r/NorthAmerican Jan 17 '20

The sub is open for new content

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This sub was dead because previous mods had restricted posting, pretty much killing the sub when those people stopped posting

When I became moderator I changed that policy and the sub is now open


r/NorthAmerican Jul 25 '24

Extensive use of — (em dash)

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Hi, it’a a non-Native English speaker here.

I’ve been noticing that journalists, authors and politicians’ accounts on social media seem to use extensively the — (em dash) into what they write.

Is this dash more used in North America rather than the UK & Ireland , Australia & New Zealand, and South Africa?


r/NorthAmerican Jul 31 '23

Chess - Live reading compilations of famous copypasta of Armenian GM Tigran L Petrosian vs Philippine-born American WFRCC Wesley So ft Japanese-born American SGM Hikaru Nakamura & the Philippines' 1st and only WGM Janelle Frayna.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 27 '23

Women's Chess - 13yo Alice Lee becomes youngest American female international master, wins the 2023 USCC girls' juniors by beating 2021 women's (not girls'!) USCC Carissa Yip and then gets on Good Morning America.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 27 '23

Chess - American superGM Hikaru Nakamura marries Iranian-American WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan who in 2022Dec, like Iranian-Spanish IM Sara Khadem, changed federations & competed in 2022 blitz & rapid world championships in Kazakhstan w/o hijab.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 26 '23

Rare interview: Bobby Fischer won't play chess with Boris Spassky but will play Fischer Random.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 26 '23

Bobby Fischer talks about 'axis of evil' vs 'allies of evil'...including Australia?

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 25 '23

Chess - What's your opinion of the Hans Niemann vs Magnus Carlsen controversy?

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Hello!

Intro:

  1. My name is Nic Bentulan. I'm a dual citizen of Hong Kong & the Philippines.
  2. I was the 1 who posted the joke beads theory that Elon Musk tweeted. I didn't create the theory. I just shared it. I do have my own theory about the matter, but I think saying this theory will violate 1 of the supposed neutrality for this post.
  3. But as for bias, we in the Philippines tend to hate Magnus out of our bias for Philippine-born American Wesley So (the 2019 World Fischer Random chess champion, whom American 1972 world chess champion Bobby Fischer might consider 'the real world champion', mwahahaha), who left the Philippines in 2014 due to corruption. So there you know Gasai my bias.

Anyway the story is ... the Carlsen–Niemann controversy

  1. In 2022Sep, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, the 5-time & reigning world chess champion accuses 19yo Jewish American prodigy Hans Niemann of in-person (aka 'OTB' meaning over-the-board) cheating in their game at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup.
    1. Hans has a history of online cheating. - Hans cheated - or well, was caught cheating online twice, once when e was 12yo and once when e was 16yo. But Hans has no proven history of OTB cheating.
  2. In late 2022Oct, Hans sues Magnus (& 2 other parties mentioned later below).
  3. It's said in the lawsuit & elsewhere that while Magnus has stated that e refuses play people caught cheating, Magnus somehow still plays these 3 players who have been caught cheating :
    1. Indian Pranav Venkatesh,
    2. Iranian Parham Maghsoodloo &
    3. French Sébastien Feller
  4. Less 'known' in the sense it's like a 'best kept secret' (like Catholic Church's Social Teachings) is that Magnus has cheated too, both online & OTB, but Magnus was never sanctioned. However Magnus' cheating is more like 'bullying cheating' than the 'engine cheating' that Magnus is accusing Hans of. I was told that Magnus' cheating is more akin to 'fouls' in basketball or 'yellow cards' in football/soccer. But well you decide for yourself. There are a lot of videos, and most comments seem to defend Magnus.
    1. Eg when Magnus cheated 16yo Iranian-French Supergrandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the 2019 blitz world chess championship...
    2. ...Eg 1 decade after 19yo Magnus cheats the then-women's world chess champion Jewish Russian-Swiss Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk. (Compare 19yo Hans vs 19yo Magnus...)
      1. In the 1994 Linares tournament, Magnus' predecessor as world chess champion Jewish Russian Garry Kasparov (who is anti-Putin btw) similarly cheated Hungarian & fellow Jew Grandmaster Judit Polgar, the undisputed greatest & most talented female chess player of all time (both GOAT & MTOAT in women's chess).
    3. Eg when Magnus cheats Jewish American grandmaster Danya Naroditsky twice - once in 2020May & another in 2021Dec.
  5. 99% of top players say there's not enough evidence, at least for 'reasonable doubt' that Hans cheated in that particular game. But some suspect under 'balance of probabilities'. Some also say maybe Hans cheated OTB in other games. (Yeah it's unsure if Hans cheated OTB, but it's sure Magnus cheated....)

Main question: What's your opinion of the Hans Niemann vs Magnus Carlsen controversy?

