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2 years

Is there any chess photo cooler than this one?

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2 years

This is an example of a pin

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2 years

This Is Sparta

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2 years

Signs of a sociopath: * Lack of empathy for others * Impulsive behavior * Lying for personal gain * 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4

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2 months

i decided to try the French as Black a couple days ago and Jesus has never spoken to me more clearly

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8 months

NM John Brooks of Detroit, MI has made a 125-point rating run from 2089 to 2224 at the astonishing age of 77. He is just over 50 points off his lifetime (confirmed via CL lists) peak of 2276, earned at age 47. One of the most impressive age/rating achievements I've ever seen.

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4 years

OK I win the mouse slip contest, everyone go home

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3 years

Me: why am I not a GM Abhimanyu Mishra's @chessable profile:

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1 year

I lost three games to strong players in World Open, and I was able to identify a common theme They all saw a whole bunch of shit that I didn't

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2 years

King's Indian players will get crushed on the queenside 900 times in a row just to get one of these

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2 years

Hint: triple barrel shotgun

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Strong Chess

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3 years

I have intentionally keeping my FIDE below 2700 for a while now, to stay safe from Twitter hackers

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2 years

Finally got this cool motif in a game

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Strong Chess

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10 months

My chesscom article, detailing what I found reviewing historical data on USCF ratings and age, has been published. It addresses the following question: Can Adults Improve At Chess?

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Strong Chess

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2 years

I saw this earlier and spent several hours hand checking it. It is riddled with errors and cherry picking: * Many events incorrectly categorized YES/NO * Several non-broadcast Marshall events crushing GMs omitted * 2900 for K-12 grades, cmon See my work:

Atlanta Kings

@ATL_kings

2 years

Hans Niemann's results in the US in 2019-2020 before going to Europe. There have been talks (including Punin's recent video) about Hans performing much better when there are live DGT games. The data is below - draw your own conclusions!

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Strong Chess

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2 years

I've consistently noticed: When strong players analyze a game, they have an almost insatiable need to examine every variation. The weaker the player, the more they want to just replay the moves and almost get it over with. To get better, you must build a disciplined curiosity.

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2 years

Typical Magnus trying to steal the spotlight when I have two tweets doing well

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2 years

Hi everybody I am a master at chess, wanna guess what i played here??

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3 years

Talked to a chess friend's new gf this weekend. I tried to explain how chess tournaments are these massively resource intensive trips that we do on purpose, and that about 20% of the time the result is total emotional devastation. I don't think she was quite getting it

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8 months

I think the biggest change in chess culture by far is the level of opening knowledge everyone has. 10 years ago, 2000+ tournament players, myself included, would regularly be just staring blankly at some common position on move 6. This happens SO much less now

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1 year

IM Kamran Shirazi has one of the most amazing rating trajectories I have ever seen: * Peak rating of 2457 achieved at age 57 * GM norms earned at ages 36, 50 and 54 * Rating only started going down in his 60s * Now about to turn 70 and still 2278 FIDE

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2 years

It seems OTB chess has indeed entered a "Chessable era" where lower rated players are capable of playing a ton of theory, either via targeted prep or general knowledge. I guess that as a result, it is necessary to become more unpredictable and offbeat in your opening choices.

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4 years

Jack imitating the @GMHikaru videos he watches. "So I have to go here, here, this queen has to get active, maybe I can go b3-b4 one day..."

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2 years

Wow the guy that beat me in blitz this morning is a real #adultimprover

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2 years

I thought Black had made a nonsense piece sacrifice, but my GM opponent had a rude surprise for me, what was it?

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1 year

Currently going through the easy Polgar m2s. Most take 1-5 seconds, but every now and then hit a blind spot and stare for a while:

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11 months

I ended up winning this game, but I missed mate against a GM here!

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1 month

An amazing and beautiful thing I noticed today: On an empty chessboard, the number of legal knight moves (336) and bishop moves (560) add up to the number of legal rook moves (896).

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Strong Chess

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2 years

Look If you had One shot Or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted In 16.6 seconds Would you capture it Or just let it slip?

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5 months

@natesolon very easily, it won't make recaptures

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2 months

Interesting to see Levy Rozman slaughtering another norm tournament. One can be chalked up to a good run, but two deserves attention!

