Looks like its going to be another spicy summer in the US.

There should be a chess rule that if your kid suddenly runs into the room and starts shouting her hunger games fan theory at you and it causes you to lose an online blitz game on your phone, it doesn't count. That's just not fair.

Chicago fighting back against ICE. You love to see it 💪

Putting together a popular school chess club is very difficult, with the exception of high school clubs where it is shockingly simple. Just order pizza for the kids every meeting, thats it, totally foolproof. Get grocery store pizzas and bake it yourself if you're cheap. It will cost like $10.

I didn't know the guy who tried to cover up the My Lai massacre was a chess player.

The US Chess federation is STILL selling a Tate family worshiping book full of "life lessons" with the whole rotten clan on the cover.

It occurs to me that the profit motive negatively affects chess improvement as much as anything else There is a strong incentive to push improvers in the direction of specialist "knowledge" that coaches and content providers can provide, instead of the thousands of hours of practice that they can't

@lichess The Russian Agricultural Bank was sanctioned by the EU in August 2022. Ideally do not transmit their tournaments, but at least do not advertise their logo.

Reading the QueenRosieMary blog about Chess GM Christopher Yoo punching a women from behind with numerous witnesses and predictably there is commentator that somehow takes Yoo's side. These animals are not as much the problem as the chess federations/clubs/websites that refuse to confront them.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

ABC news, Times Magazine, CNN and many others reported the "dire wolf" scam as real. Others (like NPR) more or less did the same but hedged by quoting real scientists saying its all bullshit. If its bullshit why did you publish an article?!?

Kurt Vonnegut man

Isn't it great when chess engines do this cool stuff in real formal competitions unlike a certain deeply suspicious google product from a few years ago that I could name.

While ivy league chancellors and high powered corporate lawyers fall all over themselves to capitulate as quickly as possible, a bunch of school teachers making $40k a year are the ones fighting back.

The Chess content mills continue to be both embarrassingly dumb and concretely harmful. "Lie detectors" are a scam. They've been used to both convict innocent people and exonerate criminals, and now Hikaru et al have used their gigantic platforms to contribute to the problem.

Apparently the corporate media has already decided to accept Trumps framing of everything, even the "liberal" wing. Theres no reason to think Colombia "backed down." They insisted on humane treatment of their citizens, while in transit. Apparently the US agreed. The same thing happened in 2023.

saw this reddit post today and couldn't stop crying. suddenly that old clip of the 13 yo Murzin crying on the board after a loss made so much sense. i will always be rooting for him.

I don't think most realize that classical chess isn't being phased out because the fans want it, its happening because rapid/blitz are a better business model. Corporations don't give customers what they want, they give them what makes the most money. The same is true of online vs. OTB.

When I'm winning, the trick I use is to have a little internal pep talk and tell myself that I'm going to stay focused and finish the game strong and then I don't.

@chessable.com decided to follow the arrogant management cliche “the customer is an idiot”. The emailed us that “Chessable PRO's discount now stacks with other discounts” but when you go to the courses sales you realize that now, they are the half of what they use to be!!! #chess #chesspunks

You love to see Eric Rosen beating a GM with the Stafford Gambit, even if it is in blitz.😃 Extra points for horrifying uber-opening expert Jan Gustaffson.😄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdr...

Magnus truly is the greatest. Plenty of greats, but they all foolishly tried to play within the rules. Nobody had the guile to negotiate a better deal mid tournament. The rules are the rules? Ok FIDE. Why dont you give me your real best offer so we can get out of here.

Imagine if the Super Bowl could end in a tie. Everybody goes home happy, ultimate win-win scenario. It would be great. Thats why chess is the best sport.

JORTS RE[LOVE]UTION

The more serious lesson we've learned from the Magnus jeans incident is that apparently you'd need an electron microscope to see the sub-atomicly tiny amount of FIDEs's shit that Magnus is prepared to put up with. If it was Norway Chess, I guarantee you he's still playing.

