Bold move by Dan

In December I wrote a blog post called “Vladimir Kramnik is the most boring person in the chess world” and then stopped thinking about him entirely, which felt like the right thing to do at the time. Now I’m not so sure. Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away.

I think AI chatbots would have a better reputation if, instead of being 80% right on factual questions, they just refused to answer them. You’d be like “who was president of the United States in 1954” and it would just say “ERROR: factual question detected. Please try again.”

Good news, I asked ChatGPT if it can help with NFL officiating, and it said yes.

The follow-up tweet is just nonsensical. He’s criticizing unnamed people who claim to be friends but didn’t help. This might make sense coming from someone who was Naroditsky’s friend. But as Sutovsky acknowledges, he was not a friend. He’s not in a position to know who did what to help.

Very understandable

Sutovsky isn’t Russian. There are bad people of all nationalities.

This is a human kind of passive aggressive condescension that LLMs can only dream of achieving.

Imagine if you asked a human being this question and they said “Good question”. You would call the police.

Has anyone effectively turned off the sycophancy in ChatGPT? Starting this response with “Good question” is psychopathic.

This is an incredibly insensitive post from the CEO of FIDE. I cannot believe what I am reading.

What we can say is that Vladimir Kramnik has done cruel things and caused a lot of unnecessary pain, and that affected Naroditsky deeply, and made the last year of his life very hard. That’s still true if it was an aneurysm that killed him.

He’s such a horrible person

Incredible loss. Chess won’t be the same without him.

Speak for yourself! I could never beat a computer at chess.

Yeah that’s a theory. Nobody knows for sure. Another theory is that getting experience in different structures is valuable.

What do you do when your chess rating goes down? My rating dropped more than 100 points after my best year ever. Here’s how I handled it, and what I’m doing now.

New post in my Substack: What do you do when your chess rating goes down? substack.com/home/post/p-...

It can be about your favorite philosophy professor, if their name is also Bill

Nf3 Kf1 Rf2

Just kidding, Rossolimo was every nationality except Italian

Nicolas Rossolimo

Her etiquette looks perfectly appropriate to me (I was going to add “…for unrated fast blitz” but actually I don’t even think that qualifier is necessary)

Sure, that happens sometimes. It’s something the people in charge of the ratings system monitor closely and make corrections for.

Probably they have gaps in their skills that didn’t show up in that game.

Just play one opponent over and over and not play anyone else?

In fact this writer might be overly resigned to the impossibility of improvement. It still might happen for him!

Good article. Chess improvement is rare, and anyone with a reality-based view of things will recognize the possibility that although they have improved in the past, it might never happen again for them in the future.

Trump is making everything more expensive smh

No baby I know would allow that mustache to stay on their face for more than one second.

Having learned about conservation of energy in high school physics, I have wondered how hot a chess player’s body would have to get in order for this fact to be true.

Old people talking about foreign affairs… on television? Now I’ve heard everything.