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Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap
shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap
shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos,
here's the transcript.

If you would like to do the same magic, just paste the youtube url into https://notegpt.io/youtube-transcript-generator and off you go! =)

00:00:00 hello future Grand Masters it's great to see all the
recent feedback on the videos obviously I wanted to cover some recent
events in addition to some things that have been happening obviously
there's been a feed Day statement regarding the freestyle chess project um freestyle is another term for Fisher chess 960 which is basically
shuffling the position of the pieces and there's been significant drama
and obviously with the world rapid and Blitz Fay basically created a ficticious double co- championship

00:00:33 title which from my view IL legitimizes the entire
tournament IL legitimizes f um so I'm quite disappointed obviously
dvorkovich gave an interview on chb India you know where he basically said that because they had lost motivation after playing three draws it was
hard to get them to play which sort of shows that the the president of the organization doesn't feel the power or the ability to discipline the
players when it's literally his entire job so this is quite significant
for the future of Chess because if Fay continues to be

00:01:09 pushed around by Magnus and freestyle chess is an
extension of him or an embodiment of him and his goals for chess this is
very important so um basically they you know saying Fay is under the
committee blah blah blah blah we don't oppose blah blah private companies
and then the important part is that you know there's this contract so I remember playing the grand Swift in 2021 where you signed a contract
saying that you wouldn't participate in alternate World Championship
Cycles this is probably what they did you know to

00:01:39 prevent secession similar to when kaspar and in short
seced from FID so they're saying you know I will say that if the if the freestyle people want to call it the freestyle World Championship I do
think that that would be a you know an attack on F's legal rights and I do think that F has right to defend however the way that they're approaching
it is difficult you know cuz I woke up this morning to an email with their contract um because I am one of the players who is in the freestyle sort
of chess club and I'll be competing in the

00:02:11 freey chess tour so they're sort of saying you know we're giving you Goodwill in 2025 probably because you know Magnus nikar refused
to participate in the world RPP and Blitz so here you see all these
Financial interests with you know Hikaru Magnus freestyle Fay t tourn
private tournaments freay Cycles where players are defining you know it's
a very very slippery slope although certain players might represent a
larger amount of sponsorship or eyeballs when you are a regulatory body
like Fay proclaims it to be and you are

00:02:50 beholden to the rules of the international Olympic
Committee you have responsibility to to be remain unbiased and act to the interest of the Integrity of the sport so I would be very very careful as
Fay in navigating the financial relationship they have with chess.com or freestyle or any other tour because they must remain impartial and they
cannot let a player who has beholden to their rules and their will you
know Define that so they're saying open to dialogue blah blah blah blah anyways you know all

00:03:17 qualified players are expected to sign an additional
contract so all top players about 2725 including myself and you can't participate in alternative V championship in any variation of Chess not approved by Fay except for the freestyle tour 2025 so that would mean that it's sort of a a funny thing that's happening but anyways so that would
mean that all the players like let's it's sort of funny you you could
imagine there's a crazy house World Championship does fed care about that
or does only Fay only care about the 960 World

00:03:52 Championship because it's a very it's now got an
investment of upwards of $12 million so I received the contract on my
phone I don't think it wise to share it but you know it's basically this
and you know I would imagine what would happen if GES wouldn't sign you
know would it or they going from giving Magnus and neppo to world
championship and then are they going to take away gish's world
championship if he were to participate so this is also Divine for power I
do think that fiday is not a perfect

00:04:21 organization and I don't think that it is right the way
that Hikaru Magnus and freestyle um or maybe not the mul together but them
as individuals leverage their power as you know New York was the greatest example I don't think that players should be able to get privileges
because of just who they are everyone is equal as a competitor um and I've been evicted of that being blacklisted and being you know stripped of opportuni so I would say that although fed's contract probably could have
be you know it would be a question

00:04:52 to a lawyer to understand the exact details I would say
that you know and you obviously don't know what's actually happening
behind the scenes with freestyle and them right I I I think that if
there's more transparency right when someone releases you know freestyle release a statement and again we'll go to Emil sow's tweet so to be clear
any private company as well events including severo cooperates
grandchester blah blah blah blah we don't accept this is fair this is fair
fed does better price on I

00:05:24 completely agree um Fay does raise a lot of money however
I would say that Fay should really work harder to make chess more of a meritocracy and to make chess more feasible for for for professionals so I think that a lot of the if Fay really wanted to do things that were for
the good of all chess players then fed has responsibility to perhaps
influence change or incentivize organizers to have more open qualifiers um
and have more opportunities like in most competitive Sports there are qualifiers there are feeders like for

