Bold move by Dan

I saw Grandmasters in its limited run in movie theaters last night. It was not what I expected and frankly I wonder if it’s what the filmmakers expected when they set out on this project.

Parts of the movie are obviously-staged conversations, multiple times with Buettner and Rensch, and they also got Emil Sutovsky and Arkady Dvorkovich to put on the same act. It’s a little annoying but basically fine.

I saw Grandmasters in its limited run in movie theaters last night. It was not what I expected and frankly I wonder if it’s what the filmmakers expected when they set out on this project.

Anyway, in the half of the movie that’s not about Wesley So, Jan-Henric Buettner comes across as pretty disorganized and buffoonish, which was sort of fun to watch. I’m glad he didn’t win the election for FIDE president, now that I know a little bit about him.

I saw Grandmasters in its limited run in movie theaters last night. It was not what I expected and frankly I wonder if it’s what the filmmakers expected when they set out on this project.

Now in his 30s, he lives with his adopted mother in Minnesota. Neither of them drives and neither has a cellphone. They hold hands in public a lot. She expresses happiness that she gave him somewhere to belong. He expresses a lot of sadness.

I saw Grandmasters in its limited run in movie theaters last night. It was not what I expected and frankly I wonder if it’s what the filmmakers expected when they set out on this project.

No access to Hikaru, Fabi, Sindarov, Aronian, or any of the other players in the trailer, except incidentally on site at the tournaments. But they must have spent multiple weeks filming everyday with Wesley and his unusual family, at home and on the road.

I saw Grandmasters in its limited run in movie theaters last night. It was not what I expected and frankly I wonder if it’s what the filmmakers expected when they set out on this project.

Just got my ticket

Here’s my spreadsheet story. In 2010 I was in grad school and we had a boring guest speaker who was full of himself. Nobody wanted to listen to him. Sitting there with our laptops open theoretically to take notes, someone started a Google spreadsheet and invited the whole class.

It’s a small class. 30 to 40 people. The speaker isn’t blind, he can tell that people are looking at their screens and suppressing laughter. While talking he walks down the aisle and looks at people’s screens to see what’s so funny.

Here’s my spreadsheet story. In 2010 I was in grad school and we had a boring guest speaker who was full of himself. Nobody wanted to listen to him. Sitting there with our laptops open theoretically to take notes, someone started a Google spreadsheet and invited the whole class.

I just saw this cursed image on Facebook and now you have to look at it also