Misha Friedman

One of my Covid stories, which was recognized by the Picture of the Year competition, is finally online: poy.org/78/13.html

@davidllada @elenadesaa1999 Vonnegut

@elenadesaa1999 Lo he pensado, y lo he hecho, con al menos cuatro o cinco autores: Chejov, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Nabokov y Cortazar. Quiza alguno más…

¿Alguna vez has terminado un libro y has pensado: «Vale, voy a leer todo lo que escriba esta persona»?

Incredibly hard to read but the torture and inhumane treatment of Ukrainians in Russian custody have to be studied and documented. A diary of a Kherson civilian illegally captured and tortured in 2022 (in Rus). There is also a mention of underage inmates: zona.media/article/2026/0…

please stop by if you are in New York this Thursday. I promise the talk won’t be as heavy as it sounds.

@davidllada except these aren’t normal sponsors

Some things never change. A sponsor pays a fortune to support a FIDE event, only to see their logo treated like this 🤦🏻‍♂️ All to save a few hundred bucks on a proper playing hall render.

@davidllada by that logic, those who excelled in team environments are much more likely to succeed in groups/managerial roles than soloists from chess/tennis/boxing.

Let me delve deeper into this: It is very clear to me, and to most people with some management experience, that people who are competent at something are usually not competent at just one thing. Reaching a high level in any field requires a combination of qualities and skills. To excel at a craft, you need work ethic, focus, curiosity, and ambition. It is not surprising, then, to discover that a brilliant developer you work with is also a great cook, for instance. Once you develop that mindset and structure, you can apply it to anything that interests you, and those interests often evolve over time. If you are a skilled chess player, and by skilled I mean anything above a rating of 1500, you are already showing that you are wired this way. This is why not only chess players, but also athletes, are highly valued in the labor market: they have demonstrated commitment and discipline, and they know how to work as part of a team. When trying to attract talent for a project, pay attention to these signals. And when you want to get a recruiter’s attention, make sure to highlight these achievements, they are not unimportant. That’s my piece of advice for today 🙂

@AjedrezdPrimera @davidllada very fitting for it to happen on the day messi met trump

🚨¡IMPENSADO! FAUSTINO ORO CONOCIÓ A KARPOV🚨 Anatoly Karpov fue el 12° Campeón Mundial de ajedrez, reinando durante 10 años, y en Rusia cruzó unas palabras con Faustino Oro. Imperdible la mirada que posa sobre el joven argentino como diciendo: «Ahora te toca a vos».

In case you missed this book a couple of years ago, now you can buy it in New York City’s Ukrainian Museum. shop.theukrainianmuseum.org/collections/bo…

@TarjeiJS @durarbayli i remember the wild and somewhat suspicious norm-clinching endgame against Mendonca. without getting into the letter of the law, this eighteen player swiss hardly qualifies as an open.

@MishaFriedman @durarbayli The GM mix tournament was not a round-robin at least?

If Faustino Oro breaks the record, it would be significantly more impressive than Mishra's. FIDE has since introduced a requirement that at least one norm must come from a Swiss tournament, making the path to the title harder than ever before.

@TarjeiJS @durarbayli respectfully, which of Mishra’s norms came from an Open? To the best of my recollection, it was something like seventy games in seventy-two days, all in round robins.

@MishaFriedman @durarbayli What do you mean? Mishra had one of his GM norms from an Open. But yes, I know about the controversy with his norms.

@TarjeiJS @durarbayli Karjakin’s first norm was obtained in an Open. Ironically, it was also Aeroflot. Mishra didn’t. I suspect you read my work that led to Fide rule change?

@durarbayli Mishra also scored a norm from an open tournament though. That's not why it would be more impressive.

Is Epstein the Sauron of our times?

As someone whose work led @FIDE_chess to introduce a rule requiring all prospective grandmasters to obtain at least one norm in an open tournament, it’s very depressing to see Faustino Oro’s parents chose Aeroflot Open in Moscow to try to break the youngest GM record.

Did you know that Ian Nepomniachtchi was one of the players who helped Magnus Carlsen prepare for his first World Championship match in 2013, the one in which he took the title from Vishy Anand? Getty photographer @MishaFriedman was granted access to the training camp in Norway — on the sole condition that the photos could only be released after the match was over.

Russian attack drones hit multiple residential buildings in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, this morning. Seen here, a Russian Shahed-136 slams into a tower block in the Pozniaky neighborhood.

@PHChess @ChessProblem well, unlike his “youngest” predecessors, Oro will need to earn his final norm in an open with at least forty participants.

@ChessProblem It should award them the title instantly?

“games” like this shouldn’t count for norms 🙃

@TarjeiJS compared to some of his predecessors, his path to “youngest gm” is just remarkable.

Fausti needs 1/2, which is doable, but not easy. He is 12!

Dnipro.