He had an androgyny and coolness that were then normally reserved for rock stars.

Oh god. Just yesterday I solved one of his recent studies. He had a unique way of presenting elegant, "simple but not easy" ideas. A fierce competitor otb, but also an artist.

I just discovered at 38 that I have aphantasia, or rather, I discovered that most people see distinct, colorful shapes when they imagine stuff (I don't). And chess players playing blindfolded can actually see the pieces in their mind's eye?? (I only see bright spots, but I know where they can go) 🤷‍♀️

Séraphina ! 👸 😍

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Can't wait!

tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu.... All my friends in the chess world are at least 30 levels above me :(

I remembered solving this study at the Sochi chess club in 2004 and it made me feel so old.

La justice française examine aujourd'hui la dimension discriminatoire de l’exclusion de la Française Halba Diouf, sprinteuse trans, des compétitions féminines nationales. Un procès important, alors que les corps féminins sont de plus en plus contrôlés dans le sport. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

A little study I've composed after seeing a combination on Reddit. White to play and win (Black has several resources; the solutions ends with mate on move 6.)

Someone asked me an autograph for their trans friend named Chess ^^ Such an amazing name!

Can't wait! Judit, the one true Queen of Chess 🙇‍♀️👸 festival.sundance.org/program/film...

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Position from Grandmaster Felix Blohberger's lesson for the Women in chess Foundation fundraiser. Can Black play ...d2 here? Tune in: www.twitch.tv/lularobs

Happy Sunday to @chessdojo.bsky.social and the Yusupov Loyalists! It’s the Chessmas Fundraiser for the @womeninchess Foundation ❤️ The livestream continues! Watch ➡️ twitch.tv/lularobs

If you are not afraid of crying, watch this new animated short movie about chess and peace. 🕊️😭

This is the worst thing that could have happened to trans women in sports, at the worst time. It will be used as "definitive proof" to justify blanket bans across all sports. We should fight for the right to participate and win as out trans women. Jammie acted so stupidly and selfishly...

In my latest, I go over the ups and downs that led me to a career-best finish at the North American Poker Tour in Las Vegas! jennifershahade.com/stack/bronze...

Because FIDE follows IOC's rules which recognize chess as a sport, this will probably mean a blanket ban from chess for trans women. Will FIDE go as far as introducing sex tests in chess to also ban intersex women? I doubt I'll be able to defend my Women's French Chess Champion title next year...

I don't think I've ever been that happy about a city election result, and I'm a Parisian. Zohran is a worldwide inspiration.

Yesterday might have been the most important day of my life, as I got my vaginoplasty. I would have been the happiest ever if not for Naroditsky's tragic death. As I lay in my hospital bed, morphine in my veins, I can't help but think of him.

Here's what happened: Girl Wonder Of Chess Bodhana Sivanandan, 10, Beats A World Champion. worldchess.com/news/bodhana...

it's worth noting that he's the most vocally pro-trans party leader in the UK as well

Do you believe in the Hot Hand Fallacy, or in the Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy? Anyway, I should stop playing so that if I die during my upcoming surgery, this will be my legacy.

Every egg too.

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups. The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Despite women making up 51% of the global population, only about 19% of biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women" That made me wonder how many trans people have a Wikipedia page: ~0.042%, an order of magnitude lower than in the overall population

I've played a few games with a talented 6-year-old girl in a chess bar in Lille. Her parents posted one of the games on Instagram, where people criticize the child for bad etiquette?! Guys, she's 6, we are having fun. WTF? www.instagram.com/reel/DPralKo...

New In Chess 2025#7 is out with a tournament report of the FIDE Grand Swiss, interviews with Giri and MVL, Timman on Caruana, and an article on @yoshaiglesias.bsky.social winning the French women's championship.

I wish just one French politician had one tenth of Zack's or Zohran's courage and eloquence regarding trans people.

Leftist politicians from all over the world should take Zohran as an example. Injustice to one is injustice to all, and, in 2025, fighting against injustice should start by protecting trans people. I feel so grateful and inspired by him even though I never went to New York. 🙏

Robert Badinter was a kind, wise, and inspiring man. He abolished the death penalty and decriminalized homosexuality. Thanks to him, Coccinelle, an openly trans star, was able to marry in 1962. Today, he enters the Panthéon. (And, sadly, his wife, still alive, is an anti-trans activist)

"An endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seem trapped in their own madness" or like we call it in France, a normal soirée.

Can we talk about the fact that France just set the world record for the shortest government term ever? Sébastien Lecornu announced his government yesterday evening and had to resign this morning.

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My opponent congratulated me after I swindled them. ^^ Do you see why they resigned after Rh1+?

Either I'm statistically lucky, or I'm playing way too much bullet chess.

I'm deeply hurt. She was one of the most inspirational people. Without her, the world has less empathy, kindness, and goodwill, all of which we really need right now.

Ca mitraille sec dans la première chronique de Laurène Marx sur @laradionova.bsky.social :

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I had a lengthy and pleasant interview with trans chess coach and movie director Summer Dylan transadvocate.substack.com/p/yosha-igle...

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

absolutely shocked and disgusted to see France join the club of nations who throw former presidents in jail just because they "committed a bunch of crimes." I'm going to throw up www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I wish everyone to enjoy the Schadenfreude of seeing a right-wing ex-president crook being jailed in their country. 😊

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Reminder that ~1.7% (1 person in 60) of the overall population is intersex, and most intersex people don't know that they are. If you test thousands of people, you'll find dozens of intersex people, who didn't know that they were, and might have no biological advantage over cis dyadic women.

Happy Bisexuality Day to those who celebrate, and especially to bi trans people who have endured gayphobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, and biphobia during their lifetime! 💙💜💖

Après mon titre de Championne de France, Frontières a été un des premiers medias à publier un article, allant déterrer de mes tweets pour montrer qu'en plus d'être trans, j'étais de gauche. S'ils avaient appris que j'étais en outre végétarienne et cycliste ils auraient fait une syncope.

Amazing book review from 2011, spot on Reddit 👌

[MEURTRE/VIOLENCE] L'armée russe a torturé, violé et massacré des LGBT+ dans les territoires ukrainiens occupés et colonisés par la Russie. Certain.e.s ont réussi à fuir.