Christiansen Sava

#chess #coach 🏆 #FIDEtrainer #chessmaster, ♟️ founder of Hannibal Chess Club 🇷🇴

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@CWainscottMKE @dawczerw @jordenvforeest It's about audience and exposure. Money comes from partnerships and entry fees. There is a business, no charity. The organizer should put some food on the table back home. If your name attracts people, then I can sell the event. Otherwise, pay the fee and play for glory/prizes

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@dawczerw @jordenvforeest Exactly! Stop asking and offer a business instead. If you bring audience and entries, you get paid. You make me money, and I pay you. Otherwise, it is just charity

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@durarbayli Forget about asking and say something about what you OFFER. Why should someone pay you like în 2000 euro in transport and accomodation? Why should I have you in the tournament instead of Andreea Botez? Only financial reasons, please, not a soap story.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@FIDE_chess Or maybe the rating is useless in the current landscape? This number means nothing and measures nothing. Is it used only to fool the amateurs and the guys who decide some tactics are for xxx rating.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

#Budapest #ChessOlympiad in sight

[WCM Tris-Ann Richards @3ssAnn]

Stage 1 of my Chess Olympiad preparation:
1. 100 puzzles per day
2. 2 Long games Daily- analyse
3. Lessons-Kasprov Chess Academy
4. Study Openings - Build repertoire
5. Group Training with GM
6. Workout 5 days a week
7. Daily omega 3 supplements and tumeric
Suggestions?

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

Another one about ratings and titles.

[chess24 @chess24com]

FM Brandon Burrows achieved his first IM norm by winning one game and making nine draws that lasted an average of 10 moves in a tournament that has now been invalidated.
https://t.co/cwVs8Z63y0

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

Amen!

[Jeroen Van Den Berg @Jvdbergchess]

This is chess in my opinion: friendship, some drinks in a local bar, following the Grandmasters of #TataSteelChess and enjoying your moment!

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@GMSokolovIvan @lachesisq @Dubovdaniel15 @FIDE_chess It's acceptable to avoid the fight if both opponents have a clear benefit. Swiss and RR events will have such situations as long as they exist.
Only KO format guarantees the fight in any situation.
But please, don't say it loud, and make fun of it like an infant.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

First 0-0 in the history of World #Chess Championships

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@GMJacobAagaard Another scenario could be to get rid of any rating/ranking and implement a dense array of official team/individual competitions in all territories with the purpose to give a World Champion. Like in football, handball etc.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@GMJacobAagaard I'm a promoter of a Live ranking, not perennial rating who creates ELO silos, but then we will need to have recommended events for getting Ranking Points. We will not have a World Champion anymore.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@dgriffinchess And Hubner once said, when asked about Velimirovic: "Too much talent" 😂

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@KongVet @dgriffinchess Nope. In fact, some say he got beaten because he didn't participated in some Duma voting meetings about war.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

Times when a young player played no more than 30 games per year.

[Douglas Griffin @dgriffinchess]

Leningrad, Nov. 1975. 12-yr-old Garry Kasparov is in play v. ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov in the annual event that pitted top Soviet GMs v. teams of Young Pioneers, each representing their native cities, in clock simultaneous displays.
(📷: B. Kaufman, Novosti Press.) #chess

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@olimpiuurcan “Is a Socialist Revolution Possible in the West?" Yes it is, but it would be such a pity.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@FrsahRo any comments?

[Prague International Chess Festival @PragueChess]

📣Hungarian Grandmaster @rjrapport , current world No. 10 in the FIDE ratings, will participate at the PICF! 👏One of the favorites for victory is returning to Prague after five years. More info: https://t.co/yjkab5zwhm

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

Did I mention I like this guy? 😂

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

Who said #chess world is a men's world? @caissakubra , or @TurkishChess, or maybe @FIDE_chess?

Sad news anyway.

#womeninchess

https://t.co/002oK29FlF

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

@lachesisq Standard chess is dead. Rapid, blitz and bullet are the next thing.

[Christiansen Sava @ChessArchitect_]

If an adult, world champion, can't concentrate when he observe an ... ⌚, what can I ask more from my young players?

[Magnus Carlsen @MagnusCarlsen]

1/2 I was completely crushed in my game today. This is not to accuse my opponent of anything, who played an amazing game and deserved to win, but honestly, as soon as I saw my opponent was wearing a watch early in the game, I lost my ability to concentrate.