What is the secret to improving at chess? Quite a lot of effort actually... In particular, you should play a lot of games, read and study chess books, and solve a lot of puzzles. #chess #chesspunks

November was a good month for gaming. In addition to a lot of chess, I got a chance to play Antiquity for the first time. I really like these old style, heavy, highly thematic board games. #boardgames #bgstats

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Fred Reinfeld, first published in 1955. An essential training manual for several generations of chess players, until online puzzles became widely available in the early 2000s. #chesshistory

Puzzle of the day #chess #lichess

American Chess Magazine issue #47 is now available at ACMchess.com

White to play #chess #tacticstuesday

I just started reading the first book of a new epic fantasy series, Malice by John Gwynne. Slightly reminiscent of Game of Thrones, with its multiple points of view, but not derivative. Really good so far! 🪐📚

I got a chance to play Oceans this month. Very nice. Probably the best game in the Evolution series. #boardgames #bgstats

Finally made it to the Bronze Age on puzzles at chess.com

The latest issue of American Chess Magazine is now available at ACMchess.com

August was a good month for board gaming. We got a chance to try the new game, Nature and played several old favorites as well #boardgames #bgstats

Languishing in the stone tier while all my friends zoom past me @chess.com #chesspuzzles

The new app doesn’t look that different at first glance, but it’s a big improvement over the old one. I especially like all the new options for fine tuning your puzzle training. #chess #chesspuzzles

Just for fun, here's the first game I ever played on lichess, from 2017 #chess #lichess #chessgame

Video of GM Patrick Wolff doing De Groot's chess memory task in 1998. He makes almost no mistakes for a typical chess position, but has poor memory for a position in which the pieces were randomly placed. It's a nice demonstration of the power and limitations of expertise. #chess #psychology

This month I played chess, Wingspan, and some oldies, including Condottiere and Saint Petersburg. #boardgames #bgstats

I’ve been doing a lot of chess puzzles lately and managed to get my rating to 3000.

American Chess Magazine, Issue #45 is now available at ACMchess.com. Read about the greatest queen sacrifices of all time, and also my column, “Risk and Beauty” about the psychology of sacrifice in chess.

NEW VIDEO out now on Nebula!! A deep dive into chess's paranoia epidemic: the scandal that broke the internet, former champions gone full conspiracy theorist, and why the entire structure of modern chess basically guarantees this will keep happening. Also: yogurt drama nebula.tv/videos/sarah...

19-Year-Old Brooklyn Teen Makes History as Youngest Black Female Chess Master

Light month for gaming, except for chess #boardgames #bgstats

You can learn chess on Duolingo now. It looks really useful for beginners and intermediate players #chess #duolingo

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

More ChatGPT weirdness #chess #ai

Last month we tried the Viking themed Karvi. This month’s new game was Rats of Wistar, a completely different rondel game of gathering resources, converting them into other resources, and placing workers on a central board while developing your personal board. Wait a minute… 💙🎲

The coming AI apocalypse. I feel like we are in a Vernor Vinge novel.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

American Chess Magazine, Issue #44, now available at ACMchess.com. Read about the greatest positional players of all time, and also my column on the pain of losing in chess. #chess

Fundraiser for legendary GM and former US Champion, Alex Yermolinsky. #chess #uschess

I played fewer games last month. Still mostly chess but I am starting to appreciate Karvi. It always takes me a while to get the hang of these euros where you have to efficiently optimize every move. #boardgames #chess 💙🎲

#boardgames #uspol #tariffs

Here is my fantasy SNL lineup: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Kate McKinnon, Eddie Murphy, Gilda Radner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, and Jane Curtin. #snl @iankarmel.bsky.social

Well, there goes my streak #nyt #connections #puzzles

Board game plays for March 2025. We tried Karvi, a Viking themed Euro where you gather resources, get upgrades, and optimize victory points. The game is light on pillaging and heavy on waiting for supplies so you can move your ship again… #boardgames 💙🎲

William James… psychologist, philosopher, and all around cool dude

Favorite moments from Trump's speech: - he is the best president and George Washington is #2 - scientists' plot to create transgender mice - the price of eggs is Biden's fault - Canada is to blame for fentanyl pouring into US - US will take over Greenland, Panama Canal, and the planet Mars #uspol

I played some new stuff last month, but still mostly chess. #boardgames 💙🎲

Check out the latest issue of American Chess Magazine at ACMchess.com, featuring coverage of World Champion Gukesh, the jeans incident with Magnus Carlsen, and my article on complexity in chess. #chess

I now have three games with a fox on the cover. How many do you have? #meaninglesscategories #boardgames 💙🎲

Played three times tonight. It’s good, like Azul with some extra drafting options in terms of how you want to set up your board. Is it worth getting if you’ve already got the original? No, probably not, IMHO. #boardgames

bosses #uspol

#Boardgames and #neuroscience Long-term training in playing Go: “…appears to cause structural brain changes associated with many of the cognitive aspects necessary for game play.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Everyone should watch this academy award nominated short film #filmsky

In case you need a good laugh this weekend!

Godkiller was a fun, light fantasy story with a strong female protagonist and an interesting world. I’m starting the second book in the series this evening 🪐📚

I ordered "The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game" today. How could I not? The art is beautiful, I love trick-taking games, and I've been a fan of LOTR since forever. OK, it's a cooperative game, but 3 out of 4 ain't bad... #boardgames #lordoftherings

chess is a beautiful game of skill, tactics, memory, and breaking that thing next to your laptop every time you blunder a piece in the opening