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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

3 months

BREAKING: 17 year old Singaporean Siddharth Jagadeesh has defeated Andrey Esipenko and in doing so, is now Singapore’s 5th chess grandmaster! 😭

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

It’s Chennai time

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

@nikhilkamathcio So cheating on a live stream and embarrassing a living legend of India and the global chess community is your idea of fun and charity? What a role model you are buddy.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

1 year

@David_Alaba Being famous is such a chore, you can’t even have your own opinions these days 🤣

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@kevingohwm

2 years

They fed us so well in Chennai that now I'm home, I seem to be always hungry.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

And we’ve safely arrived in Chennai. An incredibly warm welcome from our hosts and the organisers, really friendly and helpful.

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@kevingohwm

2 years

I think I’m gonna eat a lot here 😭

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

1 year

@hodgetwins In public schools in 🇸🇬, we used to have public caning for students who fight or behave rudely. My principal in primary school slapped me across the face, just because I talked back to her. These days teachers are a lot milder but this kid wouldn’t survive an hour here.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

My final word on this cheating scandal - I COMPLETELY understand why the cheaters did what they did. Like all men, we all wish to "last a little longer".

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Off to a good start - 4-0 vs Senegal. Tomorrow we should get a really strong team 😃

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

1 year

@hodgetwins I see a bunch of 🍓overreacting and claiming that I’m advocating violence🤣 nothing is further from the truth - what I’m saying is that in the 90s, we had caning as an effective way of discipline. These days this is outdated because people are getting softer. The truth hurts

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

This has got to be right up there as one of the worst attempts at making a save after being caught blatantly cheating.

Nikhil Kamath

@nikhilkamathcio

3 years

It is ridiculous that so many are thinking that I really beat Vishy sir in a chess game, that is almost like me waking up and winning a 100mt race with Usain Bolt. 😬

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@kevingohwm

2 years

@ReheSamay @GilletteIndia Bruh, ask for more money so you can shave all of your beard :D

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

So now Caruana and Nepomniachtchi have both openly spoken about their doubts over Hans Niemann's integrity. 4 of the world's best players surely did not make such assessments purely on the basis of Han's online cheating when he was 16?

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Thanks very much for your support, CG Edgar! 😃 we are very privileged to be here and grateful for the incredible hospitality from the organisers and Tamil Nadu government 🙏

Singapore in India

@SGinIndia

2 years

Excited to see our Singapore team flying our 🇸🇬 high at the 44th FIDE #ChessOlympiad in Chennai. Thanks also to @chennaichess22 and the Tamil Nadu govt for taking good care of them. Wishing our team all the best for the competition ahead! @kevingohwm @andreykvon - CG Edgar

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

6 months

Another disappointing example - why would someone with supposedly so much internet influence mock the reigning World Chess Champion? Do these guys really have nothing better to do?

agadmator

@agadmator

6 months

Strong start for the World Champion

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

6 months

Weak players on the internet mocking the World Chess Champion Episode 1. The arrogance from some of these heavily followed influencers is simply unbelievable.

MrDodgy

@ChessProblem

6 months

done liren

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

@EugenePerel @Bennyficial1 Thats the thing though, you did make mistakes as most humans do, and you lost the game. It's a bit strange to make a hypothetical assumption that you've won, and then assume Magnus would accuse you of cheating without many of the other factors in the other case.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

I want to express my appreciation for all the volunteers and hotel staff at Park Plaza OMR - I am very touched by the amazing hospitality and kindness shown to us. I think Singapore hotels can learn a lot over here.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

@UnitedStandMUFC Play was disjointed because we didn’t play as a team. Clearly a coaching issue.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Highly unlikely that there would be concrete evidence for OTB cheating but I would certainly feel very uncomfortable playing someone in an OTB tournament knowing these numbers

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Anish unleashed

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

You guys kept screaming his name in my previous tweet so here you go. Pretty nice win today by @anishgiri too #FIDEWorldCup

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3 years

@ReheSamay HBD!

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@hodgetwins Thankfully babies have bad memories

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

With the amazing Alexei Shirov #ChennaiChessOlympiad2022

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@kevingohwm

1 year

@FightHaven Teachers need to be protected.

