Jonathan Rowson
@Jonathan_Rowson
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I'm a writer, chess grandmaster & dad. I miss Twitter as it was. Now I write on Substack and hang out on Substack Notes where engagement is much better than X.
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If you’ve ever wondered what I’m working on, or what
@Perspecteeva
is responding to, you might like this half-hour mini-documentary called *Living in the Metacrisis* which is beautifully produced by Katie Teague.
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1/2 Distressing experience
@Tesco
just now. 10.50pm near Chancery Lane tube after a work event I receive a text to get a sandwich for my son’s packed lunch tomorrow. I see a store, think I’m in luck, but I can only *enter* the store if I download the app & sign up to club card.
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Did Niemann cheat in online blitz?
Yes.
Did he lie about the extent of it? Probably.
Is he trustworthy?
No.
Must we presume innocence?
Yes.
Did he beat Magnus fairly?
Yes.
Was Magnus wrong to withdraw?
Yes.
Did Chess,com make the story about themselves?
Yes.
#chessdrama
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Gosh, and now I see an email with my club card number has come through. When the store assistant changed my decision not to accept a club card on my phone I didn’t manage to stop him in time.
@Tesco
can you please cancel this card and let me know it’s been cancelled? Thank you.
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Never have I felt the pinch of surveillance society more acutely. My shock at the compulsory data cost for entry to a supermarket to buy a sandwich made me think of
@Suitpossum
and his argument for cash. Use it to lose it, they say. And tonight I really *feel* it.
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I think I have what I need at home to make my son a tasty sandwich. 🥪 👍🏻
But what I felt at that store tonight was thoroughly dystopian. It was a taste of the future in the present, and I didn’t like it at all.
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I said: “Sorry but the price is too high. And people only come back because they don’t feel they have a choice. If there was a shop open next door I’d go there.” I delete the app and vow not to shop
@tesco
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My impression is that
#NicolaSturgeon
is rising to the occasion. She appears to be persuading the room and the court of public opinion that she acted in good faith.
This case, and the catharsis that will hopefully follow, may even strengthen the cause of Scottish Independence.
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Sad to hear Supreme Court Ruling about Scotland, though not surprised. The legal certainty now makes it clear that this is not a union of equal partners. I’m a culturally British Scottish Londoner, but I’m more sure than ever that Scotland should and will become independent.
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I’m a chess grandmaster and I approve this message.
No word I've come across better sums up Brexit than "Zugzwang". The German chess term for when you are compelled to move, but where all potential moves are disadvantageous and you just cannot win.
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I love this moment.
The flamboyant extrovert knocks over the pieces and almost falls off his chair.
On becoming World Champion, the introvert does not punch the air in delight. He goes inside himself, appears to sympathise with his opponent, and quietly walks away.
#NepoDing
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I don’t have many heroes but
@Tunde_OD
is one of them. It was a privilege to meet him tonight in London. The work he’s doing with
@chessinslums
is extraordinary. Through chess, he helps children in poverty become *thinkers*, with a love of learning, self-belief, and agency.
💫🌍
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3/3 I say I just want to buy a sandwich and nowhere else is open. He says sorry but this is store policy now *and it’s what customers wants*. “Soon”, he says, “*all stores will be like this.*” “People protest, but then they come back a few days later”, he said.
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Chessdotcom's report is marketing.
1. It's 20 pages, not 72.
2. No evidence of OTB cheating at all, and their attempt to whip it up is embarrassing.
3. It challenges Hans's version of prior cheating, but mostly w' online blitz games in 2020, and reasonable doubt.
#chessdrama
Today we released our official report on Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, and cheating in chess. Read it here:
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2/2 pragmatism had me download the app, but I said no to the club card. I can’t proceed to buy the sandwich and get home. There’s a barrier. I ask for help. The staff member takes my phone and changes my option to “accept club card”. I say no thanks. He says then you can’t get in
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“Ukraine is the country that is now the spiritual leader of the free world.”
