It is too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.
Polytopia addresses these limitations.
Ah yes, teams as valuable as FIRST-Judd Racing, true legends of motorsport
Then your meme makes no sense. The three teams at the bottom picture aren't bidding for a 11th entry, so there is no point in comparing them. They can't "bring" value to F1 (whatever value they have is already part of F1) and they have proven to be much more competitive than the backmakers of the '80s, '90s, '00s or '10s. Andretti is quite likely to be similar to those old-time backmakers (no experience in chassis, no technical partnership with an established F1 team, a project with 4 different sites between America and Europe that somehow is even worse than Haas') and has failed to prove that they bring enough money in the long-run to offset the costs associated to a new entry: FOM is purely motivated by greed, if they thought that Andretti could bring loyal spectators and not just a short-timed fad, they would be in.
And if you take a look at reddit (yeah, I know I shouldn't), there is a lot of people that are seriously proposing forcing one of the existing teams to sell to Andretti or even kicking them out of F1. So it wasn't totally out of question that this meme was advocating for replacing one if the existing teams.
Pfff... who would want a team with 45 years of history, 9 WCC, 7 WDC, 114 wins and 128 podiums, and that last season scored points 8 times and had 7 Q3 appearances. It's so much better to have a team that hasn't designed and/or built a chassis in the last two decades!
from defending itself against Hamas before Israel achieves meaningful security goals
Please explain to me, in what world "defending against Hamas" (which are islamist terrorists) and "achieving meaningful security goals" includes bombing a Greek Orthodox Christian church?
Everything, not everyone
Are "human animals" things or ones?
It's funny that, except for Haas, the launch dates are more or less in reverse expected championship order
Nope. The topic at hand is free ice-ceam. A topic that you, as a rational adult, can understand that is 100% literal and not at hyperbolic example to make a point about general trends and not a single specific item.
The US FCC defines ionizing radiation as wavelengths smaller than 124 nm (which corresponds more or less to the ionization energy of both oxygen and hydrogen, so it is a sensible definition).
The "most starlight" part is a bit trickier. Stars emit light in a wide spectrum (approximately black body radiation) depending on their temperature: hotter stars emit bluer light and are more luminous, but very rare, while cooler stars are redder and fainter, and much more common. Yellow stars (spectral type G), like the Sun, emit mostly between 400 nm and 750 nm (visible spectrum), while red stars (spectral type M) mostly emit from 700 nm to 1000 nm,
So let's say that you want all the light with wavelengths of 1000 nm or smaller turned into ionizing radiation. That gives us a blue-shift of 1+z = lambda_obs/lambda_em = 124 nm/ 1000 nm = 0.124.
The relation between speed and blue(/red)-shift is given by the relativistic Doppler effect:
1+z = sqrt((1+beta)/(1-beta))
where beta=v/c and c is the speed of light. Solving for beta
beta = ((1+z)^2 -1)/((1+z)^2 +1)
And plugging the numbers, you get beta = -0.970, where the minus sign means that you are moving towards the star. At 97% of the speed of light.
If you only wanted to turn most of the sunlight into ionizing radiation, you would need "just" 94.7% of the speed of light.
Wow, that number is quite amazing. 22% of American Jews in 2021 thought that the 2023-24 military campaign is a genocide. So at least 22% of American Jews are time travelers!
The plot was semi-historical, so it could have ended with Stede's demise.
Fedora 39 is clearly superior to Ubuntu 23
Is Ben-Gvir already asking for his "voluntary" transfer outside of Israel?
Welcome to Hedgehog Club. The first rule of Hedgehog Club is: you do not talk about Hedgehog Club.
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun secured the title of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Blitz with 12.5 points after 18 rounds.
5-time Speed Chess Champion Hikaru Nakamura won his first match of the 2023 event while managing to play almost all the possible first moves against Yu Yangyi.
Learn everything about the Main Event - location, format, time control, and more.
Format
Knock-out tournament. Each match consists of 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz games, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz games and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet games. In case of a tie, the players play four additional 1+1 games, and if necessary. an Armageddon game where the players bid the time.
