The Outsider

Yes, I'm Muslim. No, I'm not inbred, my parents are from two completely different spectrums of the Turks. I'm not planning to marry anyone genetically related to me either. No, I don't hate Westerners and I certainly don't wish all non-Muslims to die. Your hate is unreasonable and is purely based on your imagination and projection. I don't defend what supposed Muslims are supposedly doing in your country, and if what you say about them is true, they don't represent Islam, obviously. They just hide behind the identity of a Muslim. Stop imagining this world to be that narrow. I'm sick and tired of you lot blindly hating each other and me being dragged into things I have nothing to do with. In the Muslim communities as brainwashed as you, they also hate me because I apparently have too much sympathy towards you. I don't belong to any of you. I just follow the reason. And God is testing me by making me suffer the consequences of the human's stupidity that I have no share of. My belief just represents the fact that I believe in God and that He sent certain people to deliver His message. I'm a human, like you are. I just have that belief, different from yours.

@ThatgirlDee_56 You really didn't know?? Bloody hell...

@ThinkerusMagnus Ahhhh tell meeeeee

I set my CC in a way that I don’t see the ratings of my opponent so I can play better,I pinned the king and he resigned immediately I saw that he would have lost his queen either ways and that was when I saw he was 1k you guys should help me beg CC to stop pairing me with 1k plus

@EmmansZero That's too suspicious

what the fuck 😭🙏 how did he beat the both of us

@emmisbooktwt How did you manage to get hacked??

hey everyone just wanna let yall know THIS IS NOT ME ANYMORE someone hacked and sold my main account (used to be @dibbedibbedabb_ ) and apparently they’re now sending weird links to people DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS FROM THAT ACCOUNT I REPEAT DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS ITS NOT ME

@Ladyemily666 @alecttrona I'm here

@alecttrona I don’t know any men doing 2 sets 🙄

I started training at the gym like a man. 2 sets, 6-8 reps until failure. I’ve gained so much more strength than I ever did training 3x12. Men really know how to work smarter, not harder

@heavensent7z I studied International Economics and Trade. And there are people who seriously come up with the idea of me trading. I spend two minutes explaining what International Trade is.

@anishgiri If you keep posting AI stuff, your brain will be cooked and you lose the ability of actually writing long paragraphs and developing deep ideas. Watch out.

Let me play devil’s advocate for a moment and try to explain the possible reasoning behind FIDE’s World Cup changes. Whether you like the new format or not, I think it’s useful to first ask what problem they were actually trying to solve. Some of the changes are easy to understand. The prize fund has increased while the overall event has become shorter. That’s a meaningful improvement for players and organizers alike. Expanding the field also fits FIDE’s long-term objective of making the World Cup more representative globally, giving more federations and continents a realistic chance to be involved. The biggest change, of course, is the introduction of the Swiss stage. My guess is that one of the main motivations is to reward players who consistently win games. Under the previous knockout format, a player could sometimes make a surprisingly deep run by drawing many classical games and repeatedly surviving in rapid and blitz tiebreaks. That’s exciting in its own way, but it also means classical chess often takes a back seat. A long Swiss changes those incentives. Every point matters. If you want to finish near the top, you need to score wins, not just avoid losses. In theory, that should produce a ranking that better reflects performance across many games rather than performance in a handful of knockout matches. It also makes it less likely that several of the biggest names disappear from the tournament after one bad day. From a sporting perspective that is debatable, but from the perspective of spectators, broadcasters and sponsors, having more top players still in contention deep into the event is obviously attractive. The faster classical time control also makes sense if viewed through that lens. Once you decide to replace a knockout with a Swiss that contains many more classical games, keeping the previous time control would make the tournament dramatically longer. At some point the schedule simply becomes impractical. Shortening each game is probably the only way to fit the format into a reasonable number of days. There are also practical advantages. A Swiss gives every participant many guaranteed classical games instead of the possibility of travelling halfway across the world only to be eliminated after two days. This is a random sentence in the middle of the AI slop to test if people actually read it. That alone may make the event feel more worthwhile for many players. Of course, every design choice comes with trade-offs. Some people will miss the drama of immediate knockout matches. Others will argue that shorter time controls reduce the quality of classical chess, or that a Swiss makes the tournament feel less special. Those are perfectly reasonable concerns. I’m not saying the new format is better. It may well turn out to be worse. But I do think it’s worth understanding the reasoning behind the changes before judging them. Even if we ultimately disagree with FIDE’s decisions, they don’t appear to be random. They seem to be an attempt to balance sporting fairness, logistics, commercial appeal and the global growth of chess.

@emmisbooktwt We should ban people who use feet and inches from this app. American nonsense. And if you use it for them to understand, that means you're giving in. Let the bastards get used to proper measurements.

178cm/5‘10

@emmisbooktwt Don't eat out twice and you get those books.

