NoVa Chess Guy (aka Sholom) #🟦
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NoVa Chess Guy (aka Sholom) #🟦
@nova_chess_guy
Adult Improver. Older guy. Fmr Ultimate Friz Wrld Chmp and HoF, now trying my hand at #chess. So far I've learned that chess is hard #chesspunks
Northern Virginia (DC 'burbs) Beigetreten Mart 2022
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holy fuck! the boundaries some people will cross because you say heated rivalry is bad, LMAO!
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Is picking Eleanor Roosevelt cheating?
She was right on every issue except prohibition, but watching her father die from alcoholism gives her a pass. Who belongs on your Mount Rushmore of 1900s non-presidents?
The new episode drops tomorrow on X.
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@Pentti293961 @turnabouttess Brilliant analysis!
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@turnabouttess You have rainbow in your username so your opinion is irrelevant.
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@chess_feed Because legends know it is from Capablanca’s game 😃!
It leads to Kh8 Qxe5 Qxe5 (else black would be a piece down) Nxf7+ forking the queen Rxf7 Rd8+ with checkmate to follow.
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@furiousduck2 @chess_feed I didn’t know it
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@atwell_rose @CLTchesscenter Way to go, Rose! 🌹
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The @CLTchesscenter says that I reached 2400 FIDE in my live rating. I have 4 IM norms, so this means I'm now an IM-elect. Thanks to them for consistently organizing these events, and thank you to my family, friends, coach, and everyone who has supported me along the way. ♟️😃
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I played an FM in round 3 of my norm tournament. And I won! I messed up the opening though, and we reached a queenless middlegame where I was worse. Below he took Rxb7. This is a mistake after Rd2+ Bxd2 Rxd2+ Kg3 Rxa2 when I should be better with 2 minor pieces for the rook.
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@BizzyWitdaIzzyy @ReallyAmerican1 @mmpadellan It is owned by the United States.
That is it.
They can’t vote in American elections and they are not citizens.
You are a follower of fools
Enjoy being stupid .
It fits the leftist like You!
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@supressedvoic @Daractenus When will American media wake up?
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He's been rambling incoherently for 50 minutes straight. Right now he's talking about mental institutions and how his mom once told him he could be a great baseball player. He's completely gone.
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@danheisman Can you give us an example of a knight game that you are referring to?
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J19 The easiest endgame to win (=hardest to draw) when ahead a pawn is K&P vs K. Second is knight endgames. The easiest by far to draw down a pawn is bishops of opposite color. Second easiest is single rook endgames. Good stuff to know. #ChessTip #chesspunks #chessdojo
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@fharris2011 @anneapplebaum @tryingattimes Oh, there’s another point: nobody in the US has been talking about Epstein over the last couple of weeks
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@anneapplebaum @tryingattimes This is the point - deliberately or otherwise the US confects a crisis on Greenland just as Putin seeks to freeze Ukraine into submission
Oh and as his acolytes slow the supply of air defence missiles
One coincidence after another
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Meanwhile, Trump has forced NATO to argue about Greenland
Maria Avdeeva@maria_avdv
After tonight attack 5,635 apartment buildings are again without heating in Kyiv. That’s almost half of a city of 3 million. The left bank is also without water. Russia is using cold as a weapon against civilians and the world is watching.
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@gmmds 2/4? Hmm, if I had flipped a coin… 😉
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So Copilot fit 2 right (2/4) as did Gemini 2/3) A better round for AI!
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So Copilot is going for Nodirbek, Hans, Anish, Gukesh and Jorden to win in the first round 🙏🙏 Gemini says Hans, Gukesh, Jorden 🤔 We should maybe have an AI prediction pool 😊
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@Tytanisx @EpicClipVault Men make the rules regarding clothing?
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@EpicClipVault can someone explain why the girls wear what appears to be by size, little more than underwear; while the guys wear full size shorts?
not difficult to figure out really.
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@askavrukh This table supports your post. (Which explains Yugoslav -- c5 -- , but not the Panno part <g>)
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@nova_chess_guy To be honest I am not very good in all the titles. I would think similar to your opinion, but maybe it’s just c7-c5 which defines Yugoslav variation. I am more old-school , I love ECO better😎
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chess-com says that this is a KID, Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Panno. But doesn't that opening have a knight going thru c6, rather than b6. Could you clarify? @askavrukh
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@JohnLeFevre Troll. Nobody thinks men and women are the same, particularly physically. Sheesh.
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A big L for the "men and women are the same" crowd.
The Battle of the Sexes 2025
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka
VS.
World No. 671 Nick Kyrgios (injured)
They even gave her a smaller court.
Kyrgios wins in straight sets.
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@BengalYouTube "Philip Rivers just committed assault with a deadly weapon. Lifetime ban incoming." 😂
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Also: if the knight were on a5, almost everybody responds with Nd2. In this position, with knight on b6, responses are either Nd2 or Qd3. Why the difference? (cc @askavrukh )
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@EugenePerel Everywhere everything all at once? 😉
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I created an “Adult Improver’s Atlas” to visualize exactly where chess players get stuck.
Most of you are trapped in the "Quick Fix Swamp" (memorizing traps).
Or camping on the "Plateau of Pain"(where 90% of adults quit).
Where are you on the map right now? 👇
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Re-upping this one, noting I think I found a regulation set, but with a lot of color options.
Thoughts?
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NoVa Chess Guy (aka Sholom) #🟦@nova_chess_guy
My 6 yo g-daughter really wants a chess set as a gift (she knows how all the pieces move, and enjoyed (attempting) to play at a local library event. Any recommendations? (Should I get triple-weighted so the pieces don't keep falling over? Or is that over-kill?)
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My 6 yo g-daughter really wants a chess set as a gift (she knows how all the pieces move, and enjoyed (attempting) to play at a local library event. Any recommendations? (Should I get triple-weighted so the pieces don't keep falling over? Or is that over-kill?)
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