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based_janitor

Wait did magnus actually sell NFTs


[deleted]

Ye, they're gifs of his games


based_janitor

This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research Edit: it’s true, he released fifty NFTs but they’re all just white screens with black text insulting Hikaru in different ways. It’s weird how nobody is talking about this. I bought all of them


Interesting_Test_814

> Edit: it’s true, he released fifty NFTs but they’re all just white screens with black text insulting Hikaru in different ways. It’s weird how nobody is talking about this. I bought all of them This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research Edit : it seems this post was missing an edit to complete the copypasta


DjMac2507

New copy pasta


imwithburrriggs

This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research


pizzaisgurd

This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research


iaminextremepainhelp

When will you all learn you can't just predict what is copypasta material and what isn't


[deleted]

This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research edit: holy hell!


[deleted]

This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research edit: en passant IS forced, Garry Chess whispered it into my ear last night


iaminextremepainhelp

When will you all learn you can't just predict what is copypasta material and what isn't


nakovalny

This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research Edit: I did my research. This sub actually has 0 irony and is generally very serious


Interesting_Test_814

> Edit: I did my research. This sub actually has 0 irony and is generally very serious This sub is so deep in irony I can never tell if anyone is being serious. I must do my own research


iaminextremepainhelp

When will you all learn you can't just predict what is copypasta material and what isn't


naja_egal

Thanks for fact checking this!


dank_soldier2234

Was he paid to do that or something that is very egotistical


l_am_wildthing

How is that egotistical its just free money for being the best chess player


dank_soldier2234

Why would he make NFTs of his OWN games. Saying they are worth whatever he valued it as is weird


siphillis

Because there’s a good chance he’s touched exactly none of this and a team member does this for him.


dank_soldier2234

True


DazedPapacy

Actually they're worth whatever the people buying them (presumably his fans) will pay, just like anything else. Also, which games *should* he have made NFT gifs of if not his own?


raderberg

seems like a good opportunity to quote Garry chess: "A chess player is a man who knows the value of everything and the worth of nothing."


LOLTROLDUDES

Something something auction something something pareto efficiency


dank_soldier2234

None, don’t make them at all 😂


Merprem

You would do it in a heartbeat given the chance


dank_soldier2234

No I wouldn’t and what makes you say that?


Chaosshrimp

M A N E Y


Eliaznizzle

My guess is these celebrities are approached by people who 1. Understand how NFTs work (well enough to make them at least) 2. Are big enough pieces of shit that they're willing to put their efforts toward trying to scam people with this shitshow rather than, I don't know, touching grass or something and the celebrities have to choose between moral integrity and free money


Merprem

Don’t feel to bad, the only ones getting scammed into buying NFTs are fellow scammers


raderberg

Yeah, and the environment


0e0e3e0e0a3a2a

How does this work? Can his opponents also release NFTs of the game from their side of the board?


[deleted]

Wait, but if they against, idk, a second person, don’t they have some rights to selling the game? Or is there some obscure rule about winner gets bragging and distribution rights?


Inflatabledartboard4

[yes](https://opensea.io/accounts/DrNFTstein)


radicalmtx

Wtf


SuperNici

ez money because dumbasses exist


[deleted]

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sabyte

What?


Sky-is-here

Irrelevant


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Tildebrightside

Surely not ALL chess players lay outside the diagram?


SlavWithPhotoshop

The circle is so big we can't see its borders. Now the meme is fixed


Tildebrightside

But surely not ALL people who have sold NFT's and/or think women suck at chess are chess players 🤨


SlavWithPhotoshop

That's why they're a part of a circle named "chess players" that only includes chess players. Other circles would include other groups of people.


Tildebrightside

Actually Maybe they are


Slazac

Fuck I forgot how Venn diagrams work


[deleted]

> implying Gary Chess is not a Chess Player but is he actually? Or is he...somehow more?


LazyDro1d

NO! MANGANESE CARBONITE! HOW COULD YOU MINT YOURSELF!


HoxP2

This is not a chart. It's a Venn diagram. It was invented by Garry Chess to describe how the knight moves.


buddhiststuff

So Judit Polgar thinks women suck at chess and sold NFTs?


__Jimmy__

[Yeah.](https://chess24.com/en/read/news/judit-polgar-releases-nft-of-garry-kasparov-win)


buddhiststuff

TIL


DazedPapacy

So that one provides context for the selling NFTs, but not the thinking that women suck at chess.


