Andrey Gorlin

@chessmensch Would've been cool if 1 d6 worked too, but then 1...Qxe5, I suppose.

Bullet tactic of the day.

@NealBruceBC Maybe 1 d6 Ke6 2 d7 Kxd7 3 Ke5, then?

I think this is an instructive endgame. 💡 Black seems to think that White's position is frozen, so he is pushing his Kingside majority. What is White's plan to win? 🤔 #chesspunks

@gyardley Maybe Re3 or Re4, then?

Something trickier, from the same Scotch Gambit game. Everything's winning - I chose Bf6+, and after Rxf6 exf6 Qxe1+ Bf1, black has to sacrifice the queen on e7 to stop mate. But there *was* a forced mate in this position - I just didn't see it. Do you? #chess #chesspunks

@MarchandSurgery Perhaps not a good tweet by the senator, but this is a strawman.

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@bennettchess First thought is Re1...

White to play and get a winning attack:

@bennettchess Yeah, and I missed 3 Ne4 in my line...

@silver83p There's a forcing move so you can play Qxf5 afterwards

Black to play and save the day...

@MichelHoetmer 1 Kd6 Kc8 2 Ke5 and some different pawn pushes to consider here. 2...h4 3 Kxf5; 2...g4 3 h4; 2...f4, I think 3 Kxe4 works, though 3 exf4 (3...g4 4 hxg4 h4 5 Kxe4) seems simpler.

White to move. A tricky position from "1001 Chess Endgame Excercises for club players". Until this puzzle (no. 100) I did very well. Only 3 mistakes. But here I went wrong. Can you do better? #chesspuzzle #chesspunks

@vlad_chess Fascinating. Don't think black has enough time to capture h2, so 1 Ra2 f5 and black will manage to trade or queen?

In this position, I played Ra2 almost automatically, following the old adage that "rooks belong behind passed pawns." However, the resulting position is a tablebase draw. Can you do better and find the winning plan? The best move is easy (by elimination).

@RoizMichael83 One thing I can note is that at the moment, if the pawn were reach d5, black would have ...Ne3. Fun if the answer is Kh8.

A tough one. There is only 1 way to neutralize opponent's activity and convert the advantage. White to play.👩‍🎓

@mikeandallie I've been interested in what the rank of the perfect bracket would be, if one ordered them all by likelihood in some way. Seems like that should be doable now.

Perfect bracket odds are one of the most fun things to follow. Estimates can vary by many orders of magnitude. Those estimates have led to many really interesting conversations over the years.

@sylvesterkk @JayCuda Yeah, harmonic mean on ranks by itself is probably weighting top teams too heavily. Not sure what a good adjustment would be (maybe add like 10 to each rank). But it absolutely does treat the 350 as an almost free win, and would treat a 100 or 1000 (if it existed) similarly.

@silver83p @JayCuda I’m not as familiar with that but Claude gave me an answer I agree with: opponents ranked 5, 5, 350: ∙mean: 120 ∙GM: 34 ∙HM: ~8 That HM of 8 is saying the path is basically as hard as playing three top-8 teams, which is absurd — you still get a free win against no. 350

for the 1-6 seeds: difficulty of path to sweet 16, elite 8, & final 4 assuming no upsets (numbers in table = avg. kenpom rank of the opponents they must beat)

@Wilson__Valdez Planning to vote for him here.

Republican scandals are like: pedophile, rapist president corruptly steals all the countries money Democratic scandals are like: 20 years ago a rep kissed a girl 5 years younger than him. Wow!

@avidseries Feels like the finishing kick is more evident in horse races. I suppose he first 200 also includes the reaction time and initial acceleration?

If you've followed me for very long, you know I like track. This is my favorite race of all time. Most people think Dave Wottle ran too slow at first, and then had to make up for it in a desperate kick at the end of the race. But this isn't true. In fact, each of his four 200 meters splits were roughly the same: 26.4, 27.1, 26.6, and 26.2 seconds. It was the other runners who miscalculated. They started too fast, and then paid the price later in the race. Wottle ran the perfect race: Disciplined, even-paced, didn't panic even when he was far behind, and then had plenty left in the tank for the final stretch.

@mishapathy As a chess player, I...

I mistook a Sicilian for an Italian today.

@sylvesterkk @JayCuda Isn't harmonic good for this?

@JayCuda Not really that insightful, should probably use geometric mean or something. UF is getting dragged down by playing by far the worst 16 seed, same with Nebraska. Using geometric mean Duke has by far the easiest F4 route, and for 4 seeds Arkansas does. Makes a lot more sense.

@MarchandSurgery Unclear what you mean, but if you claim no one agrees, that's false.

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@FDSportsbook Purdue has a track record here, I suppose...

Houston Iowa State Purdue UConn If you HAD to pick a 2 seed to get upset in Round 1, who would it be? 🤔

@br_betting Not in all states...

You’ll never guess how many games we get to bet on this tournament 👀🤣

@bennettchess Not in that order, though?

Solution: Yes 1...a1(Q), 1...a1(R) & 1...a1(B).