Pony S. (aka Kristan)
@sunrise_pony
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Sometimes clever. 4.12 years learning chess. I call myself an artist (banner photo my own) she/her✌️.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined October 2022
When it looks like you’re up sh*t creek in a game but you find a smooth tactic to save it/how to get @chesscoachandra to tell you you can make as many positional mistakes as you like. p.s. Having a total blast prepping with him for the #chesspunks finals.
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They didn’t have to do the press conference, but went through with it anyway. To go from absolute elation in the room a moment before to this devastation was very confusing. When Fabi said “I feel like an idiot” I went to the back of the room and cried. #candidates2024 .📸:me
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Day 15: Pragg and Vaishali at the closing ceremony ❤️. Can this family adopt me already?. #FIDECandidates .#candidates2024 .📸: Kristan Klimczak (me)
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“5 in a row is really wild stuff!” followed by a head explosion gesture probably wasn’t the most articulate thing I could have said to Vaishali and Nagalakshmi, but they lit up with huge smiles and thanked me regardless. Pure grace. #candidates2024.📸:Kristan Klimczak (me)
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When the day gives you lemons “make” chips and study a classic illustration of the power of the bishop pair in the middlegame in the bathtub.
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Day 14: Goodmorning! (I love her). (I’ll post more, but will start with this. I’m still processing yesterday.). #FIDECandidates .#candidates2024 .📸: Kristan Klimczak (me)
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When you wake up and see that @ChessbaseIndia has shared some of your photos on Instagram, you know it’s going to be a good day.
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Me when I realize I have to go back to my regular life and probably won't photograph anything like the candidates ever again. #candidates2024 .📸: Kristan Klimczak (me)
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My favourite thing to write when they ask for a rematch.
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Woman opens chess board for the first time since May:
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The closed captioning is really trying to steal the show.
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The deal: . My life’s: a mess. Can’t play otb. Just got over long Covid. Indoor group things are a no-go. I’m cranky about it. I need to play longer time controls with nice (emphasis on nice) folks on par with/above my rating (1800 and up chesscom) to learn. Dm if down. A cat:
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Ok. When I walked around her table and saw that Tan Zhongyi was wearing a chessboard pattern barrette it made me so damn happy. #FIDECandidates .📸:me
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Watching Ian Nepomniachtchi right now is so painfully sad, that’s all I’ve got.
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Just wanna pop on to brag about having Mondays off.
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Day 8: I have access to photograph in the playing hall from 2:10-2:40pm. It’s brief and hectic and the feeling in the room carried over from the previous round is intense. The stamina of the players blows my frickin mind. Goodnight. #FIDECandidates .#Candidates2024.📸: me 😉
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The first person who combined these two words achieved greatness.
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Day 13: This candidates IS as lit as my friend’s wedding that was at the same venue. #FIDECandidates .#candidates2024 .📸: Kristan Klimczak (me)
Fingers crossed the Candidates is as lit to photograph as my friend’s wedding at the same venue was.
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Day 2: I have nothing but earnestness right now. I watched from the balcony later on in the day and it was straight up a really cool experience. #FIDECandidates .📸s by me
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Is there anything sweeter than the smooth sounds of Yasser Seirawan’s continuous “Exactly”s keeping me company while I cook dinner at a very dark 5:47pm? I really don’t think there is.
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Day 5: Watching Nepo try to psychically will Pragg into accepting that the game is now a draw was one of the best silent films I have ever seen. #FIDECandidates .📸: you guessed it, me
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It’s a thing when you’re learning a lot of new chess info for you to TOTALLY suck at playing right? Because your brain gets way jumbled for a bit until it all settles? Right??. (this has happened a million times but every time I want to throw chess in the garbage). Goodmorning.
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Sick in bed for the past few days. Playing online until my eyes bled (don’t judge me). Tilting like it was my full time job. But this knight sac against my nemesis 🤬The French🤬made life worth living again.
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Day 7: I just want to give everyone a hug and tell them it’s going to be ok. #FIDECandidates.#candidates2024 .📸: Kristan Klimczak (aka me)
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Day 4: Still sitting on my chosen chair in the back corner of the media room by the coat racks quietly having a blast. #FIDECandidates .📸: me again
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I’m a woman who loves her pseudonyms and cryptic photos (who wants to use a name like Kristan when you don’t have to). On Twitter I’m Pony Sunrise and On chesscom I’m BigBabyBunny and will be playing in the #chesspunks champs knockout.
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A big thank you to @chesscoachandra for a chill final lesson that calmed my nerves. Before this session I was completely prepared to hide under a blanket and not come out until after the finals were done.
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I’ve become so obsessed with how Yasser pronounces “Exactly” and how often he says it in commentary that I’ve considered drastic measures:
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Day 12: As I was leaving Ben Finegold was coming in and I want everyone to know that he was very polite to the person at the front desk. Also, this tournament is off the chain. #FIDECandidates .#Candidates2024.📸: Kristan Klimczak (aka me)
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A simple Google image search confirms this dude’s love of great threads. Well tailored suits and killer shirts for days. Shine on you crazy diamond.
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I have a major crush on this Tal-Lissitzin game (Leningrad 1956). The way the king arrogantly bops along like it could be wearing a heavy fur trimmed cape while the opposing rook scrambles in a befuddled cartoon sweat-bead panic made my very bad week a bit better last night.
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Hi. Long time no tweet. Happy New Year. This was a very fun move to play.
