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Ah yes, teams as valuable as FIRST-Judd Racing, true legends of motorsport
Then your meme makes no sense. The three teams at the bottom picture aren't bidding for a 11th entry, so there is no point in comparing them. They can't "bring" value to F1 (whatever value they have is already part of F1) and they have proven to be much more competitive than the backmakers of the '80s, '90s, '00s or '10s. Andretti is quite likely to be similar to those old-time backmakers (no experience in chassis, no technical partnership with an established F1 team, a project with 4 different sites between America and Europe that somehow is even worse than Haas') and has failed to prove that they bring enough money in the long-run to offset the costs associated to a new entry: FOM is purely motivated by greed, if they thought that Andretti could bring loyal spectators and not just a short-timed fad, they would be in.
And if you take a look at reddit (yeah, I know I shouldn't), there is a lot of people that are seriously proposing forcing one of the existing teams to sell to Andretti or even kicking them out of F1. So it wasn't totally out of question that this meme was advocating for replacing one if the existing teams.
Pfff... who would want a team with 45 years of history, 9 WCC, 7 WDC, 114 wins and 128 podiums, and that last season scored points 8 times and had 7 Q3 appearances. It's so much better to have a team that hasn't designed and/or built a chassis in the last two decades!
Always has been 🌍 🔫
Geneva's checklist
from defending itself against Hamas before Israel achieves meaningful security goals
Please explain to me, in what world "defending against Hamas" (which are islamist terrorists) and "achieving meaningful security goals" includes bombing a Greek Orthodox Christian church?
It's funny that, except for Haas, the launch dates are more or less in reverse expected championship order
The US FCC defines ionizing radiation as wavelengths smaller than 124 nm (which corresponds more or less to the ionization energy of both oxygen and hydrogen, so it is a sensible definition).
The "most starlight" part is a bit trickier. Stars emit light in a wide spectrum (approximately black body radiation) depending on their temperature: hotter stars emit bluer light and are more luminous, but very rare, while cooler stars are redder and fainter, and much more common. Yellow stars (spectral type G), like the Sun, emit mostly between 400 nm and 750 nm (visible spectrum), while red stars (spectral type M) mostly emit from 700 nm to 1000 nm,
So let's say that you want all the light with wavelengths of 1000 nm or smaller turned into ionizing radiation. That gives us a blue-shift of 1+z = lambda_obs/lambda_em = 124 nm/ 1000 nm = 0.124.
The relation between speed and blue(/red)-shift is given by the relativistic Doppler effect:
1+z = sqrt((1+beta)/(1-beta))
where beta=v/c and c is the speed of light. Solving for beta
beta = ((1+z)^2 -1)/((1+z)^2 +1)
And plugging the numbers, you get beta = -0.970, where the minus sign means that you are moving towards the star. At 97% of the speed of light.
If you only wanted to turn most of the sunlight into ionizing radiation, you would need "just" 94.7% of the speed of light.
You should ask Nepo or Dubov
Format
Knock-out tournament. Each match consists of 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz games, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz games and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet games. In case of a tie, the players play four additional 1+1 games, and if necessary. an Armageddon game where the players bid the time.
Players
(chess.com ratings)
- Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 3286
- Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳 3077
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2896
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2887
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2813
- ~~Ding Liren 🇨🇳 2787~~ Ian Nepomniachtchi 🏳️ 2785
- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2765
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2750
- Arjun Erigaisi 🇮🇳 2737
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2736
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 2722
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2708
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2707
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2689
- Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2659
- Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 🇮🇳 2616
Schedule
Round of 16
- Nakamura vs Yu Yangyi: Sep 4, 13:00 UTC
- So vs Aronian: Sep 5, 18:00 UTC
- Sarin vs Sarana: Sep 6, 16:00 UTC
- Firouzja vs Andreikin: Sep 8, 17:00 UTC
- Liren vs Erigaisi: Sep 10, 13:00 UTC
- MVL vs Gukesh: Sep 11, 12:30 UTC
- Caruana vs Abdusattorov: Sep 11, 17:00 UTC
- Carlsen vs Vidit: Sep 12, 13:00 UTC
Quarterfinals
- QF1: Sep 13, 13:00 UTC
- QF2: Sep 14, 12:00 UTC
- QF3: Sep 15, 12:30 UTC
- QF4: Sep 15, 17:00 UTC
Semifinals
- SF1: Sep 19, 17:00 UTC
- SF2: Sep 20, 16:00 UTC
Final
Sep 22. 18:00 UTC
Links
The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 5th event on the 2023 Champions Chess Tour.