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@kevingohwm

3 years

It has obviously not gone unnoticed by many but I have to agree that Nepomniachtchi has carried himself really well in all these brutal post-game press conferences. Some of these questions like “how do you feel, Ian” should be deemed illegal.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Really tough match for us today - 3-1 losses for both teams. Had a rough 5 hours game with @DavidHowellGM that reminded me of my age 🤣 Tmr we go again #ChessOlympiad2022

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@kevingohwm

2 years

@Jonathan_Rowson I agree that innocence has to be presumed, but the fact that he lied, and lied so blatantly and outrageously according to chesscom has to be a big red flag.

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@kevingohwm

3 years

@UnitedStandMUFC Good grief…..

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

The Chinese Chess Federation deserves a lot of credit for doing everything they could to get Ding Liren to Madrid and they are rewarded with a challenger to become the World Chess Champion. That is called backing your athlete, even if it invited a lot of criticism.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

I tried 4-player chess on @chesscom and had no idea whats happening but it seems like lots of chess players love it. @kyrawny handmade an absolutely gorgeous OTB set with basic raw material😍 just look at that @DanielRensch @ChessMike @itherocky

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@kevingohwm

1 year

@hodgetwins Btw, my dad was FURIOUS with the slap because he was afraid my glasses might fly off and break and he was NOT gonna get me a new pair. He actually demanded that teachers choose other spots to smack me the next time I was out of line 🤣

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

The chess world is small but every little helps. Moving the Olympiad is just a very small step. Terminating sponsorships with Russian organisations would be a strong statement, despite the financial issues. Money isn’t everything. And I hope Karjakin sleeps well at night.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Played Chess960 @lichess and had this as a starting position. My head was all messed up....

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Funny thing about the drama is that no one would have paid attention if the boy is a little bit older 🤣 Nepomniachtchi’s argument is logical although I’ve played millions of GM tournaments in Hungary and harvested a grand total of 1 norm. Wouldn’t say it’s easy at all. 1/2

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

FIDE, which is led by a Russian has acted decisively in the wake of recent events and we probably should stop giving attention to the 2 🤡 . Instead, mad respect to Svidler and Grischuk who dared to speak publicly against their country’s act of war.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Something has happened that’s gonna rock the chess world #chessdrama

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Just one of the many brave Russian chess players. #saynotowar #ukraine

Ian Nepomniachtchi

@lachesisq

2 years

История видела немало чёрных четвергов. Но сегодняшний чернее прочих. #нетвойне #saynotowar

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Is there not a clause somewhere in the contracts that the players in the candidates must not bring disrepute to the game? If so, surely advocating war, and mocking the loss of innocent lives must fall under this.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

So it took me 9 years from IM to GM but these days if you don’t make it in 9 months, forget about it.

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@kevingohwm

2 years

There is just too much speculation now, most of which is unfair on Hans Niemann. Hopefully we get an explanation soon as the game is now arguably thrown into disrepute.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Woke up this morning to find out that Magnus has won a game that took longer than my average sleeping time. 136 moves, 7 hours 40 minutes, world record in a world championship game - I got tired just scrolling through the moves 😩

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

I don’t know what is worse - losing a game of chess or being a Man Utd fan

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Round 3 vs Nepal today. Hoping for a good result. #ChessOlympaid2022 #ChennaiChessOlympiad

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@kevingohwm

2 years

People need to know that in both games that he lost, Magnus took risks that no other top GMs would. I like the strategy even if it’s not really working atm

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Never realised there was such a thing as person of the day on @FIDE_chess website. Probably the only time when I’m next to the champ, not to mention that our ratings are pretty similar 🤣

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Discipline, motivation and hard work, not talent are the main success drivers in chess. If you are busy with work, family, friends or social media, there is no reason to be surprised when you lose games.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

1 year

@fasc1nate Easy to get anxiety watching this

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Bumped into random guy at the airport

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

1 month

The World Championship match is a match between the reigning, and deserving World Champion, and a deserving challenger. End of.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

4 years

“Which game?” nearly got @rajachess to lose his head. Genius trolling by @viditchess 🤣

chess24

@chess24com

4 years

Cliffhanger 😂 #c24live

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@kevingohwm

2 years

Armenia showing once again that a cohesive team with a winning mentality could outweigh other things, like losing their best player for instance. Sargissian again showing what a tremendous team player he is. They are my heroes whatever happens tomorrow. #ChessOlympiad22

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@kevingohwm

2 years

Gukesh!

