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The one thing I will add here is that Boll's switch to the Primorac Carbon was also related to his switching to Dignics 09c (slightly tacky rubber) on both sides. Sometimes these decisions have to be understood in the context of the whole setup, not just in the context of the blade.

The nonsense claim isn't as straightforward as you are making out...

Modern computers have more sophisticated valuation routines as well as better processing power. Your main point is correct though, and it takes a more sophisticated view of chess to realize that there is no real calculation without evaluation, and it is really the speed and level.of nuance of...

I very much agree - it is sad to see someone playing so well and getting injured.

Lim Junghoon too good off the bounce - Quadri can't play at that speed close to the table so he had to try something else but doesn't quite have the skillset.

Good comeback, but not sure it is amazing when the attacker doesn't make you move to the ball or reach for the ball and never pushes it short. Maybe she truly attacked Han Ying's middle a few times.

Well he needs to "revenge" Lim Junghoon first. If he does that, I can see him being a clear favorite over both Gacina and Karlsson, but Gacina looks extremely solid in this tournament and Karlsson played him tough in Houston (which I watched live). Regardless, this has been an Aruna tournament...

I have my own engineering and analytics background (no masters in Statistics though too many courses). But I watch too much online chess and in blitz chess, one can think of Nakamura and Carlsen as being a version (and this is not a perfect analogy) of Fan Zhendong VS Ma Long where you know...

"Many Times". Since you love "Bayesian analysis", which is based on probabilities and not absolute claims, you should post about Nakamura's success vs Carlsen at all time controls in terms of probabilities and expectations. And there is a difference between saying "calculation is all that...

Just to be clear, you have factored Diaz's continental advantages and potential for improvement into all this? Don't want a revisionist history in a year's time (assuming no injury/pregancy etc.)

Since this isn't a chess forum, I will let you have the last word on this. It has been shown many times, that Carlsen' superpower isn't so much his calculation but his ability to evaluate positions more quickly than others based on nuances that others may not value as heavily.

Ah okay. It is cool that someone's ranking 4 years ago impacts your perspective more strongly that her play and RC rating in 2022. You have a lower opinion of her than I do. My point though is that this is why we play the matches and it is easy to put too much into strength measurement...

Yeah, but the strongest player is more often revealed by the longest time control, no? We should be playing best of 7 not best of 5. No, we should be playing 21 point games not 11 point games? I am just trying to understand how you square these kinds of tradeoffs with making statements about...

This is a very selective view of things. Why do they use Blitz matches to decide more and more things now in classical tournaments when blitz used to be the pariah of chess? Why are they using time controls with less increments in standard time controls in order to control the length of...

Yeah. I noticed low-level (# 27) Chen Szu Yu just beat Zhang Rui. Is she now top 10? Or are you still of the opinion that Adriana's win over CSY at the WTTC was jet lag and means next to nothing?

It is a technically correct forehand though, mostly powered by the legs, with good leverage and forearm snap and largely topspin focused, maybe with a bit more back muscle action to take advantage of Quadri's strengths. I say that not because I really want to argue with you, but because I want...

We have discussed these issues extensively in the past - you can search for the threads if you want to learn why these are not the whole story. Chess to introduce excitement and randomness has largely resorted to shorter and shorter time limits (sound familiar to anyone?) Measuring player...

Actually, with her continental points, not really for Adriana. And with her quality of play, all she has to be is roughly a top 20 player by strength, which she obviously would be if she played in Europe. While Kihara is young and will improve, I think Adriana played very well against her. My...

Okay. 1 year later, we can discuss,

Sure, ITTF rankings are not perfect measures of strength, but we had that debate years ago about the value of encouraging participation with the current system and some of the merits of strength based ELO rankings (old system) vs points based tournament rankings (new system). Even with all the...