2018 World Championship in London

[LawrenceCooper]

Check out a great video by Matthew Sadler where he discloses Alpha Zero's evaluations of positions/ games from the WC match.

Do you have a link to it?

[Carl Hibbard]

Check out a great video by Matthew Sadler where he discloses Alpha Zero's evaluations of positions/ games from the WC match.

Do you have a link to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeqbDMzi_IY

Start here.

[Nick Grey]

So another rest day.

As I'm not in my chess team tomorrow I will have a chance of watching if it goes into third hour. That is whilst I'm cooking our meal. A 2 for 1 meal watching Burnley v Newcastle is not grabbing her attention. Though 2 young men playing in a box is (but I think she is thinking 'I'm a Celeb...') better entertainment.

It's a shame we have not got coverage for WCC in the pub or the type of London based coverage. So not surprising we are failing to grip the public.

[JustinHorton]

Guess who is "writing a book about the match"

Good Lord it's Everyman

[John McKenna]

Everyman keen to corner the market then.

[Alex McFarlane]

What were the chances of it being Quality Chess????

[Mike Gunn]

Googling shows there is more than one Matthew Sadler/ Alpha Zero video (the one I saw was on games 1, 3, 5 and 7). I can’t wait to get home and watch the others.

[Mike Gunn]

We, 8 not 7.

[JustinHorton]

What were the chances of it being Quality Chess????

Who knows, some of it might be

[Brian Towers]

Googling shows there is more than one Matthew Sadler/ Alpha Zero video (the one I saw was on games 1, 3, 5 and 7). I can’t wait to get home and watch the others.

Anybody paying attention would have seen me give the links a couple of pages back - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9134&start=480#p224602.

[Pete Morriss]

Why not have the two players make sealed bids as to how long they would be prepared to have to take black?

That idea is absolutely fair and has been around for a long time. It is dismissed by administrators as too radical.

This used to be the procedure for the Armageddon tie-break in the US Championships - e.g. in 2016 - but it seems it has now been dropped, in favour of a 5 mins v 4 mins game (anybody know why?). In 2016, the Armageddon had a "base" of 45 minutes each. There is no reason why it couldn't be played at something like classical time controls, allocating something like the same total time as in the main games. Then if, say, M bid 50 minutes and F 55, M would have the choice of colour and 50 mins on his clock (plus the 30 second increment), whilst F had 150 mins (or maybe 100 mins, as in the normal games). At move 40, M would get an additional 25 mins and F 75/50 mins, and so on. There would be no need for rapid and blitz games, so that the winner would be the best at something resembling classical chess, rather than the better blitz player. Something like that would seem worth a thought.

[Mick Norris]

Googling shows there is more than one Matthew Sadler/ Alpha Zero video (the one I saw was on games 1, 3, 5 and 7). I can’t wait to get home and watch the others.

Anybody paying attention would have seen me give the links a couple of pages back - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9134&start=480#p224602.

There's an article on chess24 about games 1 to 8 with the interesting quote from Matthew

I’m afraid AlphaZero did not see that mate-in-36. To be honest, looking at AlphaZero’s big strengths, and also the fact that it’s not using endgame tablebases but doing it all by itself, it doesn’t surprise me too much, but it’s worth mentioning that this is something that it didn’t actually find.

[JustinHorton]

What were the chances of it being Quality Chess????

Who knows, some of it might be

Almost a reputable publisher

[Chris Rice]

Game 11 report on the World Chess site from Dylan McClain which included the line:

"...Though Caruana later blundered a pawn, it made absolutely no difference – Carlsen no longer had any reasonable winning chances. The players agreed to a draw after 55 moves."

Australian GM Ian Rogers responded: "World Chess' World Ch. Game 11 report puts negative spin on Caruana's well-considered decision to give up a pawn to secure a safe draw. According to their game summary "Caruana...blundered a pawn." Falsely tarnishing the quality of the match you are promoting is not great PR."

[Alex Holowczak]

Falsely tarnishing the quality of the match you are promoting is not great PR."

I don't know, maybe if they give the impression the players are fallible, people might tune in in the hope that they're not going to watch another draw.