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ALL OF THE HUGE CHESS NAMES ARE POPPING UP IN THIS THREAD!!! THIS IS AWWEESSSOMMMEEEE.

<cue Jerry responding to this comment?>

Hikaru Nakamura answered my question. Coach Dan Heisman (presumably) commented on it.

My digital chess life is complete now. Today is a good day.

Hi Hikaru,

First off – thanks so much for doing this AMA! So exciting to have one of the best players in the world field a few questions! Two questions for you:

First – for you personally, what was the most fun tournament you ever participated in, and why?

Second – do you still play poker? What was the 2011 WSOP experience like and do you plan to enter again someday?

Thanks so much! Looking forward to watching you shaking up Candidate’s this year!

Hi Team,

I spend the vast majority of my waking life working in Excel and I love it. I’ve always had one lingering question though. Working in finance, I have to geometrically link numbers (returns) quite often. The formula is relatively straight forward, something like: =PRODUCT(1+(A2:A4))-1. I understand that the product function is not expecting an array to be passed, so using this formula, #VALUE! Is returned. However, stepping into the cell and executing with ctrl+shift+enter (rather than just enter) ‘forces’ the formula to execute (becoming: {=PRODUCT(1+(A2:A4))-1}) and returns the expected result. My question: why make this a necessary extra step? What is the danger of just having this formula execute with a simple ‘enter’ command? You have no idea how many people I’ve had to explain this to over the years…

Thanks so much!