iris 🐈♟📚

@GMJacobAagaard all the chess books 🥹🥹

It was a pleasure to visit Dirk Jan in his home and talk chess.

@Laurahallissey i really liked it - such a unique story and a great debut

Has anyone read this one? #Books

@sociotricius wei yi?

The Candidates are just around the corner and this is how much I'm rooting for each player! 🟩 Caruana, Giri, Wei Yi 🟨 Praggnanandhaa, Sindarov 🟧 Bluebaum 🟥 Nakamura*, Esipenko *Hikaru is cool but I want the potential world champion to actually play classical #chess.

@ninkibah @Bodenseeperlen super interesting! wondering if there is still a market for highly valuable chess books. those collectors seem to be a dying breed

GM Lothar Schmidt's chess collection is going up for auction. The article mentions that he made his money from publishing the Karl May books, which were highly popular cowboy stories written in German! Yeehaw! perlenvombodensee.de/2026/03/09/lot…

@NewInChess ohhh i hope for a review of that one soon 😬😅

new: Unlock Your Chess Creativity The English chess explosion of the 1970s lit the fuse for a golden era in the 1980s, when a wave of brilliant British players rose to the very top. Their extraordinary creativity created practical problems for even the strongest opponents and gave rise to some of the most memorable games of the modern era. @richardpalliser shows how you can harness some of this creativity and introduce it into your own play. newinchess.com/unlock-your-ch…

@davidllada @GMJacobAagaard Love the dramatic Nosferatu/Frankenstein hands! Perfect lecture energy 😅

My friend @GMJacobAagaard, during a lecture and training camp held alongside the World Championship Match 2024 in Singapore.

@ilan_ruby @gmmds oh this is to kind of a reward for me eating loosely chess associated cake 😬english please!

@ehscho @gmmds Would you like that in English or Spanish?

finishing off the week strong with a san sebastián cheesecake 😬now i am in the mood for some capablanca games 😅

@gmmds next wijk aan zee pizza 😬

@ehscho The true path to endgame virtuosity 🙏🙏🙏😋😋😋

@paul1964Jam 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Still gives me nightmares just looking at this 😬😬

@gmmds the place is rightfully called l‘amour du pain😅

@ehscho Ooooooooooh! 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋

skipping monday 😬

@gmmds @FryRsquared very cool, i have to watch that. i can’t believe that openai has secured 40% of the world wide produced future ram to run with nvidia gpus that haven’t been developed yet 😱back tp the ram stone age for the end users 🦴🗿

Came late to this one and only saw the first episode so far but I think (as always with @FryRsquared ) it’s going to be truly brilliant! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Thought-provoking and very human

@dgriffinchess what an interesting character!

Born 116 years ago today - Nicolas Rossolimo (1910-1975). Born in Kiev, in what was then the Russian Empire, he gained Greek citizenship & emigrated to France in 1929. In 1952 he emigrated again, to the USA. Seen here at Wijk aan Zee, 1968. (📷:Lnoord-hollandsarchief.nl.) #chess

@MeerMaurits 😿

@ehscho Sadly I don’t have the answer for you. Except for the obvious - if you see the best move, play it 😅 Is it 1.f4 here?

What is your favourite chess game of all time? ♟️ #chesspunks Mine has to be Rubinstein’s Immortal with it’s spectacular ending: chessgames.com/perl/chessgame…

@MeerMaurits Was completely fine and even saw the critical move, but backed off because it looked too complicated. Played a safer move, lost the initiative, and then drifted into a tactical mess + decision-making just collapsed. How do you stop that downward spiral in sharp positions? 🤕

@ehscho Oh that’s unfortunate. Luckily, Aronian, Anand, Kasparov, and Topalov are always there to cheer you up again 😅 Want to share anything more about the loss? You don’t have to though…

@depressed19732 @chessfeels why did no one tell me about this strategy 😬

@chessfeels @ehscho The first sip of liquor post classical game (result doesn’t matter) is better than any drug.

Had one of those OTB games where you’re doing everything reasonably well… until you push a bit too hard and the position collapses into chaos. 💔 How do you get over a tough loss? #chesspunks

@FurtherMathsTut was that the benoni game by fischer?

@ehscho Karpov v Kasparov.Game 24 1985 WC Match. Because it was perfectly poised, Karpov had to win to retain title Kasparov had to draw to win title. Maybe Game 13 Spassky vs Fischer because it was a great struggle but quite flawed.

@MeerMaurits oh beautiful, i need that to cheer me up after a shitty loss today

@ehscho I particularly like Aronian-Anand, Wijk aan Zee 2013. But Kasparov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999 is also awesome 😁