Players
(chess.com ratings)
- Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 3286
- Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳 3077
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2896
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2887
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2813
Ding Liren 🇨🇳 2787Ian Nepomniachtchi 🏳️ 2785- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2765
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2750
- Arjun Erigaisi 🇮🇳 2737
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2736
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 2722
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2708
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2707
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2689
- Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2659
- Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 🇮🇳 2616
Schedule
Round of 16
- Nakamura vs Yu Yangyi: Sep 4, 13:00 UTC
- So vs Aronian: Sep 5, 18:00 UTC
- Sarin vs Sarana: Sep 6, 16:00 UTC
- Firouzja vs Andreikin: Sep 8, 17:00 UTC
- Liren vs Erigaisi: Sep 10, 13:00 UTC
- MVL vs Gukesh: Sep 11, 12:30 UTC
- Caruana vs Abdusattorov: Sep 11, 17:00 UTC
- Carlsen vs Vidit: Sep 12, 13:00 UTC
Quarterfinals
- QF1: Sep 13, 13:00 UTC
- QF2: Sep 14, 12:00 UTC
- QF3: Sep 15, 12:30 UTC
- QF4: Sep 15, 17:00 UTC
Semifinals
- SF1: Sep 19, 17:00 UTC
- SF2: Sep 20, 16:00 UTC
Final
Sep 22. 18:00 UTC
Links
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final of the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup to clinch his third tournament victory on the Champions Chess Tour. Though both players were in imperfect form, their fighting nature shined through. Firouzja scored a must-win 130-move victory t...
GM Alireza Firouzja has earned a rematch vs. GM Magnus Carlsen in the Grand Final of the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup by winning the Losers Final vs. GM Denis Lazavik.
For 37 years, Indian chess has had one unwavering constant: the legendary GM Viswanathan Anand is king. With the release of FIDE's latest official rating list on Friday, that has now changed. There is a new kid on the block. GM Gukesh D, the 17-year-old prodigy from Anand's home city of Chennai, had...
GM Magnus Carlsen reached the Division I Grand Final of the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja with a hat trick, 3-0 with no fourth game.
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, and Wesley So move on to the Division I Winners Semifinals of the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup after winning their matches on day one.
The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 5th event on the 2023 Champions Chess Tour.
Format
The Julius Baer Generation Cup features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if one player loses one match he drops down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there's a rematch.
The total prize fund is $235,000, with a top prize of $30,000 (150 Tour points) in Division I, $10,000 in Division II (50 points) and $5,000 (20 points) in Division III. The top 3 in Division I and the winner of Division II qualify straight to Division I of the next event on the Tour.
The time control for normal games is 15 minutes per player for all moves, with a 3-second increment each move. In Division I and II the Winners bracket matches are played over four games, while in the Losers bracket there are two games. In Division III all matches are over two games except the 4-game Grand Final. A tie in a match is decided by an Armageddon game with no increment, where the players bid for time they are willing to play with. The lowest bidder gets that time and can pick colour, while the opponent gets 15 minutes. Black only needs a draw to win the match.
Players
Division I
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2777
- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2769
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2725
- M. Amin Tabatabaei 🇮🇷 2696
- Pavel Eljanov 🇺🇦 2695
- Denis Lazavik 🏳️ 2560
Division II
- Ian Nepomniatchtchi 🏳️ 2779
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2742
- Vladislav Artemiev 🏳️ 2698
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2685
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2684
- Bassem Amin 🇪🇬 2684
- Andrey Esipenko 🏳️ 2683
- Vladimir Fedoseev 🇸🇮 2676
- Laurent Fressinet 🇫🇷 2652
- Rauf Mamedov 🇦🇿 2633
- Nodirbek Yakubboev 🇺🇿 2630
- Eduardo Iturrizaga 🇪🇸 2617
- Maksim Chigaev 🇪🇸 2616
- Aleksey Dreev 🏳️ 2698
- Aydin Suleymanli 🇦🇿 2586
- Evgeny Alekseev 🇮🇱 2573