Sub-questions :

  1. Are you 'Team Magnus'? Or 'Team Hans' ?
  2. What do you think of your 3 compatriots in this story?
    1. Jewish American Grandmaster Hans Niemann, the 'ex-con' (but ex-convict as a minor) - Did Hans cheat in the OTB game vs Magnus? Do you think Hans cheated online more times than e claimed? Do you think Hans cheated OTB prior?
    2. American International Master Danny Rensch, the chief chess officer of chessdotcom aka chessc*m (it's a lichess joke) - In early 2022Oct, chessc*m published a report about Hans that claimed Hans had apparently cheated in a lot of online games. While they say there's insufficient evidence Hans cheated OTB, either for that game vs Magnus or for any other OTB game, they still talk about Hans' unusual OTB rise. Do you think it's fair
    3. Japanese-born American Supergrandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who made controversial remarks on twitch about Hans. - Was it genuine? Or was it for content?
  3. What do you think of Magnus Carlsen?
    1. Was it morally right for Magnus to publicly accuse Hans?
    2. Was it stupid for Magnus to publicly accuse Hans? Brian Towers, a moderator of chess stackexchange, says it's stupid to publicly accuse someone because with private accusations, arbiters can monitor future events which will make it more likely to catch them. So arguably, public accusations are like 'war crimes' - yes they're evil, but they're also stupid because it harms your side as well.
    3. Is Magnus a hypocrite?
    4. What do you think of those people defending Magnus' 'bullying cheating'?
    5. What do you think about 'bullying cheating' vs 'engine cheating' ?
    6. Is Magnus inconsistent (or maybe some other negative adjective if you know Gasai what I mean) in refusing to play Hans but not Parham, Pranav & Sébastien?

r/NorthAmerican Jul 24 '23

Bobby Fischer versus Boris Spassky 1970 Chess Olympiad, Siegen.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 21 '23

God Bless America! 2 things on June 19: 1 - end of slavery in the US 2 - Announcement by Bobby Fischer, 1st American-born world chess champion who heavily criticised US' past slavery of Africans, of the chess variant Fischer Random chess, ending slavery of regular chess.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 16 '23

Esports (valorant) player Emuhleet relates real life nursing career to playing sage (healer character) main during covid pandemic. / 'I play sage main, and you know I'm a nurse in real life' (2020May)

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 15 '23

Bobby Fischer changes mind about women in chess 1 decade apart 1962 vs 1972 ft Wesley So.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 15 '23

Chess - Philippine-born American supergrandmaster Wesley So gets a chess cake from a fan. (from WR_Chess_Masters 2023Jun Dubai) [1047x1553]

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 12 '23

Chess - Bobby Fischer Crushes Vasily Smyslov via Telex Machine! (agadmator)

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 08 '23

Boris Spassky in 2004 on the 'illegal' 1992 rematch w/ Bobby Fischer - 'Bobby and myself committed the same crime. Put sanctions against me also. Arrest me. And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer. And give us a chess set'

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 06 '23

Chess - Philippine-born American Wesley So promises mom Lotis Key to not play against Ukrainian-born pro-Putin Russian Sergey Karjakin, who told me on 2022Sep07 'I have no ideas:). Magnus played bad and Hans played well.' and 'Wesley is a hero:).'

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 03 '23

Chess - Is it surprising that Sergey Karjakin, a pro-Putin Ukrainian-born Russian who was banned in 2022Mar, sides w/ 3 Americans Hans Niemann, Wesley So & Bobby Fischer over fellow non-Ukrainian European Magnus Carlsen? Sergey even says 'Wesley is a hero:)' even though Wesley agreed w/ the ban.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 03 '23

American Chess YouTuber Levy Rozman (GothamChess) is interviewed on PBS.

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 02 '23

Chess - 19yo Carissa Yip is done w/ 1st year at Stanford is coming back to chess aiming for grandmaster title. (Note: Every female grandmaster is still alive.)

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r/NorthAmerican Jul 02 '23

Chess - 2023 Samford Fellowship Winners - Niemann gets highest $20,000. Abhimanyu, Jason Liang, Christopher Yoo get $10,000. Carissa Yip & Jennifer Yu get $5,000. See? Hans needn't have cheated Magnus at the Sinquefield Cup, but both sides of argument can agree 'If Hans did, then organisers helped.'

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r/NorthAmerican Jun 24 '23

US women’s chess - 13yo Alice Lee has set a new landmark for US women’s chess by qualifying as the 3rd youngest female international master in history, outpaced only by female GOAT Judit Polgar and current world No 6, Kateryna Lagno.

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r/NorthAmerican Dec 28 '22

Chess drama (BEADS) - World champion of chess960 Hikaru Nakamura sued for 100m USD by 19yo prodigy Hans Niemann might face Hans in the ongoing 2022 World Rapid. Hikaru says about Hans: 'Not on my mind. No comment.'

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r/NorthAmerican Dec 22 '22

Chess - Young Bobby Fischer plays with his niece Elizabeth, daughter of his Joan, 1962. | Rare colorised photos.

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r/NorthAmerican Dec 22 '22

World chess champion 'Bobby Fischer in Philippines, Tokyo & Hong Kong (1973/74)' during which Bobby met the family of corrupt Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.

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r/NorthAmerican Dec 22 '22

Radjabov's live reaction to the NEWS of Bobby Fischer's death. || TATA STEEL CHESS 2008 ||

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r/NorthAmerican Dec 22 '22

Chess - Bobby Fischer Demonstrates the Opera game of Paul Morphy | The Dick Cavett Show

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