Well said Garry Kasparov.
It’s exactly that.
@Kasparov63
was speaking to
@officejjsmart
for
@KyivPost
(c14:00) 🇺🇦
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It's interesting to ask what's *really* going on with the reaction to the Supreme Court Ruling today. Because it's not as if anybody in Scotland particularly wanted a consultative referendum conducted by Holyrood without Westminster's approval.🧵 👇
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@neofight78
@Tesco
If that’s the case then they are clearly in violation of that rule. It was literally “no data, no shopping”. For that matter it was effectively no phone no shopping too.
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Should chess be in the
#Olympics
?
Is chess a sport?
Yes and yes.
After years of being asked, I tried to distill the case in a short Socratic dialogue in my book,
The Moves that Matter.
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"And do you know what is in paragraph 5c?" - a memorable moment.
What impressed is that
@afneil
didn't get ruffled by his own minor in-the-moment slips ('laxical', paragraph/article conflation) and ignored invitations to scrap.
He was resolutely focussed on meaningful scrutiny.
@afneil
That was a masterclass in broadcast interviewing. In awe. Thank you for a true piece of public service.
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I think today was a much bigger deal than people realise. I don't know if it's the beginning of the end of the Union, but I suspect constitutional politics in the UK is about to become even more messy and turbulent.
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Overview of
#chessdrama
imo
1) Magnus rightly cares about cheating in chess and wants to lead on the matter.
2) He may have reason to think Hans has cheated online more than he’s said.
3) But he probably overreacted to an over-the-board loss by withdrawing and scapegoating Hans.
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Instead, the UK government is effectively saying: The answer is no now, and will be no for as long as we like for reasons we don't have to specify, because we have the power, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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@Tesco
Hi Donald, I understand this is a new concept, and you have to take the company line. But i don’t like it. “No queues and no checkouts” means “no humans”. And you don’t “need” me to use the app and club card. You harvest my personal data as part of a dehumanising business model.
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I long to listen to chess commentary that is not over-done.
Chess commentators are invariably just a bit too pumped up for my taste.
They talk to each other like they are astonished about everything.
“Oh my god. He moved the knight!”
That kind of thing…
#fidecandidates
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The word I keep coming back to is humiliation. I don't think Scotland is a colony as such, but it's equally wrong to ignore the basis of that claim. After today, Scotland can be seen as a nation that is unable to achieve statehood without the permission of another state.
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Gosh. I can’t quite believe it, but I just managed to beat Gawain Jones in the London League.
Still got it!
#chess
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@hmoazzam_
It’s not actually support for Hans as such. It’s support for clear thinking and the principle of the presumption of innocence. The heart of this story is not a few online blitz games in 2020 but the world champion destroying a teenager’s career in 2022 without justification.
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Gukesh 🤦♂️😢
Chess can be so cruel.
He played a brilliant technical game to achieve a winning position, but after stubborn resistance from Abdusattor, the pressure of the event must have got to him.
#ChessOlympiad
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Q: Why don’t you want to play him?
A: He has cheated in the past and he might be cheating in the present.
Q: Which point is more important? Are you punishing him for past misdemeanours or do you have good reason to suspect he’s cheating now?
A: A bit of both.
#chessdrama
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What we wanted the court to say was that Scotland had the right to leave the UK if it chose to do so. Because that right is totemic for Scotland's self-esteem as a nation. What the court said is that we have no such right, which calls into question the meaning of nationhood.
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In chess terms, this is like offering a draw when you have a hopelessly lost position.
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My brother, Mark Christopher Rowson, died peacefully on November 2nd. He had a joyous childhood which kept his morale high throughout 27 years of schizophrenia. I was touched to see many old school friends at the funeral in Aberdeen yesterday. He will be dearly missed.
#RIP
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I can see why it's thought to be clever to call the SNP "Scottish Nationalist Party" rather than "Scottish National Party" but it is really stupid.
