Sometimes it feels like my friends and family don't really understand how much blood, sweat, and tears it takes to be this mediocre at a game I don't really like.
The No. 2 ranked woman chess player in the U.S. is an 18-year-old whose optimism helps her in and out of the game.
I spoke with
@CarissaChess
ahead of her play at the U.S. Junior Championship at the
@STLChessClub
where she is the only woman in the field
me when i was in a 9 hour long bullet marathon match against a rando online and now it’s morning and i haven’t slept all night and also actually lost 27 rating points
Biden dropping reminded me of how I dropped you…hope you know I’m still trying to win the election for your heart. No need to respond…tell your mom I say hi 😔
This is Chess Clash! ⚔️
Chess meets Clash on September 7. Witness the fusion of and Clash stars as they join forces to compete in a series of challenges for a $50,000 charity prize!
Full lineup:
@alexandrabotez
@GothamChess
@SonicFox
@AnnaCramling
“The future that we now inhabit will not resemble the past before Roe, when women sought out illegal abortions and not infrequently found death…We have entered an era not of unsafe abortion but of widespread state surveillance and criminalization” thank you
@meldmasceno
for this