Frank Jakobsen

@EndgameaiChess "...choosing only a few classical tournaments where he has enough time to prepare properly and where the field is usually very strong..." Haha, yeah I bet he prepared really hard for his last tournament 🤡

How 🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen Protected His Rating From Deflation Rating deflation has become one of the biggest talking points in chess. It does not mean top players are weaker. It means maintaining a high rating has become harder because players are now deeper, better prepared, and much harder to beat. Magnus Carlsen has largely avoided this pressure by stepping away from the full classical grind. Since leaving the World Championship cycle, he no longer has to play constant classical events, qualifiers, or risky opens where rating damage can be severe. His classical activity has dropped sharply: only 18 classical games in 2024, around 14 in 2025, and just 7 so far in 2026, all at TePe Sigeman. Carlsen has become far more selective, choosing only a few classical tournaments where he has enough time to prepare properly and where the field is usually very strong. That makes the rating risk much lower. And now the question is: if Magnus were still playing the same high-volume classical schedule as others, would he be able to maintain such a high rating?

@TakeTakeTakeApp Sure

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@sigveedvardsen En av de bedre draktene spør do meg.

De som sto bak den Norge-drakten som er i bruk nå må langt unna den jobben som skal gjøres med å lage VM 2026-drakten.

@HansMokeNiemann You should be, start to behave, I doubt it will happen unfortunately

I am extremely grateful to Tata Steel and Jeroen Van Den Berg for the invitation. This will be my FIRST invitational super tournament in over 3 years and an opportunity I will certainly not waste!

@GregShahade I did not really know you (except from the match against @LawrenceTrentIM, I loved it, the banter especially) but this was beautiful, all respect

So sad to hear about the death of Daniel Naroditsky. I wanted to share some thoughts on his legacy and all the joy he brought to chess players around the world.

@toroledan @mikkelickski @elonmusk Stjele? Hva snakker du om? Dette ble gjort av twitter selv når han var sjef. Ble ikke populært før Elon tok over

På Blueskye er det, tro det eller ei, en haug med nordmenn som tror at Greta Thunberg kan få fredsprisen. Det blir nok en del surmuling senere i dag🦊

@synnsoe @jasnoen @NRKno Mener "naturlig nok" ble sagt da de viste bilder av 10-15 mennesker i håndjern. Så naturlig nok flyttet de seg ikke og måtte ta konsekvensen.

Dagsrevyens reporter, Zhilwan Manbari, utenfor Ullevål nå: "Politiet har gitt demonstrantene forelegg (pålegg) om å fjerne seg fra området, NOE DE NATURLIG NOK IKKE HAR GJORT ...". Nei, det skulle vel ta seg ut at DE SNILLE skulle følge et pålegg fra politiet.

@VBkramnik @HansMokeNiemann What is there to speak out about? Is he not allowed to play the tournaments of his choice?

@HansMokeNiemann Still waiting for that magical times when someone else than Hans and myself will tell publicly, at least once, what they really think and dont hesitate to speak out in private about this gentleman 😁

The US Championship is about to begin, so naturally Hikaru goes to farm a Canadian weekend tournament. 10 grandmasters are on standby. Good luck.

@Robert10722841 @trondbie Nå var det vel ikke så lenge siden en demokratisk kongress representant ble myrdet av en kristen konservativ abort motstander og Trump elsker

@trondbie Eneste hatet og volden jeg ser kommer fra venstresiden. Prove me wrong.

Jeg så det klippet av Charlie Kirk. Jeg anbefaler INGEN å gjøre det samme. Han er trolig død.

@TroeffelNils @possesandboe @nff_info Jeg er heller ikke veldig begeistret for paparazzi fotografer, men det spiller ingen rolle her. De var i sin fulle rett på offentlig grunn, og arrogansen og maktmisbruk til Ellefsen er mye mye verre.

Alt er som det pleier i @nff_info

@Smoothedan Du er sinna på sykkelister som sykler lovlig i veibanen. Men når Ellefsen hindrer trafikk ulovlig er det helt greit. Rart med det.

Lage sak på at Ellefsen slakket ned trafikken for å riste av paparazzier... Sommerens tynneste sak. 🤦‍♂️

@graham_waldwyn @FIDE_chess Let's see, but I am not too optimistic after last year comments that he was done with fide. Even if he played the rapid.

@FIDE_chess Trouble is Magnus won’t play so it will be a second-rate tournament.

