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Paul Cooksey
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Paul Cooksey
@pscooksey
Most tweets about chess; English FM 🏳️🌈
Katılım Eylül 2010
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@MaxChess_ Instinct said light, had to visualise a bishop on c4 to be certain
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@ChessVonDoom @EmilySm43 Rugby League Football or Rugby Union Football?
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@VBkramnik @anishgiri @chesscom @grok when will chess.com have a billion members based on its current growth?
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@anishgiri And anytime you think about chess, you become a new user, seemingly 😁
For years 100-200K new "members" daily, 7 days a week
Bravo @chesscom
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One of my favorite chesscom features is that when you visit their website from a browser on your PC, you automatically get to become a viewer of a streamer that is featured on the so called ChessTV!🍿
Meanwhile, for everything chess prep, there is my ChessMonitor.com.
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@ChessVonDoom No, that is the most encouraging thing!
Upside down it is demoralizing.
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I'm convinced that the most demoralizing thing in chess is this.
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@EmilSutovsky I enjoyed the events. I liked that the men's and women's playoffs were staggered. It would be good if that could be done with earlier rounds too.
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So I finished with 7 / 9 and earned my 3rd IM norm!!! This accomplishment feels pretty good. But I'm still not an IM yet because I've never reached 2400 FIDE. Hopefully I can do this in the next month or two. Thanks to Josiah Stearman for organizing the event! 😃
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I played a GM in round 9 of my norm tournament. And I won! Below he played Rc6, vying for activity with Ra6. But I play Rh7 and after Ra6 Rh2+ Kd3 Bf2 I win both his g3 and f4 pawns. Instead he had to play Kf3 and defend passively, but it's already not easy at this point.
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@ChrisBirdIA Chris, i don’t think we as should be normalizing tantrums like that. It does affect players who are in a middle of a game who hear loud noises. In many sports such acts are penalized as unsportsmanlike behavior in order to send a message to younger athletes.
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@OnTheQueenside @tschessindia i love goryachkina and am ecstatic for her success but her smile makes her look in pain
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Aleksandra Goryachkina now holds both of the two biggest rapid titles in women's chess: the World Rapid Championship title (!!) and the Tata Steel India Rapid title!! 🤯
📷: @tschessindia
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@Atomrod Sorry for the loss of your friend Keith. I thought about your friendship when I was remembering Jonathan.
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@EmilSutovsky @FIDE_chess Not for me, the three person format seems a bit weird. I'm flipping between c24 and c24 India.
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It just started, but:
How do you like @FIDE_chess broadcast from Doha?
Hope this thread is alive throughout the tournament, and you will share the feedback as it progresses.
Thanks!
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Guys stop referring Gotham Chess
Julesgambit@julesgambit
Looking for an irl chess coach in NYC. Message me if you have any recs/referrals.
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@PHChess I get that it is fun for the players. It isn't fun for the spectators though.
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I completely disagree.
It has been an amazing journey into chess as its finest.
The worlds best players getting the chance to battle it out without having to care about memorizing computer preparations, but having to solve very complex strategical problems over the board:🧵
GM Jacob Aagaard@GMJacobAagaard
I really wanted the Freestyle tournaments to be a success. They started out as serious events with classical time control and big participation from the most exciting players of our time. The things I remember most from the past year is a video where a private conversation with Firouzja is represented in great detail, making it impossible to speak to the organisers again, Nakamura saying he lost interest and a change of the time control, making it yet another casual event of no significance. I am certain Carlsen won the last event - without looking - and that anyone speaking objectively about how this first season have gone, will do so with disappointment. Next year we will have The Ultimate World Chess Championship (which qualified to the semifinals of the real world championship), which includes "fast classical", which is another word for rapid. The year after we will have mud wrestling chess replacing the women's world championship. And finally then, people will watch...
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@andrewlekashman @The_OneEyed_Guy @andy_l_jones This is wrong. Chess has quite a wide drawing margin and a single inaccurate move does not result in a loss.
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To be more pedantic - if it is an obvious and forced move, then the human player isn't contributing any distinct insight, they are simply agreeing with the engine suggested move?
My point is that if the human follows along in a Stockfish vs Stockfish game, and adds a move that doesn't align with the Stockfish suggested option, that contribution will typically always result in a loss.
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So after all these hours talking about AI, in these last five minutes I am going to talk about:
Horses.
Engines, steam engines, were invented in 1700.
And what followed was 200 years of steady improvement, with engines getting 20% better a decade.
For the first 120 years of that steady improvement, horses didn't notice at all.
Then, between 1930 and 1950, 90% of the horses in the US disappeared.
Progress in engines was steady. Equivalence to horses was sudden.
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@GMJacobAagaard Elo is useful for some things but not world rankings. The FIDE Circuit seems flawed too though. Chess has no stable circuit and never has. Plus why exclude games between top layers in top leagues
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@pscooksey The rating system is bonkers. Winning against me and drawing Magnus with Black in a last round may give you the same rating outcome (used to anyway). Obviously, I am a pushover. And if you play me, the game is not important...
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Notice that Bluebaum is number 5. Winning the European Championship, qualifying via the Grand Swiss and other good results may not affect his rating much, but only four players have had better results this year.
International Chess Federation@FIDE_chess
🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R has won the FIDE Circuit 2025, securing a spot in the 2026 Candidates Tournament! 👏 Congratulations to @rpraggnachess, who deservedly earned one of the eight slots in the 2026 Candidates. The young Indian has been the best FIDE Circuit player throughout the year, winning the Tata Steel Masters, Superbet Chess Classic Romania, UzChess Cup Masters, and London Chess Classic Open, and finishing second in the Stepan Avagyan Memorial and 12th Sinquefield Cup. ℹ️ More info: fide.com/praggnanandhaa…
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@PHChess Anyone who takes a classical draw because they want to play rapid should be sternly disciplined
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Ok classical chess lovers:
This is the deciding game of a world cup final, are you completely sure this is how peak elite sport should look like?
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@PHChess If you really want FIDE to ban participants in unsanctioned events drop Emil a line. I'm not sure though.
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The World Cup is happening right now.
None of the top 3 players in the world participate, but right now instead plays a weekly online event " Titled Tuesday"
It would cause an outrage in any other sport, but is the "normal" in chess.
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I'll be burning my certificate live on twitch this evening
Sharks 4NCL 🇺🇦 🦁@GSharks4NCL
Who says those who drink in the bar until 4am at @4NCL can't make chess titles. These 2 mugs are FMs
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@ChessProblem maybe we can all just pretend the freestyle nonsense never happened
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maybe the 2024 fischer random world championship could be incorporated into the 2027 total world championship
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