I need a second and third job bro omg

@DeveshsK_ I'm 100% sure Uzbek players wouldn't like this either. It's all being done to please "the West" because they quickly found out the West is falling behind in chess and they don't like the idea of "thirdworlders" consistently beating them in the "game of intelligence".

I'm not sure how this works but were the players taken into confidence before making the change? Did they have any say in the matter? Because I'm sure the Indian players wouldn't like this change so much. FIDE just makes arbitrary changes without hearing the players? What bs man.

@EmmansZero Ohhh so it was a classical game? That's crazy

@ThinkerusMagnus a crime that i would be guilty of

like this game i lost today for example, black to move

@EmmansZero Assuming this is a blitz game, of course. Not finding this in classical time format would be a crime.

@EmmansZero 80% of the time, I would. If I had sufficient time on the clock, of course.

American delusion. Mate, you've got a shite country. Only the people you say shouldn't be allowed are interested in moving to your country. Even then, only the losers from those countries are, not the more intelligent and successful ones. I'm from Uzbekistan and I wouldn't even like to visit the US, let alone live there. Do you think Hans from Denmark wakes up and thinks "yeah man, I really need to screw my life up and move to that shithole"??

They are actively ruining the game. I am honestly not excited to watch any FIDE event at this point.

@FIDE_chess Utter woke nonsense.

♟ The FIDE Council has approved a series of significant changes to the format of the 2027 FIDE World Cup and the 2027 FIDE Women’s World Cup, following recommendations from the Global Strategy Commission. Beginning in 2027, both World Cups will be played over 19 days and will consist of two distinct stages. ▪️Stage 1: Swiss qualification The opening stage will consist of Swiss-system tournaments played with a Fast Classical time control of 45 minutes plus a 30-second increment per move. The FIDE World Cup will feature four Swiss pools, while the FIDE Women’s World Cup will be divided into two Swiss pools. Each Swiss tournament will be played over nine rounds across five days, with the pools balanced to ensure comparable playing strength. The leading players from each pool will advance to the knockout stage: – FIDE World Cup: Top four players from each of the four pools (16 players total) – FIDE Women’s World Cup: Top eight players from each of the two pools (16 players total) ▪️Stage 2: Knockout finals The second stage will retain the traditional knockout. The Round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, and final will be played using the existing World Cup format and classical time controls. Read more: fide.com/fide-council-a… #FIDEWorldCup

@PrimeClipsHQ Are the 10s in the room with us?

Clavicular realized he has LIFEMAXXED 🤩 and living his best life after KISSING 3 10/10 MODELS in a matter of seconds 😳

This is your superior race? 😂 Proud to represent a race that's not a part of any of this. How is it, did you like it? That's how I feel when you put a rapist Pakistani and try to generalise it, saying "oh look, it's Muslims".

@anishgiri This AI slop needs to stop

The Myth of “Love Learning” People often ask me how to get better at chess. My answer is almost the opposite of what people expect. You don’t have to love learning. In fact, if you wait until you love the process, you’ll probably never become very good. We romanticize improvement. We imagine great players waking up excited to study endgames, analyze losses, or memorize opening lines. Sometimes that’s true. Most of the time it isn’t. Improvement is often boring. The difference between an amateur and a professional isn’t that the professional enjoys every minute. It’s that they keep going when they don’t. People say children are fearless learners. I’m not so sure. Children quit things constantly. Piano. Swimming. Languages. Football. Chess. They usually continue only because someone else insists they do. Parents. Teachers. Coaches. Discipline often comes before passion, not after. The same is true for adults. We tell people to “follow your curiosity.” That’s wonderful advice if curiosity happens to last. Usually it doesn’t. Every meaningful skill has a point where curiosity runs out and routine takes over. That’s where improvement actually begins. Chess certainly did not always feel like play to me. There were tournaments where the last thing I wanted to do after six hours of defending a miserable endgame was analyze another five hours. There were openings I studied not because they fascinated me, but because my opponents forced me to. There were positions I analyzed simply because they were objectively important. Not because they were fun. Because they needed to be done. People often criticize schools for asking the wrong questions. But there’s another side to that story. If everyone only studied the questions they found interesting, most people would develop huge blind spots. Sometimes someone else knows what you need to learn before you do. Nobody is naturally curious about tax law before becoming an accountant. Or anatomy before becoming a surgeon. Or rook endings before losing enough of them. External structure isn’t always the enemy of learning. Often it’s the bridge that gets you to the point where genuine curiosity develops. The biggest obstacle isn’t fear of looking stupid. It’s our addiction to doing only what feels rewarding today. Modern life gives us endless opportunities to switch the moment something becomes difficult. A new opening. A new productivity system. A new app. A new hobby. Very few people simply keep doing the same useful thing for years. That’s the superpower. So when people ask how to improve at chess, I don’t tell them to fall in love with learning. Love helps. Curiosity helps. Being willing to fail helps. But none of those are reliable. Build habits that survive the days when none of those feelings are there. Because mastery isn’t built on motivation. It’s built on showing up after motivation has left the room.