00:05:59 example the Grand chest tour although it's a great
initiative with a lot of money the grand chest while you could consider an
ATP Tour in reality cannot make a claim of deciding who the best player in
the world is because there is not a single Open qualifier to any of their events imagine it is a it is a gentleman's club that that that only
certain people have access to and I don't want to disparage the efforts of
of the tour it's an amazing initiative however if you want to have the responsibility

00:06:32 of Fay and Fay's role in deciding is decide in their tournaments they organized or to decide who the best player in the world
is and obviously they have done a good job in some cases of raising money utilizing certain governments that are very passionate about Chess where
they have direct access to leaders of the country like in India or
usbekistan or or Russia um or you know however if you want the game to actually be taken serious as an international sport and you want it to actually be taken seriously and watched

00:07:04 by people consistently for example when you watch any
sport it is all the major events are at the same time they've been
happening for years and years and years they sell at Arenas the entire
chess calendar is littered with all these different tours so people don't
know what to watch certain tournaments that have a dedicated let's say promotional base like vikon Norway chess S field cup sure but Fay should
in my opinion with all this money that they have they should just have a
lit like a monthly

00:07:40 double elimination knockout tournament or improve the
system at least to where you're giving like access right so all these
random tournaments to this entire cycle like the grand sus and it needs to
be open up to everyone um so obviously this is probably fed's reaction to
to them realizing way we just discredited the entire mission of of their
of their organization which is to uphold the value you know the Integrity
of Chess into Ro game of chess by you know uh destroying the meaning of
world world

00:08:14 championship title so this is probably let's say a a
knee-jerk reaction to that where they're trying to restore the balance and regain power and legitimacy among the in the chess rule but perhaps they
went too far anyways thank you for watching the video like comment
subscribe let me know what you would like to see in future videos I might
do mini Vlogs documenting my training showing a day in their life um maybe we'll do some train with ly maybe I'll do some training with other chess creators Boz who knows I'm a man of

00:08:42 peace I'm on the journey World chest champion and um you
know either you're on the Hans demon train you can get on now or or miss
the train forever


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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:21:06 +0000, D wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap
shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos,
here's the transcript.

I know it's early in the morning but what is wrong with watching a short YouTube video ? Hearing something from the horse's mouth is as good as
it gets when there's controversial subjects being discussed.

Plus the AI generated transcript is not 100% correct. Unless you really
think his name is Hans Demon.
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:21:06 +0000, D wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap
shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos,
here's the transcript.

I know it's early in the morning but what is wrong with watching a short YouTube video ? Hearing something from the horse's mouth is as good as
it gets when there's controversial subjects being discussed.

Plus the AI generated transcript is not 100% correct. Unless you really
think his name is Hans Demon.

It is an individual preference for me, and others. I read faster than I listen, so it saves me time. In my mind I can correct for glitches in the translation.
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D wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:21:06 +0000, D wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap >>>> shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos,
here's the transcript.

I know it's early in the morning but what is wrong with watching a short
YouTube video ? Hearing something from the horse's mouth is as good as
it gets when there's controversial subjects being discussed.

Plus the AI generated transcript is not 100% correct. Unless you really
think his name is Hans Demon.

It is an individual preference for me, and others. I read faster than I listen, so it saves me time. In my mind I can correct for glitches in
the translation.

But not so effectively in actual practice, am I correct? It's still a
chore with some of the odd typos made.
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Silver Skull wrote:

Unless you really think his name is Hans Demon.

There are some people in the game that might actually agree with
that description of him!!! ;-)
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:55:01 +0000, D wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:21:06 +0000, D wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap >>>> shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos,
here's the transcript.

I know it's early in the morning but what is wrong with watching a short
YouTube video ? Hearing something from the horse's mouth is as good as
it gets when there's controversial subjects being discussed.

Plus the AI generated transcript is not 100% correct. Unless you really
think his name is Hans Demon.

It is an individual preference for me, and others. I read faster than I listen, so it saves me time. In my mind I can correct for glitches in
the translation.

If that's your choice. It's all good. My view is that YouTube
transcripts are a waste of time as they are not accurate. Meaning all
you are reading is a good guess at what the content is, minus the
nuances of seeing people speak and understanding whether they are being
serious or sarcastic, which is often lost when reading plain text. Of
course, reading a transcript is quicker and there definitely are some
creators that go on and on and on and need to be skipped through.
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Silver Skull wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:55:01 +0000, D wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:21:06 +0000, D wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap >>>>> shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos, >>>> here's the transcript.

