CICL Championship Tournament Chicago Industrial Chess League

This why I just “call someone”

Happy Easter! Very sad that black jelly beans are not in the regular bags of brach’s. I counted on getting all the black ones from my kids Easter baskets. I Realize you can now buy a whole bag of them on their own, but it was always fun having the kids say eww gross. Give em to daddy!)

#chesspunks #chess I'm trying to teach myself how to effectively analyze my OTB games. So many different thoughts and opinions out there. None of them seem sustainable. GM Noel Studer's 3x3 method seems like a VERY focused, sustainable place to start. any thoughts or opinions on this method?

A group of hundreds, many of them nurses still wearing badges after walking from their nearby hospitals, performed a Nightingale Tribute — a traditional send off for nurses — for Alex Pretti, who was killed Saturday by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis.

Elite Chess is excited to host a night of chess fun to support the Churchill Chess Club! The event is open to any and all Churchill students and will consist of a mini-chess tournament, group lessons, and a raffle. ​ www.elitechess.net/churchill Churchill Elementary Glen Ellyn, IL

I am a slow reader but love to read. I’ve started digging into YA novels (and reading them along with my son). Double duty in keeping me reading and sharing that bond with my kids! No shame. Read what you enjoy! Full stop.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

#lichess #chesspunks #horsey

Not mine. Just reposting #horseycreations www.thingiverse.com/thing:5152954

It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.

Repost this if you want Chuck Schumer to step down as Senate Minority Leader.

Imagine if the billions spent on ICE raids and gestapo-style enforcement went instead to hiring immigration judges, lawyers, and admin staff—to actually fix and fast-track LEGAL immigration. #ImmigrationReform #AbolishICE #DemocracyNotFascism

Wdcb.org 90.9FM is a killer jazz radio station in Chicago land. (Currently feeling the funding cuts of the government. So any support goes a long way!!)

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

Our Indivisible DuPage NO KINGS event.

This is absolute lunacy. CISA employees are being reassigned to agencies like ICE and CBP to support deportation efforts. This is clearly designed to force resignations, weaken our election infrastructure, and help the administration corrupt future elections. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There's a pizza joint called Pie Life just outside of Chicago. 2 locations in Carol Stream and Glen Ellyn. They are out there every day showing support for the community they love. Stop by and show them some support.

The Detroit Tigers are officially in the MLB playoffs after beating the Boston Red Sox 2-1 today at Fenway Park. Read more on . #tigers #detroittigers #mlb

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Great stuff here. I love the simplicity of Markdown and not having to worry about me screwing up the formatting in Word. Or Word doing that for me.

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

Playing chess on Broadway, NY. This was the scene in August 1986 at the corner of Broadway and West 49th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Yvon Maurice. #chess #NY #oldtimes

#chess #chesspunks Now if I could only get my actual ratings above 1000 lol

My 10yo son got a new pet betta fish today. His name is fern.

Enter the Cleve Carney Museum of Art this summer and you might imagine yourself in the Japanese city of Edo before it was renamed Tokyo in 1868. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

"Learn everything you can about what you love, and no one can take that from you," says one reader's dad. Here are 7 other pieces of fatherly advice.

Leadership is the art of telling someone else how to win.

www.chess.com/article/view... I’m really trying to focus on NOT hanging pieces. Everyone says, by focusing solely on that, you can “easily get up to 1400”

Very sad news...GetPocket is shutting down. I have a long list of bookmarks and saved articles. Does anyone have a good pocket alternative? First and foremost, need a good one-click way to save articles and second, a good iPad/iPhone reading experience. getpocket.com/farewell

I am following the #stepsmethod and still powering through step 1 (plus, extra, and mix workbooks) I get the concepts. But I still find myself hanging pieces and not calculating/counting well. This article validates my need to keep practicing the basics before moving on #chess #chesspunks

dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories... #chess

Looks like #lichess lichess.org is down. #chess #chesspunks

Took my 9yo son to see the #minecraft movie. It was ridiculously fun. Not sure if the rest of people in the theater had seen it before but it was like #rockyhorrorpictureshow. Everyone was singing all the songs and yelling out the dialogue. It was really fun.

I picked up a #newspaper yesterday. And actually read it. News, sports, business, comics, etc. it was so refreshing to not be bombarded with popup ads and endless scrolling. I especially loved reading the box scores and sports standings. I feel so connected without drowning in doom.

This headline is so humorous. It’s almost as if they are meeting this guy for the first time.

Playing in my first lichess lonewolf game today. 😁 Enjoying playing organized longer time controls #chess #chesspunks

Does anyone have any thoughts on #chessdotcom new life review feature? Does it seem like it’s trying to be TOO social? #chess #chesspunks

Visibility is resistance. On #TransgenderDayofVisibility (#TDOV), we uplift and celebrate trans and non-binary people while continuing the fight against discrimination. As Danica Roem said, “You have a right to bring your ideas to the table.” Happy #TDOV! 🏳️‍⚧️ #TheMarchContinues

I don’t drink much whisky these days, but thought about trying something interesting from our friends up north. #bourbon #scotch #whiskey #whisky #canada

#fcc #openandaffirming

Does anyone speak or read Russian or Ukrainian? In a chat on chess.com, my opponent said this(after we both said good game in english) Can anyone translate?

Regarding chess databases, an older, more experienced member of the club I’m in strongly suggested using a local database to store and analyze my games with. “The cataloging features far outweigh anything online”. The program he was using looks like it was built for windows 98. /1

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