yesterday.... after 2 classical, 4 tiebreakers, 1 armageddon, and aging 5 years, caruana defeated sindarov, sending him back into obscurity. my 4 bets went in drain along with him. (i still have one caruana bet with me)
Finals: leg 1
after wasting 5 mins god knows where, vincent opened with c5. now im not gonna post annotated lines & maneuvers cuz im no 2200 rated strag who knows whats going on. just assume it is a good opening because it is supposed to be bad for black. why would white play a move that's good for black duh?
it took them good 30 min to get to this whatever symmetrical mess you call it 
even the commentators were bored out of it and werent covering the match. YES they said it themselves that it was slow af and felt offing themselves livestream. only the thought of being posted on kiwifarms probably convinced them out of it
vincent stabbed the knight defending the corner pawn and grabbed it with his queen. actually he grabbed it with his hand but you get it. (he did it before fabi could do it to him)
carry saved his knight, vinny opened the file for his bishop to eat that horse meat.
vincent gives up his hanging pawn and prepares to welcome the upcoming rook down the highway (up or down is the matter of perspective).
predictable things happen, pieces are attacked, they run, they defend. vincent castles g-side to escape the incoming rook-king pin from the bishop. it leads to this 
caruana make a plan to move his pawn and lifts his rook 
but apparently (woah cuz idk how) its a huge time wasting blunder because the real battle front of this allies-axis battle is on the right hand side & the centre. (all quiet on the west front heh)
fabi goes to sleep again with his clock running (poor fella thought it was an alarm clock) and vincent executes his plan to poke the horse near the queen and then push his own to the centre 
the kraut executes an excellent pincer blitzkreig 
. desperate fabi gives up his rook for the crazy horse but he has neither any soldiers nor time left
he tries to eat the pawn tail with his active bishop but the white queen returns to put him on the naughty list. he attempts this one last trap 
the rook wards it off, bishops are called to the frontlines. queeny handles it swiftly 
this capture seals it for white 
and the axis forces defeat the allies! sieg heil!
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Dead game. Switch to 960 already
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Ok boomer. All the lit kids these days are playing Fischer Random
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960 is fischer random
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this IS 960
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Oh cool
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With an r-slured name
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We need more sensible chuckles around here
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I decided to play a few 960 matches this week to see if it's cool.
pros: it leads to some crazy positions completely unrelated to anything I'd ever played on regular chess
cons: it's so fricking hard to tell what's going on
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it felt like the worst thing for black was that his kang got stuck in the center without having a fast attack going
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