♟ The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced a series of format enhancements and one million euros prize fund for the 2025 World Rapid and Blitz Championships in Doha, Qatar. 🤩 For the 2025 edition, the prize fund has been set at one million euros (approx. 1.125 million USD), maintaining the high financial standard of recent editions and reaffirming FIDE’s commitment to top level competition. 🌟 In a significant structural shift, for 2025 FIDE is introducing a more streamlined knockout stage in the Blitz events in the Open and the Women’s sections. Only the top four players from the Swiss stage of the tournament will advance directly to the knockout semifinals (previously, eight players in both competitions qualified for the knockout). 🔗 Read more: fide.com/changes-to-the… #Chess #RapidBlitz

@nkobur @GMJacobAagaard It said something like "jeans are in general not allowed". Why did they put "in general" there at all.

@GMJacobAagaard Was the dress code part of the rules? If so, why shouldn’t he follow the rules like everyone else? I am also curious to know which sport would allow you to play while contravening their dressing code? Football usually even checks the studs on the player’s boots.

Magnus Carlsen decided not to spend 10 minutes to change out of trousers that were deemed against the dress code, which would not have been a major inconvenience for him in practical terms. On principle. It says in the rules you should not wear jeans. Other players were asked to up their dress code and did it. Out of 4 hours remaining of the playing session, he was given a grace period of 3 hours. I and many others did not think he looked bad and thought FIDE should not have stood their ground on this, as it is a bad story for FIDE to have while trying to advertise themselves in the heart of American business. A lot of energy was spent by FIDE to persuade Carlsen to play the blitz tournament. It also seems his father managed him a bit, by delaying the booking of tickets out of New York till the next day. Carlsen spent half an hour talking about this yesterday on Take Take Take. He explained how all of the people organising the tournament (including Vishy Anand) were "not adults", for insisting that the rules be followed (recognising that some may think his behaviour was also not adult). How the arbiter was unqualified for insisting that the rules were followed. How the arbiter was a robot for insisting that the rules were followed. Finally, he declared that he will play in jeans today, which is the rule violation that got him unpaired in the first place. FIDE will have learned their lesson and will not uphold the dress code at all. He also gave a strong explanation for his affection for Freestyle Chess, which he said he thought was a better game at top level, because of the lack of preparation, while recognising that this did not extend beyond. He said that the Freestyle Tour, which has one qualification spot only, will include all the best players in the World, without giving a definition of who that may be, and which I believed meant drawn from classical rating, and thus not necessarily experts in Freestyle Chess, who may otherwise have thought that their time has come. (I am specifically thinking of Sam Sevian, who won 9XL in 2023 in St Louis, who was not invited to the event Carlsen co-organised in February 2024.) More qualification spots may be offered for later tours. There was no sign that Carlsen wanted to keep anyone out; rather it seemed he wanted to ensure that the first tour ran smoothly. The dress code for the Freestyle Tour is more draconian than for this event, which Carlsen described as a 200-player open, thus indirectly giving an explanation.

@gressli fantastisk opptreden. Når du i tilegg kan reglene, tommel opp 👍 var glad i Atle også🙂 #nrksjakk

@EmilSutovsky You fucked up and I like it 😀

A: FIDE did not ban Magnus from the tournament. He was not paired in round 9. He can continue tomorrow. B: We gave Magnus more than enough time to change. But as he had stated himself in his interview - it became a matter of principle for him. C: Rules are applicable to all the participants, and it would be unfair towards all players who respected the dress-code, and those who were previously fined. D: The dress-code was known way before, and it was suggested by Athletes Commission, consisting of grandmasters. Said that, I am sorry for the situation that occured - FIDE was very welcoming to Magnus and his family, and we never wanted it to explode. However I fully back a decision of the Chief Arbiter Alex Holowczak.

@camicravestea @TarjeiJS Absolutely, why don't people listen to what he says. It was the same when he said he would not attend the championship, no one believed him, but it was what he was saying all along.

@TarjeiJS You think had Magnus been leading the tournament he still would’ve withdrew?

"FIDE remains committed to promoting chess and its values, including respect for the rules that all participants agree to follow."

@turnabouttess @sjakksnakk In the rulebook it says: "jeans are not normally considered acceptable"

@sjakksnakk a dress code is a dress code. if they let magnus wear them anyway without a fine, it means they're making special exceptions for him. how is that fair? whether or not you like the dress code, rules should be applied fairly to everyone.

Did the principles of FIDE have to go this far to exclude because of JEANS? and 200$ fine on top of that

Utrolig mer seerverdig med bare Hammer og Maud i studio, tusen takk. #2sjakk