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Chess enthusiast. Excuse me, I only am grazing
I wasn't really ready to watch this when it was posted, but GM Daniel Naroditsky's friends at the Charlotte Chess Center shared this fine lecture after his passing, on the myths (mostly) about the Russian chess school.
Smart and entertaining. Will miss him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0Q...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won the FIDE World Cup 2025, defeating GM Wei Yi in the rapid tiebreaks!
β‘οΈ Read our final recap, with annotations by IM Nitish Belurkar for 20 of the most important World Cup games: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...
Average chessable opening course... lol
#chessable #chess
Week 6 of The Chess News Podcast is up! Lots of FIDE World Cup but also the SCC and... chessboxing.
youtu.be/-sZ8NGuVjw4?...
suppose you would have your chances if your opponent deviates somewhere around move 27. there are no games in any of this for as far as the eye can see
17.11.2025 13:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it's a repertoire for white, I should have added. he proved equality for white in the benko gambit in 34 moves.
17.11.2025 13:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I beat a high-rated kid in a tournament yesterday in a wild game where both kings were under constant attack and I did better at playing defense. Conventional wisdom about how to beat kids at chess (bore them to death with quiet positional middlegame and endgame grind) has not been my experience.
17.11.2025 12:32 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0looking at a professional opening repertoire. the line goes to move 34. the GM is apologetic and correct that basically all of the last 15 or 20 moves were forcing. what to do.
the evaluation was +0.6 at low depths. it's dead equal now
and it's a benko gambit
GOTD. The wonderful Zagorovsky was not only a c.c. legend - he was a fine player over the board as well. A forgotten gem.
16.11.2025 16:43 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0asking for a community wellness check on Thibault over at @lichess.org who probably has been laughing so hard all day he is unable to breathe
16.11.2025 19:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
post from actual chess grandmaster Vasif Durabayli complaining about how lichess, a nice free chess website, is too nice and too free. h/t mr dodgy, of the twitter chess discourse "Providing so many features for free makes it very hard for any chess business to charge for its services" https://x.com/durarbayli/status/1989831281056592037
oh, no, i can't leave twitter, all the chess people are on twitter
all the chess people on twitter:
yeah I was secretly hoping one of them would sneak in. would be happy for aronian as well
13.11.2025 15:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very happy for him. Rooting for the class acts in chess these days
13.11.2025 14:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
queen endgames, don't even try: part ii
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chess is hard
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Watching two of the world's best players play a relatively basic queen endgame and feeling vindicated in my belief that they are basically unknowable and not worth the effort. we're just going to give some checks or run from them and hope for the best
13.11.2025 11:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0<dvorkovich content warning>
10.11.2025 12:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This sort of finish never gets old. Black to play.
10.11.2025 11:31 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Do you know who Lorenzo Lodici is? All I know is he has a great hockey name. Tell me, who are his seconds? What does he eat for breakfast? I want whatever heβs having. #2025FIDEWorldCup
08.11.2025 20:36 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0I agree. And also would be great fun to see Jospem, for sake of capillaries in face of Kramnik
08.11.2025 14:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Curious detail from chess World Cup. Ivanchuk is asked about Naroditsky. His answer is rambling, not of great interest, but he mentions he had discussed the game he lost to Naroditsky with Kasparov by Skype.
I am surprised they still speak. Great respect to both. Shame there was no match
the olds. i'm root for the olds.
08.11.2025 14:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Leko dunking on Alekseenko. 2-0
08.11.2025 13:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No opinion on who gets bumped from this list but I'd bet on Keymer making it too
07.11.2025 16:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The only thing keeping me afloat lately is people resigning after blundering a piece in the opening. You goofs. I love you. Never change, don't find the video
07.11.2025 15:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
MrDodgy tweet joking that 4 of the biggest villains got their comeuppance at the FIDE World Cup (So, Niemann, Nepomniachtchi, Aravindh). The joke, I believe, is that no one has anything bad to say about Aravindh
Aravindh has been promoted into the chess world elite
06.11.2025 15:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy with the knockouts this round. Never like to see Ivanchuk lose, but hard to root against Shankland. Nepo complaining about conditions in India? Buh-bye! The Americans Neimann and So? Oh well...
Cheering for Aronian, Leko, Adams, MVL, Gukesh, Giri, Pragg, Keymer, Hari, Sevian, Erigaisi, Shakh
magnus is currently commentating the world cup tiebreaks, by the way
hard to overstate just how good that is to watch if you're at all interested in chess
www.youtube.com/live/NAaIig3...
GOTD. Working on another pupil of Koblencs - Gipslis. This is a masterpiece! What a beautiful game.
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