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@EndgameaiChess @GMHikaru Please hurry up & retire from classical chess, you are bad news for the sport.

🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura after his loss to 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov: “I can’t be mad at myself for this one.” Nakamura said the mistake came down to preparation: “This is 100% on the people who are working for me… my file didn’t have the move castles.” He added that castling was “such a human move” that when Sindarov played it, his reaction was: “What is this?” According to Hikaru, it felt almost impossible to work it out over the board without already knowing the idea.

@HansMokeNiemann @netflix You’re both arrogant gobshites, Magnus just happens to be a bit worse.

April 7… @netflix

@XFreeze @grok who is the most likely to win the chess candidates tournament 2026 and who is most likely to subsequently win the chess world championships following the candidates?

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@davidllada @GMJuditPolgar Tuis is the best summary I’ve read about the documentary. I thought the same about Kasparov. Also, I did not know about Fischer spending time with the Polgar family, and the timing of it seems so pivotal to the whole story!

I’d give the Judit Polgár documentary a solid 8/10, even though, as a hardcore fan, it’s hard not to call it a ten. I am very fond of @GMJuditPolgar, and I’m genuinely happy that she received such a beautiful tribute, one that lives up to what her career and story deserve. Sometimes, the richer the character and the story, the harder it is to condense everything into a biopic that feels coherent, enjoyable to watch, and neatly wrapped up. In that sense, the director, Rory Kennedy, did a very good job. To keep the narrative moving and build toward a climactic moment, the filmmakers chose to frame @Kasparov63 as Judit’s antagonist. That choice is understandable, but there is perhaps a bit too much of him, and of their rivalry, in the story. Toning it down slightly would not have hurt the overall effect. They really dug deep into the archives. The casual exchange between Kasparov and @SusanPolgar at the opening ceremony of the Thessaloniki Olympiad was a treat, as were many photographs I had never seen before. The clips from Linares, in particular, filled me with nostalgia. Kudos as well to Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, @Anna_Chess Rudolf, and @MauriceAshley. Three excellent choices. Each of them is outstanding in their own right, but together I found they complemented each other very nicely, with their different tone of voice and approach. I also have nothing but praise for the music department. Meghan Currier and Randall Poster as music supervisors, along with Antonio Medellín-Fajardo as orchestrator, put together a rousing girl-power soundtrack with a hint of punk that really adds dynamism to the documentary. All that said, there are a few omissions that made the story feel somewhat incomplete. For instance, the fact that Judit was World Champion in the U14 category — in the “boys” section — probably deserved at least a mention. It also feels odd that there is no reference at all to the time Bobby Fischer spent with the Polgár family summer of 1993, by which point Judit had already “dethroned” him as the greatest chess prodigy ever. Given that Bobby is quoted quite a few times along the documentary, I found this strange. Another fascinating side story is how the three sisters developed their careers in parallel. While Judit consistently avoided women’s competitions, Susan held a different view and was happy to compete for and win women’s titles. Both have articulated strong and valid arguments for their positions. To me, this always felt like a subconscious but very pragmatic choice, one that helped prevent rivalry, jealousy, or tension from building up between them. It was a topic that probably deserved some more screen time: If I said before that Kasparov received too much of it, maybe Susan received a bit too little. All in all, I just wish this documentary had been a three-episode miniseries. I could easily have watched three more hours of it, and if you read all the way here, that probably means you would have too 🙂

@curiosityonx @grok is this real?

This is Mars! 🪐🤯 It’s honestly terrifying how much this looks like a random desert on Earth. Just a casual 225 million miles away. The clarity is unreal.

@BasilTheGreat @grok is this true

🚨 10 DEAD, AT LEAST 19 INJURED AFTER CAR RAM ATTACK ON CHRISTMAS MARKET The incident took place last night in Guadeloupe, France The suspect has not been confirmed by authorities but was detained at the scene We all know who does this

@CilComLFC @grok is this true?

🇮🇪 Today in Ireland, Christian schoolteacher Enoch Burke was sentenced to LIFE in prison for “refusing to use a transgender student’s pronouns” back in 2022. He will now spend THE REST OF HIS LIFE behind bars unless a last-ditch legal challenge works. This is absolutely INSANE.

@NiohBerg @elonmusk @joerogan

British man is set to be interrogated by police for pouring TWO GLASSES OF COKE at a Nando's. Apparently drinking too much sugar is a serious offence, in a country where grooming gangs and child rapists face near zero consequences. Doom Island.

@TRobinsonNewEra @grok is this true?

A Catholic nun stabbed in Croatia’s capital by a migrant shouting “Allahu akbar” during the attack. Sister Marija Tatjana Zrno, a religion teacher at a Zagreb primary school and known for her pastoral work with young people. Legacy media turn a blind eye for the sake of DIEversity.

@claudeai Usage limited prevent me from favouring this over others, even though I prefer this based on capabilities.

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@AntiWokeMemes Earth’s final boss.

@BladeoftheS Well done Michael 🙌

Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.

@durarbayli What is their political stance?

I know praising Lichess is as popular as ever. On chess Reddit, someone shows up every second Saturday to say Lichess is the best thing that ever happened to chess. I’ve actually contributed to Lichess myself as a streamer and blogger. I stopped because of their political stance – that’s a different story. I’m not pretending Lichess hasn’t done a lot of good. In fact, my own project, ChessEver, wouldn’t have progressed so fast without Lichess existing. Still, if you put the benefits aside for a moment, there’s something fundamentally wrong with the Lichess model: it destroys the chess market. Providing so many features for free makes it very hard for any chess business to charge for its services. If businesses can’t charge, they can’t pay professionals properly. If professionals can’t earn enough, they’re pushed to play in badly conditioned events. Conditions don’t improve for professionals, and that eventually hurts casual fans, too. That’s the vicious cycle. Nothing is truly free. Someone always pays — with money, time, or the opportunities that never get built because it stopped making economic sense to try.

@OpenAI It’s genuinely terrible. The worst model I’ve used so far! Gets SO many basic tasks and queries wrong, constantly.

GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT is rolling out to all users this week. It’s smarter, more reliable, and a lot more conversational. openai.com/index/gpt-5-1

@sama Sam, all of my projects have disappeared! These were curated over time with multiple conversation threads, containing multiple files and descriptions that helped me to complete projects. Seems to have disappeared overnight. Please can you help?

Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!

@DefiantLs Michio kaku

Name a famous Japanese person without searching on Google or asking Grok.

@julesgambit Pircy

Life pro tip: if you want to know what kind of person someone is ask what’s their favorite chess opening

@sama With respect, it genuinely seems worse than the previous version, at least for logic & reasoning in context of Microsoft Excel tasks & strategy based decision making.

GPT-5.1 is out! It's a nice upgrade. I particularly like the improvements in instruction following, and the adaptive thinking. The intelligence and style improvements are good too.

@DanielPriestley 2008.

If 50 year mortgages are introduced, you’d be wise to buy property with one. They will cause such inflation on property values that you’ll need to buy property as a hedge. The real play is not to worry about the payments or the loan or the insane amounts of interest. It is to assume that the government will recklessly inflate the value of houses and the debt will melt into irrelevance over time. It’s not a risky bet, you’re simply trusting the government to do the exact wrong things.

@libsoftiktok @CocaCola @grok is this true?

This was from Coke’s diversity training. They instructed employees to “be less white” Seems @CocaCola still has a major anti-white racism problem.