For the first time in a while - we have 2250! Next stop 2300 (or more realistically 2200…)

They say there’s no luck in chess. But how else do you explain 1…Be2 here?

Ocean’s One 1 Thing I Hate About You District 1 1 Mile 1ne The First Sense The First Element One Wedding and a Funeral One Colour: Red 1 Fast 1 Furious

Edumacation, escamalator, saxomophone! @polborta.bsky.social

Caruana’s position after 7…Na6 has been played twice before by Blübaum - once in the World Blitz and once in a chesscom online qualifier. @polborta.bsky.social

Disappointed that @polborta.bsky.social didn’t give Jan’s “Diamond Sindarov” the reaction it deserved.

Never resign - sometimes people make mistakes! Black to move and lose. #WMOTB

Megathread!

Not saying my recent form’s better than Sindarov’s - that’s for other people to decide.

r5 thread headlines: open - sindarov continues to dominate, fabi wins a nice game vs bluebaum, wei yi shows a equality nr. 27 vs the catalan, pragg with a bit of a pull vs esipenko but gets nowhere with it women's - lagno wins a sharp game vs bibisara, zhu jiner continues to impress 1/n

Did Hikaru just throw his team under the bus? “Either I completely forgot what’s in a file or it’s on my team and they looked at something where castles is not a move. I suspect it’s the latter and I didn’t forget, so it’s very unfortunate… without any prep it’s impossible to play that position”

Played in a youth national championship with a bar in the upstairs floor. The worse thing: they played snooker there and really badly. So, suddently, a snooker ball would fall just above our heads and about 100 kids would jump in their seats.

Tell me the worst conditions in which you’ve ever had to play a “serious” game of chess. Im thinking venue / playing conditions rather than worst opponent or your own worst condition.

🎶 Robert de Niro's waiting…🎶

Tell me the worst conditions in which you’ve ever had to play a “serious” game of chess. Im thinking venue / playing conditions rather than worst opponent or your own worst condition.

Thread on how the Candidates should *really* work…

excellent thread, this

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Thread on how the Candidates should *really* work…

I’m assuming @polborta.bsky.social’s “be more constructive with your feedback” to Hans’ message was a Flight of the Conchords reference?

I learned a new French word today!

Exciting chess news - my @lichess.org blitz rating has passed 2200 for roughly the 1000th time!

“Why does White rarely castle queenside in the French?”

Great summary of yesterday’s Candidates action!

Chess is fun - best blitz game I’ve played in ages!

Fabi wins it, +3 or +4. Wild card pick Sindarov. Wei Yi scores over 50%. Giri draws them all again just for the lolz.

presenting an unbiased guide to the 2026 Candidates:

Here’s where I’m playing chess this week.

Boden!

For some reason, listening to the latest @originstorypodcast.bsky.social (on introvert / extrovert and Freud / Jung) made this gif spring to mind…

i still think about this daily

Had a good blitz day today - this is what we call a bad 🇫🇷French…

Quick rules refresher from Jan and @polborta.bsky.social before the Candidates. youtu.be/0fZqooP3hSc

Quick rules refresher from Jan and @polborta.bsky.social before the Candidates. youtu.be/0fZqooP3hSc

Ivanchuk! #Ivanchuk

milo and his indestructible friend @polborta.bsky.social

It’s not how many, it’s how good that matters.

The 3 genders

Landed the first punch on an IM tonight, sadly couldn’t quite see it through to a positive result. Why was his last move (9…Bg5) a serious mistake?

Landed the first punch on an IM tonight, sadly couldn’t quite see it through to a positive result. Why was his last move (9…Bg5) a serious mistake?

Funny mouseslip in a blitz game - originally was going to go 0-0, then decided on Rc1. But my king was still selected so 0-0-0 appeared on the board when I dragged the rook across!

They changed it!

Umm, I’m no mathematician but… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Too fun @lichess.org

Preach! stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Food for thought… stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Quite a rare sight!

Quite a rare sight!