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

8 months

Singapore’s Tin Jingyao has a 2-0 score against our friend and also knocked out the great Shak Mamedyarov at the World Cup. All done while studying in one of the toughest University courses at NUS. Yet, like many other GMs, we can’t seem to get an invitation to some of these

chess24

@chess24com

8 months

Hans Niemann is the top seed for the #TataSteelChess Challengers, where the goal is to win the event and earn an automatic place in next year's Masters! #c24live

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

…the kid and the dad must have spent loads of money and hard work to get there and they deserve a break hence explaining those mental tweets. Leave them alone. Time will tell if he eventually becomes the real deal. 2/2

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Preparation for the #FIDEWorldCup ✅ 🇷🇺 Visa done ✅ ✈️ and 🏨 settled ✅ 💉 done ✅ Continued #WifeforSrinath @nsrinath69 movement @chess24in ❌ Any form of chess study

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Sometimes I feel that choosing a chess opening is tougher than choosing a house. Or a car. Or a wife.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Tough match - had my chances in both games but didn’t take them. Grateful for the opportunity @FIDE_chess and thanks to friends especially @adhibanchess and @srinathchess who both endorsed my dubious choice of opening 🤣

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Almost 10 years ago, I made my first GM norm. Took me 9 years to finish the damn thing.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

6 months

Singaporean young talent Ashwath Kaushik today beat Grandmaster Jacek Stopa in a classical game at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus-Open 2024. He is standing well at 4/4 and will have a challenging rest of the tournament. At the age of 8 years, 6 months and 11 days, is this a record?

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

8 months

@chess24com Sad to see this. I benefitted a lot from Chess24 videos and like many in the replies, always used chess24 to follow tournament games.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Wasn’t expecting this but I just became an 8-time National Champion of Singapore 😎 #onefortheoldies

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@kevingohwm

2 years

Arbiter at Singapore board went above and beyond his duties today. He killed two flies with his mask, on boards 2 and 3. With the same mask. #legend #ChennaiChessOlympiad #ChessOlympiad2022 #chessolympiad

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@kevingohwm

7 months

The way Wei Yi won that extremely tense playoff and stood up nonchalantly after shaking hands....just ice cold. Hope to see him play more often after this sensational result.

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@kevingohwm

2 years

With this last round draw at the Abu Dhabi Masters, it appears that @irene_sukandar has made her second Grandmaster norm! Congratulations!!😍😍🤩🤩

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

@davidllada @sagarchess1 I absolutely have to agree. His work rate together with @amrutamokal is phenomenal. Also, his lifelong dream is to become a GM and he basically gave that up to try and get others to love and become better at chess.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

4 months

The GM title. There are a lot of new joiners to the game who might have the impression that chess is saturated with GMs and that it is very much doable as long as you train hard and have a bit of money. I also feel in general, there seems to be less respect for GMs who might be

Renier Castellanos

@RenierCast

4 months

GM and also.. good morning. Thank you for following my account!

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

@Samtile No. This is public information that 4 top players have expressed openly, their doubts over Hans Niemann’s integrity. I am saying that they certainly have their own information and evidence and hopefully this will come to light soon.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

@markgoldbridge tbf Arsenal were the better team. They stretched us with Saka and Martinelli and Odegaard pulled the strings thru out. The team fought hard but we lacked attacking intent apart from Rashford. Maybe with Casemiro it could be a different result but we will never know.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

One cannot help but feel inspired by the self-proclaimed “2700 player with no talent”. I don’t think that’s entirely true because being able to work hard is certainly a talent and in @GMShanky , you have a role model of someone with grit, discipline and resilience. #FIDEWorldCup

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

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@GothamChess The guy barely containing it

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Was awarded as one of the winners of the 2021 Ten Outstanding Young Persons award in Singapore. Honoured and grateful to be recognised for my work in chess, especially in a country where the chess presence is limited. Hopefully this will change soon.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 months

@TarjeiJS And yet we have really nasty people on the internet making fun of him. Sad lives. Ding is a world champion and has made a lot of money out of it, this is true. That does not mean we cannot have a little bit of empathy.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Have to say that as a professional streamer, Hikaru’s game is still really impressive, and reminds of the time he was touted as a possible challenger for Magnus. Became Chess960 world champion without bringing a coach and then dominating Duda the way he did is pretty sick.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

