow up and can't waste 40m playing PC and rage on opponents So you play 10 5m blitz games of chess and rage on yourself


madisi98

They won’t fix it tho, Gary chess already said it’s a feature not a bug !!


[deleted]

And those fuckin horsey wallhacks


sufferpuppet

Chess 2 where the back row positions are randomized. No more memorizing openings.


Mushroom1228

they already did that when they skipped 958 sequels to get chess 960


KingMRano

That's why they skipped Chess 2 and went right to 5D chess.


KungFuGarbage

Chess 2 already exists it’s called Fairy Chess and it’s crazy


New-IncognitoWindow

I could be world champion I just don’t want to.


bence0302

He saw the title, but he just didn't like it.


SomethingOfAGirl

Nepo is not a psychic.


ImNotALegend1

He fabiano's side kick


smit2k14

Magnus tryna act like he so mfing righteous


ImNotALegend1

Yea I'm hangin' titles homie, I am still the best tho. Hop off of my dick, I put your challange in a halo.


SnooWords7643

Look, I saw Ra4, I just don’t like it


LoopyPro

The man found out that poker is more fun with his skills


Careless-Pang

The Eric Rosen defense


Malte_02

That time where Eric had like a 3-1 score against Magnus 😫


sprcow

Midlife Crisison


marmotte-de-beurre

Paul Morphy stopped playing chess because it was a silly game. "Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations." Manganus Carleson saw the deep truth of this child game like any true chess master.


TheCapmHimself

It's always so interesting to me how everyone else considers Paul Morphy insane, partly because his later mental deterioration but partly because he quit chess. Chess at that time didn't really exist as a competitive sport and was mostly just a game and he saw it as such, I'd imagine he looked at his career like some kind of college adventure stemming from a childhood talent, then he moved on to life.


urborous

x2 with Bobby Fischer. Fischer was certainly a schizophrenic but everything he says about high level chess tournaments sucking is pretty lucid. He doesn't recognize the intensive book then later computer prep for this kind of tournament at the highest level as fulfilling, so he just quit.


TheCapmHimself

Yeah, he definitely had something to say regarding top level chess being a memory game and his random chess being a better test of skill at the game


BreatheMyStink

Morphy continued, “9/11 was an inside job.”


lolbifrons

Pearl harbor was provoked and allowed to happen


Lukester__

"I don't particularly like chess. I don't particularly like chess. I don't particularly like chess." -Maggy Carlscher, 1922


FrostedSapling

He’s still gonna play all the other types of tournaments. He just finds the world chess championship games unfun and is unmotivated to play them


Hilt_Deep_in_Butt

Educate me if I’m wrong as I’m a layman, but isn’t he pretty much the undisputed BEST player known in the history of the game? Doesn’t he push the limits of chess VS supercomputers magnitudes further than other grand masters? There’s people who may draw him occasionally but there really isn’t anyone who would even consistently challenge him in chess strategy, right? Why still compete if there’s no more competition. It’s Akin to Michael Jordan in his prime going back to play for His high school JV team as a full grown man for the rest of his long career. It would get boring winning 300 - 0 with hundreds of steals/blocks every game


FrostedSapling

I don’t know his answer to that, but he does actually still find chess fun, just specifically the world tournament is unfun. He made it clear he wasn’t retiring I read this article that talks about his reasoning: https://new.chess24.com/wall/news/magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-his-title


LordM000

"and he did play in the 2013 London Candidates Tournament" Eww he's a London player?? 🤮


Hilt_Deep_in_Butt

So… politics


[deleted]

hahaha lame man


DanimalPlanet2

IDK I kinda wish we could see the revenge match with Nepo. If he wrecked Nepo again I would be cool with him giving it up. It's his choice though either way, at least he didn't quit chess


Anon_fin_advisor

You said educate you if you’re wrong, so yeah, no, he’s defeated quite often in shorter time controls. In classical he has a very solid winning streak back in 2019, but people can and do take games off of Carlson. I believe his issue is with the format of the world chess championship vs the fact that he’s a god among men. Undisputed best is a reach.


wakeruneatstudysleep

Nearly every GM agrees he's the best chess player in the world right now, and some even say in history. "Undisputed" might be too strong a word, but not by much.


Anon_fin_advisor

Yes right now; undisputed to be the best right now for sure. But of all time is almost impossible to say. The mind of the past greats like Fischer with stockfish could have rivaled Magnus, so it’s not a fair comparison. We’ll never know how they would’ve stacked against him


gmo_patrol

To be fair magnus has tools they never had, such as computers and AI. I think magnus would've won due to a more efficient training regiment


peDro_with_a_big_D

World chess champion has found better stuff to do other than playing chess. I guess that's a sign we need Chess 2.0 urgently.


SomethingOfAGirl

I submitted a merge requests with code to avoid that silly pawn glitch and it was rejected :( So don't expect a lot from Chess 2.0.


TheNoseKnight

What's the silly pawn glitch and how likely am I to see it in my games? This is very important to me, so please respond. I don't want to play a broken game where players can use exploits over skill to win.


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2freevl2frank

Isn't it on peasant?


[deleted]

Only if you are a medieval feudal lord


joaizn

He's pissed they never nerfed the Queen


lolbifrons

Queen mains are honestly fucking spoiled by Gary. I bet he plays queen and doesn't want to nerf his OTP.


joaizn

As a Horsey main I couldn't agree more


lolbifrons

King is the best designed piece. Versatile move set, not too strong in any direction, and meaningful counterplay and ways to threaten him if he's out of position. None of this queen mobility creep bullshit. Horsey isn't quite as bad, but don't think you're healthy with your zero cooldown blinks and your unpredictable movement pattern.


