Happy July 4th I can't believe Jesus made the world only 250 years ago

George Thomas, of the Mason's Arms, Hay-on-Wye. 🪦 This stunning grave was tucked away amidst a sea of green. It took my breath away. 💚 #graveyards #churchcrawling #history #cemeteries #gravestones

Wow, just noticed zombo.com has changed.

Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

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On closer examination, shaky seems to have been a massive understatement

Dragon Chilling reaping the momentum that comes from having the best team name #WorldTeamRapidandBlitz #chess

I haven't really been paying attention, but out of the corner of my eye I get the impression that Magnus is looking shakier at the faster controls as well at the moment? #chess

Did I miss all the fuss over the @polborta.bsky.social big 50 yesterday? I assume his dedication to the old Bluesky means there was some noise here ... (Happy belated, Peter)

Just remembered that if you like #photography rather than strident competitive visual advertising, Pixelfed is worth visiting.

Gukesh opens up to Susan Ninan: "I can’t say I’m fully there. I’m focusing on just having fun, waking up every day and trying to learn something new about chess…Because I simply don’t know anything else that I want to spend my whole day with." www.hindustantimes.com/sports/other...

OK, I may have jinxed this a bit, but the level of fighting is still extreme and admirable

⚫ Le grand maître Karel Mokry, champion de République tchèque en 1995, s’est éteint le 27 mai après une longue maladie. Georges Bertola vous présente une de ses parties, jouée dans ses meilleures années, qui l’oppose au GM Florin Gheorghiu : www.europe-echecs.com/art/hommage-...

80% decisive games from the first two rounds of the #UzChessCup is pretty impressive stuff for such a strong event. Still possible to get classical paced violence if you have the right group of maniacs.

Is it my imagination or has Google search become even worse than rumored? It now seems to be an AI guess forced on you, with all other relevant results erased so you have no comparitive context. Just a lot of random recent items with next to no connection to the search terms...

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Holding #NorwayChess in Oslo's new library is genius. Stunning bay view next ro the iconic Opera, a brilliant building that can serve as a near infinite press center, and silence is an ever-present virtue.

Bibsara playing like vintage Seirawan today #NorwayChess #iykyk

minorpieces.uk/2026/05/31/m... In the 1920s several residents of Broadmoor, a criminal lunatic asylum, were prolific problem solvers and composers. Discover their story here.

another platform drops due to AI enshittification. i'd like to say im surprised, but i'm not. get off linktree ASAP. there are alternatives in the comments.

So, I asked "it" one of the suggested questions, and to my horror, it provided an answer that comes almost verbatim from a talk that I give about THE FACEMAKER. Note: I do not allow recording of this talk because I share photos of the disfigured soldiers in it. I am mortified by this.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

who among us

I will never feel good watching #classical #chess games deteriorate into bullet finales, but I am definitely up for the world number one vs. the youngest ever and not fully respected world champion #Norwaychess

I'm accredited at #NorwayChess but am torn about how to put together any reportage in any eventual channels... It's very hard to get my head around it as someone from the past

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Need to check out more of @peterdoggers interviews from #Sigeman #chess Was incredibly impressed by one of the post-round chats with Magnus - got so much good stuff out of him with clever open questions, and also a lot about the games without looking for technical detail.

Ah, chesscom now updating his time used bar, nearly half an hour on what many would consider a non-critical decision... #chess #sigeman

Again fascinated by Erdogmus' clock handling, though I can't quite tell if he really tanked for so long on move 9 or if there is some glitch on chesscom... #chess #sigeman

What impresses me most about Erdogmus is how much time he uses. Unlike many kids, he's never using the clock as a weapon, or superprepped. He just seems to be working his #chess out at an incredible level, every game.

The hardest part about being dumb and broke and in your 20s is realizing you’re actually 44

Man, I wish I had a delectable middle name...

Missed #alienday but did you know the actor who wore the creature suit in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic was 6’10″ Nigerian Bolaji Badejo? dangerousminds.net/comments/beh...

My latest post is about Max Euwe. The least-known of all World Champions, he deserves much better than "the guy who beat a drunk Alekhine." He was very strong and tough and a deserving World Champion. gmalexcolovic.substack.com/p/max-euwe

Never too late to become a Russian schoolboy...

If you're missing the candidates tournament, Chessbase India made about three candidates tournaments worth of video. I'm still catching up Here is IM Sagar Shah interviewing future FIDE president @anishgiri.bsky.social for two and a half hours www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MeE...

OK, how does one Bluesky virally and bring the #chess conversation over here?

I see @polborta.bsky.social has switched back to cricket commentary

18-year-old Ukrainian international master Roman Dehtiarov (2452) just won the European Individual Chess Championship with 9/11 and a 2781 performance rating. Quite an upset against a field with many 2600+ GMs. (He was 126th seed by rating) lichess.org/broadcast/eu...

I'm constantly getting replies that I cannot trace back and so have no idea what they're answering about. Is this me or the interface?

I found the Esipenko-Caruana game impressive, but even more comforting. The kind of calm, long-range positional compensation that we were taught in pre-historic times always worked somehow in the Dragon still looking smooth and terrifying in the engine age.

a good candidates tournament. felt like the players were just warming up, though. time to get back to our roots: 28-round, quadruple round robins 2028 goals

@polborta.bsky.social thank you for the past two weeks of commentary, Peter. Please convey my gratitude to Jan as well. I really enjoyed having you two back together, and here’s hoping it happens again soon. Take care.

Lot of respect to Bluebaum for coming out brawling in the last round on -1. Didn't go his way, but not for lack of trying

Vidonyak is a Ukrainian-born IM and student of Dorfman & Mikhalchishin. He doesn't even have an English-language Wikipedia page yet, but Chessbase profiled him last year: en.chessbase.com/post/meet-ro...

Roman Vidonyak, Sindarov's coach, asked when he realized there was something special about him: "Here."

Vaishali is the challenger, winning in the final round of the #chess #Candidates2026. A blow to the soap opera segment of chess fandom hankering for more Sindarov-Bibisara adventures, but a boon for Indian fans who will have interests in both title matches.

Don't need to go to Coachella. I can just blast different songs simultaneously from every room in my house and pretend I have no bathrooms.