I felt it was time for a new experiment. Introducing CHESSVIBES WEEKLY, a new podcast that covers the latest chess news. Hope you like it! (And hopefully soon on Apple and Spotify as well.) A retweet would be appreciated... Spread the word! www.buzzsprout.com/2546567/epis...

9 years ago today 💂

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Made a real breakthrough in my efforts to cluster checkmate patterns 🙌🏻

Just an idea for FIDE, since they own the world and chess..

Playing 27D-chess 🫨 open.substack.com/pub/saychess...

youtube.com/shorts/3_pQQ... They walked away as legends..

Worked on a new way to make opening files based on Lichess data open.substack.com/pub/saychess...

Premoved and lost my Queen in 3+0… won anyway 😆

Seems like a small revolt is happening in the Chessable forums 😳

Jeans, Foucault, FIDE and Freestyle chess all in one newsletter! open.substack.com/pub/saychess...

Learned a new word today..

Won this game due to pure despite of my own play

youtube.com/shorts/skxtO... When they had the rules in place beforehand it was seen as a great sporting event

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi Crowned Co-Champions After Agreeing Chess Is ‘Actually Kinda Boring’

Muzin’s King was a true attacker😳

The final of the blitz starts 23:00 New Year’s Eve.. who made this decision?

I’m going to say cheese 🧀

New giant book dropped on tacticsladder.com 📙

Tacticsladder.com has crossed 15.000 puzzle attempts 🙌🏻

Both fixed the washing machine and some bugs on tacticsladder.com today. And yes, I’m also missing a floor, but that is another problem to be fixed

Matthew Sadler’s reaction is worth having in there. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IcHX... (4:05.20)

The last month I have worked hard on building a new chess puzzle platform for my books. You can now try it out on www.tacticsladder.com saychess.substack.com/p/the-tactic...

Hang on!

I haven't tried this on Bluesky yet. I'm looking to interview someone for Chess Journeys on Monday or Tuesday around 7 or 8 PM pacific. Would anyone like to share their story. Any rating welcome! #chesspunks

My thoughts on #DingGukesh Game 5, World Chess Championship 2024. Another French! youtu.be/SFP8VXbpkuE

We all know it is a good opening #DingGukesh

This is a repost since I messed up the link. Hey, chesspunks, as soon as I get 20 emails subs I'll start creating Substack content. Not worried about paid subscribers, just subscribers. I just spent 14 years blogging and prefer this now. ontheroadtochessmaster.substack.com

Gukesh Dommaraju levels World Chess Championship as Ding Liren loses on time in Game 3

My thoughts on #DingGukesh - game 1. What a start to the match! youtu.be/QCubY-cNwRg

he earned it

I should have bought the dip!

the market is an all-time low for a Ding WC-win! #DingGukesh

Which team is Peter Leko on? #DingGukesh

The tactics ladder is ready for beta testing 🪜 A bit proud to have come this far

Here's the video of the game ! Thanks @saychess.bsky.social for the online tool !

In the end, I survived their attack, after which the endgame was "just a matter of technique" (being up three connected passers helps!). See the full game below. Shout out to @saychess.bsky.social for his tool to convert PGNs into movies!

Trying to convince one of my good friends who lives in Singapore to visit the venue when the match starts for a story for my newsletter. He had a hard time understanding why the match would last for such a long time 😄

I'm convinced!

Gukesh is favourite, but Ding has a chance

Black to move: Both players missed a very interesting tactic for black today, in Magnus vs Dubov:

Just saw the hashtag ♥️ #chesspunks

Ready for Denmark 🇩🇰 vs Spain 🇪🇸

👀 @chess-official.bsky.social enters the arena! let them know you're here #chessfeed

What should black play here? (missed it and Whites threat)

Hello everyone, and thanks to all who have followed me! To those who don’t know me from Twitter/X, on this account you may expect to see: - photos from past chess events - short threads related to chess history - links to new & past posts from my blog. Plus very occasional random stuff.