David Pruess

There are different kinds of mistakes you'll make after five seconds and after five minutes or after 50 minutes, right? The types of mistakes will have some variation, but overall, I don't, give any credence to the notion that thinking longer is increasing your chances of a mistake, you know, or like, oh, if you just played your first instinct, it would have been fine, but you thought yourself into something stupid, you know?

Well, David, let me push back a little bit.

Sure.

And so how do you feel about the related quote, which is long variation, wrong variation? Right.

We're never going to see that position.

Yeah.

And one of the reasons I think it's really interesting now in chess history for us to talk about this is because when David and I were watching Gukesh when he was playing his best, when he was slaying people, what we saw again and again was that that dude would tank.

And he was really trying to be a calculator.

And, uh, this year, looks like Team Jesse wins again, second year in a row, highest average team rating.

Team David second place, overtaking Team Kostya, third.

Mm.

So Jesse wins two years in a row.

So if you're listening to this on the podcast, you might wanna check out, um, the YouTube at some point.

Um, I think I'll also, uh, I, I think maybe we'll put up, like, a spreadsheet of all the results so people can go and, and, uh, check it out for, um, themselves from, from year to year.

But for all the listeners, Team Jesse winning with average rating 2623.5. David in second, 2616.7, and, uh, me in third, 2602.10. Man, I'm way, I got way behind.

Way behind.

He cannot form any mental image when he closes his eyes.

David Pruess, I heard, was like that, too.

He's like that.

Who is like that? David Pruess.

Oh, yeah, David Pruess, yes.

That's what he said.

He doesn't see anything when he closes his eyes.