It's not just that it's rude. The issue is that it entails performative contempt, which in spirit is a kind of *bullying*.
#bbcqt
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Those who see Nepo's blunders in the last two games as an indication of the challenger's chess strength are completely missing the point.
What these mistakes reveal is the limit of a human nervous system when forced to encounter a superior opponent day after day.
#CarlsenNepo
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But maybe they miss the point. The fact it has happened and could keep happening is a violation of Scotland's sense of its own nationhood. I do think it makes sense to speak of national humiliation here. There are all sorts of examples of power asymmetries to make sense of this.
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If you are wondering how one of the best players in the world can blunder with 27.c5?? in
#CarlsenNepo
it is worth remembering that Magnus did this to him.
The Strong weaken the weaker.
It happens all the time.
I wrote about it in The Moves that Matter:
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If you love
#QueensGambit
you *might* love my book too.
The Netflix series can be seen as a glamorous screen version of The Moves that Matter.
I can't offer the soft lighting or beautiful eyes, but chess as a gateway to the meaning of life? Absolutely.
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Perceptive angle on May's deal.
Rather than accepting economic harm to gain sovereignty, her deal actually *sacrifices sovereignty* simply to be able to say that we have left the EU.
"Consider the consequences for trust in politics if this House forces an outcome on the people that they no longer desire. That really would be the undemocratic establishment stitch-up of all time"
Margaret Beckett on case for public vote on
#Brexit
deal
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And if you think that's nonsense, I wonder if you underestimate the emotional attachment people have to their sense of nationhood. What is a nation that doesn't have the right to self-determination? Surely, something significant has been taken away.
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No.
Much is lost in the name of modernisation.
Chess has to be more than breathless excitement and frenetic hand movement.
The game is truest to itself when it’s slow, silent, thoughtful, deep and beautiful.
Let’s allow it to stay that way.
Per Magnus Carlsen, chess needs to modernize.
Do we want chess on TV? Do we want the biggest companies in the world to sponsor your favorite top players?
If so, make chess more accessible. Faster. No more 30 day matches and 6-hour games. Use the best commentators. Deliver an
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I confess that the inspiration of
#ChessOlympiad2022
has me wondering if I should start playing chess again.
I wrote a book to explain to myself why I had played enough, but I haven't felt this tempted in years...
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Two things people don’t understand about the delicious agony of the chess experience.
1. That our sense of mortality is heightened by the silent ticking of the chess clock.
2. Choosing an opening repertoire is a lifelong identity maintenance project full of existential anguish.
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Magnus Carlsen lost today, but why?
10.a3!? is intriguing, but hardly terrifying.
There's a case for...Bf6 rather than taking on e3.
12..Qh4?! is a sign of poor form; it lost time.
16..Nc6? is a blunder in an already difficult position
Even World Champions have bad days.
#Chess
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Hans both cheated and didn’t cheat.
He lied and he didn’t lie.
He has been fairly treated and unfairly treated.
He has himself to blame and others to blame.
Such is life.
We’re in the world of both/and *and* either/or now.
Time to get used to it.
#chessdrama
#metamodernity
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When three players from India lost their internet connection in the final of
#ChessOlympiad
the decision was made to award Russia *and* India gold medals.
Everyone's a winner!
It's a good decision, but I think it only really makes sense if both sides get silver medals too 😀
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To anybody else feeling foolish to have spent most of the day fretting about the US Presidential Election I say this:
You're an excitable social animal, not a productivity machine. History is unfolding and the outcome matters.
It was time spent, not time wasted.
Cheers! 🍻
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It's hard to explain quite how shocking this is.
If we ever had to create a chess version of
'do something that communicates to the outside world you have been taken hostage in a way that your captors won't understand'
this would be it.
Genuinely astonishing. 2750+ rated player plays 46.Rxg5+ here. With 19 minutes remaining on his clock.
