Peter Svidler

the notif for this was cut off at 'bobby fischer and jd..' which was quite the jump scare ngl. also kinda made sense, if you think about, tbf

more ultrawide content for your televisual feast

finishing industry s4. it's great, but also - the last ep would never get past the editor even 5 years ago? too caricaturey, too on the nose? but in 2026, i wouldn't be surprised if those are just direct quotes lifted from some heterodox maverick's substack, paid subscribers: jd, miller, pmarca

ooooooh wow enjoy. in unrelated - once, in lucerne in '97, during the world teams, i spotted the john mayall poster one day too late. they rested me for that round, too, i could have made it. still smarting, that, 30 years on.

i would have given him at least a game in the ashes, sincerely. i think the argument goes 'something kerrigan something confidence shattered something' but rehan doesn't strike me as someone likely to fall prey to that, and he has batting to fall back on if things go a bit pear shaped.

'play rehan you cowards' has been a group chat refrain for about two years now. they still won't, even after this - but it's nice to feel vindicated.

compulsive viewing, this eng team. arguably the best attack in the tournament, and the batting is just the right mix of clown car and 'whoaaa'

Jan Timman (1951-2026) An obituary of Jan Timman, a former world number-two, multiple world championship candidate, nine-time Dutch national champion, prolific author, and endgame studies specialist.

Jan Timman (1951-2026)

My obituary:

www.chess.com/news/view/ja...

good to see those two nod to each other and shake hands after all the carnage. both of them playing in a different game to the rest of their teams

also those twos are just ridiculous, they ran twenty! of them apparently

bannerman alert (yes i know i know)

very important video please watch

recent clues in @cluesbysam.com made me very sure they're on bsky even before i checked. gg wp

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

..ready to discuss the day's events. and his transition info composing - a field of human endeavour i firmly believe is magic - further confirms his legend. he could make anyone love endgames.

he will be sorely missed.

jan was a wonderful person - funny, engaging, and deeply in love with chess (and, of course, very good at it - i think i have a minus score against him, and he was in his 40s when we first met). i can still picture him at dinner, a bottle of red inevitably close at hand, with that impish smile..

A photo from Timman's Twitter featuring his cat Artemis on a chessboard and a number of antique chess sets in an apartment. https://x.com/GMJanTimman/status/1687498481638711296

Timman was also one of the people I missed most when leaving Chess twitter. He shared endgame studies he was working on and weekly quotes from other players on chess. Plus this gem: his cat Artemis with what appears to be an amazing collection of antique chess sets. I would love to see the rest

Discord screenshot that says omg that 'tasche why would he do that

Jesse Jackson Jr. also had an under appreciated sense of comedic timing. Watch his fake sermon on SNL.😂

that's deeply insulting ;) do you see a mitt anywhere?

proper worldie, that

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, the camera matrix-style swings 180 degrees making clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

yeah, there's a low key buzz with positions i've seen during the week, you get used to it. that's actually best case, sometimes you get the whole body shiver of 'why on earth would you play rxf2 and not qc3 there' instead

that's now two out of two best games of the world cup so far that i missed because of morning walkies

our burnham over the water

in all fairness, the heuristic solves it instantly, so you can kinda semi cheat it out

i'm so so sorry, Camilla

i have no clue obviously but that action looks very odd to me. does anyone have it as a gif, slowed down? #PAKvUSA

he, and no, he's named after james. and you're right about the rest

that is entirely fair. i could send you any number of pictures and videos of joyce cavorting in the snow - but depressingly devoid of cricket-themed landmarks. those are thin on the ground in russia in general, it has to be said - one of the many things the country could do with improving.

widening the geographical coverage a touch as well, probably