The Chess Viking

@silver83p Haha didn't notice that! Yeah good retreating moves are hard to find, white found a bad one and black missed the good one!

@ZibbitVideos But white just blundered by retreating a knight?

“The hardest move to find is a backward (retreating) knight move.” ✍️ Such a move could have decided the World Senior Team Championship (65+) earlier today. If Igor Gazik find the winning move here, Italy 🇮🇹 would have won the gold but instead Germany 🇩🇪 grabs the top spot. Black to move and win after white's 25.Nde3?? 🧩 #Chess #Tactics

Chess would be a lot easier if someone could just tap you on the shoulder when there’s a tactic. I am sure my friend Runar would have spotted it if he was tapped 😅♟️ Black to move. Can you spot it? #chess #chesstactics #chesspuzzle

Caption this! Your opponent just played 1.a3 in the 10th round of the European Individual Chess Championship! #Chess #eicc2026

@barrylongii The GOAT

Who was the best player on your favorite NBA team when you first started watching?

@VinnysCorner1 Weirdly, I went Michael Adams, but retrospectively I should have gone Mutombo or Abdul-Rauf (literally one of my all-time favourites!)

Without saying Nikola Jokic, Carmelo Anthony, Alex English or David Thompson, name a Nugget…

@AIDrivenSecOps @Mekk If you have to play Kd1 on move 15 with white in such an opening you've roally messed things up!

@Mekk @ZibbitVideos Exactly! So I don’t get OP. What’s wrong with Kd1?

Oh my! 15.Kd1 by Esipenko has to be one of the more embarassing moves someone has played or had to play at the Candidates, maybe EVER! #Chess #FIDECandidates

Gotta love it!

Great performance so far and a very convincing win today against a strong player!

I've actually done this for over 2 decades...didn't fix my timetrouble issues though unfortunately :-(

Tabatabaei vs Chucky on the top board at the Reykjavik Open...who you got? #Chess #ReykjavikOpen

Swindle of the tournament? Tournament regular Eric De Winter had a lost position here but Eric punted 26.b4!? and black blundered 26...Qxb4? 27.Qxb4 Nxb4 and now 28.Rf8+!! sets up a very cunning knight perpetual! #Chess #Tactics #ReykjavikOpen

Some foreign players had to earn their chess viking norms today!!

@antyteza3 There are 50 live boards and 150 non-DGT boards, there are over 400 players in the tournament.

@ZibbitVideos but why this work is needed when you already have all your games broadcasted on lichess? is it just a proofread of the broadcasted version or the workers expexted to create PGN exclusively from the scoresheets?

We need players for 2026 as well to enter PGN files for the Reykjavik Open!. You can still use the form in the Tweet below or access it directly here: forms.gle/yTcNGWBfngvHNm… the same instructions apply from last year! #Chess

Harpa Blitz kicks off the Reykjavik Open in style! Over 150 players, 11 intense rounds—and in the end, Iceland’s top-rated player takes the crown 👑 🥇 GM Vignir Vatnar Stefánsson 🥈 GM Leon Livaic 🥉 GM Mustafa Yilmaz”

@MortSnerd170 You can, after Kf4 there is a very nice win!

@ZibbitVideos Yes, ok. Bet I can still get to mate.

Tactics from Chessmates today. White just played 28.Rc8 and his position looks good. In fact it's winning unless black finds what he indeed found in the game! What is the forced line that wins for black? There is a very aeshtetic waiting move at the end of the main line! #Chess #Tactics

@MortSnerd170 Kf4 is better than Kg5 in that line!

@ZibbitVideos …………………..Qg1+ Kh3. Qh1+ Kg4. h5+ Kg5. Be3#