Chess Olympiad

And the reason for that is that we are recording this on October 4th.

The Chess Olympiad just got over.

Uzbekistan deservedly won the gold medal.

Magnificent team, the two Nordirbacks.

But Uzbekistan, fantastic team, played really well.

I love their players.

And each of them, for winning that chess Olympiad gold, got $200,000.

They got a free house.

And today, we are going to be discussing a classic chess theorem, the so-called long think, wrong think.

Recently, we saw at the conclusion of the Olympiad in Samarkand, there was this interesting blog posted measuring this phenomenon that we've I think we definitely kind of heard it growing up.

We looked it up as originally attributed to Ben Larson was the first one maybe to express this notion of the long think, wrong think.

And recently chessds.com, they posted a blog about chess.

analyzing different move thinking times and then the quality of those moves of the Olympiad and then they did some data and it seems like they found that longer things generally led to worse moves which is a bit paradoxical because in chess we often think that thinking longer should lead to better outcomes and better conclusions.

But first, let me ask you guys your temperature on this classic notion, long think, wrong think.

Do you believe in it?

One more thing.

Looking ahead to next year, FIDE has allocated the Olympiad-based places for the 2027 World Cup and Women's World Cup.

The United States is fourth in both of FIDE's tables.

83 federations get an open-section spot.

He actually did it in the quickest amount of time, just in terms of time span.

So he got a GM norm and then he played Olympiad and got a double norm.

And so he became a GM in like two and a half weeks.

So we both experienced some amazing success.

Despite scoring his 980th career goal in Alnasser's 3-0 victory, the suspension threatens his goal of reaching 1,000 career goals in a Portugal shirt.

Back home, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay presented cash awards totalling 60 lakh rupees to the state's Chess Olympiad medallists, including Grandmasters D. Gukesh and R. Pragnananda.

Finally, the Indian Olympic Association has announced that its Executive Council elections will be held on December 5, overseen by returning officer Sanjay Kumar Srivastav.

That is all for today's edition of The Daily Take.

An 11-year-old girl has become the youngest chess player in history to achieve the title of woman grand master.

Bedana Sivanandan, who's from London, reached the milestone at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Uzbekistan.

Lucy Acheson has the details.

When Bedana Sivanandan sits down to face her opponents, the 11-year-old needs a booster seat to lift her high enough to see across the chess board, but that hasn't stopped her reaching incredible heights.

On September the 27th, Bedana earned her third woman grand master norm at the annual Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.

Norms are games at elite tournaments that count towards international titles.

Securing her third norm meant Bedana had met all the requirements to become a woman grand master.

But on the board he is calm and focused and does not let age or experience intimidate him.

He is a three-time Chinese champion and has led the team to two Olympiad gold medals, and is the first Chinese player to ever play in a candidate's tournament.

It's definitely tough to come in and face these very strong competitors that have a lot of experience in a tournament like this.

It was very interesting to see him kind of hit his stride.