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Used to tour the 🌎 in bands 🎶 Head of Creator Marketplace @chesscom Marathon / Trail / Ultrarunner Papa to 3 👧🏼👧🏼🧒 Views expressed ≠ employer's
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I’m stoked and honored to get back on the mic in 2024 with
@shaihulud
’s full “That Within Blood Ill-Tempered” line-up to celebrate that album’s release 20 years ago at
@FurnaceFest
.
Other bands confirmed:
@POISON_THE_WELL
@UnderoathBand
Stretch Arm Strong
Tickets now
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Loved the food so much I went back and brought the whole team today.
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Never seen anything like it. The whole city has the chess fever.
#ChennaiChessOlympiad
#chennaichess2022
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Man. This Indian food is too good. And, the sweets!
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My mom was inspired by all the 🇮🇳 food photos at the
#ChessOlympiad
so she made homemade dosas for us tonight!
❤️🌶🙏🏼
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I hope they wrote nice things? I can’t read this unfortunately.
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Got to eat another wonderful dinner with my hands tonight at Hotel Guru ECR.
🇮🇳❤️
#ChessOlympiad
#ChennaiChess2022
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Good morning Chennai!
Did a nice 5:30 AM beach run for an hour this morning. Gotta keep on with the running program before the day full of chess starts 💪
#ChennaiChess2022
#ChessOlympaid2022
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Switching it up for a mixed menu dinner at Virunthombal Chettinadu tonight 👌
I ordered:
Aloo Gobi Masala
Veg Machurian
Mix Veg Curry
and Watermelon / Lime juice!
#ChennaiChessOlympiad
#ChennaiChess2022
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The King
@MagnusCarlsen
meets the Queen
@GMJuditPolgar
. And it ended with a win for Judit!
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Thank you Honourable Prime Minister Modi, sir.
Chennai’s hospitality has been legendary. 🙏🏼
#ChennaiChessOlympiad
#ChennaiChess2022
India's culinary diversity is legendary. You will find a dish for every occasion.
Glad to see you enjoying Chennai and exploring the city.
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Man. AC hits different in India.
Step outside your room and it’s like someone wrapping a wet, hot blanket around you. 🌴💧🥵🌶
#ChessOlympiad
#ChennaiChess2022
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Quick work lunch before Round 2 of the
@FIDE_chess
#ChessOlympiad
at the Four Points.
On the menu:
Vatha Kolambu
Mushroom Do Pyaza
Dal Maharani
Bhindi Kurkure
and some ♟ dessert!
#ChennaiChess2022
#ChennaiChessOlympiad
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Let's recap:
Hans cheated online as a teenager.
Magnus lost a game around 2.5 years later to him.
Magnus then accused Hans publicly of cheating now.
Magnus has provided no evidence for this.
published a report on Hans's cheating 2.5 years ago.
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Some influencer showed up late and started taking pictures of A2D. I hope it brings them many more customers.
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Wow. We received this beautiful plate of all kinds of different Northern and Southern dishes!
#Sheraton
#SheratonGrandChennai
#Marriot
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@stats_feed
It's great to see chess listed here!
However, the current chess world champion is Ding Liren from 🇨🇳
Magnus Carlsen from 🇳🇴 is the highest-rated player but he declined to play in the last Chess World Championship.
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And it’s
@anishgiri
who won the
@chess24com
@chess24es
Premium blitz outright with a stellar 7.5/8 points!
Congratulations 🔥
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I still have to find a team with better uniforms than the
@JamaicaChess
team!
Might trade him a course for the jacket 👀😂
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I found a new running gang. They weren’t very motivated to run today though.
🐄🏝🐂
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Wow. Gukesh goes 8/8 by beating Caruana in dominating fashion to become India’s new nr. 2 on the live ratings list!
Unbelievable performance.
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@stats_feed
Magnus did recently win the World Cup. But, that's not the same thing as the Chess World Championship.
I know, I know... the chess tournament landscape and their names make no sense to outsiders. They don't even make sense to insiders! 😂🤣😇
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Our
@chessable
booth at the
@FIDE_chess
#ChennaiChessOlympiad
Is finished and it looks great. Our team is ready for Round 2!
#ChennaiChess2022
@chennaichess22
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We’re on our way to a Rajahastani dinner at the Sheraton Grand Chennai Resort & Spa.
