Kris Littlejohn

I travel the world while looking for ways to force a draw in chess.

[Kris Littlejohn @kris_littlejohn]

@peterdoggers Congrats! Chess tournaments in Scandinavia are the perfect place to finish marathon training in my experience!

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@ChessExplained @sf9801705496 There were no issues at all when I was running CB14 on Windows 7 in VM. Now running CB17 in Win11 VM is perhaps not as snappy, but only because both of those are downgrades performance wise. It's still at least as fast as the same setup running Win 11 natively on my laptop.

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@sf9801705496 @ChessExplained As a Linux user, until earlier this year I was happily doing my work in a Windows 7 VM. Unfortunately Chessbase has the new policy of crippling their older versions and nothing more recent than v15 will install on Win 7, so I've also had to "upgrade" my VM :(

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@gmjlh I'd have no problem paying more/more often for software so central to my job, if only the core functionality wasn't still completely riddled with the exact same bugs/errors/memory leaks for at least more than 15 years.

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@GMJacobAagaard @chesscom @NorwayChess I'd guess he's just happy to finally have the ready-made excuse of no longer being a professional chess player, though I could be thinking of somebody else.

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@GMJacobAagaard @chesscom @NorwayChess The winner chooses his seed, while the rest simply fall in order of finishing, so it is definitely a real prize to win

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@erwinlami It would be a tremendous convenience for sure, to see every evaluation in every major variation come to 0.00 that much faster.

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@EugenePerel For a throwback to some old #chessdrama, I'd say it's probably similar to the "upgrade" from Fruit to Rybka.

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@GMJacobAagaard I'll guess - rating gained?

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@TarjeiJS @Syonnain Not sure how many even knew about it. It wasn't for instance, listed on the schedule with the technical meeting, opening ceremony, ect.

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@davidllada @GMHikaru *2009 :)

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@davidllada I always found Russia more annoying, asking for individual dates - although at least there it stops letting you add more after 25 or 30

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@GMJacobAagaard Not that Sam is known for doing either of course.

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@GMJacobAagaard Based on my very limited familiarity, I'd guess it's due to the weight given to ECO. If you play an actual fully pre-arranged draw in a "fighting" opening, as opposed to forcing an immediate draw in a "boring" opening, you'll do better.

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@AAMortazavi What's the right play to hedge against this? Buy potassium iodide suppliers maybe?

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ECO based prizes aren't enough! Hopefully they'll just explicitly outlaw the boring Berlin. #AirthingsMasters

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@dsmerdon ECO codes were already over a hundred years out of date for classifying top level games when they were first introduced in the 70s :)

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@ChessProblem the day before every round.

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@fischerandom @PHChess @Kasparov63 Both 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3 and 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 systems with an early f2-f4 aren't without venom, and black is under no moral obligation to enter them unprepared. This is actually one of the few drawing lines where both sides could stumble into completely innocent of drawing malice.