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[jimmy101]

Couldn't agree with you more on both points.

I feel that if we could teleport a relatively sane Fischer to the modern day & let him observe some modern chess tactics he would probably wipe the floor with Carlsen & narrowly beat Kasparov. Morphy is another interesting chess cat, also quite insane in his own right. Ranking the all time chess players might look something like this:

Gold tier: Fischer, Morphy, Kasparov

Silver tier: Capablanca, Spassky, Karpov

Of course there are many more names, but I'm not too familiar with their styles as much as I am with the players above. Carlsen would probably make the bronze tier, though (Anand, too).

I've been playing a fair bit of basketball over the past two years. Up until than I had never played a game in my life. I'm a tall fella (6 foot 4) so I often play as the centre, unfortunately I am far too skinny too pull off anything remotely resembling Shaq!

 

[Sophii]

Do you guys find interest in Tetris World Cups?

 

[jimmy101]

Just stumbled upon this. Will give this a proper watch once I get home from work.

 

[no country for old wainds]

this wiki is worth a read if you haven't seen it--shows a bunch of a different attempts to decide on the best chess players. do you play chess yourself? i'm nothing special but i used to play for my county and have won a bit of money over the years.

i'm too small to be any use at basketball, i was a good shooter in school as long as nobody was defending on me lol.

Do you guys find interest in Tetris World Cups?

i've watched a few of the finals. jonas got dethroned by a teenage asian debutant this year iirc. once the rise of the asians begins there's no stopping them, i bet they'll be completely dominant within a decade.

 

[Sophii]

this wiki is worth a read if you haven't seen it--shows a bunch of a different attempts to decide on the best chess players. do you play chess yourself? i'm nothing special but i used to play for my county and have won a bit of money over the years.

i'm too small to be any use at basketball, i was a good shooter in school as long as nobody was defending on me lol.



i've watched a few of the finals. jonas got dethroned by a teenage asian debutant this year iirc. once the rise of the asians begins there's no stopping them, i bet they'll be completely dominant within a decade.

Jonas got his dues finally? I seriously thought Jeff was gonna beat him in 2016 but it was no guess there.

Well damn, maybe Jonas will get his revenge next year.

 

[no country for old wainds]

yeah, sorry if that was a spoiler. i only see this shit because it pops up in my youtube recs every so often.

 

[Sophii]

yeah, sorry if that was a spoiler. i only see this shit because it pops up in my youtube recs every so often.

Nah it's cool man! Watching iy right now. This kid is no joke. He's toe to toe with Jonas and somehow managed to keep his cool with increasing levels.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i might be remembering this wrong but i think he only started playing like a year ago or something. those damned asians, man.

 

[jimmy101]

this wiki is worth a read if you haven't seen it--shows a bunch of a different attempts to decide on the best chess players. do you play chess yourself? i'm nothing special but i used to play for my county and have won a bit of money over the years.

i'm too small to be any use at basketball, i was a good shooter in school as long as nobody was defending on me lol.

Oh wow, congratulations mate! That's quite something that you've not only represented your county, but done so with success. I do play myself, only for recreation though and I dare say I'm nowhere near your level. Perhaps we could have a game of online chess one day.

That wiki is rather interesting. I had a quick glance and saw that the different metric produced vastly different rankings, so I'll have to have a more thorough look when I can to see just what exactly is being calculated there.

Haha, I am a lousy shot too. It's completely different taking a shot when the pressure is on, isn't it?

 

[CiG]

I'm a tall fella (6 foot 4) so I often play as the centre, unfortunately I am far too skinny too pull off anything remotely resembling Shaq!

Gotta give 'em the Nowitzki mid-range fade away jumpshots!

 

[no country for old wainds]

speaking of dirk, this happened just a few days ago:

 

[Sophii]

All this talk about sports is bringing me nostalgia about middle school when I wrestled. College schoolastic wrestling is fucking intense. If I went back to school I would definitely shape up for wrestling again

 

[jimmy101]

Gotta give 'em the Nowitzki mid-range fade away jumpshots!

It would probably be air-ball city if I tried

 

[CiG]

speaking of dirk, this happened just a few days ago:

Yeah I saw that, pure class. He's going to be missed.

 

[CiG]

It would probably be air-ball city if I tried

Channel some Yao Ming, build that court IQ, slaughter big man jumpshots from the key, focus that accuracy, become the Ming.

 

[jimmy101]

Yo man, you sound like you know your shit. We could use you on the court!

 

[CiG]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[jimmy101]

Henry Rollins bullying a teenager back in the early 80's for not being an authentic member of his "scene".