Food review + dinner photos incoming🙌
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Alright Madrid.
@anishgiri
is ready to take on all comers in blitz at Retiro Park at La Cabaña by the Asociación Amigos del Retiro.
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Did a long beach walk with
@ChessProblem
. Treated ourselves to a bottled water and view of the Indian Sea. Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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2700 GM’s in the chess world cup right now 👇
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Chess tournament checklist:
-pen
-notation booklet
-bottle of water
-snacks
-super glue
What am I missing?
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A fifth win over Shirov no less takes Gukesh up to nr. 27 in the world on the live ratings AND makes him the new nr. 3 of India overtaking Vidit. 🔥
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Wow. This guy is playing like a future chess world champion!
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Why do players at
#Candidates2022
still have to write down their moves?
There are cameras everywhere recording every move.
They're playing on digital boards.
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Nigel Short, one of the most openly misogynistic grandmasters in the chess world, is appointed
@FIDE_chess
’s new Director of Chess Development.
What’s he going to develop? More misogynistic grandmasters?
#womeninchess
GM Nigel Short and IM Akaki Iashvili are appointed Director for Chess Development, and Special Tasks Director respectively.
📷: David Llada
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Beat Caruana 👀
Beat Magnus 👀
Beat Nepo 👀
17 years old 👀
Nordirbek Abdussatarov is the youngest rapid chess world champion ever. 👀👀👀
What a performance
#rapidblitz
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Got to check out the
@chesschennai2022
playing hall yesterday and it was great to run in friends from
@ChessbaseIndia
@davidllada
and
@michael_rahal
right away.
I’m glad
@chessable
contributes to sponsor this great event!
#chesschennai2022
#WelcometoChennai
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Controversial opinion👇
Your blitz rating is your true chess playing strength.
My reasoning:
•Way bigger sample size of games
•Shorter time control means it’s more about intuition. Chess intuition = pattern recognition + speed of calculation (i.e. skill).
Discuss 😊
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1. b3 is the equivalent of free speech in chess.
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Spends all his time thinking of things to write in one sentence...
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Slowly but surely all the big names are climbing up the
@chess24com
@chess24es
tournament ladder.
Carlsen , Giri , Naroditsky , Gustafsson, Pichot, Santos, Bacallao, Matameros are all still undefeated going into round 4!
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If it’s a sport then why do all the grandmasters have to dress like accountants?
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Wow. Chess kids these days, man.
11-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus from Turkey gained 500 rating points (from 1955 to 2456) since July 2021 to become an IM.
@sabopasha
confirmed to me he met Yagiz when he was 9 years old and was impressed then already.
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Judit is playing some intimidating chess vs. Anish atm! Can she win another park blitz in Madrid today?!
#Candidates2022
#FIDECandidates
@chessable
@chessable_es
@chess24com
@chess24es
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The
@chessable
x
@chessinslums
(CIS-A) is rolling.
Had a great meeting with founder
@Tunde_OD
today to discuss concrete next steps to support CIS-A's on the ground campaigns in Nigeria, and possibly Burkina Faso!
I'm really excited about our plans.
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Want to clean chess up?
How about instead if singling out one player at a time we start by asking every titled chess player if they have ever cheated online or OTB?
Get everyone on record.
After that, we do a massive cross-check like was done on Niemann.
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R.I.P. IM Jeremy Silman
"How to Reassess Your Chess" is my favorite chess book ever.
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Is playing a pre-arranged draw cheating at chess?
Asking for a friend who's a high-up official at FIDE.
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India doing what India does best. Flooding the market with talent.
India now has 9 players in top 100 of the world rankings! And with the talent pool that is waiting close to the 2650 mark, this number is surely going to grow in the days to come!
Stats:
@2700chess
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How to get out of a date:
"Hi my name is Short. Nigel Short."
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Woo!
@LevAronian
’s debut
@chessable
course is out tomorrow!
The first Chessable course by the best dresser in chess will be out VERY soon - good luck at the
#ChessOlympiad2022
@LevAronian
!
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Here it is!
The video of
@GMJuditPolgar
’s 19 move win over world champion
@MagnusCarlsen
in yesterday’s surprise blitz game in Retiro park, Madrid.
