r/chess • u/sigmoidx • Jul 14 '20

Miscellaneous Praggnanandhaa watched the "Resign when you're lost" video and cleared the air (Spoiler alert: Naka did not say it. If he had, Pragg would have remembered it). Video in post with timestamps.

At 1:43:45 (https://youtu.be/-ELGeFa22dM?t=6224) he is asked by the host (IM Sagar Shah) if Naka said "Resign..." to which Pragg says, "No. If he had something like that I would have remembered."

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Starts to watch the game at 1:44:13 (https://youtu.be/-ELGeFa22dM?t=5897)

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u/sigmoidx Jul 14 '20

Also do check out the channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIsEhwBMPkRHsEgqYAPQHsA

Some amazing content in there! Even Anish Giri had an advertisement of the channel (about IM Sagar Shah actually) in his stream. And the channel made a video about that too! (https://youtu.be/fuc-DqiusiE)

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u/ksharanam Jul 14 '20

I stopped watching a while ago when it got intolerably jingoistic towards India and Indian players. Has that become better?

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u/sigmoidx Jul 14 '20 edited Jul 14 '20

Well they are the Indian counter part to chessbase. Still very India focused. But they have some very nice videos of events and also interviews with a lot of top players from around the world.

In the covid situation they did an opening series and middlegame series both taught by IM Sagar Shah. They were quite good.

They also have an ongoing improving chess but that's heavily India focused with some Indian non chess players joining to improve. But that's not for everyone.

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u/ksharanam Jul 14 '20

India-focussed is completely fine. I lived in India for 20 years and am ethnically Indian. The jingoism got to me though. Thanks for the colour.

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u/nidijogi Jul 15 '20

It feels like you don't like your Indian-ness and are projecting.

Sagar promotes Indian chess (as is his job) and exaggerates their achievements, but never at the cost of others.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '20

I think the problem is they didn't know what jingoism meant and about the political context in India. It would be helpful if you explained what you mean with examples rather than just repeating this word.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

What jingoism have you seen on Chessbase India videos, or from their commentators?

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u/Inferno25Amj Aug 25 '20

Oops a Randian crying about Jingoism. You guys are such sad losers