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Big fan of Josh as a player, and now a big fan of his writing too.

@reezyeztilt Well, counterpoint is the women's event doesn't need a bingo card to be fun to follow!

@chessfeels unfortunately I wasn’t tapped in and didn’t make this card with the women candidates also in mind, if so I would have had more women player specific things. sad I didn’t cause so far the women’s candidates have been more exciting than the open 💀

nvm… #FIDECandidates

@JenShahade When I get frozen out in a Benoni I could play ... b7-b6-c6! and have a good Benko with extra pressure on the d5-pawn.

Chess, but the pawns move sideways: What openings would be even better, and which would be totally unplayable?

INSANE, the difference in points between the 1st and the 7th place in Women's Candidates is 1.5, the difference in points between the 1st and the 2nd place in Open Candidates is 2 !!😳💥

@JBJMMAgoat Anything could happen! That's what "other" is for

@chessfeels feel like its one of those where Gukesh looked terrible bzt still wins Ding was doing well after damn near not playing for a year WC is unlike any other match everyone is as well prepared ad they can get it really comes down to pure mental and playing strengh

What do we think?

Me whenever I lose a game of chess online

@Carsobi And it’s weird you live behind a computer, dweeb!

@rlasevitz Nah I'll still take sindarov

@chessfeels With other being a nuclear war ending the world, it might be 50/50 at this point

@ZeroSuitCamus This new u2 album rips

Did this just appear for anyone else on their Roku homepage?

@FixerSicilian @sunrise_pony I didn't want to exclude the possibility that he doesn't defend his title

@chessfeels @sunrise_pony You could make the second option "Gukesh loses to Sindarov".

@sunrise_pony They wouldn't let me run a poll with only one option

@chessfeels perfect

@chesscom Nice 😃

@PaulMSherman @ruariemorrison Still not mate in two!

@chessfeels @ruariemorrison Whichever way makes dxc5 e.p. work.

Technically this puzzle could have two solutions.

@ruariemorrison @PaulMSherman Which way are the pawns going

@chessfeels @PaulMSherman Technically it’s just white to play, you don’t even have to win if you don’t want to

@ruariemorrison @PaulMSherman Oh yeah I mean if it's not to play and mate in two then my question is why only two solutions

@chessfeels @PaulMSherman Qe5+ and Qxd6 both also win, no? Just slightly slower

@thecoalbaker Not a lot of good options! The one time I got this position in a tournament, I played 10. h4 instead of 10. Bd3. But I've since looked at 7 Rc1 Ne4 8 Nd2!? which is a thematic pawn sac. But if I wanted to play solid, just 9 Be5 instead of Bg3. Point is ... h5 is worse if ... f6

@chessfeels what move would you have deviated with white if you didn't want to play this? this looks so scary to me but all of white's individual moves leading up to it looked normal

I didn't think this was that crazy and then I counted material