MASSIVE Chess Drama: Magnus, Hikaru, FIDE

0:00 Intro
1:16 Part 1
4:18 Part 2
7:02 Part 3
10:12 Part 4
14:00 Part 5

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[GothamChess]

Who has tried Chessly 2.0? Early thoughts?

[mursuka]

As a fan of football, F1 and chess i have learned, that if your governing body name starts with an F it is corrupt or full of people who have no idea how to grow the sport.

[KEMPTON]

0:00 Video starts
0:00 Ladies and gentleman...
1:16 Drama recap
4:13 Hikaru's video on almost skipping the WRB
7:01 How is FIDE involved?
10:11 Fresstyle chess
13:56 The Professional Chess Association
16:10 So, to summarize...
18:08 That's all I have for you today, buy a chessly course, get outta here
18:22 Video ends

[DavidWilliams-nmjv]

This is LITERALY what just happened in golf. A hugely well funded tour started, and players were forced to choose... until eventually they all merged back together. We've seen this in many sports over the years - hell, boxing is a complete mess because of it.

[alphonsis]

IP attorney here: "World Chess Championship" is inherently generic, and is not protectible as a trademark (for the most part)

[clearvsion]

When Levy retires from YouTube and becomes a farmer, he will name his first cow Magnus Carlsen

[jimmyjs]

One thing that upset Kasparov was the fact Fischer was able to obtain a 5 million dollar purse for his rematch with Spassky far overshadowing the prize fund for Kasparov/Short.

[victorsarachaga]

I would like to remind the chess world that the contestant for the 1998 match against Kasparov was Alexei Shirov. He won Kramnik 5.5 to 3.5 fair and square. He got no chance to fight for the title, one of many unfair events in chess history.

[roanoke]

Chess trying not to have drama challenge: impossible

[mrboberson]

As a viewer, knowing that the players are also confused is nice. Random is cool; take the players out of standard play patterns and leave the game to skill instead of pure memorization.

[caerdwyn]

This pattern, with an organization thinking they basically “own” a game or sport whose rules don’t have an owner, comes up again and again. It never has anything to do with the sport or game; it is always about money for the lawyers and prestige for wannabe “owners”.

FIDE no more “owns” chess or the words “world champion” than the FIA “owns” auto racing or the words “champion driver”. They need to get over themselves and realize they serve, not command. FIDE needs the top players a hell of a lot more than the top players need them.

[stine]

Honestly, why is FIDE so angry? Freestyle is 960. FIDE doesnt do ANYTHING related to 960. Its not like the freestyle group is trying to take over classical chess or anything. They are just a private organizer of a type of event that fide doesnt bother to do. And they were threatening to ban people from playing FIDE events if they played in freestyle?! Insane. I mean. Its like saying; If you play Norway chess (classical, privately organized) or Tata steel (classical, privately organized) you arent allowed to play the FIDE world cup. They are insane. Sutovsky mostly, but all of fide is koooo-koo

[Glider]

Fide put Fischer Random into it's recognised formats and formalised it but then sat on it for years and did nothing. The buried it. No wonder this is happening to them.

[GigaShiv]

Somewhere in the corner, Kasparov is smiling with pride

[Chris.]

Levy, I’ve not seen your dog for a while. I hope he’s alright. We lost one of our cats 6 or 7 weeks ago and even now it’s rare a day goes by that I don’t shed a tear for him. I’m sorry if you lost your dog

[sunnaum]

the "journalistic move" is saying "as of making of this video, no parties have responded to this news outlet, so we're going to base this content solely on the public statements already mentioned". Which means: I have not talked to anybody, but I'm gonna do the story anyways

[nickgutierrez]

Nothing says "we're the ones telling the whole truth" like "we'll release a statement next week"

[it.]

Name should be Fischer random. Man gave his life keeping the game alive.

[SlurpCurry]

Anna Cramling made a video of a game she played against Hikaru, and right before the game started, Anna asked Hikaru whether he was #2 or #3 in the world, which he responded to by saying “Who cares.” and I also remember the comments saying that Hikaru seemed upset by the question, and a lot of people thought he was being rude to Anna. But then weeks later, in one of her streams, someone asked her about it live (while I was watching) and Anna said that Hikaru and her talked a lot that day, and that he was one of the nicest people she’s ever met. Now, with this new drama, it seems more likely he wasn’t upset by the question, but rather the fact that so many people (even/especially those with influence) consider FIDE themselves and the ratings that they give out are considered to be the end-all-be-all governing body of chess. After watching Hikaru’s video, it seems he’s been privy to something like this for awhile.

This comment is all speculation though. But so is this video at the time of me writing this lol

[wokeesg]

Levy: this video will be edited

the edits: 2 transitions and text in the upper left corner
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