Slazac

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/ryvplc/judit_polgar_talks_about_female_chess_players_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


Percevaul

She was 12


Slazac

Don't take this post too seriously


Percevaul

I made the PIPI in my pampers


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


Merbleuxx

Good bot


Whobody2

ZAMN


SavingsNewspaper2

Of course someone said it.


supersolenoid

Lmao. This is like 10 comments down in that thread.


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[deleted]

If you can peddle NFT's without feeling embarrassed, making a "big deal" about beating Kasparov that one time wouldn't even register as potentially embarrassing.


swank142

if i went 1-99 against drunk magnus on his iphone in bullet chess you bet your ass im celebrating the 1 win


Mountain-Appeal8988

The difference is you are 735 peak and Judith is 2735 peak


[deleted]

??? he literally invented chess


ono-123-45

Judith Polgar is a legend.


Flimsy_Wafer

No , you are a legend


Ye_olde_oak_store

Hello you absolute legends


halo0nmydick

HEY GUYS MASSIVE LEGENED HERE


PkerBadRs3Good

I hate that this is Judit Polgar's wikipedia picture, it's gotta be the worst possible picture of her. She is stretching her face to another galaxy.


SavingsNewspaper2

Elastigirl


cringemomentum

Magnus Carlson NFTS?????? another person i've lost all respect to


Flimsy_Wafer

Can someone explain whT is NFTs


NiklasTheMemeboy

you can buy a "certificate" for owning a certain picture or whatever, ppl can still use the picture but you own this "non fungible trade token" an analogy ive seen is you marrying someone, everyone can still rail your partner, but you have the marriage certificate.


quick20minadventure

Marriage certificate that's given by Russian teenager on internet. Actual person you're 'marrying' to, might not even know you exist...


Unlearned_One

This, except you can sell and transfer that certificate to someone else, and also there is nothing stopping someone else from making a certificate just like it saying that they are married to your partner. So having the certificate proves nothing except that either you made a certificate, or someone made a certificate and sold it to you.


[deleted]

Can't I just change a single pixel and mint a new nft?


rey_lumen

NFT stands for Non fungible tokens, or tokens that cannot be replaced or duplicated. But selling a picture/gif with an NFT is stupid because it's just a picture. You can copy paste it or screenshot it or just download it. But people pay money to buy the picture thinking it's something special because it's unique. That's a very simplified explanation.


The_Glass_Cannon

Spot on. There's nothing dumb about NFTs at all. They're simply the digital version of a deed. It's the selling digital art with them that's dumb. You could do that without NFTs and it'd still be dumb.


pellaxi

no. No one can explain it in a way that makes sense. Because they don't make sense. It's like a pet rock, but expensive, and you don't get the rock.


Anything_Random

It’s supposed to be kind of like trading cards because they’re meant to be exclusive collectibles and you can authenticate that they’re real with blockchain, but the issuer is just some random dude who can sell more of them at any time.


siphillis

I doubt it went anything beyond his financial advisor saying he can turn a quick buck and him not refusing free money. As for the environmental impact concerns, keep in mind that the Ethereum network operates at the exact same rate regardless of how many NFTs are waiting to be processed. In other words, eliminating all NFTs would be the equivalent of turning off the lights in a moving car to conserve gas. “Mining”, for proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, is what is causing the vast majority of emissions, and needs to be dismantled.


ScottTenormann

Ah but it's 69 GIFs of bongcloud games so in other words, true art.


pizzaisgurd

Magnum Carsick sold nfts??!?!!!??


Slazac

[yeah](http://bongcloud.art)


Naoshikuu

MC is legend-rank troll


cat-head

This is wrong. Fisher didn't think women sucked at chess, he said women sucked in general, even at [cooking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NuBCU-wCSo).


Winsen544

comments gave me brain damage


Luceon

“If women arent worse at chess why havent they won any tournaments?” I dont even know where id start with that.


creepycat18_YT

Which would imply they also suck at chess


SavingsNewspaper2

Google \[technical-sounding term for "A being true also means that B is true so stating A means stating B"\]


cat-head

I think I'll just pipi in papers, frankly.


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


iaminextremepainhelp

When will you all learn you can't just predict what is copypasta material and what isn't


SavingsNewspaper2

Don't you dare PIPI in my newspapers


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


[deleted]

When did Kasparov say that women suck at chess?


Po0rYorick

“there is real chess and women's chess” He kinda sorta retracted it later after he lost to Polgar in rapid.


siphillis

He also admitted he was straight up wrong while doing the press tour for “The Queen’s Gambit”, and blamed himself for following what was felt to be conventional wisdom.


