Quote from: TPTB_need_war on December 08, 2015, 01:12:51 AM

Quote from: boolberry on December 08, 2015, 12:44:51 AM

His fiancée (Chess WIM) has a background that also may make her interested in bitcoin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianne_Caoili

I was in Manila (at age 27) when she first took up chess there at age 6. That her heritage originates from a developing world economy such as the Philippines and that she emphasizes Levon's trait to see the good in others seems to indicate an idealistic leaning. I am also amazed that a GM would share his time with us and even share some of his inner thought processes with us relative n00bs. Also I noticed his friendly demeanor both in his communications here (if Levon is languagehasmeaning) and also the handshake he did with Magnus Carlsen in a Youtube that I viewed.

Up thread he stated there were still some tricks remaining in this game. And he had advocated moving the rook over to the right side, but the consensus moved the knight instead. I wonder what he foresaw as a possibility? I was observing on that Youtube speed chess match with Carlsen, that Magnus sacrificed a pawn to get move more aggressively with his King and bishop to get behind the front line of pawns of Levon. I wonder if Carlsen could see that a draw was likely and decided to be more creative in hopes of win? I notice that my urge when I dabble in chess if I want to be more aggressive and creative than conservative (but I am not good enough at chess to do it with appropriate consideration). I read that Carlsen doesn't follow any one set of opening strategies and is very creative. Any way, I don't really understand all this. I haven't studied. A lot to think about and I don't have the free time.

Tifozi was guessing that letsplayagame (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=543579) might be Aronian not languagehasmeaning. Languagehasmeaning appears to be a good player but nowhere near the caliber of the people discussed as possibly being the OP of that thread. I have never once seen languagehasmeaning claim to be a professional chess player.

Quote from: tifozi on December 07, 2015, 02:30:23 PM

I just saw the thread Lets play a game of Chess. It's fascinating to see @letsplayagame (who I suspect is GM Aronian) interested in crypto (BTC and allegedly aware of privacy focused technologies).

Previous list of possible identities that Taras compiled:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148538.msg12469393#msg12469393

Quote from: Taras on September 20, 2015, 12:14:20 AM

I did the queries

, here are the candidates:

2816 Veselin Topalov 2814 Hikaru Nakamura 2808 Fabiano Caruana 2793 Anish Giri 2784 Dmitry Jakovenko 2782 Liren Ding 2777 Vladimir Kramnik 2773 Wesley So 2771 Alexander Grischuk 2765 Levon Aronian 2762 Sergey Karjakin 2758 Evgeny Tomashevsky 2744 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2742 Michael Adams 2741 Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2738 Teimour Radjabov 2737 Pendyala Harikrishna 2736 Shakhrivar Mamedyarov* 2734 Yi Wei 2732 Leinier Dominguez Perez 2728 David Navara 2727 Peter Svidler 2726 Vassily Ivanchuk 2725 Nikita Vitiugov 2721 Yangyi Yu 2720 Dmitry Andreikin 2717 Pavel Eljanov 2712 Hao Wang 2707 Peter Leko 2705 Ian Nepomniachtchi 2700 Anton Korobov

* Maimdiarove's name is butchered horribly all the time and the correct spelling is unknown

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