Format
The Julius Baer Generation Cup features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if one player loses one match he drops down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there's a rematch.
The total prize fund is $235,000, with a top prize of $30,000 (150 Tour points) in Division I, $10,000 in Division II (50 points) and $5,000 (20 points) in Division III. The top 3 in Division I and the winner of Division II qualify straight to Division I of the next event on the Tour.
The time control for normal games is 15 minutes per player for all moves, with a 3-second increment each move. In Division I and II the Winners bracket matches are played over four games, while in the Losers bracket there are two games. In Division III all matches are over two games except the 4-game Grand Final. A tie in a match is decided by an Armageddon game with no increment, where the players bid for time they are willing to play with. The lowest bidder gets that time and can pick colour, while the opponent gets 15 minutes. Black only needs a draw to win the match.
Players
Division I
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2777
- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2769
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2725
- M. Amin Tabatabaei 🇮🇷 2696
- Pavel Eljanov 🇺🇦 2695
- Denis Lazavik 🏳️ 2560
Division II
- Ian Nepomniatchtchi 🏳️ 2779
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2742
- Vladislav Artemiev 🏳️ 2698
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2685
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2684
- Bassem Amin 🇪🇬 2684
- Andrey Esipenko 🏳️ 2683
- Vladimir Fedoseev 🇸🇮 2676
- Laurent Fressinet 🇫🇷 2652
- Rauf Mamedov 🇦🇿 2633
- Nodirbek Yakubboev 🇺🇿 2630
- Eduardo Iturrizaga 🇪🇸 2617
- Maksim Chigaev 🇪🇸 2616
- Aleksey Dreev 🏳️ 2698
- Aydin Suleymanli 🇦🇿 2586
- Evgeny Alekseev 🇮🇱 2573
Division III
- Anish Giri 🇳🇱 2769
- Vladimir Kramnik 🏳️ 2753
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 🇦🇿 2747
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2729
- Parham Maghsoodloo 🇮🇷 2702
- Samuel Sevian 🇺🇸 2698
- Igor Kovalenko 🇺🇦 2674
- Matthias Bluebaum 🇩🇪 2670
- Etienne Bacrot 🇫🇷 2662
- Jaime Santos Latasa 🇪🇸 2656
- Alan Pichot 🇪🇸 2642
- Gata Kamsky 🇺🇸 2641
- Shant Sargsyan 🇦🇲 2639
- Benjamin Gledura 🇭🇺 2637
- Georg Meier 🇺🇾 2629
- Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦 2627
- Benjamin Bok 🇳🇱 2617
- Aram Hakobyan 🇦🇲 2612
- Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 🇦🇲 2609
- Olexandr Bortnyk 🇺🇦 2608
- Shamsiddin Vokhidov 🇺🇿 2597
- Nikolas Theodoru 🇬🇷 2586
- Constantin Lupulescu 🇷🇴 2584
- Bardiya Daneshvar 🇮🇷 2570
- Velimir Ivic 🇷🇸 2570
- Tuan Minh Le 🇻🇳 2559
- Vugar Rasulov 🇦🇿 2549
- Rudik Makarian 🏳️ 2546
- Nikita Meshkovs 🇱🇻 2544
- Diego Flores 🇦🇷 2534
- Pablo Salinas Herrera 🇨🇱 2464
- Garg Aradhya 🇮🇳 2395
Schedule
Division I
- Quarterfinals: 30th August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Losers Round 1: 31st August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Semifinals: 31st August
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Quarterfinals: 1st September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:10 UTC
- Final: 1st September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Final: 2nd September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:05 UTC
- Grand Final: 3rd September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Grand Final Reset: 3rd September
- Game 1: 18:15 UTC
- Game 2: 18:50 UTC
- Game 3: 19:25 UTC