I know it's early in the morning but what is wrong with watching a short >>> YouTube video ? Hearing something from the horse's mouth is as good as
it gets when there's controversial subjects being discussed.

Plus the AI generated transcript is not 100% correct. Unless you really
think his name is Hans Demon.

It is an individual preference for me, and others. I read faster than I
listen, so it saves me time. In my mind I can correct for glitches in
the translation.

If that's your choice. It's all good. My view is that YouTube
transcripts are a waste of time as they are not accurate. Meaning all
you are reading is a good guess at what the content is, minus the
nuances of seeing people speak and understanding whether they are being serious or sarcastic, which is often lost when reading plain text. Of
course, reading a transcript is quicker and there definitely are some creators that go on and on and on and need to be skipped through.

Oh the reason is because the inaccuracies in the transcript are
relatively infrequent making it overall possible for me at least.
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:55:01 +0000, D wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:21:06 +0000, D wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Silver Skull wrote:

Grandmaster Hans Niemann - the future of American chess - takes a slap >>>>> shot in Game One of the current F.I.D.E v Freestyle Chess play-off
match.

{ Interesting video, length 8 mins }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qd2N7yZEc

For the ones out there, like myself, who are not so happy with videos, >>>> here's the transcript.

I know it's early in the morning but what is wrong with watching a short >>> YouTube video ? Hearing something from the horse's mouth is as good as
it gets when there's controversial subjects being discussed.

Plus the AI generated transcript is not 100% correct. Unless you really
think his name is Hans Demon.

It is an individual preference for me, and others. I read faster than I
listen, so it saves me time. In my mind I can correct for glitches in
the translation.

If that's your choice. It's all good. My view is that YouTube
transcripts are a waste of time as they are not accurate. Meaning all
you are reading is a good guess at what the content is, minus the
nuances of seeing people speak and understanding whether they are being serious or sarcastic, which is often lost when reading plain text. Of
course, reading a transcript is quicker and there definitely are some creators that go on and on and on and need to be skipped through.

When I _do_ watch videos, I use freetube. It has settings that allow me to automatically skip self-promotion and ads. It is very pleasurable to watch youtube videos with freetube. =)
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D wrote:

When I do watch videos, I use freetube. It has settings that
allow me to automatically skip self-promotion and ads.

Some might say most of YouTube is self-promotion!

It is very pleasurable to watch youtube videos with
freetube. =)

Are you self-promoting/advertising a product here?! ;-)

I use an ad-blocker and it works fine... well, most of the time.
(Google are always trying to get round people blocking ads!)
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Tahitian pearl wrote:

Silver Skull wrote:

If that's your choice. It's all good. My view is that YouTube
transcripts are a waste of time as they are not accurate.
Meaning all you are reading is a good guess at what the
content is, minus the nuances of seeing people speak and
understanding whether they are being serious or sarcastic,
which is often lost when reading plain text. Of course,
reading a transcript is quicker and there definitely are
some creators that go on and on and on and need to be
skipped through.

Oh the reason is because the inaccuracies in the transcript
are relatively infrequent making it overall possible for me at
least.

Some YouTube videos are AI generated and don't even have real
people speaking, so the LLM generated speech has just as many
inaccuracies as the AI transcript!

It's probably only a matter of time before Stockfish takes on a
life of its own and starts 'speaking' to people...
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

D wrote:

When I do watch videos, I use freetube. It has settings that
allow me to automatically skip self-promotion and ads.

Some might say most of YouTube is self-promotion!

Touch|-! ;)

It is very pleasurable to watch youtube videos with
freetube. =)

Are you self-promoting/advertising a product here?! ;-)

Haha, no, no affiliation I'm afraid. If I would have created something
like that, I would have many beautiful women right now, and many millions
in the bank! ;) Jokes aside, it's free, but I'm certain the creators do
have many beautiful women as a result of the admiration they get for
writing beautiful programs. =)

I use an ad-blocker and it works fine... well, most of the time.
(Google are always trying to get round people blocking ads!)

I use ublock origin. I always wonder when google will just terminate all
user with ad blockers. On the other hand, I guess it is still possible, in
a theoretical dark dystopia, to download what ever you are watching, and
to remove the ads locally, so google would never know, and you would never have to watch the ads.
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