#Fide

[shubhadeep385]

Indian Grandmaster D. Gukesh 🇮🇳 on Thursday (December 12, 2024) became the youngest World Chess champion at 18 years after beating title-holder Ding Liren of China 🇨🇳 in the 14th and last game of a thrilling showdown in Singapore.🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉

[e2pawn]

[edwardsissyhandsthtdanceslikeabb]

ok so are we actually mad at magnus for wearing pants — jeans, and then refusing to take off his clothes for one round? like we cant possibly think that suspending him is at all proportional or sane, esp given the context of big conglomerate fide exploiting their monopoly to crush independent organizing and coerce players out of branching out. esp when they're not even paid enough for the clout and power they give fide. like cmon guys. am i missing something??

[get-good-tardigradez]

On a serious note, Magnus Carlsen lost his mother 5 months ago. Many are saying he’s just throwing a tantrum, but if he wants to fuck off outta the tournament after being fined for wearing jeans and go on a holiday instead, I don’t blame the man one bit.

[cherrychapstickflavoured]

Magnus Carlsen really came to the FIDE championships this year and said idgaf imma do what i want

[magicalnicole]

Apparently jeansgate has resulted in some kind of change!

If any one but magnus (or maybe hikaru) had done this, I don't think much (or anything) would have changed. It sounds like whatever the change is, it will benefit the players 👍

December 29, 2024

Fide statement

[suplexenjoyer]

Side note,this drama had me so heated from the takes I was seeing on reddit that I fucking downloaded reddit again 😮‍💨. (Its gonna be gone from my phone in less than 10 mins)

One thing struck me though which is super interesting

Jeansgate popped up both on the regular r/all subs and of course was all of the chess sub

On r/all everyone seemed to be of two opinions. 1) This is Supremely dumb 2) Magnus is right to be mad

On r/chess most peope are siding with FIDE?for some fucking reason? Like every post is basically "rules are rules"

Like your pants are more important in a chess competition then making sure the competition is equitable?

I think people in the chess community are so used to FIDE's nonsense that they think that this isnt some total bullshit?

Anyways I dont know why I thought reddit would have smart opinions about this, I just cant believe the sesspit of r/all had the reasonable takes

[russnightlife]

This is why FIDE's ban on transgender players is not only insane, but reflective of an ongoing contempt for women in FIDE.

Here's one big takeaway from this essay: women don't have separate chess tournaments because they are not as good as men. They have separate chess tournaments because they do not want to be harassed and assaulted at chess tournaments. Some of the most successful male players are serial assaulters, and FIDE does... nothing.

[eulergirl]

Quick break from the signalis posting for the speed chess championship finals. More tonight though!

[sammypofficial]

not sure if it has been posted on here but FIDE are a fucking disgrace

[euchreiade]

FIDE : We will not act to curb the harassment that women, cis and trans, face in the chess world.

Everyone with sense : Go fuck yourself, FIDE.

FIDE : But we will ban trans women from women's tournaments and do nothing to prevent harassment to follow the bandwagon, knowing that will rally the extremely conservative male board and will give TERFs the illusion that we are being noble saviours of the patriarchal gender binary by further isolating trans women from the sport. And we will litterally not be doing anything about harassment.

TERFs : HELL YEAH! FIDE'S FINALLY FIGHTING FOR WOMEN BY ???

[e2pawn]

[get-good-tardigradez]

Team Magnus solidarity for Jeansgate 2024 ♟️

[omogolonkwe247]

League division - Chess.com

New Chess levels lets go!!

[magicalnicole]

omg what a circus lmao but I'm happy he's playing. Fide must have conceded on something, I wonder what

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[suplexenjoyer]

The 18th World Chess Champion is 18 Years Old!

Congratulations to the new classical world chess champion: Gukesh Dommaraju. The 18 year-old has become The youngest Undisputed Classical World Chess Champion in history. An unprecedented accomplishment! He leads a group of young players born after the turn of the millennium who are now making chess's world stage their own.

