In a 2016 interview documentary piece by Canadian newspaper La Presse, GM Hansen commented on the inspiration of the name. GM Hansen first created "Chessbrah" as one of his chess usernames he played under at various online chess servers such as the Internet Chess Club (ICC), ChessCube, and others as early as 2011 when also began his first live broadcasts via the original. 3 Pro Chess League 2017: The Montreal Chessbrahs.2.3 Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.2.2 Chess24 and World Chess Championship Coverage.2 Chessbrah Chess Commentary and Partnerships. He stopped playing at 5:43 a.m., after 337 games. Firouzja took on fellow grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky in a best-of-250 hyper-bullet showdown. Thursday morning, then began the true marathon element of the binge. Firouzja played a few games, logged off until 1:00 a.m. Playing exclusively 30-second games in the middle of a classical chess tournament with hours on the clocks seems like a pretty straightforwardly bad idea doing so at the expense of sleep, 10 rounds deep into a 14-round tournament, is even worse. Madrid time and started playing hyper-bullet chess. Every game here he plays for a win, but we know sometimes the way he plays is a little bit artificial." So why was Firouzja so off his game? It may have had something to do with his preparation, by which I mean, he might have looked sloppy because he was up all night playing hundreds of games of online speed chess instead of sleeping.Īfter losing to Hikaru Nakamura on Wednesday, Firouzja logged onto around 11:00 p.m. "I would say he played in a very optimistic manner. "I didn't really understand what was going on today from his side," Nepomniachtchi said afterward. Nepomniachtchi calmly picked Firouzja's position apart after the teenager over-leveraged himself and hung several of his pieces, forcing his opponent to resign in 35 moves. Firouzja played a very aggressive line against Nepomniachtchi's Petrov, which the Russian defender easily countered. He's lost with the white pieces twice, including a spectacular loss under concerning circumstances against defending Candidates champion and presumptive 2022 winner Ian Nepomniachtchi on Thursday. The Norwegian has already crushed everyone from his generation, and he's bored enough with clowning on them that he said he would only defend if "the next challenger represents the next generation." Unfortunately, Firouzja is in the process of a spectacular flameout after acting like, well, a teen.įirouzja currently sits in last place out of the tournament's eight players, with only 4.5 points through 14 rounds and one single win, against the player in seventh. The stakes for Firouzja were perhaps higher than those of his seven opponents, as Carlsen publicly said he would probably cede his title unless Firouzja emerged from the Candidates. The 19-year-old Iran-born tactician is the third-youngest person ever to qualify for the Candidates after Bobby Fischer and Carlsen, and he's just barely wobbled below his peak 2804 rating. The 2022 Candidates Tournament, held to determine who wins the honor of ( maybe?) playing Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship, was supposed to be a coronation for Alireza Firouzja.
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