<story><title>Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/sinquefield_cup_one_of_the_most_amazing_feats_in_chess_history_just_happened.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Jeepers, talk about burying the lede until the &lt;i&gt;last goddam paragraph&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;tl;dr &amp;#x27;[Fabiano] Caruana did show up, drawing his final two games to win the tournament (and its $100,000 top prize) with a record of 7-0-3, getting 8.5 points out of a possible 10. His victory at the Sinquefield Cup earned Caruana the &lt;i&gt;highest tournament performance rating of all time,&lt;/i&gt; crushing even Karpov’s legendary result at Linares. Earth’s finest chess players couldn’t manage to pin Caruana with a single loss.&amp;#x27;</text></comment>
<story><title>Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/sinquefield_cup_one_of_the_most_amazing_feats_in_chess_history_just_happened.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aardshark</author><text>&lt;i&gt;But while poker is, at heart, a simple game, easy enough to grok that you can strategize along with Phil Ivey when he plays on TV, a grandmaster-level chess match is totally bewildering.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just as my brain is hopelessly puny next to Magnus Carlsen’s, so is Carlsen’s compared to that of a modern chess-playing machine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t like these rhetorical techniques that debase one thing to show how great another thing is. There&amp;#x27;s a certain dishonesty in them, as if the author were qualified to make these observations.</text></comment>