To become The World Champion, Gukesh beat 17th World Champion Ding Liren, at one time the world #3 for years and considered one of the top players in the world, he emerged from the pandemic struggling to replicate his earlier performances. Ding put up a tough fight, and did better than many expected, but chess is unforgiving and a mistake late in the last game of the match has cost him the title.

The young champion Gukesh is the second player from India to become the undisputed world champion after the 15th world champion Viswanathan Anand.

Ramblings below the cut ✂️

In chess there are two main mountains: The classical world championship and the top spot on the rating list. Gukesh for himself, for India and for the new generation has claimed the world championship. Gukesh sits at #5 in the world on the rating list with a rating of 2776.8. This puts him behind World #4 Arjun Erigaisi, another Indian prodigy, age 21 who has rocketed up the rating lists in the last year earning a rating 2800.6, 15th highest ever!

Gukesh and Arjun are joined by Nodirbek Abdusattorov age 20, from Uzbekistan world#6 (2767.6) and Alireza Firouzja the 21 year old, world #7 (2763), originally from Iran now residing in France and identifying as French after leaving Iran due to their policy of not letting their players play against those from Israel. Alireza Firouzja is worth particular note as up until today he was considered the top of the new generation. Dubbed the prince of chess. Alireza who has so far peaked at #2 in the world, with a rating of 2804 (back in late 2021) and notably has the highest ability of the new generation at speed chess. Which has emerged as a new arena of play, rivaling that of the classical time format. Alireza has struggled with high pressure events, which has been the seperating factor between him and the Indian stars.

Ahead of our young rising stars are

World #3

37 year old Hikaru Nakamura (current: 2802, peak: 2816)

A top 10 player for many years, Hikaru would pivot to twich and youtube, and speed chess events for a few years and he would emerge as perhaps the most popular chess player in the current media landscape. This gave him the security to return to Classical Chess and surge to the top 2 or 3 where he has stayed for quite some time.

World #2 Fabiano Caruana (Current: 2803.4, peak: 2844)

The quiet 32 year old American has had a legendary career so far. He lost the 2018 world championship (the first one I watched live!) in the tiebreak portion and has since not had a chance to compete for the title again. In terms of rating lists and tournament performance Fabiano Caruana is the definitive #2 player of the past 15 years.

Lastly of course, is the World #1

Magnus Carlsen

The 34 year old Norwegian, currently rated 2831, peak rating of 2882

From 2013-2023 he was The World Champion, and has been the #1 player on the rating list since 2011, not once leaving that spot since. During the 2010's Magnus would come and go with speed chess, almost always winning, like usual, when he did play. He pivoted to online speed chess events during the pandemic and has more or less elected to stick with that. Magnus vacated the world championship in 2023 after deciding he was done being bored and frustrated with a format he had complained about for a decade. Magnus has more or less retired from classical play, playing only the occasional event and focusing on other endeavors and speed chess events.  To simplify a bit, Magnus has basically run out of things to do in chess so he's doing other things and playing chess when he feels like it.

When Magnus vacated the title he did so after learning his challenger would be Ian Nepomniachtchi one of the best in the world but someine Magnus had definitively beat in in the 2022 World Championship. Whats interesting is Magnus had said he'd defend the title if Alireza was the one who won the right to challenge him. Magnus has maintained a love for Alireza's playing style and high praise for his talent. Saying multiple times how much he enjoys watching him play and playing against him. Especially in speed chess. So of course, with Magnus commentating on the 2024 world title match, and Gukesh's win. Magnus' co-hosts have asked him if he's interested in trying to get a match with Gukesh and Magnus said no. Personally I think this stems more from Magnus just disliking the title format than anything else.

Still! That leaves interesting questions and contests to come! For the world champion, he wont need to defend his title until 2026. He'll be 20, and likely an even stronger player. But both his peers and his seniors,, especially Fabiano Caruana are challengers who will always pose a threat.

As for the rating list.

1,2&3 are all 30+

4,5,6&7 are all under 25

Its going to be very interesting to see when the kids pass the vets. Eventually it'll be interesting to see just how high these new players peak and the change they have on the game.

It'll be interesting to watch the battles they have with each other and the occasional battles they have with Magnus who remains the best in the world. Be it in speed chess or the occasional classical game.