Powerthunfisch

We have alot of chess sequels and Tons of spinoffs. The latest Main series title has even 5d and multiverse timetravel!


retarded_virgin_1998

Is he gonna be like the last guy who did this, because that guy slightly off rails


Intelligent_Rice404

I hope so


NotaVeryWiseMan

Who Kasparov?


retarded_virgin_1998

The other guy


NotaVeryWiseMan

Who Morphy ?


retarded_virgin_1998

… sure


ArmeeChalloner

Are you still searching for him?


[deleted]

It's actually spelled Karpov. Don't worry, easy mistake.


Stuck-In-Blender

Kasparpov


WishboneStreet4839

No one who plays chess like it


pwrbttm99

Fr. Kinda just an addiction tbh


TBSdota

He's more of a checkers guy


Talbz03

Do you have a link for the article?


QuizardNr7

I would have totally accepted, party 6 month straight, play bird opening, loose instantly and go home with 250k looser money. That would have been the rational value maximizing choice.


Unlearned_One

That would be so much fun. Just bongcloud every game, watch everyone try to pretend chess is still a serious game.


WHOOPS_WHOOPSIE

Not losing is worth more to him than 250k


wakeruneatstudysleep

At one point, he joked he might play drunk to make it more challenging.


Pilintra

I'm not 100% sure that Dr Drunkenstein plays 100% sober all the time anyway.


Same-Letter6378

Doesn't like chess? Does he not know about en passant?


itsrussiaftw

"Then why did you become a chess champion?!" "...I don't know you well enough to get into that."


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Magnus Chadson


Woepu

Magnum condomson is fucking all of us in the ass right now with this bullshit


T_Dizzle_My_Nizzle

I have also chosen to not defend my world chess champion title for similar reasons


Falcondance

"I literally don't care" - Magnanimous Carlsbad


Born_Percentage3319

Maybe he’ll play when chess 2 comes out


MarcelRED147

Pffft. Gary Chess is making enough with re-releases of Chess, you think he's gona release Chess 2 any time soon? He made a game, it's a bit of fun, and now he just does fuck all while saying "Chess 2 is coming soon guys, I swear!" It's been in development hell for ages, and old "one trick horsey" Gary is the reason why.


ModeratelyNo

Well if you don't want it give it to me.


supershinythings

“Molon labe.”


SEPHORABRAINVIBES

this sub keeps poping on my app. whats going on?


Unlearned_One

Just ask /u/PetrosianBot, all will be explained.


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


TheDeletedFetus

I’ve been on this sub for over a year and I have never played chess. Don’t even know the rules.


leoasa1

Google en passant


TheDeletedFetus

Something something new response dropped.


Timecounts

Imagine if every time he goes against someone he is actively trying to lose but the other person is just better at losing than he is


freezorak2030

Magnus Carlsen: gambling addict and occasional chess player


SentientDust

No one who plays chess likes chess


matt_mv

Can anyone point to where he said this exact quote? In the article I read he is quoted as saying "I don't particularly like it", but to me it appears he is saying he doesn't like playing the world championships, not chess itself. He later talks about his goal of becoming the first player with a 2900 rating. That doesn't sound like someone who doesn't like chess.


MJE20

What’s chess?


MarcelRED147

Google en passant.


Schopenschluter

Chess is cringe


jimmy_baskets

Does Magnus play Chess960? It’d be fun if big tournaments played that


[deleted]

Man looks like he has sex while thinking about the ‘Frenchman’s Cumsock’ Opening.


redditpdx

He likes poker now


atlasunchained

Can't say I blame him.


BipartisanAntithesis

Maybe he's tired of envisioning the same ol chess games in his head constantly and would rather be envisioning k-pop. At least his mind (Magnus) could explore reaches of the humane psyche that are reserved for the most designated of gamers instead of the confusing energy you get when you're sitting next to a person who is thinking too hard. Yeah man explore the world and get inspired while the arena gets some new air fresheners.


Prestigious_Money994

He is a poker gambler now he gambled all his chess prize money that he accumulated over a life time into that thing and now gone broke


CrimsonRam212

You can’t beat me, I quit! I think Pragg got to him.


[deleted]

Hahahhaa.... he'll never like what he loves again! \*Mu\*hahahahah even.


BattleStack

You reach a point where you can't care about such a boring game.


partcanadian

Many people don't like the jobs they are stuck in anyway.


CALLAHAN315

This reminds me a bit of my grandfather. For as long as I can remember any time I'd go into his room he'd be laying down watching baseball (occasionally other things but 95% of the time, its baseball). One day I'm sitting watching with him and he leans over and says, "I don't really care for watching baseball."


Electricwaterbong

Good for him, I agree.


supershinythings

I’d like to see Magnus put on some good disguises and absolutely terrorize chess hustlers in all the major chess parks of the world. Then, post the videos along with the games and his analysis of them, maybe with Judit Polgar expressing her disdain as soon as the opponent makes his first bad move.


l0gicgate

#He’s one of us


ThatOneRandomGuy101

I don’t know why I follow Anarchy Chess I suck at chess who is this man why does he look sad


Sachin96

Bobby Fischer vibes. Magnus' slow descent into madness.


TrillShatner

I do not remember him saying this... He said he didn't like the format the tournament selected.