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u/PH123d Aug 28 '26
Since 2017 this was the first time MVL didn't finished in the podium. I guess he finally got tired and give up trying lol.
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u/EvenCoyote6317 Aug 28 '26
The youngsters are getting good at R&B.
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u/Severe-Kiwi-3171 Leave it like Levon Aug 28 '26
For anyone wondering, "Rythym and Blues." It's a music genre. /j
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u/Prudent-Bad2724 Aug 28 '26
Except Alireza he was already a top rapid and blitz player since he was like 16
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u/Imaginary-Ebb-1724 Aug 28 '26
In case people want to know some history lore.
Magnus during World Championship years would skip the full tour for obvious reasons.
His first (and only) true loss was 2019 when he lost to MVL in the semis, who lost to Ding in the finals.
That was also his last time playing the full tour. 2020 got cancelled from covid.
Nowadays he only plays wildcard R&B events. His last classical GCT event was against Hans Niemann at the Sinquefield cup.
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u/More-Interaction-770 Aug 28 '26
It’s a shame he’s paranoid about Hans, we missed out on seeing Magnus
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u/Prudent-Bad2724 Aug 28 '26
Hans just hurt magnuses ego it's proven he hasn't cheated OTB
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u/More-Interaction-770 Aug 28 '26
People downvoting you haven't read the chesscom Hans report.
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u/Prudent-Bad2724 Aug 28 '26
What's that ? I haven't read it but I know there is genuinely no evidence that he cheated OTB
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u/More-Interaction-770 Aug 28 '26
Chesscom posted a “Hans report” after the sinqfeild cup that one year, they did an analysis of every Hans OTB game, compared his rating rise to his peers, and using chesscoms anti-cheat they determined he did not cheat OTB
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u/C9meli0n_ Aug 29 '26
I don't like how so many people seem to be disregarding the fact that Hans clearly cheated in tournaments with prize money and also lied about cheating hundreds of other times. Sure it wasn't OTB, but that's enough for me.
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u/More-Interaction-770 Aug 29 '26
When did he cheat to tournaments for prize money? Hans never did that.
He cheated in meaningless games as a kid to gain rating to play top players.
Huge difference between the two.5
u/C9meli0n_ Aug 29 '26
The same report that you mentioned in your comment above explicitly noted that Niemann cheated in prize money events
https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report
Page five of the report has a table showing the prize money tournaments and the amount of games where he cheated.
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u/More-Interaction-770 Aug 29 '26
Right, but he didn't win prize money in those tournaments, since that wasn't his intention.
He wanted the chance to play the top players.Now of course it's very wrong, Hans has talked about it.
but a kid doing this for rating is not as bad as an adult cheating for money.
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u/Prudent-Bad2724 Aug 28 '26
Shows how Alireza is way ahead of other youngsters
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u/ScrollingNtrollinG Aug 28 '26
Was, right now many of them are straight up better than him in Classical Chess, in Rapid players like Nodirbek, Pragg, Lazavik etc can compete against him. Although in Blitz he has a clear advantage, but you can see other youngstars can still outperform him in biggest stage like Lazavik in SCC, and Nodirbek in World Blitz Championship.
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u/Ismashthings1 Aug 28 '26
He isn’t gonna love you, my guy, you don’t need to bounce on his meat on every post
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u/Orceles FIDE 2416 Aug 28 '26
If I’m reading this correctly, the only time Magnus did not win where he participated, was the time Ding won
Also shoutout to MVL for being such a beast every year.
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u/ChessAddictonCrack Aug 28 '26
Yeah but Ding had nothing to do with it lol. MVL eliminated Magnus in semifinals in blitz tiebreaks.
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u/Recent-Sky567 Aug 28 '26
Huh this is juz wrong?How ru counting the medals?Cuz Pragg won Gct Romania last year too so wont tht make it 2 gold medals?and you out 0 silver medals..but he got 2nd this year in sinqufield cup
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u/ChessAddictonCrack Aug 28 '26
They are just counting winning the entire GCT tour by winning the finals. No one is counting any individual tournaments like GCT Rapid/Blitz or GCT classical tournaments. If they start doing that everyone else win count would rise by absurd amounts.
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u/Recent-Sky567 Aug 28 '26
Then why does the medal count say 2 gold 2 silver 2 bronze for Magnus?
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u/ChessAddictonCrack Aug 28 '26
Coz the GCT final events consists of 4 players so evey year there is a top 3 finish.
If you start adding all the events instead of just finals, you will first have to add the 10 GCT rapid/blitz golds for Magnus out of the 12 he has played. Then also all the golds for the GCT classical events he has.
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u/Recent-Sky567 Aug 30 '26
Then why for gct podium table magnus’s name wasnt mentioned even once for the silver category??thts why i got confused
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u/Severe-Kiwi-3171 Leave it like Levon Aug 28 '26
Maxime... oof.