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The lawsuit is written like a tabloid article with a “Better call Saul” vibe, and the $100,000,000 figure seems designed to grab attention, but that doesn’t mean the underlying case is unsound. Prima facie, there is a case to answer. I’m very curious to see what happens next.
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Terms like genocide are weighty and should not be used lightly.
So please watch this informed and discerning legal case for why what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza amounts to genocide.
The language matters.
The law matters.
Without them, what’s left of civilisation?
Gaza is a 'textbook genocide'.
This is according to Raz Segal - an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University in the US.
Listen carefully to what he says.
It's based on facts, law and precedent - and it should terrify you.
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"I don't want to play against people who have cheated repeatedly in the past, because I don't know what they are capable of doing in the future."
The heart of the matter.
It's an understandable preference, but it's not a legitimate reason to refuse to play someone.
#ChessDrama
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Professor Devi Sridhar is my main go-to person to figure out what’s happening with COVID-19.
Her expertise is palpable, communicated clearly, and suffused with humanity.
My new Guardian piece trying to make sense of current situation -> difficult decisions ahead for ministers.
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That's why the rallies happening all over Scotland today were an important ritual act, because they served to reassert wounded national pride. At a cultural level, it's not a small thing at all, and it will manifest politically before long.
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I wish I could laugh at the irony of this request from Tesco for more data, in response to a complaint about demanding data, but mostly I feel sad, alienated, and scared👇
@Jonathan_Rowson
HI Johnathan. Please can you DM your address, postcode, Clubcard No and email address?
Thanks - Shibhon
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Life and work don’t wait for
#chessdrama
so I’m going to try to resist tweeting about it today.
Instead, I’m sharing a story:
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So my bold venture back into chess has ended with a score of 5/9 against IM opposition and the loss of 15 rating points! That’s the bad news.
The good news is that chess is back in my life. Today’s second game was a beauty, and I’m proud of it, even if I screwed up at the end.
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I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but if you show 2014-2019 and also compare the SNP with other parties you get a fuller picture. I’d say a fairer way to tell the story is one of extraordinary growth followed by partial consolidation rather than “decline”.
How the decline in SNP membership has played out...
Year end 2019 — 125,691
Year end 2020 — 105,393
Year end 2021 — 103,884
Year end 2022 — 82,598
15 February 2023 — 72,186
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@Tesco
I get it, but for the record, another customer present was also very unhappy about it. And it was late at night, with no other nearby stores. The experience was one of a kind of profiteering, and I think it's important to resist this kind of thing before it becomes the norm.
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Despite being an inactive chess Grandmaster with no intention of playing competitively in the near future, Jonathan suddenly decided that what he needed in his life at this moment was to learn how to play the Caro-kann with 5...gxf6!?
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Happy to discover
@vishy64theking
won the World Rapid Championship.
I just clicked through the games. He still has extraordinary tactical acuity and presence of mind, and is very rarely worse out of the opening.
And his endings are not too shabby...
48 is the new 28?
#riyadhchess
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A crucial point to grasp.
Ventilation is *much* more important than sanitation.
Be outside when together, if at all possible.
“As long as people keep emphasizing handwashing..., you are not going to control this pandemic,”
- Virologist Julian Tang.
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Delighted to share that a labour of love over many years has found a home.
My book, *Seeing what Matters: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life*
will be published by
@BloomsburyBooks
@BloomsburyPub
in the spring of 2019.
(*working title)
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I'm not sure what happens now. I don't think anybody wants a general election to be turned into a de-facto referendum on independence, and some might even find it absurd. And yet I find the political logic compelling in the current circumstances.
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Today I’ll be venturing back into the ocean of 64 squares, armed with 45 years of life, a Grandmaster title I hope to prove to be worthy of, and a secret weapon from
@chessable
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The presumption of innocence is really really really really important.
Our entire civilisation depends on it.