Division III
- Anish Giri 🇳🇱 2769
- Vladimir Kramnik 🏳️ 2753
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 🇦🇿 2747
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2729
- Parham Maghsoodloo 🇮🇷 2702
- Samuel Sevian 🇺🇸 2698
- Igor Kovalenko 🇺🇦 2674
- Matthias Bluebaum 🇩🇪 2670
- Etienne Bacrot 🇫🇷 2662
- Jaime Santos Latasa 🇪🇸 2656
- Alan Pichot 🇪🇸 2642
- Gata Kamsky 🇺🇸 2641
- Shant Sargsyan 🇦🇲 2639
- Benjamin Gledura 🇭🇺 2637
- Georg Meier 🇺🇾 2629
- Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦 2627
- Benjamin Bok 🇳🇱 2617
- Aram Hakobyan 🇦🇲 2612
- Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 🇦🇲 2609
- Olexandr Bortnyk 🇺🇦 2608
- Shamsiddin Vokhidov 🇺🇿 2597
- Nikolas Theodoru 🇬🇷 2586
- Constantin Lupulescu 🇷🇴 2584
- Bardiya Daneshvar 🇮🇷 2570
- Velimir Ivic 🇷🇸 2570
- Tuan Minh Le 🇻🇳 2559
- Vugar Rasulov 🇦🇿 2549
- Rudik Makarian 🏳️ 2546
- Nikita Meshkovs 🇱🇻 2544
- Diego Flores 🇦🇷 2534
- Pablo Salinas Herrera 🇨🇱 2464
- Garg Aradhya 🇮🇳 2395
Schedule
Division I
- Quarterfinals: 30th August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Losers Round 1: 31st August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Semifinals: 31st August
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Quarterfinals: 1st September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:10 UTC
- Final: 1st September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Final: 2nd September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:05 UTC
- Grand Final: 3rd September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Grand Final Reset: 3rd September
- Game 1: 18:15 UTC
- Game 2: 18:50 UTC
- Game 3: 19:25 UTC
Links
Chess.com and Hans Niemann have resolved their differences and are moving forward. As many readers will be aware, Chess.com and Niemann, as well as Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, have been engaged in a lawsuit over the past year after Niemann defeated Carlsen in September at the Sinquefield Cup...
On the last day, WR Chess completed their phenomenal run at the World Rapid Team Championship, clinching first with a round to spare. It was truly a team victory as every member contributed, and several players turned in dazzling performances. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi scored 7/9 on board two. GM Jan-Kr...
In a second day of total domination, WR Chess won all four matches and are the only team with a perfect 100 per cent score
WR Chess, led by GM Wesley So, rose to clear first on day one of the World Rapid Team Championship 2023, winning all of their matches so far. The top seed, GM Viswanathan Anand's Freedom, had a rocky fourth round, nearly losing to GM Pentala Harikrishna's Team MGD1. With the entire match on the line...
The inaugural edition, a 12-round Swiss tournament played over three days under rapid time control, will take place in Düsseldorf from August 25 (arrival day) to August 28, 2023
Format
The World Rapid Team Championship 2023 is a 12-round Swiss tournament featuring 43 teams. Each team is composed of at least six and not more than nine players, and it must include at least one female and one recreational player, who never achieved FIDE rating of 2000. Each match is played on six boards, with at least one female and one recreational player in every match.
The time control is 15 minutes for the entire game, with an increment of 10 seconds from the first move. Matches are scored by match points, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The team with the most match points will become the champion.
Participants
More than 300 players are participating, including Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Viswanathan Anand, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Praggnanandhaa R, Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi, Hou Yifan, and many more. You can check the complete line-up here
Schedule
- 26 August
- Round 1: 11:30 UTC
- Round 2: 13:30 UTC
- Round 3: 15:30 UTC
- Round 4: 17:30 UTC
- 27 August
- Round 5: 11:30 UTC
- Round 6: 13:30 UTC
- Round 7: 15:30 UTC
- Round 8: 17:30 UTC
- 28 August
- Round 9: 11:30 UTC
- Round 10: 13:30 UTC
- Round 11: 15:30 UTC
- Round 12: 17:30 UTC
Links
GM Magnus Carlsen can now say that he has won every significant chess title that he's set his sights on. The five-time world champion won his first World Cup crown by defeating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 1.5-0.5 in the rapid tiebreaks of the 2023 FIDE World Cup for a match victory of 2.5-1.5. In t...
Nijat Abasov defeated Fabiano Caruana while Magnus Carlsen held Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to a draw.
