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Last month in chess: Prague Challengers This month in chess: Pragg Challengers

Another reason why the World Cup is the best tournament in the cycle

Looking forward to get acquainted with Munich over the next two weeks. Might even make a return to OTB chess 👀

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Really happy to see Anish Giri back in the Candidates for the first time in five years!

Gukesh does not look like a convincing World Champion lately

In order to serve Trump, being unqualified is the qualification. lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-sur...

We are choosing ignorance and poverty www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Promotion to the prem is the best birthday gift I could get today

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

this is fabulous @davidvizgan.bsky.social have you seen this?

RIP Boris Spassky, one of my favorite chess players of all time

What a crazy day of blitz Congrats to Nepo, really happy to see this new chapter in his story develop

The Lichess database of games, puzzles, and engine evaluations is now on @hf.co - https://huggingface.co/Lichess. Billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream and we're excited to see what you'll build with it! ♟️ 🤗

The problem is that traditional search engines have been totally and utterly destroyed to the point where I don’t know if they can outperform ChatGPT (despite the occasional hallucinations)

I took a course in college that spent half a semester on Ulysses, and half a semester on HBO’s The Wire. No supplementary materials were provided. To this day it’s one of the coolest classes I’ve ever taken slate.com/culture/2024...

Ding Liren: "I started to prepare for this tournament 3 weeks ago, I guess"

In 2018 I was literally skipping my history classes in college to watch the chess24 broadcast of Carlsen-Caruana. It was the only place to get real commentary blended with banter and dry humor. It made me fall in love with chess. Needless to say that the chess world was more spoiled than it knew

The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos