carlsen did it again. hans now has company

@AsDaGo said in #30:
> You can spell it "analog" or "analogue", but you can't extrapolate from there.

Watch people call that an "automatic", which is a fully mechanical watch. Should be allowed no?

@s2numbuq35i said in #31:
> Watch people call that an "automatic", which is a fully mechanical watch. Should be allowed no?

I've never heard "automatic watch," but I'm just saying you can call it "analog" or "analogue" but not "analogueueu" as @hardbitten did.

@s2numbuq35i said:
> Watch people call that an "automatic", which is a fully mechanical watch.

No. Most quartz watches are also analog.

The arbiters should not have to closely inspect every watch that enters a venue. Whatever is allowed or disallowed needs to be easy to check.

@mcgoves said in #33:
> Most quartz watches are also analog.

In my humble view every quartz driven watch is a digital watch, but I know the marketing will tell you otherwise.

@h2b2 said in #1:
> carlsen got smashed by a kid, then brings up the topic of cheating in public tweets.
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> sounds like the kid was wearing an analogue watch.
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> Carlsen chose to play in the tournament with their rules which allow analog watches. If he had a problem with people wearing analogue watches he could have chosen not to play, or maybe had a private discussion with the organisers before the tournament starts asking them to change the rules.
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> carlsen's a bad sport. he adds another young player to his hit list.
all world champions are bad sports in one way or another

@s2numbuq35i said in #34:
> In my humble view every quartz driven watch is a digital watch, but I know the marketing will tell you otherwise.

You also think automatic and mechanical watches are the same. You have some misinformed beliefs.

watches, I have a small interest in them. I can't help myself.

@AsDaGo said in #32:
> I've never heard "automatic watch," but I'm just saying you can call it "analog" or "analogue" but not "analogueueu" as

old school watches are mechanical, they have a spring to provide power to turn the hands. The first watches needed someone to wind the spring by hand. Later someone invented a way for the spring to be wound just by wearing the watch. As you moved your arm an off balanced weight would move and add a little wind to the spring. They called that mechanism the automatic works, because it wound the watch automatically.

Almost all mechanical watches made today and probably for the last, idk, 50-100 years are self winding or "automatic" (I just looked it up, they became wind spread in the 1960s) but cruder versions date back 100s of years before then.)

@TheDiamondTiger said in #35:
> all world champions are bad sports in one way or another

probably. and everyone is flawed and behaves badly at times. In general I like carlsen, I've seen a few of his streams where he plays his fans and I like his sense of humour. but I really don't like his bad behaviour, especially what he did to hans. I don't think throwing his toys out of his cot is going to work for him much longer. Who's going to want to play against carlsen when he brings up cheating every time he loses? although, maybe the drama that carlsen creates these days might make more people watch the tournaments, so maybe instead of wanting to watch the best player in the world play, people will want to watch for the chance to see drama.

@h2b2 said in #37:
> probably. and everyone is flawed and behaves badly at times. In general I like carlsen, I've seen a few of his streams where he plays his fans and I like his sense of humour. but I really don't like his bad behaviour, especially what he did to hans. I don't think throwing his toys out of his cot is going to work for him much longer. Who's going to want to play against carlsen when he brings up cheating every time he loses? although, maybe the drama that carlsen creates these days might make more people watch the tournaments, so maybe instead of wanting to watch the best player in the world play, people will want to watch for the chance to see drama.
definitely agree, i think magnus is better than other world champions. i think the main reason world champions behave the way they do might also be because they don't want to ruin their rep. another reason might be like you said because of the media attention. they might indirectly profit from that, because in some ways bad publicity is better than no publicity. and who knows because these days they might even get paid directly for this.

@mcgoves said in #33:
> @s2numbuq35i said:
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> The arbiters should not have to closely inspect every watch that enters a venue. Whatever is allowed or disallowed needs to be easy to check.
quartz clock definitely falls under category electronic device regardless on how time shown to user. In contains quartz + that is used reference to vco. then "analog" watch this is divided down signals that control the electric motor moving the hands of the clock. It have very little digital electronics but it does.

Wonder if any tournament arbiter has taked stand on Oura rings. clearly forbidden but not everyone notices as it just seems like weird ring.

@h2b2 said in #1:
> carlsen's a bad sport. he adds another young player to his hit list.

And you're a Butt-wad bro ... because I said so ... and you didn't ...