this looks so cool. that being said, almost all LLMs suck at playing chess except maybe gemini-- the games will be abysmal.

Chess Piece, Pawn, 8th–12th century Class: Gaming pieces Medium: Ivory or wood(?); carved https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452335

omg y'all. If you buy a digital product and you cannot download it and store it to your own devices permanently you are RENTING, you do not OWN it.

Smiling figure (Sonriente), 600–1000 CE, by Remojadas artist(s) Class: Ceramics-Sculpture Culture: Classic Veracruz Medium: Ceramic, slip, paint https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313386

irony alert: @lichess.org exits X citing toxicity, and the platform's response? a tsunami of hate proving EXACTLY why they're leaving 🤦‍♂️

it doesn't come off as a surprise to me anymore that most of the high-profile celebrities use their wealth and influence to act inhumanely, hiding behind performative activism to shield themselves and each other. what a despicable bunch of people honestly.

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.

Our December 2024 free and open databases database.lichess.org are now available for download, bringing the total number of rated games to over 6.2 billion in standard chess and 125 million across variants!

If you’re commentating a FIDE event in the future and you’re explaining the format to your audience, you have to add some caveats, right? You have to say, this is the *planned* format, but FIDE has a history of changing the rules after the games have started, so we’ll see what happens.

the jeans controversy feels so forced. like how did wearing jeans become "a matter of principle" for magnus and why would FIDE not simply fine players for their first infraction and escalate only if they break the code again the next day? just bad PR for chess all over again.

Chessmen (32), early 19th century Class: Chess Sets Medium: Conifer wood, painted https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200016

Publishers aren't trying to keep AI companies from training on books. They're trying to make as much money off of it as possible. If you're an author or an academic who is against having your works trained on, publishing houses are not your allies. You're their product.

Commentators all thought it was a draw, and were talking about the tiebreaker round coming next, until Ding Liren played a move that shocked them. No, I'm not talking about the 2024 World Championship. I'm talking about the 2023 World Championship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZREv...

rare to see ding this chatty. nice interview

holy sh*t chess players are now super celebrities 🤌

tip for future challengers: nervously knock down some pieces in your first game #DingGukesh

chess is pop culture ✨

new world chess champion 🏆 👏 #DingGukesh

the memes predicted it, en passant is forced #DingGukesh

Bodhana 🤝 Ju Wenjun! 🤩 📷: John Saunders #chess #womeninchess

Wait till they find out about this group called FIDE. They have thousands of members and all they do is plot to kill Kings, Queens and religious leaders like Bishops!

do you know you can check what public lists you are on, people who are currently blocking you and all the people you are blocking yourself by visiting clearsky.app and putting your username

1. "chess move/moves" is blocked from the feed. 2. optimized the regex and managed to shave off 2 seconds from feed load time (sub 3.5 seconds now). 3. chess feed is now naturally populated with more chess skeeters and players (mostly based off @rprose.bsky.social starter pack and list)

Imagine my surprise reading the Guardian's recap... I'm thinking woah, 1. Kf3! Ding must've fallen off his chair. Should probably get my chess news from chess websites...

none of the LLMs i have tested so far are good at playing chess. but apparently that changes with Gemini (estimated blitz elo of 2820). hopefully chess engines will be able to explain their POV clearly someday while making those super bizarre moves.

Infinite Armada Chess xkcd.com/3020

*ding/gukesh moves one piece* chess instructors: "well well well...will you look at that! he is literally following my _____ course" 😂 #DingGukesh

ding walked in with both of his seconds today— gm richard rapport and gm ni hua #DingGukesh

the new gen leftists don't know what puts the right in copyright

A librarian that previously worked at the British Library created a relatively small dataset of bsky posts, hundreds of times smaller than previous researchers, to help folks create toxicity filters and stuff. So people bullied him & posted death threats. He took it down. Nice one, folks.

daniel issued an apology but the truth is that even a kid can download all your posts from here with a simple script and most likely they already have. the only "opt-out" that works here is to remove all your posts and never be here.

just switched to chessbase india stream. every great move from gukesh feels like a festival there 😂👏 #DingGukesh

haven't been seeing peter leko anywhere. he is on gukesh's team isn't he 👀

does either of @chess.com or @lichess.org offer the ability to import custom chess sets. i bet it could be a really cool feature. i really want to use tiny magnus PNGs as my pawn army.

game 2 stream links for the world chess championship 2024: david howell and jovanka: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppiW... judit, naroditsky and john: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHC1... anish giri: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOy... kaja and hammer (take take take): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0T... (1/n)

links to some chess world championship match streams: david howell and jovanka: www.youtube.com/live/GGa1cSZ... judit and naroditsky: www.youtube.com/live/hfFEnFj... kaja and hammer (take take take): www.youtube.com/live/_VkJbCa... anish giri: www.youtube.com/live/6XikKPo...

gukesh knocked over a pawn. what a good omen.

the anti cheating measures in chess have gone a bit too far imo

just in case anyone here likes art, history or museums, i've got @metsky.bsky.social running every 3rd hour, which pulls data from the vast met museum collection. consider checking it out if you find it interesting!

This is my 8 yr old who carries a chess board around and reads this chess book at bedtime doing the exercises in it for ‘fun’. She also thinks I do not know how to play chess. Parenting is a v humbling experience.

omg chess twitter broke bluesky. this is the day i've been dreaming about.

which are some chess accounts (chess clubs, chess news portals, chess journalists, chess content poasters) that post exclusively about chess? i will add them to the chess feed so that each of their posts always populate the feed.

new chess lore 😂😂😂

For all the new chess people here: you can't (yet) just post a gif of a game, although the app will *look* like you can. You just get the first frame. However, you can convert your gif to mp4 etc. and then post the resulting video!

the chess feed should be much faster to load now and you can easily feature on the feed using #chessfeed if enough people use it, it should cut through most "chess" (the word) related noise.

The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara), ca. 13th century Class: Sculpture Culture: India (Kerala) Medium: Bronze https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39153

Bowl, 4th–7th century Class: Ceramics Culture: Coptic Medium: Earthenware https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/478684

hi ya'll my little project METsky is now live! it brings you beautiful public domain artworks curated by the met museum. consider following it if you find it interesting :) 🏛️

Don't forget to practice self-care even on challenging days. 💆‍♂️ Your well-being is worth it. 🌈💫