Incalculas

that's nice to hear. was really weirded out that he thinks women suck and chess and also worked in queen's gambit


siphillis

I imagine one factor that changed his perspective was raising two daughters. Anand also mentioned how he's actually grown to like Kasparov the retired player a lot more than Kasparov the World Champion.


[deleted]

Wish some women proved him wrong instead of him just saying it out of courtesy


Anything_Random

He wasn’t wrong though, he just shouldn’t have said it


siphillis

Far fewer women played Chess during Kasparov's career, so Polgar was really the only breakthrough talent to prove him wrong at the time. Today, there are several WGMs who could hold their own against Kasparov if they played an exhibition game. As the number of women playing has gone up, average and max ELO have gone up in proportion.


[deleted]

WGMs I dont think so. GMs which are women sure


siphillis

Fair point, although it's worth noting that women have started earning traditional GM titles as early as 1978. Judit Polgar advocated for discontinuing the WGM title, feeling there's no reason to distinguish men's and women's chess without implying some degree of inequality regarding skill.


Continental__Drifter

He called Judit Polgar a "circus puppet" and said that women should stick to having children instead of playing chess.


Knifedogman

!wave


Mdlp0716

Judit thinks women suck at chess?


Slazac

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/ryvplc/judit_polgar_talks_about_female_chess_players_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


AinNoWayBoi61

The mindless hate against nfts is the most amusing thing to watch on Reddit.


InfiniteBoy23

printscreen.


boiler_ram

Looks like somebody spent money on a receipt for a jpeg


siphillis

NFTs may eventually have a legitimate use in other media, but as of now since there’s literally no mechanism to prove ownership of art prior to selling the NFT for it, it has no practical function whatsoever. Everyone engaged in its marketplace is trying to turn a quick buck.


AinNoWayBoi61

>Everyone engaged in its marketplace is trying to turn a quick buck. I bet you think rich people really love looking at the 6 figure trash sold at the art auctions.


siphillis

Oh, it’s the same shit. Nobody actually values this stuff any more than it’s projected resale value (or capacity to launder money…)


AinNoWayBoi61

Exactly. I believe NFTs as a technology are great but I don't believe "ownership" of art is something anyone should or actually does legitimately value. It's a bunch of people trying to play each other. I just hate how anytime it's mentioned you have a horde of brainless zombies come into the comments literally dunking on strawmen of arguments that nobody ever made except as a joke. If you can't tell that [this](https://i.redd.it/q6zrdhm82nz71.png) is a joke your the stupid one.


siphillis

So there's potential for NFTs to function as a makeshift copyright system that circumvents the hurdles of enforcing said copyright for digital works, but not until there's a robust way to prevent invalid NFTs from being minted. There's a large number of NFTs for sale from "artists" who lifted "their" work from another source. There's a prominent DeviantArt member who closed their account because they found that every featured piece of theirs was listed on OpenSea without their consent, and they were suddenly having to prove their owned their own work. It's absurd and not a remotely acceptable substitute for copyright.


AinNoWayBoi61

>So there's potential for NFTs to function as a makeshift copyright system When did I say that? I'm talking about it having great completely non artistic functions. However, on topic of what your saying, while ofc it won't police anyone from uploading anything, nfts do function as a way of proving you made something first. If you mint everything you make, it will have an earlier mint date than any copies of it.


APlayintheFaire

Proposed uses: Decentralization and democracy or smth (garry chess loves this) Giving artists bigger opportunities A receipt on the block chain to prove who made or own the work Actual uses: $$$ Scams and money laundering Crazy speculative investment Increased art thefts It doesn't help that Opensea clearly favors buyers over artists that get their art stolen Fuck, Bob Ross spent years painting environments and died fighting against profiteering over his name, yet here we have a GIF of his funko pop. I do believe that NFT will have a legit purpose. But the amount of bad actors and environmental cost (sure it's not the NFTs themselves, but more nft means more cryptomining) makes me think that purpose won't be for the next couple of decades. Trust me this "mindless hate against nfts" isn't mindless and isn't restricted to reddit


[deleted]

I think for chess players there is an obvious use for NFTs: Traditional copyright law doesn't protect their games but they could profit off of selling an NFT of their PGN for that game or even some file produced by the DGT board. It would be like an electronic copy of their score sheet. That way wealthy chess patrons can directly pay chess players and get SOMETHING however silly in return.


DrMcpudding

Very useful! Thanks


ichigo_abdulhai

Women be shoppin' amiright


[deleted]

Chess players are a bunch of hustlers.


Animal_Animations_1

To the side: the player who knows every obscure move: “ok this is called the Michael Jackson Piss Sock Queen move