Thank you to the volunteers, organisers and the chess fans for a wonderful tournament, and the great stay

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 months

Disappearing for the next 5 months

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

@markgoldbridge One slightly below average game and people going in on Garnacho is a disgrace.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Earth shattering result. Twitter is so gonna explode now.... #GoldmoneyAsianRapid

Srinath Narayanan

@srinathchess

3 years

The picture says it all. Sorry AG

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@kevingohwm

2 years

Triple crown, unbelievable performance!🐐

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@kevingohwm

1 year

@barstoolsports Guy in blue calmed the whole thing down with a handshake

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

4 months

Always listen to both sides of the story before making conclusions. This seems like a very reasonable explanation from the CA.

Mike Klein

@ChessMike

4 months

After the round @AlirezaFirouzja wrote about his incident during round 9 of the #FIDECandidates . This is the explanation of Chief Arbiter IA Aris Marghetis to @chesscom

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

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Singapore has a new GM - Tin Jingyao has scored 7/8 at the Hanoi GM Invitational, achieving the norm ahead of time. He becomes Singapore’s 5th, and our youngest ever GM.

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@kevingohwm

2 years

Chennai moon

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@kevingohwm

2 years

@UTDTrey even as a Utd fan I have to go huh

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@kevingohwm

4 years

Random blitz game that I played online. Something that @ginger_gm would like?

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

I asked my captain @AndreyKvon what to bring for Chess Olympiad. He sent me this and said “we are all good” 😭🤷‍♂️😂

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

To all those who are figuring out 2fa because of the hack, don't bother. You are probably not that famous 🤣

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

The caption speaks for itself 😎

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Today could be the day that Karjakin's long standing record as the youngest kid to ever attain the GM title is broken. The 12 year old Abhimanyu Mishra needs to win with Black and its already a good start. A Grunfeld and a big time edge.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

Knowing how hard both players have trained and prepared for this match, they must be desperate to try and equalise the match but putting aside their personal goals for the greater good is the right and mature thing to do. Speedy recovery to Mega, Ervan and Kris!

Irene Sukandar

@irene_sukandar

3 years

Dear all,we'd like to announce that both Medina and I have decided to withdraw from the World Cup.We are naturally very motivated to keep competing but the safety of all the participants,organisers,arbiters and every one around us is far more important than our personal interest.

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3 years

I got verified

Chessable

@chessable

3 years

Do you think studying CHESS has positively affected other aspects of your life? 🧐 It can be anything—your studies, your relationship, your career, your health, or your general approach towards life. (If yes, we would love to know in what way chess helped you.)

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

2 years

A curious episode where the arbiter apparently did not know the 3-fold repetition rule very well, and cost the Mongolians what could have been one of their biggest wins in their chess history. How you get this wrong with DGT is really beyond me.

Svidler and Leko react to arbiter mistake that saved Norway

Norway escaped with a 2:2 draw in Round 4 of the Chess Olympiad in Chennai, but only after the arbiters incorrectly allowed a claim for a draw by repetition ...

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

He controls the board, the result of the game and who gets a time advantage

Olimpiu Di Luppi

@olimpiuurcan

3 years

Here's Magnus Carlsen telling the arbiter not to start Jan-Krzysztof Duda's clock despite his late arrival, a small faux pas the Norwegian himself is occasionally guilty of.

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@kevingohwm

2 years

@elonmusk @spideycyp_155 @SquawkCNBC @Kasparov63 Most serious chess players will take offence but I’ll just say ignorance is bliss 😃 better to stay away from the game as it can completely consume you.

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Kevin Goh Wei Ming

@kevingohwm

3 years

The plan was to troll @adhibanchess if the game didn’t go well but I somehow had a big, think +10 big position and contrived to lose. Still a bs opening 🤣

Srinath Narayanan

@srinathchess

3 years

Waiting for WHO to confirm the spread of the B.3 pandemic. We seem to have the Singapore variant in Sochi now.

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@kevingohwm

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@srinathchess @ArjunErigaisi This is for next year? 😃 congrats to both of you!

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@kevingohwm

2 years

@olimpiuurcan Don’t get started

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@kevingohwm

3 years

Kazakhstan’s Rinat Jumabayev is having a fine tournament and has a great opportunity to knock out the second seeded Fabiano Caruana. Here he took his time to execute the very strong 42…h5! #FIDEWorldCup

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