Previous Rank: 27Net Rating: -8.7 On balance, Scoot Henderson has had one of the worst rookie campaigns of the three-point era. He's 947th among the 953 first-year players over that span in box plus/minus. It's obviously way too early to bail out, though. He just turned ...
That year, he also became the first Chinese player to surpass a 2800 Elo rating, peaking at 2816—the joint tenth highest in chess history. His strong, consistent play earned him a reputation as one of the toughest players to beat. From August 2017 to November 2018, Ding went unbeaten in...
Szymzyk, who has criticized the album's sound and called the job the worst of his career, tells stories about singer Roger Daltrey avoiding sessions with the other members of the band. The whole Who were hardly ever present together, as Daltrey's straight-edge careerism and hardheadedness ...
The actor has been extremely vocal over his own regrets making the film since its initial release, having oncetold Howard Stern,"The truth of the matter is, I was bad in it. Akiva Goldsman — who’s won the Oscar for writing since then — he wrote the screenplay. And it’s a terrib...
And "first win" (or "last win") is considered to be too unfair to the player who has Black first (or last). The FIDE championship was in fact determined by rapid games twice during the knockout era, in the first event when Anatoly Karpov defeated Anand in 1998, and then the last ...
When he left us he had an IM rating. In order to complete the relevant paperwork we needed to pay FIDE – to transfer 17,000 roubles to Switzerland.[In 2007-8 that would have been about 700 USD – CiT]The director of our school took that upon himself. In a meeting with Chazov, ...