As a man prevented from attending numerous funerals and weddings in jeans (by my wife) because I was "under-dressed," let me say that Magnus is my goddamn hero. Greatest of all time by a mile, a cultural icon. I could kiss him. My jeans yearn to breathe free.

I've been using this app for maybe a month and nobody has threatened to sue me. I don't know if that means its nicer here or that I'm getting old🤔

Many GMs are PRECISELY the sort of person to cheat. Chess comes easy to them, so they lazily assume that cheating will be easy too. Remember this the next time a GM says they "just know" when somebody is cheating, they probably dont know a damn thing.

My latest on the blunder that decided the World Chess Championship, and the memories and lessons it triggered. jenshahade.substack.com/p/a-blunder-...

I need drafts on this app so badly. I dont know what to do without my little graveyard of half-posts that I still delusionally hope will one day rise again.

Absolute disaster for chess that the Champion is 18 Half of chess is middle aged men who have to somehow soldier on after losing to 7th graders, and now you're throwing this in their face? IMO, it should be 35 years old minimum to be WC, I also want some minimum level of joint pain to be GM.

Some people are upset that chess is now permanently over, and I get it, I sort of enjoyed playing myself. What people are forgetting is that no more chess ALSO means no more Kramnik talking about chess, so its hard to say if this is good or bad all things considered.

Statement from @chess.com - Vladimir Kramnik banned from prize events for six months. He more than earned it

Yet another Lockdown after credible threats at East Meck High School in Charlotte. Predictably, parents are swarming to take their kids home. Similar to the incident at Butler HS a few years ago the school is inexplicably not just sending everybody home, they learned nothing.😠

Think about this. The more complex a game is, the harder it is to learn and the less fun it is in the beginning. Nobody wants to do competitive rules learning. They want to PLAY. Even if checkmate only makes the game 5-10% more complex, that's 5-10% of new players were losing for no benefit.

Checkmate shouldn't be part of the rules of chess. Just take the king. It makes the rules more complex without changing anything about how the game functions, all downside with no purpose. Its just an innefficiency that we could drop tomorrow, but won't because we cant think outside the box.

Chess needs a dress code, and that dress code should be to dress like Levon Aronian.

A rap battle is two men writing poems about each other

I need somebody to explain why you would EVER call Twitter "x," I legitimately dont understand. If some deranged billionaire told you apples are called "Z" after a ketamine bender, would you call them that? Why do we care what they want? Do you meekly follow all billionaire's orders or just Elon?

The French defense is like the Dallas Cowboys or Manchester United, everybody hates them and the sport is probably more entertaining when they're doing well. Ding Liren understands this and that's why I'm rooting for him.

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Honestly the way “the media” is tut-tutting about Bluesky must mean everyone on here is doing something right.

Look if you haven’t cancelled your subscriptions to this shit yet I don’t know what to tell you. Find another fucking word game to play. If that’s too big a sacrifice for you to make maybe this moment is too big for you.

It’s Ben!

What do we think about promoting to knights, bishops and being silly when the other side won't resign online? Personally, I have no problem with it. If you're not enjoying me promoting a fifth bishop you can end the game at any time. If you're still somehow playing for a result this can only help!

nice echo chamber you got there would be a shame if you just kept on enjoying it and got a lot of fulfillment from it and lived your life happily and it never adversely affected your mental health

there being no AI bots is so peaceful... every post is a human thought. pesticide-free posting. farm to table skeets

I'm getting a real "ontologically evil" vibe from chess twitch streamers. You know, like existing entirely outside the light of god? profoundly immoral and wicked, that sort of thing. Anybody else?

Best ending to a film ever.

An underrated part of Twitter's decline is paywalling PMs. No more making friends, only algorythmic outrage. It's a good example of how the profit motive naturally alienates people from each other without necessarily ever having that as a specific goal.