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One, the interpretation of, not in this case the rules, but in this case the definition, and the other... looking at the geopolitical elements of the achievement, because I'm going for Garry Kasparov beating Anatoly Karpov in the World Test, sorry, World Test, World Chess Championship.

Now, the background was that Kasparov had won, had been at daggers drawn against not literally but not far off against karpov they were a different generation the soviet union was obviously changing and karpov was seen very much as a representative of uh that regime with his uh his Gianni Infantino-type character, Florencio Campomanas, the president of FIDE, very much in his corner.

So this was a grudge match to end all grudge matches when it comes to chess.

If you thought that Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky was a grudge match, this was much more, especially internally in the Soviet Union, because Kasparov with the rock star looks and the... wonderful ability to communicate was from Baku in Azerbaijan, one of the republics that standard to gain considerably from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which was still a few years off.

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When I look at the U.S. team, it's like clear to me that the top two players, Carissa and Alice, are both improving.

Right? I think they can both hit 2,500 FIDE.

And so I'm going to give the U.S. a boost based on that top duo, largely.

And I'm going to pick the U.S. to get bronze this year.

The Russian Chess Federation continued to hold those events, but also continued to argue that they should be back in the Olympiad.

And it seemed like they really wanted to.

There were a lot of I dug up a bunch of, you know, angry comments from them at the decision of FIDE to sort of follow the decision of the CAS.

Yeah, maybe the A is for arbitration.

All of these skills need to be trained before you can apply them in your game.

So if you are between the level of 1,500 to 2,000 Chess.com Rapid or FIDE or whatever the equivalent is, for example, Lee Chester would be 1,700 to 2,200.

It's always very hard to calculate these ratings, but somewhere in this rating range.

That's what real chess training is about.

Grandmaster?

It's FIDE, so that's kind of like the international rating.

You have to travel for those tournaments more.

Yeah, but like the point from a 2000.

Maybe I've told myself to be a better student as a chess coach instead of being a player myself.

Having said that, I still have some ideas if things stabilize in my life to maybe go back to tournament practice and maybe try to become a FIDE Master at some point.

Okay, so it's not dead

yet.

So maybe I can prove those people wrong, you know? I just can't improve.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

We will all be rooting for you to come back and become not FIDE master, grandmaster.

Oh my God,

He was the youngest Austrian ever to earn both the IM and GM titles at the time that he earned them.

He is the two-time Austrian champion with a peak FIDE rating of twenty-five ninety-three.

He's played in the two thousand twenty-three FIDE World Cup.

He's represented his country in multiple Chess Olympiad and competed against many of the world's best players, including Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk and, uh, Magnus Carlsen at an Olympiad.

More recently, he's been turning his attention to entrepreneurship, chess entrepreneurship, to be precise.

Yeah.

My, my rating increased quite quickly I think after a year or so I was on seventeen hundred, but that was a national rating.

That was not international, uh, FIDE rating, so it's, it's a bit different.