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Originally posted by UAFIceAngelBut let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAAOriginally posted by Doyle WoodyBest sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostI wish I am able to live long enough to do all the things I was attributed to.
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Originally posted by XYZ View PostI wonder if you're allowed to sauce up during a game in a big event like this. I do know there are doping regulations and both players have been tested at least once during the match (after game 7 or 8 maybe?), but I don't know what's on the banned list. Doping in chess sounds rather comical on its face, but if it can be widespread in something like snooker...some of the substances used there could certainly pay dividends in a game like chess."Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."
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Carlsen in good position, but could have time pressure (44 minutes for 17 moves).Cornell University
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Houdini has the last three white moves 23-25 as suboptimal. Commentators saying position is very complex and Carlsen's time issue (30 mins for 15 moves) could be significant.Cornell University
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Looks like a win for Carlsen, with P-h4 the winning move.
Anand had "sacrificed" a rook for a bishop hoping to develop a passed pawn on the queen side but it didn't work.
EDIT: match over, Carlsen wins 6.5 - 4.5Last edited by FreshFish; 11-23-2014, 10:14 AM."Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."
"Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats
"People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom
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Huge annual tournament is coming up from Jan 9-25 and it's a completely loaded field this year. If I had to guess I'd say this might be the official big coming out party for Caruana. The guy is a complete freakshow.
Forgot if I posted this earlier in the thread but this article chronicles his first bout of dominance. If he winds it up and stomps Tata in anywhere near similar fashion it would be a statement of huge proportions.
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Originally posted by XYZ View Postthis article chronicles his first bout of dominance.Cornell University
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Two days of Tata in the books...and Caruana is the only player to have won twice. To be fair, he hasn't faced any of the true heavyweights yet (Carlsen-Giri-MVL-Aronian) but his two wins have him atop the standings regardless. To be doubly fair, everyone at this level is a heavyweight but a win with black at this level is quite the achievement, period.
Pair of fairly pedestrian draws for Carlsen thus far, including one against Giri on day one. Giri also drew with Aronian on day two . Things get a bit tougher for Caruana later today as he plays black against Giri. Meanwhile Carlsen will also play black, and he draws world #15 Radoslaw Wojtaszek.
Only five wins total through the first two days and the only player who is pointless is women's world champion and overall world #70 Yifan Hou. Which always makes me wonder why the rankings are so dominated by men. I know far more men play the game but one would think that enough women play that a few world class savants would be floating around. Hmph, ah well, I'm sure this has been covered extensively over the years somewhere. Perhaps I shall try to find out where.Last edited by XYZ; 01-12-2015, 12:01 AM.I wish I am able to live long enough to do all the things I was attributed to.
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Originally posted by XYZ View PostWhich always makes me wonder why the rankings are so dominated by men. I know far more men play the game but one would think that enough women play that a few world class savants would be floating around. Hmph, ah well, I'm sure this has been covered extensively over the years somewhere. Perhaps I shall try to find out where.
Here, we show that in chess, an intellectually demanding activity where men dominate at the top level, the difference in the performance of the best men and women is largely accounted for by the difference that would be expected, given the much greater number of men who participate. Despite the clear superiority of the top male players, there is, in reality, very little performance gap in favour of men for non-statistical theories to explain.Last edited by Kepler; 01-12-2015, 12:23 PM.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostThis study argues that it's overhwelmingly (96%) a statistical artifact of participation rates. One study, small sample, etc caveats.
Note the title makes absolutely no sense.U-A-A!!!Go!Go!GreenandGold!
Applejack Tells You How UAA Is Doing...
I spell Failure with UAF
Originally posted by UAFIceAngelBut let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAAOriginally posted by Doyle WoodyBest sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
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Originally posted by Jimjamesak View PostIs it that way with other "intellectual games" like Go or card games like poker?Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostGo is insanely male-dominated, but it's also dominated by Japan, South Korea, and China, and women are treated like crap in those cultures.U-A-A!!!Go!Go!GreenandGold!
Applejack Tells You How UAA Is Doing...
I spell Failure with UAF
Originally posted by UAFIceAngelBut let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAAOriginally posted by Doyle WoodyBest sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
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Originally posted by Jimjamesak View PostCompetitive TCG's like Magic and Yugioh have a similar issue as does competitive video gaming. I'm curious where poker is at given its greater popularity in comparison to the others?
The really interesting difference is in top tier science jobs. The percentage of female participation has been growing steadily for decades, but the very top positions and awards are still almost exclusively male. That may be latency (at the time when the people in those top slots were just entering the field there was still an enormous gender difference) or there may be career interruption effects from children, although the latter shouldn't affect Northern European cultures that don't have the enormous difference in gender norms that we do.Last edited by Kepler; 01-12-2015, 05:39 PM.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostI'd ascribe all of those to even larger gender differences in participation.U-A-A!!!Go!Go!GreenandGold!
Applejack Tells You How UAA Is Doing...
I spell Failure with UAF
Originally posted by UAFIceAngelBut let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAAOriginally posted by Doyle WoodyBest sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
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