@chessable
@chess24com
@chess24es
@PlayMagnus
@ChampChessTour
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Guys. Cheating is totally fine if you do it on stream, drinking with other top grandmasters in a bullet match. Then it’s not a reflection of your character.
It’s just not okay if you’re a teenager streamer. Then you’re bad and there’s no redemption.
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Top players publicly: "1. b3 ? Rubbish!"
Top players privately: "Hi Geert. Could you share
@adhibanchess
's 1. b3
@chessable
course with me so I can have a look."
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On the contrary.
Sending your report to a reputable third-party news outlet that then has to vet the report to put its own reputation on the line is the way to go.
This isn't about increased visibility (although what's wrong with that?). This is about credibility.
ChessCom leaking report to WSJ, instead of publishing in full on their site for the chess world to see, reeks of cynicism. Business move to increase their visibility to a mainstream audience.
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Happy 7th birthday to my fiercely independent firebrand of a daughter, Ada.
Keep on singing and dancing as much as you like, just not at the dinner table 😁
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.
@anishgiri
Husband.
Father of two.
Chess Grandmaster.
Chessable author.
Philosophical Determinist.
What else?
10...Qd7 from Magnus, as predicted by Giri, after 28 minutes:
"I know my boy... He thinks he's choosing, but actually he had already chosen... His whole life, if you look at his games, he was going to play Qd7, it's just how he plays!"
#FIDEWorldCup
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I’m really inspired by what
@Tunde_OD
and
@chessinslums
are accomplishing through sheer focus, consistency and dedication.
It’s an honour that
@chessable
can help.
I aim to visit Lagos, Nigeria in the near future to learn more of what it takes on the ground.
Ubuntu.
Chessable is proud and happy to announce our partnership with
@chessinslums
from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Prague Chess Festival should invite
@rpragchess
so they can rebrand to Pragg Chess Festival.
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The most exciting thing about the Nepomniachtchi - Nakamura game today (before they drew) was that I got to play 1. b3 as the ceremonial first move 👌😂
#Candidates2022
#FIDECandidates
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I’m at the
@AJEDREZCABEZA
chess club in Madrid for the
@chess24com
@chess24es
blitz tournament that features an absolutely stacked line-up incl.
@MagnusCarlsen
@anishgiri
@GmNaroditsky
@GMJanGustafsson
@Danton55
@pepeich_cuenca
@GMAlexColovic
and many more!
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1.5 hr run in the Dutch Mountains this morning. LFG💪
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I wonder what could possibly make women feel unwelcome in chess?
I beat a full grown adult man in the blitz tourney last night + when I pointed out his illegal move (he wasn't winning anyway) he knocked over all the pieces + stormed off. Then his friend came over as I was resetting the pieces + said I was getting lucky with all my wins
#chess
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Which is why knockout Opens should be the default for ALL chess tournaments and there should only be one invitational tournament, the Candidates.
Invitationals are neither fair nor are they good for the sport of chess.
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Never in my wildest dreams would I've thought we'd go from a 5-man start-up to sponsoring the World Chess Championship in 2 yrs. But, here we are.
It fills me with joy and pride also to partner with
@FIDE_chess
to create the new FIDE Chessable Youth development fund of 150K a yr
Huge news! We've signed a historic global partnership agreement with
@FIDE_chess
and we're now one of the sponsors for the World Chess Championship cycle, the Olympiad, and the World Rapid & Blitz Championships!
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I wonder if 1.e4 players and 1.d4 players have divergent views on this too 😁
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WARNING: this tweet will terrify millennials and zoomers.
When I grew up, I didn't text or call my friends if I wanted to hang out. I'd go to their house to ask them.
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For the record:
I despise cheating. It’s cancer to chess.
What I want is a fair, clean process for establishing cheating rather than a public accusing and blaming game.
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Time for a quick power nap at the
@chessable
office with my new
@anishgiri
pillow and my buddy Able.
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The New Immortal Draw
a.k.a. Dirty Flagging not approved by Kramnik
One of the most entertaining street chess vids I've ever seen. The live countdown to bullet is genius.
WATCH:
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Exciting stuff!
Our first ever
@chessable
pre-order for
@gothamchess
's 1. e4 repertoire is up.
If you pre-order you get early access to the 1st chapter on the "Magnus Sicilian"!
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