#chessdrama
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Political vision in the UK should now mean letting Scotland choose its own way, steps towards a United Ireland, more autonomy for Wales, all rejoining the European single market and an English cultural renaissance…
But instead we have “make Brexit work”…
NEW from
@IpsosScotland
and
@STVNews
✴️ SNP strengthens General Election support to 51%
✴️ No indication that a 'de facto' referendum strategy would harm the party’s electoral chances
✴️ 56% would vote Yes and 44% No in an immediate
#indyref2
- Yes up 6 points since May (1/9)
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Those who are sanguine about it say nothing has changed. There was a referendum in 2014. There might be another later. Relax. Scotland is still a nation. Westminster can't keep Scotland against its will if it's really (even more) obvious that it wants to leave the UK.
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"I’m a Scottish Londoner. That’s the kind of Scot I am, and that’s the kind of Londoner I am. Scotland is my country, London is my city, and I love and belong to them both. They say when someone from Ireland lives away from Ireland they become more Irish.
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Whatever Nepo is like off the board, as a player he is flamboyant in the sense of expressive and performative and extrovert in the sense that the energy is clearly directed outwards. I recognise he was devastated and exhausted. I’m making an aesthetic judgment, not a moral one.
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Does anyone else feel physically unwell because of what is happening politically in the UK?
We might coin a term, say, 'physio-politico', to describe the sensation where the human body recognises itself as part of the body politic when the latter is under attack.
#Parliament
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The same people are not worried about the lack of a specified mechanism to leave the UK, or the indignity of being obliged to repeatedly ask for permission and being told no, or not yet. Because they say in practice that wouldn't happen, or at least couldn't happen indefinitely.
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A brilliant game!
The queen sacrifice is easy, just ignition. What’s hard is to gather the fuel, to trust a risky opening and slow burning attack; the rook on e1, the bishop to c4 not c2, to dangle his brother the assassin on f6.
Only then to pounce.
And, patiently, kill.
#Dubov
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I doubt I will see either of those women again. I have no idea where the came from or where they are going. But it was reassuring to be briefly human together.
We are surrounded by strangers who could be friends.
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Vishnu(6) is learning about chess openings. I’ve been encouraging him to control the centre, develop his minor pieces and think about his king safety.
But he wants to play The Grob 😱
He knows I don’t like this, and leaves the board like this to wind me up.
#Chess
#Parenting
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Magnus on his predecessors Kasparov and Kramnik saying he made a mistake not playing out game twelve. “They are entitled to their stupid opinions.”
#carlsencarauana2018
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17th wedding anniversary today.
The blessing of my life that makes all others possible is this: despite everything, and I can only hope because of it,
@SivaThambisetty
puts up with me.
Lunch at
@Dishoom
was a precious moment together without work or kids. Their Black Dahl is 👌
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Congratulations to
#Uzbekistan
!
Not bad for a *double landlocked* country.
It’s one thing to say “look at us youngsters, we’re leading!” And quite another to hold your nerves and actually win 🥇
It looks like they have had a long time together as a team.
#ChessOlympiad2022
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The envy-laced misogyny in the
#SannaMarin
case is palpable. There's a patriarchial tendency to fear female pleasure and see beauty in a way that subsumes ability.
How wonderful to be beautiful, competent, to lead your country and enjoy your life.
There's no need to apologise!
'I am a human ... But I have not missed a single day of work, a single task, and I never will' — Finnish PM Sanna Marin continued to defend herself from the fallout of several leaked videos showing her drinking and partying with personal friends
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I’ll soon be recording videos for
@chessable
starting with The Seven Deadly Chess Sins.
I’m re-reading my book from 20 years ago.
Sin is helpfully defined by Francis Spufford as
“the human propensity to f*** things up.
And there’s a lot of that in chess!
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I don’t think Niemann cheated in his recent over-the-board game against Carlsen. I think Carlsen overreacted to losing in an unfortunate way. He seems to have projected a more general serious problem with cheating on to one relatively disempowered person without sufficient cause.
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“Scientists have started to cry about climate collapse in public. That’s a different kind of data, but possibly the most persuasive kind.”
