Gopal Menon

When you have the enemy king in your sights after you learn proper attacking technique from Daddi and @ChessFeels bit.ly/JJGopalCamp

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@SteffenNielsen8 Call me crazy but I can’t help but feel reminded of Malakho-Zvjaginsev 2004(?)

The key moment in my study for the Problemist 2025. White is winning here, despite Black's strong threat, but it takes some outrageous logic to prove it.

Life imitates art

For the Shakki 100 Tournament, I won 4th hm for this sequence of anti-positional chess. White to move and win.

I managed to correct my study inspired by Larsen - Spassky, Belgrade 1970. Now there are three thematic Spassky-sacrifices on h1, motivated by the need to vacate a8!

A cute little skirmish

@EmilSutovsky sir this is a @Wendys

When one sees public rhetoric coming from Freestyle Chess leaders, it becomes clear, that the project is bound to fail. " F U ", "They are so stupid", "Horse sh.t" etc. And why all that? Because you want your private project to be called World Championship? Instead of finding a way to cooperate - as we do with several major organizers, to align the Calendar as we proposed for the benefit of players and fans. So, to hype the things up you start a campaign belittling classical/regular chess, orchestrating media publications, and spicen it up with personal attacks? That is not how you win hearts or money. And money is by far the main objective for this commercial project. This is also not the way to appeal to chess community: you may hire lawyers and try to convince some players to violate their obligations. But it won't work at large - especially when you have nothing sustainable to offer. And chess players know that FIDE delivers and will keep delivering. And you completely neglect entire chess society, focusing on few people interest - and for that sake go to war, demanding your project to be called World Championship? All the above (and there is much more) are signs of the attitude that will lead to a failure. FIDE is known for its readiness to be mindful, flexible, and to go extra miles towards partners, and especially players - and that was mistaken for weakness. "I am bigger than FIDE" concept did not work even for Fischer and Kasparov - who tried it being reigning World Champions, while having a real dominance over their rivals at the time. Of course, initially the public may back a superstar vs the governing body. And you may lure in a couple of naive investors. But that is unsustainable - and we saw many examples of the kind. Today FIDE is probably in the best position ever - and chess community sees it - we deliver unprecedented number of projects around the world, we keep increasing prize funds for top players and support for educational and social programs, and we can plan far ahead thanks to our partnerships East and West. We'd love to work with any private project - in particular with ambitious ones. But if you want a war - try us.

Final Round Coverage | US Open Championship with WGM Sabina Foisor and NM Gopal Menon, with later analysis from JJ Lang! twitch.tv/uschess @uschessfederation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@uschessfedera… @chesscom @GopalMenon11 @SabinaFoisor @chessfeels

holy shit lmao

@USChess Congrats @chessfeels, let’s grab a warm milk or something to celebrate

BREAKING: JJ Lang, our US Chess Digital Assistant and the staffer behind most of the content on Chess Life Online, has just been named the Chess Journalist of the Year by the Chess Journalists of America. Congratulations, JJ!

Get some blitz games in against our in-house #USOpenChess commentators tonight at 8:30 p.m. EDT! Challenge @SabinaFoisor and @GopalMenon11 live on Twitch tonight!

Round 1 Commentary | 2024 US Open Invitationals with NM Gopal Menon and WGM Sabina Foisor @SabinaFoisor @GopalMenon11 twitch.tv/uschess @uschessfederation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@uschessfedera…

i think this would fix me

White wins.

An Unbelievable New Idea in the Mainline Dragon (9.0-0-0) chess.com/blog/Liu-NE/an… An absolutely gorgeous article by my friend. Truly an unbelievable find

Huh?