[HN Gopher] The 10-year-old "Golden Boy" Faustino Oro beat Magnu...
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The 10-year-old "Golden Boy" Faustino Oro beat Magnus Carlsen
yesterday
Author : wslh
Score : 21 points
Date : 2024-03-25 18:05 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| bdjsiqoocwk wrote:
| I don't know much about chess. But my understanding is that
| Magnus has been so far ahead of everyone else for such a long
| time, that being beaten by a 10 year old is a big deal. I wonder
| if others better informed could add to the conversation.
| bionsystem wrote:
| It's a 1min game, called "bullet" (faster than "blitz" which is
| already a fast format where people can sometimes beat much
| better player). The game is here :
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw5zBnhgqgk
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| The kid is good, almost 3000 rated at this age is impressive.
| Magnus is far from unfamiliar with this format as well so
| beating Magnus is not nothing. But this format involved some
| luck and a 3000 rated player (online) will take some games from
| Magnus, sometimes. It's not a slower, over the board game where
| almost nobody has a chance against Magnus. It's pretty much a
| different game.
| Scarblac wrote:
| For non chess players: 1 minute means the players each have 1
| minute _total_ thinking time for the entire game.
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| Except there's a concept called "premove" - you can move when
| your opponent hasn't moved yet, and if possible it will be
| played automatically once he does, taking no time off your
| clock. But of course, you have to guess what he's going to
| do.
| kelipso wrote:
| Time for premove depends on the website you play in. I
| think chesscom premove time is 0.01 seconds. lichess
| premove time used be 0 seconds, I think they added a
| millisecond recently.
| kelipso wrote:
| Lol guessed it when I read the title. But I genuinely get
| annoyed now when you have headlines that says some kid beat
| Carlsen and it turns out it's some bullet, blitz or rapid
| game. Debate all you want and I'm sure plenty of people have
| debated it to death but it doesn't count unless it's a
| classical game and they should stop headlining these
| irrelevant shorter time control games against kids.
| bionsystem wrote:
| A rapid game would count as a huge achievement as it's
| Carlsen's specialty, and it's probably not very easy to
| beat him at blitz either.
| Miner49er wrote:
| It's still a huge achievement. Carlsen is probably still
| top two or three in the world at bullet.
| hilux wrote:
| For the kid (or any player), of course, beating Magnus in
| a game is the chess memory of a lifetime.
|
| But [for the public] as far as signifying anything
| meaningful in the global chess landscape ... not really.
| joshxyz wrote:
| its like winning a mini game of half court shoot out with
| stephen curry.
|
| still well done on the kid tho lol. at 10 i dont even have
| enough iq.
| Scarblac wrote:
| Carlsen says he's not sure he'll play in classical round
| robin tournaments again, he wants to play the faster
| formats.
| huytersd wrote:
| I mean Indian pragdanandha defeated carlsen 2 years ago at 16.
| He was defeated a bunch last year. He loses a significant
| number, he's just really good so those losses don't hurt his
| image much.
| Scarblac wrote:
| That said, 10 years old is very different from 16.
| nescioquid wrote:
| No chess player ever wants to play a child. If you win,
| congratulations, you beat a child. If you lose, you were beaten
| by a child whom everyone will conclude is smarter than you.
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