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2 years

If you are below about 1600 USCF and want to improve, you are hereby FORBIDDEN BY STRONG CHESS from offering or accepting draws OTB. Exceptions only for like R vs R or if you're dead lost. You will thank me later

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2 years

Fascinating to think that if you have played thousands of online blitz games, you must have won and lost against a spectacular array of people--young, old, every nationality, gender, rich, poor, highly focused, distracted, drunk, on and on. And a lot of them were pooping

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Strong Chess

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8 months

I won convincingly against a 2000 tonight, but tragically didn't even CONSIDER a pretty knockout blow here!

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Strong Chess

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2 years

DID YOU KNOW? Online blitz offers a minimum of practice for a maximum of mental health problems 📈🏆👍

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2 years

I am also willing to strip fully naked if that is what it takes to play in the Sinquefield Cup

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Strong Chess

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3 years

62 lines I have to learn because you savages won't behave

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3 years

"Because you like chess, right?"

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5 months

overrated: studying tactics underrated: studying a huge number of small mundane middlegame decisions

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2 years

My friend Stu just locked up clear first and $2,000 from this position!!

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3 years

holy fuck I'm getting on a plane and playing OTB chess tomorrow

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3 years

Four years of blitz progress on @chesscom

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1 year

every Russian schoolboy knows

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1 year

This win against a 2750 GM is my new highest victory on chesscom!

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1 year

I believe I have now confirmed that Anna Zatonskih's 44y 11mo is the oldest age at which any American has achieved a GM norm, and up there worldwide. Larry Kaufman - won World Senior age 61, no prior norms John Donaldson - norm at 44y 9mo Enrico Sevillano - final norm 44y 4.5mo

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2 years

Your chess goals can be anything--online ratings, enjoyment, learning some area, you name it. But if your goal is to improve OTB, you need to play one tournament per month, MINIMUM, beginning yesterday. This is not negotiable.

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Strong Chess

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1 year

Gross

PetrS ♟

@PetrS

1 year

Did you know that drinking alcohol can significantly affect the quality of your chess play? Here are some ways in which alcohol consumption can impact your game: 🧵 #chess #chesspunks

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2 months

@natesolon Yeah, after living here for a year we had $1000 in unpaid water/sewer bills, apparently somebody was writing it on a piece of paper and putting it in a truck

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2 years

Petition to rename the Jobava London to just "the London" and the regular London to "London System, basic bitch variation"

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4 years

I FUCKING DID IT!!!!!

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2 years

This looks like a obscure bug in Lichess (which they note can happen in rare cases including forced lines): "However, the game is drawn if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player's king by any possible series of legal moves (FIDE handbook §6.9)."

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3 years

This disgusts me more than the London. It is a violation of decency. People who do it should be placed a on a registry and forced to inform all their neighbors of their offender status.

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1 year

3.2 seconds is not an excuse for playing a low-class move here

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1 year

the chess episode

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2 years

who's a floored master NOW!?

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7 months

this is sort of like being 26th in the world at eating glue, but it's mine

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11 months

Gawain is my all-time favorite openings author at this point, but still I sometimes need a British slang dictionary when reading him!

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9 months

Not super happy about the fact that Philidor solved this in 1749 and I can't remember it for more than a week in 2023

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3 years

Finally got to do it

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1 year

Can you solve this puzzle quicker than my friend Big Vlad? (22 seconds) ⏳

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2 years

I have memorized easily tens of thousands of chess moves but I still don't know where the fuck anything is in a grocery store

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3 years

lol

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2 years

Well I had my first classical outing in the AlphaZero line against the Caro-Kann today. I learned some upsetting things about me not being AlphaZero

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1 year

In my research, I found about 200 players who made 500+ point USCF gains after age 25. One of them is Adia Onyango, who grinded from 952 provisional to a 2009 peak between ages 33 and 46. I believe she is the most outstanding woman adult improver in my data. 📷 The Chess Drum

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Strong Chess

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3 years

Yes, there has been rating inflation on Lichess. The average user gained 226 blitz points since 2019-03, with similar gains pre- AND post-COVID. Read more:

Is there rating inflation on Lichess?

