Yuzvendra Chahal V/S Viswanathan Anand on 13 Jun

[imbeena]

Yuzvendra Chahal will face Viswanathan Anand in a Chess game on June 13th to raise funds for COVID-19 relief in India. Wishing them all the best

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Yeah for a good cause.

Is this like a PPV?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

this thread needs a poll I think?

 

[Jack1]

What's Chahal's rating?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

FIDE 1956

but he stopped playing FIDE rated at 13 so

 

[Jack1]

Ok fair enough that's actually good. Wonder if he plays online at all.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404085558171734017

More importantly the event raised more than 6.5 lakh (around 9,000 freedombucks) for Akshayapatra (seems to be in Bengaluru?)

 

[ankitj]

6.5 lakhs? That's it?

 

[Noumenon]

6.5 lakhs? That's it?

A family of four can comfortably live for a year in that amount. Are you not aware India is a poor country? How much did you contribute in that 6.5?

 

[honestbharani]

A family of four can comfortably live for a year in that amount. Are you not aware India is a poor country? How much did you contribute in that 6.5?

Relax man. Think Ankit simply meant he expected the event to be more popular and generate more revenue.

 

[Noumenon]

Relax man. Think Ankit simply meant he expected the event to be more popular and generate more revenue.

Well if he thought it was going to be popular and 6.5 is a trifling sum for him, maybe he should match the amount raised instead of a dismissive ''that's it?''.

 

[srbhkshk]

6.5 Lakhs is indeed a very trifling sum for a match that involved a 5X world chess champion, a billion dollar + unicorn ceo, a national cricketer, 2 bollywood mainstream guys and a bunch of other semi - whatevers. In fact it's pathetic.

The event itself was pathetic as well given half of those guys resorted to using engines in the game.

 

[Chubb]

A rating of 1900 is pretty impressive though not close to Candidate Master, I think Agadmator’s (famous chess YouTuber) rating is 2000.

Played against a batsman called Viswanathan last season. I asked him if he preferred the Caro-Kann or the Nimzo-Indian and he looked at me funny.

 

[harsh.ag]

He, and a couple of others, were using stockfish to make it "interesting". The others had the good sense to stop after a while and this fellow didn't. Bad billionaire.

 

[Chubb]

He, and a couple of others, were using stockfish to make it "interesting". The others had the good sense to stop after a while and this fellow didn't. Bad billionaire.

Did Chahal use an engine?

 

[srbhkshk]

Did Chahal use an engine?

No.

 

[CricAddict]

Well if he thought it was going to be popular and 6.5 is a trifling sum for him, maybe he should match the amount raised instead of a dismissive ''that's it?''.

This is lame. It is like some lame cricketers asking critics to come and play cricket when they receive a negative feedback.

6.5 lakhs is indeed a trifling sum for such an event as shrhrkbk has correctly pointed out.