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Chess federation investigating Kramnik's campaign against Naroditsky The chess community has called for action against the Russian after the US chess grandmaster died.

Kramnik needs to be sanctioned.

FIDE is too gutless to do it.

#Chess https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmxj102039o

Rest in peace Daniel Naroditsky. I always enjoyed spectating you in the Lichess titled arenas. You are a chess legend!

I’ve joked before that it would be wise to declare it against my religion to view advertisements. But the more I think about it, the more I see the advantages of this idea. When something is framed as a matter of religious conviction, people tend not to question it — they might even go out of […]

Some cool news about #Apple taking memory vulnerabilities seriously: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
My understanding is that it improves upon the probabilistic protection of the original #MTE to make the probability of a successful attack even lower. I'm a little […]

Shout out to Dutch number one Eline Roebers :flag_nl:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eline_Roebers

Laten we even stil staan bij de beste Nederlandse schaakster van dit moment:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eline_Roebers

https://lichess.org/fide/1058401/Roebers_Eline

#chess #schaken #nl […]

Final position showing me checkmating o4 mini. Here is the complete game in algebraic notation: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 O-O 7. c3 d6 8. d4 exd4 9. cxd4 d5 10. Nc3 Bg4 11. Bxc6 Rc8 12. Bxd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 c6 14. Nxe7+ Qxe7 15. Bg5 h6 16. Bxe7 Rfe8 17. Bc5 b6 18. Bxb6 a5 19. Bxa5 Bxf3 20. Qxf3 g5 21. Bc3 g4 22. Qxg4+ Kh7 23. d5 cxd5 24. Qg7#

After playing #LumoAI by #Proton in #chess, I decided to try #o4mini by #OpenAI. The result was fairly similar. Very strong opening followed by inexplicably dropping its knight and queen in the middle game. At one point it even argued back after I told it one […]

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Very cool game by Levon Aronian beating Sam Shanklamd in round 7 of the St Louis Rapid and Blitz

https://lichess.org/broadcast/gct-saint-louis-rapid--blitz-2025/rapid-7/DRhDQy1R/rAucOcHB

#chess #lichess #stlouis #GrandChessTour

Photo of Divya with her golden medal around her neck, trophy in left hand and flowers is right hand. In the background it says FIDE Women's World Cup 2025. Photo by: Anna Shtourman.

A great photo of the World Cup winner Divya Deshmukh. Such an amazing achievement, and a classy way to earn the GM title!

#Chess #FIDE #Batumi #India

Final position of my game against Lumo. Here are the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. O-O Nf6 5. Re1 a6 6. Bc4 Be7 7. c3 b5 8. Bb3 O-O 9. d4 exd4 10. cxd4 Bg4 11. h3 Bxf3 12. Qxf3 Nxd4 13. Qd1 c5 14. Nc3 Nd7 15. Be3 Ne6 16. f4 c4 17. a3 cxb3 18. Qd2 Nec5 19. Qd3 Nxd3 20. Bd4 Nxf4 21. Kf2 Bh4+ 22. Kg1 Qg5 23. Kf1 Qxg2#

I played #chess against #LumoAI from #Proton. I had to correct if a few times when it was trying to make illegal moves but it wasn't too tedious. It was quite good in the opening from my point of view but didn't really have any middle game plan. It's definitely […]

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Position of game 1 of the final after white's 14th move Bishop from f3 takes pawn on b7.

Divya missed a crucial opportunity in the world cup final against Humpy. Can you see the alternative move?

The second game starts in about an hour.

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--finals/game-1/fARMvz3I/Z5AoPwhJ

#Chess #fidewomensworldcup

FIDE Women's World Cup 2025 | Finals • Game 1 107-player Single Elimination | 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec / move | standard | Batumi, Georgia | Lei, Zhu, Tan, Koneru

Final of the chess world cup is about to start between two stars from India: Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh. It's a clash of generations!

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--finals/game-1/fARMvz3I

#chess #FIDE #India

Levon Aronian is playing the tournament of his life in Freestyle #Chess. He beat Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi and Hikaru Nakamura.

Chess board with 8 queens on it and the problem statement: Place 8 queens on the board such that none of them attack each other.

I recently came across this old chess puzzle again. You need to place 8 queens on the board such that none of them attack each other. I'll put two solutions I've found in the comments.