It seems that everywhere I look lately, I see something like this:

medium.com

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8 months

I have been playing chess for 24 years and I still kinda can't believe that takes takes Qxd8+ is not just crushing for White

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2 years

Since we are on the topic, I consider being below age 25 cheating at blitz and would like it banned immediately

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2 years

The secret to playing 32 perfect moves is memorizing the first 23 of them

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2 years

@natesolon

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2 years

Interesting idea: A database of technically winning positions suitable for practice against the engine or training partner. Perhaps if we searched a GM database for positions after move 40 with eval between +2 and +3

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@thestrongchess

1 year

The King's Indian ✅ 40 good systems for White ✅ 100% chance your opponent knows something ✅ Occasionally you play a masterpiece and can never quit

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1 year

My tactical radar completely failed to turn on and I missed a win here. What should White do?

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2 years

Just so i understand the tradeoffs here, how many tweets about reading this book are equal to reading 1 page of it

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5 months

doing this to 1.b3 was life affirming

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3 months

now that's what I call teamwork

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1 year

Not a Twitter-friendly m2, but I played a cool attacking idea here!

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1 year

Another sparkling miniature from @ginger_gm today!

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Strong Chess

@thestrongchess

2 years

After the nth tweet from @hubermanlab , I have been working out in the morning for the past 3 weeks, mostly in the outdoor area where I get direct sunlight. Results promising so far--my HRV is up by ~10 and sleep patterns more regular, occasionally even waking before my 6am alarm

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Strong Chess

@thestrongchess

3 years

If you are over 30 and want to perform well in OTB tournaments, you should worry about sleep, exercise and diet FIRST. For most, far more immediate gains available here.

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2 years

Reading this book is like looking directly at the sun. You may have tried once, but you stopped after 3 seconds because it hurts

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2 years

Special thank you to whoever invented autoqueen

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2 years

To all of you guys struggling OTB: When I was 13, I lost every game in my second tournament. I was not deterred by this, because ultimately I wanted to learn about chess more than I wanted to know what boobs looked like. This attitude soon led to success. In chess anyway.

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Strong Chess

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4 months

The highlight of Titled Tuesday today was getting to play my favorite endgame trick: 82...Rc1+ 83.Rxc1 b2+ 84.Kb1 (if 84.Ka2, left hand is ready for alt key) 84...Kb3!

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2 years

After 10,000+ blitz games I finally got a Lucena in blitz. I instantly cut off the enemy king as far as possible 😎😎😎

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2 years

god DAMN i love this opening

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Strong Chess

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10 months

Since my article was published, I have learned that Matt Gross of Pennsylvania earned the NM title last month, aged 48 years and 8 months! He returned to OTB chess after 17 years (!) two years ago with a high expert rating. He breaks the curse of no 40+ NMs since COVID!

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Strong Chess

@thestrongchess

5 months

Of course I agree. How is this even a conversation? Everyone needs to look at this graph:

Greg Shahade

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5 months

Ok listen chess nerds: you’re all out of your minds. Of course there should be eval bars in the broadcasts. Personally, I’d love if there weren’t, but watching a bunch of masters, IMs and GMs argue this while ignoring the throng of sub 1000 rated ppl who watch is hilarious.

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2 years

I scored an individual 6-0 at USATE for the first time ever! Our team had a mediocre result, but I am still pretty happy. I even got to finish in King's Gambit style here!

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Strong Chess

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3 years

Rd 9. I told my roommate after this it was either happy drinking or sad drinking time. I got another Dragon against 2150 USCF. I sacked a pawn for an attack. He snatched it and proceeded to defend like god. Until, under pressure, he blundered and NOW IT'S HAPPY DRINKING TIME

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2 years

I used to look like this and now I look like this so my opinion is better than yours on every topic except hair loss

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2 years

i played the fr*nch and i liked it

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2 years

In the chess market, there is a distinct lack of structured training programs, i.e, Monday 60 minutes of this, Tuesday do that 5 times. I do not think people like deciding on their own, and I think it causes them to fail

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@thestrongchess

2 years

What if Elon is intentionally destroying Twitter so I actually finish my chess books

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3 years

@lularobs Wtf I get zero messages like this is my Twitter broken

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2 years

OMG!!! @lichess

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2 years

One downside of playing thousands of blitz games is by sheer luck you will occasionally witness the very worst you are capable of playing The worst you can play is REALLY REALLY bad

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1 year

Cool shot here to take down my GM opponent

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