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| Sep-13-17 | | SugarDom: But this is looking more like a draw than a decisive result. |
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| Sep-13-17 | | geniokov: Correct Sugardom! |
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| Sep-13-17 | | SugarDom: Rooks and pawns endgames with equal material are mostly drawn. |
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| Sep-13-17 | | SugarDom: In other words it's a <technical draw>. |
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| Sep-13-17 | | geniokov: After Black's..g5 then it would be draw! |
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| Nov-16-17 | | waustad: This week the Austrian Bundesliga starts, with Jobava playing first board for Sparkasse Jenbach. Games are on live via http://chess-results.com/live.aspx?... |
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| Nov-26-17 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Grandmaster! Surely enjoy your daring and brilliant style. Cheers, sir! |
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| Dec-15-17 | | posoo: WAT dos dis man have in his EARES? |
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Aug-03-19
 | | alexmagnus: http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... That's quite a rating chart... What happened? |
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Aug-06-19
 | | Troller: <alexmagnus: http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... Just noticed that as well - saw him on CB with 2584 and wondered if there was another Jobava. But I do not know of an explanation. |
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| Sep-27-20 | | login:
Jamesblunder
https://www.twitch.tv/jamesblunder
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| Nov-26-21 | | 0ZeR0: Happy birthday to the Georgian madman! |
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Feb-07-23
 | | MissScarlett: <Another day, another scandal in the cutthroat world of online chess. On Monday, Chess.com—one of the largest such platforms in the world—said that it would hit a 2578-rated Georgian grandmaster with a partial ban after he was caught spewing racist vitriol and berating staff on a tournament stream. The grandmaster, Baadur Jobava, launched into the rant last Friday after losing to Xiangyu Xu, a Chinese grandmaster, at a qualifier for the Airthings Masters, according to Esports.gg. In footage of a conversation between Jobava and a moderator that surfaced on Reddit that day, the Georgian player can be heard saying, “This bitch @#$%ed up. Ban all Chinese too. These mother@#$%ers. Not right. Call them. Not right.” After getting off the call with the moderator, Jobava continued to rant, accusing Xu of cheating and Chess.com of failing to take action, “just sit and commentating @#$%*&!#.” In a statement to the “Global Chess Community” on Monday, a Chess.com official said that Jobava’s account would be banned “for all prize events” through the end of the year in light of his “racial and incendiary comments.”> https://www.thedailybeast.com/chess... |
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| Feb-07-23 | | Messiah: Sufficient would have been demanding to speak with chess.com's manager. |
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Feb-07-23
| | MissScarlett: What's more incendiary? Accusations of cheating or racism? Would <chess.com> have banned Fischer for claiming that the Russians had fixed world chess? |
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| Feb-07-23 | | Messiah: <MissScarlett: What's more incendiary? Accusations of cheating or racism? Would <chess.com> have banned Fischer for claiming that the Russians had fixed world chess?> Both of them are terrible. If the story is factually 100% true, then Baadur acted like an unruly kid, getting out of hand. |
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| Feb-07-23 | | Messiah: (and not a rude, obnoxious, impolite, unfunny and disrespectful child like that other guy) |
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Feb-07-23
 | | Williebob: <...rude, obnoxious, impolite, unfunny and disrespectful child...>
You seem determined to outclass your enemies in all of these qualities. |
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Feb-07-23
 | | perfidious: <Williebob>, though not one of his few allies hereabouts, mais certainement. |
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Feb-07-23
| | MissScarlett: I was wondering at first if <chess.com> had released/leaked this material, but I had the wrong impression. Jobava was broadcasting it via his Twitch channel: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... |
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Feb-07-23
 | | fredthebear: No big deal. We see this all the time in chess. Pbr posts that stuff and worse about bears on the owner's page for a month. No suspensions, no guidelines necessary. |
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| Feb-08-23 | | Messiah: <perfidious: <Williebob>, though not one of his few allies hereabouts, mais certainement.> OK now do a <Stonehenge> and cease using CG. |
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Feb-28-23
| | MissScarlett: < Chess.com's defamation campaign
STATEMENT REGARDING CHESS.COM’S BAN
On February 6, 2023, Chess.com decided to ban me from all prize events for the rest of 2023.
After a game versus a Chinese grandmaster, I had a suspicion that my opponent was cheating. However, cheating in one single game is very difficult to prove. After the game I was unfortunately using an offensive language, which Chess.com incorrectly interpreted as racist language. None of these expressions used were meant to be racist – and if anyone got offended you have my sincere apologies. I have friends and chess fans all over the world of different ethnic origins. In my view all people are equal – Black or White, Asians or Europeans. Online cheaters on Chess.com usually get a second chance if they confess. I think all can agree that cheating is by far the worst thing you could do in chess and especially in prize tournaments. However in my case, Chess.com decided to put the ban without any prior discussion. It is equivalent to sentence someone in court without any fair trial. In fact, Chess.com decided to run a world-wide defamation campaign against me, not only seriously harming my reputation but also by not following the regulations given in FIDE Code of Ethics, which states that a verbal incident like this could render in a warning at most. The only rational conclusion of this story is that Chess.com is abusing their power, as one of the most powerful online platforms, to run an unethical, shameful and completely unnecessary defamation drive against me. In this difficult situation I offered them a peaceful resolution – to remove the ban and at the same time publish a mutual statement with my apology. However Chess.com have now chosen to continue the path of conflict and fight. I think each and everyone in the chess community should ask themselves if they believe that Chess.com’s one-year ban against me, without any prior discussion or warning, is proportional to my eventual verbal wrongdoings. Clearly, this story tells that it is more important for Chess.com to state an example rather than fighting the real enemies in chess – the online cheaters. Sincerely,
GM Baadur Jobava
Tbilisi, Georgia February 18, 2023>
https://baadurjobava.com/statement-... Maybe <chess.com> are the real enemies in chess? |
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| Feb-28-23 | | Messiah: <abusing their power> doesn't that ring a bell? |
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| Nov-28-23 | | Baxer: I'm not sure how people can misconstrue the events to the point in which Baadur Jobava is the victim in the Racial tirade he embarked upon. Personally - whenever I suspect someone of cheating, I instantly start saying racial/ethnic remarks while yelling on the phone. That's a very normal and sane thing to do when you suspect a Chinese player of Cheating. I'm obviously being sarcastic/facetious for those in the back of the classroom. I'm not sure what there would be to discuss between Chess.com and Jobava - Why exactly is it up to Chess.com to extend the olive branch to the one who said the abusive statements? And i find it very interesting that Jobava believes that a public apology is all it takes to sweep it under the rug - i.e. not seeing the severity or ridiculousness of his actions, deeming it worthy of only a 'slap on the wrist' for demeaning someone's race/ethnicity. He is shifting the goalposts by pointing to the heinousness of online cheating and that being his goal (and apparently that not being Chess.com's Goal either - because they didn't ban the Chinese Player/punished Jobava instead) I believe the response is even more damning and telling than the initial disgusting remarks by Jobava. It's one thing to say it in the first place - but another thing to completely miss the point of the forthcoming punishment thereafter and believe an 'I'm Sorry' is 'good enough'. |
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