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Calling father-daughter chess duo teams. New Dr. Melekhin commemoration prize at the National Chess Congress in #Philly over Thanksgiving weekend. new.uschess.org/57th-annual-na…

@USChess @eli_1985_mor @DanielRensch @chesscom It's spelled "chess"

It’s chaos here! @eli_1985_mor versus @DanielRensch at the #elemchesschamps @chesscom

Bibisara is also now the 3rd-highest-rated player in Kazakhstan overall (!), and has a real chance to become No. 1 in the next year or so! 📷: @2700chess

@OnTheQueenside @tepesigeman @MagnusCarlsen @GMGrandelius @peterdoggers Women's and Benoni Chess Coverage

@tepesigeman @MagnusCarlsen @GMGrandelius @peterdoggers Congrats on the new second job @chessfeels!

Ready for battle, @MagnusCarlsen plays the Benoni against @GMGrandelius today! 📷 @peterdoggers

Does it make sense

Not content with merely being worse at chess than most of the eight year olds here for the national elementary chess champs, @hartmannchess is also showing off his piano chops (or lack thereof)

Overheard a kid describe the 50 move rule as "if you and your opponent each make 50 moves, but neither of you do any chess, it's a draw" and I'm kind of obsessed with it. @ChrisBirdIA time to update the rulebook language?

It's so weird being an extremely non-visual learner. I watched this twice and couldn't figure out what the "trick" was, and then read the comments and it was something I already knew about/how to do it.

@uhshanti Right, like, the Atlantic and TMZ should just keep switching subject matter

we are no longer in touch, but I do have to say the author of this piece was a wonderful friend to me in college and an incredibly talented & funny writer. I'd rather see this than The Atlantic's usual "it's legal to snipe Palestinian kindergarteners and you shouldn't feel bad"

@BatVibes @OdysseySMC It put on the wrong hat!

@OdysseySMC I know I know.. my bad 😭

Random Ghost Pokemon! Pick a Pokemon and see what Ghost Pokemon you get! Do you like this Pokemon? Why?

@NathanJRobinson @LeezyEffMaybe @TheAtlantic @curaffairs Yeah I read your story and there wasn't anything about the impact on free bread at restaurants. No stars.

The cover story in this month's @TheAtlantic is an 11,000 word feature on which restaurant has the best free bread. The cover story in this month's @curaffairs is a deeply-reported look at the impacts of the Cuba fuel blockade on the population. Read a serious magazine.

If a trans person was sitting near them in this photo billionaire Knicks owner would remove them from the stadium and use facial recognition tech to ban them for life for the crime of existing as trans in proximity to Knicks players. That really actually happened

How is he so cool

Kids have no loyalty..🥲🥲🥲 Over the weekend, one of my chess kids went from 900 to 1200+ 🎉 we give out a special chess ball when they cross 1000, he came to me after every game “coach Perpetual I played your opening!!” wanted his games reviewed and everything… Today, he was asked in front of the whole school how he did it he said Gotham Chess😭 then came to me after for his prize I told him to ask Gotham Chess @GothamChess he’s yours now 😭

The four horsemen of anxiety

@Morphy80196127 It's a perfectly pleasant position

@chessfeels Ok, if you want to play tricks for online blitz fine. But then don't call it "a perfectly pleasant position" when it's objectively just bad for black.

I just came up with a kinda neat anti London trap! After 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bf4 c5 3 c3 Nd5!? 4 Bg3 cd 5 ed Nc6 (D), Black has a perfectly pleasant position. But white must be very careful. Here, 6 c4?! is begging to be played, but leaves white struggling for equality.

@kenklippenstein Maybe he subscribes to some fringe philosophy of action view where intending doesn't require trying?

Why do people just make things up

@Morphy80196127 And here was thinking that a kind of neat trap that comes up after white plays a plausible but dubious move was particularly relevant for online blitz but what do I know

@chessfeels +0.6 after 6 moves is good enough for me. Online win rate, most likely of mostly blitz games, is pretty useless for OTB play.

@SharSays @GayRayquaza @c_mkho @iky_fwjett How tf is OP supposed to shoplift off the Internet

@GayRayquaza @c_mkho @iky_fwjett A little research goes a long way.

My kid loves mango. I hate cutting mango. So we always get pre-cut mango. Pre-cut mango is now $13.99 per package. My husband keeps getting upset that I keep wasting money on pre-cut mango vs. whole mangoes. Unfortunately he is too Canadian and pure of heart for me to tell him that I’m actually shoplifting it.