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Surprised to find that I am 46 years old today (Indian standard time) even though I had 16790 days of warning.
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To all those who responded to this analysis by saying “stick to the chess” I would say kindly f*** off. You can be a strong chess player and have strong views on other things, and you have every right to air them. A GM is also a human, and a citizen. Treat the case on its merits.
The US is a flawed country and make a lot of mistakes. But I am getting a bit tired of this comparison with horror of the Russian land grab in Ukraine being diminished by people, saying: what about the US?
I have answered a lot of times in the comments, but will do it here now,
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I admire not just that Magnus did this, but the way he did it. Such brutal resolve and efficiency.
From now on, we should call all lines with a quick Qg5-d2 The Noble Kamikaze Queen variation.
(The NKQ).
Wow! Magnus Carlsen resigns on move 4 of Game 2 to make up for Ding Liren's loss on time/disconnect in a drawn position in Game 1!
#c24live
#StudyChess
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When lockdown is over I want to go to a bar and play drunken blitz chess all night long.
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A: I have the right to play whoever I like.
Q: Doesn’t he have the right to do the same? Won’t your actions undermine that?
A: Do you know who I am?
Q: Magnus Carlsen?
A: Right.
Q: Right?
#ChessDrama
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I just blocked Elon Musk.
I don't block many people, but I began to feel the Twitter experience would be much better is his tweets were not part of it.
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We both have far too much work to do to get drunk at lunchtime, but it’s our 16th wedding anniversary and for once we managed to agree on what to do.
🙏
@SivaThambisetty
My mother-in-law wishes us many more years of “happy quarrelling”.
Thank you to all who have supported us.
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Note to self: If I’m going to play chess, I need some black openings that make me feel happy inside; moves that I actually look forward to playing.
My safety-first diet of Caro-kann and Queen’s Gambit Declined was well intentioned, but it’s bad for the soul.
#chessdrama
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For those curious to place this thread in a larger context,
I wrote about
#sandwichgate
here:
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Three questions on
#chessdrama
are conflated and it helps to tease them apart.
1. Hans Neimann ever cheated at chess?
-Yes, he admitted to cheating twice in online chess, when he was 12 and 16 (he’s now 19)
Odds of cheating= c100%
(But does this make him “a cheater” today ?)
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Half of the US's total assets are now owned by just 400 people (400!) From review of the film '
#Inequality
for all'
http://t.co/MWhaYeGq
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👀 “At the age of 29…” 🔥
Yesterday
@Viditchess
managed to overcome the cognitive impairment and weak knees expected *in your late twenties* to defeat America’s celebrated tricenarian in spectacular style, without the assistance of reading glasses or walking sticks..
#chess
GM
#ViditGujrathi
picked up the biggest win of his career so far, beating Hikaru Nakamura in their
#FIDECandidates
match last.
@Abhiee0312
had spoken to Gujrathi who is enjoying an impressive resurgence in chess.
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@Dean_LeFleur
@KenRoth
@elonmusk
@Twitter
I appreciate the spirit of what you’re saying, but as a chess grandmaster I can assure you that there is often good reason to freak out when a pawn gets moved.
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15 years ago I laughed nervously while making a solemn commitment, and my wife Siva glared at me.
Tonight we’re hiding away from our children and celebrating our superhuman capacity to put up with each other on an indefinite basis. 🥂
#marriage
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I’m finding it hard to speak with conviction.
Talk of changing the world rings hollow, yet my job is premised on making better sense of it.
I don’t know what ‘systems change’ really means, for instance. And I’m not sure we can alter our social imaginaries by design.
Difficult.
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Caruana's complete lack of neuroticism is what makes him a threat to Carlsen. He doesn't fear Magnus's magic powers, only his best moves.
He doesn't fret. He doesn't see ghosts.
Today's endgame is a case in point: Magnus cannot conjure victory from a draw.
#Carlsencaruana2018
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