Kenya Chess Masala

Time is running out for our flagship event. The 16th Capablanca Cup is all set for this weekend but you need to register early! You can still play if you do not have a FIDE number or a FIDE rating This is the real thing! kenyachessmasala.com/tournament-reg…

@Arrogance_0024 Very true!

GDP is not real wealth. Let's stop this madness. GDP counts activity, not prosperity. A flood that destroys homes raises GDP because rebuilding creates transactions. A war boosts GDP through weapons production, even as lives are lost. GDP measures motion, not meaning. True wealth is in what a society has and preserves: stable families, healthy people, safe communities, accumulated capital, and functioning institutions. GDP ignores all of that. It celebrates churn, even when churn destroys value. Globalist elites worship GDP because it flatters their model of endless consumption and financial speculation. But nations don’t endure by inflating numbers. They endure by building real assets and protecting them. GDP is a mirage; wealth is solidity.

@RMistereggen Hi from Nairobi

Here we go again. If you see this post, please say hi 🥹

@Arrogance_0024 What is the population of Bavaria and the GDP? @KimBhari

Should Bavaria declare independence from Germany 🇩🇪?

@RMistereggen Hi - from Kenya.

If you see this post, please say hi 😇

@EmilSutovsky Not a smart idea

Just two rounds at FIDE Grand Swiss produced already several memorable moments. In general, I feel - when a man is tired of classical time control, he is tired of chess. But what is the definition of "classical"? This one keeps changing. FIDE Council just approved a pilot project of rating the games played with 45min+30sec inc for standard ratings. Read more on the FIDE website. And tune in at 3PM Samarkand time for the third round of the FIDE Grand Swiss!

@daily_romania The de-industrialisation of Europe by moving all the jobs to China. This is just one.

What is the greatest threat Europe is facing at the moment, in your opinion? I am trying to see something

@Kasparov63 I ask a simple question. Would the USA allow Russian troops and weapons to be stationed in Mexico or even Canada?

NATO was founded to defend against Russian invasion, and not by making Russia happy. In fact, you could say that anything that makes the belligerent war criminal dictator in the Kremlin unhappy is good for the civilized world.

@Arrogance_0024 I find this hard to believe???????????? Germany??

The Germans are illiterate. In globalist Germany 🇩🇪, 1 in 5 adults lacks basic literacy — they cannot properly read or write beyond an elementary level. That means nearly 17 million people function with skills so low they struggle with everyday tasks like filling out forms or understanding instructions. Around 6.2 million adults — about 12% of those aged 18 to 64 — have especially severe deficiencies. Many of them are German native speakers, educated in German schools, and active in the labor market. This is not just an immigrant issue, nor a fringe statistic. It is a structural failure. Germany sells itself as a land of efficiency, culture, and education, yet millions of its citizens cannot handle the most basic requirement of modern life: literacy. This undermines productivity, civic life, and even the ability to pass on knowledge to the next generation.

@Arrogance_0024 Africa has some amazing folks.

We have a demographic problem. There are too many leftists. We should remigrate them to Africa. They are not adding to the strength of nations, they are subtracting from it. They do not build families, they dismantle them. They do not cultivate responsibility, they ridicule it. Their numbers weigh like a burden: votes for chaos, protests against order, constant sabotage of everything that makes a society endure. A country with too many leftists is a country where decline becomes the norm. Let us export the surplus that drags us down. Send them where their utopias already exist: into states that collapsed under their own illusions, into regions where slogans replaced institutions and “freedom” meant disorder. They would feel at home in the very chaos they want to impose on us. It is not cruelty, it is logic. If they cannot live by the discipline of civilization, then let them migrate to places where civilization is absent.

@russembkenya Do they play chess?

📚🇷🇺 A new school year has officially begun! The Russian Embassy School in Kenya held a festive assembly marking the start of the academic year and the Day of Knowledge celebration. Wishing all pupils success and inspiration ahead! #BackToSchool

@Arrogance_0024 Do not forget that mums have to work as well just to make ends meet. The start of the problem might have been which govts stopped building homes and outsourced that to the private sector. Rents have gone through the roof. @KimBhari

The problem is not that people don’t have children. It’s that they don’t know how to raise them. Modern society treats parenthood as an accessory, not a responsibility. Children are born into homes without authority, without order, without examples of strength. Parents outsource everything — to schools, to screens, to the State — and then wonder why their sons are weak and their daughters lost. A generation ago, family meant discipline, sacrifice, and transmission of values. Today, it is selfies with a stroller and a belief that love alone will replace duty. But love without structure produces chaos, and chaos destroys both child and parent. Civilisations are not sustained by the number of births alone. They are sustained by the quality of the men and women who are formed. And if parents no longer know how to raise children into adults, then no demographic policy, no subsidies, no slogans will save the nation from decline.

@PHChess @FIDE_chess I am confused. They are celebrating in their own country so what is the issue? They have every right to be proud of the kids winning.

The Moscow 🇷🇺 metro is honouring the FIDE 1 "neutral" team, who won the recent U16 Chess Olympiad. @FIDE_chess, you argue it is about letting kids play, but what then, when the Russian 🇷🇺 state uses it for propaganda, showing the sporting sanction are gone?