Anish Giri :netherlands: wins the Sharjah Masters 2025 with a +5 score. Amazing!

https://lichess.org/broadcast/sharjah-masters-2025--group-a/round-9/oRqH8iDR#players/24116068

#chess #lichess #anishgiri

朱锦尔 (Zhu Jiner) wins the FIDE Grand Prix and a spot in the Women's Candidates tournament 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Women%27s_Grand_Prix_2024%E2%80%9325
#chess #FIDE #zhujiner #CandidatesTournament #GrandPrix

Magnus Carlsen scores a perfect 9/9 at the Grenke Freestyle chess open. An amazing achievement akin to Bobby Fisher scoring 11/11 in the 1963/64 US Chess Championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Chess_Championship?wprov=sfla1

#MagnusCarlsen #chess #FreestyleChess #chess960 #Wikipedia […]

The FIDE Women's World Chess Champion 2025: GM Ju Wenjun. Photo: Anna Shtourman / FIDE Caption: lichess

Such a great performance by 居文君 (Ju Wenjun) winning her fifth world chess championship match!

#chess #FIDE #WorldChessChampionship #JuTan

Ju Wenjun is a draw away from retaining her world championship while Magnus Carlsen wins the final of the Feestyle chess grand slam in Paris. What a day in chess!

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Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura to pull ahead in the final of the Freestyle chess grand slam in Paris. Here was the starting position:
https://lichess.org/analysis/chess960?position=103

#chess #FreestyleChess #chess960 #lichess

Fan favourites Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen are through to the final in the Freestyle chess grand slam in Paris.

Vincent Keymer and Fabiano Caruana will now need to face off for the third place.

#chess #FreestyleChess #chess960

Final position of game 6. Tan Zhongyi was playing as white.

居文君 (Ju Wenjun) defeated 谭中怡 (Tan Zhongyi) for the second game in a row taking a 2 point lead in the match and in a great position to defend her world chess championship title! We need to wait two more days while the match moves to 重庆 (Chongqing).

#chess #JuTan #FIDE #WorldChessChampionship

Tomorrow Hikaru Nakamura plays Vincent Keymer and Magnus Carlsen plays Fabiano Caruana in the semi finals of Freestyle chess Paris grand slam. Vincent Keymer won a thrilling tiebreaker against Ian Nepomniachtchi.

https://chess-results.com/tnr1127213.aspx

#chess #FreestyleChess #Chess960

FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship 2025 • Shanghai | Game 3 12-game Match | 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec / move | standard | Shanghai & Chongqing, China | Ju Wenjun vs Tan Zhongyi

Ju Wenjun strikes back against Tan Zhongyi in the world chess championship. What a start to this match!

See the whole game on Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-chess-championship-2025/shanghai--game-3/tiGkcqB6/40nNyfSM

#Chess #WorldChessChampionship #JuTan

Tan Zhongyi in the foreground playing the white pieces and leaning over the board while Ju Wenjun in the background playing the black pieces with her head in her hands. Photo by: Anna Shtourman.

The moment where Tan Zhongyi got excited in her game against Ju Wenjun. A game she eventually ended up winning and pulling ahead in this 12 game match. Game 3 will start tomorrow!

#Chess #YuTan #FIDE #WorldChessChampionship

Tan Zhongyi beat Ju Wenjun in their second game taking a big step in regaining her world chess championship title!

#chess #worldchesschampionship #JuTan

The first game between Tan Zhongyi and Ju Wenjun in the world chess championship ended peacefully in a draw. It was a very balanced game with neither player taking too much risk:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-chess-championship-2025/shanghai--game-1/Ao99TiHo/HoGQDZD2
#chess […]

After defeating the world numer 1 Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals, Vincent Keymer now took the lead in the final against world number 2 Fabiano Caruana. Amazing performance by the 20 year old in the Freestyle chess grand slam!

#chess #chess960 #FreestyleChess #MagnusCarlsen #FabianoCaruana […]

Gukesh and Praggnanandha lead going into the final day of the Wijk aan Zee chess tournament. It's surprising not to see Giri or Caruana near the top.

#Chess #wijkaanzee #TataSteelChess

Graph showing the progression of the points over the rounds of the tournament. Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and Gukesh lead with a score of +3 with Fedoseev close behind at +2.

Just over halfway done with the Wijk aan Zee tournament. Here's a graph of how things have progressed so far. It's a three way tie at the top.

#Chess #matplotlib #wijkaanzee #TataSteelChess

The #FIDE drama continues as it threatens to sanction players who play in the #FreestyleChess tour. This fighting is not good for #chess.