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  1. Comment on Norway Chess 2023 | GothamChess YouTube recaps in ~games.tabletop

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    Round 1 Spoiler title Insane: Magnus and Hikaru BOTH LOSE 31st May 2023 | YouTube Featured games: 00:00–06:59 Aryan Tari NOR|2642|Black Şähriyar Mämmädyarov AZE|2738|White 07:00–14:45 Dommaraju...

    Round 1

    Spoiler title Insane: Magnus and Hikaru BOTH LOSE

    31st May 2023 | YouTube

    Featured games:

    00:00–06:59

    Aryan Tari NOR|2642|Black Şähriyar Mämmädyarov AZE|2738|White

    07:00–14:45

    Dommaraju Gukesh IND|2732|Black Alireza Firouzja FRA|2785|White

    14:46–20:27

    Hikaru Nakamura USA|2775|Black Wesley So USA|2760|White

    20:28–32:34

    Magnus Carlsen NOR|2853|Black Fabiano Caruana USA|2764|White
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  2. Comment on Norway Chess 2023 | GothamChess YouTube recaps in ~games.tabletop

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    Round 0 Spoiler title Magnus Arrives Late, Beats Hikaru 30th May 2023 | YouTube Featured game: 00:00–18:38 Magnus Carlsen NOR|2853|Black Hikaru Nakamura USA|2775|White

    Round 0

    Spoiler title Magnus Arrives Late, Beats Hikaru

    30th May 2023 | YouTube

    Featured game:

    00:00–18:38

    Magnus Carlsen NOR|2853|Black Hikaru Nakamura USA|2775|White
    1 vote

  3. Norway Chess 2023 | GothamChess YouTube recaps

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    Background The 2023 Norway Chess is an elite over-the-board tournament in Stavanger, Norway. The event starts on May 29 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CEST with a blitz tournament, followed by a classical...

    Background

    The 2023 Norway Chess is an elite over-the-board tournament in Stavanger, Norway. The event starts on May 29 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CEST with a blitz tournament, followed by a classical event beginning May 30 at 8 a.m. PT/17:00 CEST.

    This edition of Norway Chess features a kr$2,500,000 prize fund, roughly equivalent to $234,000 at the time of writing.

    Format

    The 2023 Norway Chess features a blitz tournament that precedes the classical event. The final standings of the blitz event determine players' seeds for the classical event.

    Blitz Event
    • 10-player single round-robin.
    • Players earn 1 point for a win, 0.5 for a draw, and 0 for a loss.
    • The time control is 3+2.
    • In case there's a tie, the following tiebreakers apply:
    1. Direct Encounter
    2. Sonneborn-Berger
    3. Koya System
    4. The Koya System Extended
    5. Drawing of lots

    The winner of the blitz event picks their pairing number. The remaining players pick their pairing number, one by one, according to their final standings in the blitz tournament.

    Classical
    • 10-player single round-robin.
    • Players earn 3 points for a win, 1.5 for a draw and armageddon win, 1 for a draw and armageddon loss, and 0 for a loss.
    • Players can't draw by agreement before Black's 30th move, unless it's an armageddon game.
    • The time control is 120 minutes for the entire game, with a 10-second increment per move starting on move 41.
    • In case there's a tie, players contest an armageddon game where White has 10 minutes on their clock and Black has seven, with a one-second increment starting on move 41. Black has draw odds. The player who played White in the classical game plays White in the armageddon.
    Classical Tiebreaks

    If two players tie for first place, the following tiebreakers apply:

    • A two-game blitz Playoff match with a 3+2 time control.
    • If the tie persists, players contest another two-game blitz match.
    • If still drawn, players contest an armageddon game. White gets 10 minutes, and Black gets 7 minutes with draw odds. The armageddon game has a one-second increment per move, starting on move 41.

    If more than two players tie for first place, the following tiebreakers apply:

    • Drawn players contest a double round-robin with the same tiebreakers as the blitz tournament.

    Players

    Below is a list of the players confirmed to play in the 2023 Norway Chess tournament:

    • GM Magnus Carlsen
    • GM Alireza Firouzja
    • GM Anish Giri
    • GM Wesley So
    • GM Hikaru Nakamura
    • GM Fabiano Caruana
    • GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
    • GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov
    • GM Gukesh D
    • GM Aryan Tari

    Source: Chess.com

    4 votes

  4. Tildes Video Thread

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    So, quite a few people don't like/watch video content, and don't like seeing the homepage filled with videos. Let's try something new, see if it sticks. What are the best videos you have watched...

    So, quite a few people don't like/watch video content, and don't like seeing the homepage filled with videos. Let's try something new, see if it sticks.

    What are the best videos you have watched this past week/fortnight?

    5 votes

  5. Midweek Movie Free Talk

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    Warning: this post may contain spoilers

    Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.

    Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Megathread #10 for news/updates/discussion of AI chatbots and image generators in ~tech

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    Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbug The Guardian – Maya Yang – 25th May 2023

    Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbug

    Scientists using artificial intelligence have discovered a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly superbug.

    According to a new study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature Chemical Biology, a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibiotic that can be used to kill a deadly hospital superbug.

    The superbug in question is Acinetobacter baumannii, which the World Health Organization has classified as a “critical” threat among its “priority pathogens” – a group of bacteria families that pose the “greatest threat” to human health.

    The Guardian – Maya Yang – 25th May 2023

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Latvia heads into the final weekend of the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship after a stunning 3-1 upset of Sweden in the quarter-finals in ~sports

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    Canada ends Finland's reign IIHF – Andy Potts – 25th May 2023

    Canada ends Finland's reign

    Canada battled to a 4-1 victory over Finland, bringing the host nation's title defence to an early end in the quarter-finals of the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. The Canadians advance to the final four once again.

    For Tyler Toffoli, Canada's captain here, this is familiar territory but in rather different circumstances. In 2015 he was part of a stellar Canadian gold-medal roster in Prague. Now he's leading a less heralded crew towards a possible repeat.

    IIHF – Andy Potts – 25th May 2023

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Danish painters in the 19th century may have turned to an unusual source for some of their supplies: breweries in ~arts