Now that's what I'm Tajikin' bout: World Chess will run the Tajikistan national champs early stages on its platform worldchess.com/news/world-c...

My 5-year-old did this.

What a tease FIDE's CEO Emil Sutovsky is. #chess worldchess.com/news/fide-wo...

Use The Grand Prix Attack! F1 Drivers Charles Leclerc and Sir Lewis Hamilton Play Car Crash Chess Game Against A Grandmaster worldchess.com/news/charles...

All hail Matthias Bluebaum, the chess underdog: worldchess.com/news/matthia...

Surrey are Nott the County Champions.

Wrote something on the FIDE Grand Swiss. Did Firouzja throw his toys out of the pram? worldchess.com/news/alireza...

FIDE Moves To Spice Up 2025 World Rapid & Blitz Champs. Will It Work? #chess worldchess.com/news/fide-mo...

Sometimes chess just gives you a nice warm feeling inside. By me. worldchess.com/news/the-won...

Won't be a chess match.

Make a band singular: One Star

All a bit emperor's new clothes, don't you think? #COYS

News that Spurs fans should be very pleased to hear. Spurs 'not for sale' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leonard Barden is English chess. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

And what am I going to moan about, now the moany fans have got nothing to moan about?

What are all the miserable fans from the Levy Out Brigade going to moan about now? #COYS

The Levy is dead, long live the Viv! If you don't know what I mean, you will soon. #COYS

What a window.

✅Kudus ✅Palhinha ✅Simons ✅Muani ✅Keep Romero It's not often you bring 4 genuine first XI upgrades in. That's quite the window. I can't remember the last time that happened. #COYS

COYS LEGEND: 50 years since this legend's Spurs debut

I wish we could say the same for our supporters. Patience was in short supply. Fans can be so over-dramatic. #COYS

Club signing.

I reckon Levy's masterplan was to take full advantage of this #COYS Chelsea face doubts over registering signings with Uefa after £27m fine | Uefa | The Guardian share.google/CiLN0ZojUzJU...

Alternative view of this window: - we baited Forest into locking down MGW. - we baited Arsenal into buying 27yo Eze. - we then snapped up the pick of the bunch, and our #1 target, 22yo Xavi. + Romero, Kudus, Palhinia. Levy masterclass. #COYS

Apparently there are Spurs fans who want Levy out. Think it's a bit OTT, myself. #COYS

Eze is yesterday's news. Go get Savinho please, Daniel. #COYS

Spurs fans losing their mind over Eze. It's quite simple: he wanted Arsenal. He was waiting for Arsenal. Given the choice of Spurs or Arsenal, he chose them. Not a lot we could do about that. Move on. #COYS

Ok then folks, how good is Akliouche? #COYS

Yep.

Massive for Spurs. Best business this window. #COYS

Where are all the whingers now?

Spurs can mount a title challenge if Eze and Savinho come in. Yes, I really believe that. #COYS

Bah, meaningless game anyway... #COYS

Lots of talk about Stu's head in chat.

Michael "The Spider" Adams vs Stuart "The Fox" Conquest for the title! Rapidplay playoff. Great finish to the British! @englishchess.bsky.social

Seriously, this is fierce! Playoff to start soon to decide the winner!

Poised to send out a press release when we have a winner at the British Chess Champs. It's a very exciting finish! Watch the final throes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJm...

Imagine if you will, an 11 year old winning the British chess championship. open.substack.com/pub/danielgo...

Royal and Adams battling for the lead seems like it was written. Love this drama! #BritishChessChamps

Britain's youngest ever GM Shreyas Royal beat Britain's newest GM Matthew Wadsworth in R7 today to join Britain's greatest ever GM Michael Adams at the top on 5.5 points. It's very close going into the final 2 rounds! #BritishChessChamps

"He's going to be Adams-level when he's older - maybe stronger! Of course, we've had promising juniors before who haven't delivered on their potential, but he seems like the real deal." Gormally on 11-year-old Supratit Bannerjee. #britishchesschamps Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbYt...

The British Chess Champs are into R7 and set for a grandstand finish on Sunday. GM Mickey Adams, the eight-time winner, is half a point clear at the top. In R7 he's taking on the tricky, unconventional battler GM Daniel Fernandez. You can watch it live now here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbYt...

I'm feeling good because I just narrowly beat a 7-year-old while trying out @theworldchess.bsky.social Yikes.

Over on Substack, I've posted a timeline of political football matches Football and politics shouldn't mix, some say, except they always have and always will... Have a read 👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...

Gutted that England lost. Build a statue for Woakes anyway. But test cricket is just magical. There's nothing like it in sport.

Forever a club legend. Thank you for the memories, Sonny! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Whoa!!! 10-year-old breakout genius Bodhana Sivanandan has just been drawn in R1 against the BRITISH CHAMPION Gawain Jones. What a matchup tomorrow! #britishchesschamps

Revolution Chess.

The British Chess Championships are underway at the magnificent St George's Hall in Liverpool!

When's the parade? #COYS #thfc