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I’m under strict orders from @chesscoachandra to post this game I shamelessly just wanted to share for props while doing our #chesspunks training. (yes @chessable, I’ll get you in on the tagging action too.)
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@chess24com This weird high school gang up is getting really gross. Did everyone forget that chess players can be overly paranoid. Just because they are top players doesn’t mean they make sound social decisions. I mean they spent their devolopmental years only studying chess for chrissake.
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“Oh hey, yeah not up to much really just watching the Ivanchuk YouTube channel. You?”
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I would just like to let everyone know that not blocking the queen check with my bishop in the #chesspunks finals will now haunt me for the rest of my life. Happy Halloween.
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Playing an online game I said out loud “You better move that chicken. ” referring to my opponent’s knight. Just wanted to let everyone know.
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W T F: I beat a 2200 on chesscom (well, they were 2200… before I beat them).
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This week I’ve been looking at endgame studies that I can’t seem to solve. I just stare at all the empty squares on the board and question my own existence. Cue my fairy godmother Irving Chernev, who always knows exactly what to say.
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Totally gonna bandwagon and learn the London, very into people being completely annoyed on my second move not sure why I’ve waited so long.
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Me when I was 19 if u even care. (It was so damn long ago I needed to use an actual photograph.)
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Goodmorning. Day 3 cont’d (plus one of Pragg from day 2 to mix things up). #FIDECandidates .📸: moi
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Fingers crossed the Candidates is as lit to photograph as my friend’s wedding at the same venue was.
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Two days in and I’ve been kicked off of using split screen. He insisted on an immersive experience.
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Want to never play against The London again? . Learn something new against it. Finally and desperately WANT to play against it. You'll see nothing but e4 for the rest of your life (or for the past 2 days at least).
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Eating apple slices, drinking herbal tea and properly analyzing my 15+10 games. Who is this person and what have they done with me?.
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Hey tweeters how’s it going? Came in 5th in the #chesspunks U1700 qualifier yesterday with a 7/9. Been out of the chess groove for a bit so it felt wild. I’m over 1700 now and plan to masochistically get crushed in the U2000 it being a rainy Sunday and all.
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How I talk to myself every time I try to calculate lines but stop midway and just move without thinking:
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PSA. Do not play chess on your phone with one hand while frying dinner in hot oil with the other.
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My end of game time for a 52 move 30+30 game aka what happens when I try to play longer time controls. (ps: like I won, but why can't I slow the eff down)
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I just told my cat that I was making a chess joke on the internet but then I realized I needed to explain chess, jokes and the internet to him.
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I was terrified to do it but @DoctorScull is great and I had a super time. That Roger (cat) was chewing on my foot for a lot of it didn’t matter. Only regret: not talking about how refreshing it was to deduce that Silman was likely a huge stoner at some point (see photo).
This week on Chess Journeys, I had the pleasure of talking to @sunrise_pony We had a great chat about her quick rise to 2000 Lichess. I hope you enjoy the show. #chesspunks
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This know-it-all is really starting to grind my gears.
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Most people are into plain old number of followers. Me, I’m into symmetry, multiples of 3 and overplayed pervy jokes.
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I post a gif of a chesscom game. Some dude (now blocked) was like: this lichess don’t lie (chesscom rating vs lichess different etc.). That’s right Sherlock. I make gifs in lichess from chesscom pgns. How do I live with the moral ambiguity or myself. Here’s another:
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I KNOW I keep going on, but the sheer JOY I feel now when someone plays the Caro is overwhelming. (Next on the list, kick the godforsaken Stonewall to the curb and everything will work out for me forever until the end of time. Doing my taxes prolly wouldn't hurt either.)
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How to slow down your thinking after years of rapid and blitz taught you flow and sass but rotted your mind: take a weed gummy, get your cat all comfy near your computer and pretend to stream to him so you talk through all your moves.
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Woman reads 1.5 chapters from Art of Attack in Chess and feels she is finally beginning to live.
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Thank you @aidenatdontmove for sharing the coolest thing that I will read today and @julesgambit for asking the question that lead to the sharing of the coolest thing I will read today. Going down a rabbit hole now. I’ll catch everyone on the other side.
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I’ve become so muddled in my chess that every game feels like I’m in a bizarre slasher movie where I run around screaming terrified and confused, fight for my life with the odds stacked against me and get killed.
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So this whole thing with folks being excited about the chess boom, that’s just about money right? Like more potential to make money from all things chess? Because our gurl chess has been around for a long time and ain’t at risk of dying, so it must be the money, right?.
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I am at the very beginning of mentally preparing to learn something new against e4. When I looked at the length of the chessable course I almost cried. It made me just want to stay in this Icelandic gambit game forever and never leave.
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On this week's episode of "You Sure You Wanna Take That?":
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Printing this graph out and handing it to anyone who asks me “So, how’s your week been?”.
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@FMChessMVP Lichess: non-profit, free, chill place to play. Chesscom: arbitrary +ve reinforcement to lure folks into spending $, the site has the feel of playing video games in a bro-y pot dealer's basement, Rensch’s management speak/I’m your best friend thing is 🤮,I could go on but twitter.
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I want to play 15+10 games online but think longer time controls means more cheating or whatever. Am I being:.
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When I review games I let the engine take me through long lines sometimes just to see what its little computer brain will do. And I can see that it clearly makes practical sound decisions, but I feel like dude needs to smoke a joint and live a little freer.
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