Alain Hanash

Chess: Kai Hanache, 13, beats three grandmasters at UK blitz qualifier Schoolboy also beat three international masters and made a huge ratings gain, but was edged out in the final round

Leonard Barden on interest in English blitz tournaments growing rapidly, Kai Hanache, 13, beating 3 GMs & congratulations to Eugenia Karas who qualified as top woman www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Congrats to Kai Hanache on winning our Game of the Season! And thanks to Danny for his presentation of our best games!

Well done to other prize winners as well, a recap will be on our website soon including the selection of nominated games - keep an eye out!

The ECF awards have been announced! Congratulations to all the winners. Read all about the winners at englishchess.org.uk/ecf-awards-2...

Photos are of Club of the Year - Hammersmith and Small Club of the Year - Bracknell Chess Club (with the Mayor)

Excellent! Thank you

Congratulations to @hammerchess.bsky.social on winning the U2200 prize at World Rapid and Blitz Teams-the team included Marco Gallana, Tom Villiers, Alistair Hill, Ashley Stewart, Kai Hanache, Gaston Franco, Maria-Alexandra Ciocan, Aryaman Ganguly & Gesneria-Codruta Cepoi. Well done, all!

Our team received the U2200 prize yesterday at the #FIDERapidBlitzTeams closing ceremony!

It was an honor to share the stage with so many chess professionals, and we are immensely proud of what our club has achieved!

Our marvelous team has won the U2200 category at the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship 2025!

We scored 11 match points out of 24, improving on our starting rank by 12 spots.

Our Board 8, Aryaman Ganguly, has also won an individual Bronze Medal!

Out of curiosity, how does this approach’s performance compare to simply using ollama?

Interesting as there was a lot of social chatter on this: bsky.app/profile/stoc...

Heading to Kalpitiya for some kitesurfing with the family. Any recommendations?

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.

Wait what? “It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch” blog.google/technology/r...

Straying off topic for a moment - sending our solidarity to the people of Syria at this historic moment 👊🏼

The Lichess database of games, puzzles, and engine evaluations is now on @hf.co - https://huggingface.co/Lichess. Billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream and we're excited to see what you'll build with it! ♟️ 🤗

Oh dear.

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Google Labs has launched a cool interactive artwork called GenChes that generates chess sets, highlighting the power of Imagen 3. labs.google/genchess

You know #chess has really gone mainstream when #google search engine is showing this. Kudos to Google!