@dgriffinchess What a photo!! Many thanks for sharing this.

The opening ceremony of the famous 1953 Candidates' tournament took place 72 years ago today in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Here the Soviet participants in the event are seen in Zürich, en route to the 30-round event, which lasted until mid-October. (📷via Zürich Chess Club archive.)

@PHChess I think you are being unfair now. Russian kids wearing Russian uniforms in Russia. I see nothing wrong with this. I believe they were forced to play without their flag in the event so they can celebrate now?

FIDE 1 " neutral" team welcomed in Moscow airport. Wearing Russian 🇷🇺 shirt, Russian🇷🇺 flags, and the crowd shouting Russia 🇷🇺, Russia 🇷🇺 This is not about allowing kids to play chess, but obvious and deliberate Russian 🇷🇺 propaganda. And against IOC and FIDE neutrality rules.

@rinalu_ Hmmmmm. I am going to read further on this topic.

Ah yes, Finland – the ‘neutral bystander’ of WWII. Just standing there, totally uninvolved, while Leningrad starved. Cute story. Too bad it’s pure fiction. Reality check: Finnish troops sat on Leningrad’s doorstep for three years. Not sipping coffee, not staying “neutral”. They were holding one-third of the blockade line. Without Finland’s part, the Germans couldn’t have fully strangled the city. Together, they closed the ring that starved a 1.5 million people to death, inclidin 400,000 children. And Mannerheim the “savior”? Please. His orders were to bomb the Road of Life (which was not really a road but a frozen lake), the only route bringing food across Lake Ladoga. On June 25, 1941, Mannerheim ordered the Finnish Army to begin hostilities against the USSR: “I call you to a holy war against the enemy of our nation. Together with the mighty armed forces of Germany, as brothers-in-arms, we resolutely set out on a crusade against the enemy to secure a reliable future for Finland.” Finland dreamed of expansion and had concrete plans. On the ‘Greater Finland’ dream map, you’ll find Russian cities like Murmansk, Leningrad, and Kandalaksha marked as theirs👇 Let's unpack the common myths and educate our fellow Finns about their own history. 🧵

@Prachura1 I fully agree. Gukesh is World Champion. Forget those folks who just talk for the sake of talking.

Gukesh is a deserving world champion. That's it. Full stop! He worked hard, he had the talent, he came through the ranks, qualified for Candidates, won it, beat the reigning world champion and became the world champion at the age of 18! If people can't digest this fact, so be it!

@sashameetsrus This site is on my bucket list.

On August 23, 1942, Stalingrad suffered one of its darkest tragedies: a massive air raid killed 40,000 civilians and injured over 150,000. Two years ago, on the 80th anniversary of the battle, this tragedy was officially recognized as genocide — an act of historical justice that no one can erase. We shall always remember.

@Arrogance_0024 Thanks for sharing. I did not know about this referendum and about Philippe Seguin.

This man was one of the greatest French 🇫🇷 heroes of the XXth century: Philippe Séguin almost derailed the Maastricht Treaty. He embodied the traditional Gaullist vision of sovereignty, independence, and suspicion toward supranational integration. For him, Maastricht represented nothing less than the dismantling of French sovereignty in favor of a bureaucratic, German-influenced Europe. In 1992, as François Mitterrand called for a referendum on Maastricht, Séguin emerged as the main leader of the “No” camp. He opposed the creation of a single currency, warning that it would deprive France of control over its monetary policy and subject the nation to rules dictated in Brussels and Frankfurt. He argued that Maastricht betrayed the spirit of de Gaulle, who had envisioned a “Europe of nations” rather than a supranational federation. His televised debate with President Mitterrand on 3 September 1992 was a defining moment: Séguin delivered a passionate, combative defense of sovereignty, while Mitterrand appealed to European unity and peace. In the referendum of 20 September 1992, the “Yes” side won with just 51.04% of the vote, against 48.96% for “No.” This razor-thin margin revealed deep fractures in French society: elites, urban centers, and the political establishment leaned toward integration, while large swathes of workers, rural voters, and Gaullist conservatives sided with Séguin. The outcome gave Maastricht its legitimacy in France, but without enthusiasm—what Séguin had called a forced surrender of sovereignty was pushed through on the weakest of democratic mandates.

@Arrogance_0024 Very true!

Why consumption is not wealth. Consumption is noise. It fills streets with shops, carts with goods, tables with food. But it leaves no roots. Once the money stops, the shelves empty, and nothing remains. A civilization that confuses consumption with wealth mistakes appetite for power, and appetite vanishes the moment it is fed. Wealth is not what is spent, but what is built. Mines, factories, fields, ports, armies — these are the pillars of endurance. They create surplus, discipline, and strength. Consumption only drains them. A society that consumes more than it produces is not rich, it is already bankrupt, even if the lights are still on. Europe forgot this truth. It traded industry for malls, production for imports, sovereignty for subsidies. The numbers looked good for a while, but behind them lay weakness. A continent that only consumes becomes dependent on whoever supplies it. And dependence is poverty disguised as comfort. Real wealth is production, not appetite. The nations that will endure are those that build, not those that shop.