Month: April 2025

Superbet Poland Rapid Tournament, April 2025

Duda-Fedoseev 0-1

The situation when in the 51st move white has 2 rooks and a pawn and black has 2 rooks and 3 pawns is not a comfortable one. However, we have a draw in the 70th move, and a real draw position is reached in the 65th move. It follows that Duda lacked a good concept. Not necessarily ours.
We do not consider any more of his games, as he lost as many as 3 of them and fell out of our interest.
In the end Fedoseev came back on top and won this tournament. Second Alireza.

Our heroes who lost only one game each in this tournament are Alireza and Aronian. And here is an interesting observation. They both lost to Aravindh, who finished 3rd, but also lost 2 games, to Lagrave and to Pragna. As we can see, Superbet is the kind of tournament where anyone can beat anyone.

Aravindh-Firouzja game 1-0

Firouzja defended until the 87th move and we are not sure if he rightly surrendered the game. We see the possibility of a draw and do not see a loss. Unless Alirezia ran out of time.

Aravindh-Aronian 1-0

Aravindh played this game very strongly. Or Aronian poorly. Although white did not play the strongest (20.Nc2) there was little chance of black winning after black’s move 20….a5. In our opinion this was a mistake that consequently gave white a free winning pawn. Instead of playing 20…a4, they should not have counter-attacked here, should not have rushed the resolution of the pawn issue, but should have left white with the initiative and the effort of forcing the pawns, which would have taken both time and commitment on the queen wing of their pieces. 
We won Aronian’s game with 3 variants. One with the sacrifice of the queen. A chess masterpiece. If Aronian played like that, he would be world champion. But he can still become one. He just needs to come to Goldchess and learn to play chess perfectly.
Ps.
After three days, the organisers changed the order of the table and eventually Aravindh won this tournament.

Telephone chess players and Fischer’s chess

At a time when the telephone has become an essential but also a curse, Goldchess is a saviour.
In our tournaments no one will play from a phone, a chess player must have a computer. This cuts off phone chess players and quite rightly so, because you can’t really play serious chess on the phone. Chess on the phone is a profanation of the royal game and a cheapening of it, to the obvious detriment of its quality. At this point we are consciously giving up on the number of players who can play with us, but given that the games played on the phone are poor quality games, practically chess spam, and the chess players who play them are spam chess players, we are able to get over this quantitative loss. To conclude, we need champions, or those who want and aspire to become champions. And we can help them in this.

I would also like to refer to the so-called Fischer chess, which is a new fashion and to which even Carlsen himself has succumbed.

In our opinion, it is a chess fiction, a total misunderstanding. By comparison, Goldchess is 100 times more valuable, spectacular and educational. Smart. And they contribute a lot to the development of chess.
Goldchess , as the artificial intelligence formulating its own conclusion wrote in the opinion, is likely to become a worldwide phenomenon. Fischer’s chess started quickly and will end quickly. They are, as I said, a distortion and do not contribute any value or anything to the development of real chess. In a few years they will be gone, whereas Goldchess will be part of the chess reality for decades and who knows if not centuries to come. For this reason, I can say that it is already impossible to be a good chess player without knowing the techniques, style and knowledge of Goldchess. Goldchess, a real chess trend. But not for everyone. Only for chess players who take chess seriously. And, in an unintentional, elitist way. Only for chess players who own computers.