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This is not how I see it. Carlsen lost one insanely long online bullet match on lichess. He narrowly lost an online banter blitz match. This is not blitz, sinc
by vpa10 7y ago
This is not how I see it. Carlsen lost one insanely long online bullet match on lichess.
He narrowly lost an online banter blitz match. This is not blitz, since also you have to talk while playing, which does not seem to suit Carlsen's personality.
In classical, you can often "almost lose", except that Carlsen does not "actually lose", as exemplified by his ongoing record non-loss streak.
- lonelappde 7y agoIn the banter blitz I saw, they aren't really bantering, just making offhand comments during downtime.
- glxxyz 7y agoThey don't really banter in 'banter blitz', they explain the position and their strategy, which is much more interesting.
- thom 7y agoI watch a variety of games on Twitch, and I am fairly sure that no player would claim they play optimally while commentating themselves and explaining their thought processes.
- jquery 7y agoPeople are reading a bit too much into this loss. It is a big deal that someone was able to beat Magnus Carlsen at any time control, especially in this era where Magnus has seemingly reached a new level of chess skill, but bullet is by far the the easiest for a champion to make a mistake or series of them. Magnus is ridiculously strong at bullet but I’ve watched his live-streams and sometimes he blunders really badly, that’s just part of bullet. Although he is incredibly strong at bullet, probably 50-100 points higher than the world #2. Anyone not a high ranked GM wouldn’t stand a chance of beating him in a series of more than 5 games. But I’ve seen him lose to players he is obviously better than. He’s the #1 so they try their hardest. Nothing comes easily for Magnus.
- pedrosorio 7y ago“Although he is incredibly strong at bullet, probably 50-100 points higher than the world #2” Are you forgetting about Hikaru Nakamura?
- freyir 7y ago> "probably 50-100 points higher than the world #2" He can't be 50-100 points higher than himself. Hikaru is #1. https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men_blitz https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men_blitz
- Taek 7y agoThat's blitz. Bullet is a faster time control
- freyir 7y agoOh, you're right. Google pulls up FIDE's blitz rankings when you search for bullet chess rankings.
- ganeshkrishnan 7y agoBullet games are not officially rated
- me_me_me 7y agoThe classical time control chess is boring. It really feels like an exercise in memorization. I stopped watching those as almost every tournament ends in armagedon. Its a statement of the incredible skills top players poses, but its incredibly boring to watch draw after draw. Quicker time controls are more dynamic and allow to play subpar move to throw off your opponent. Often you can see some crazy attacks.