JJ

Not surprised that she killed it anyways

To the tune of red ball market global: red ball market global

Never seen a more shocking YouTube video title

I mean he did call it "chest" so yes kinda

My neighbor's kid invited himself over to play chess with me and now I'm calling child protective services on his dad for telling him pawns could move sideways

Fewer*

Heating up a family size tray of Stouffer's for the occasion

I'm in

To the tune of red ball market global: red ball market global

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Why Subscribe to Chess Puzzles 2026? Oh, you were totally winning until the endgame?

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Ep. 242 J.J. Lang (2100 USCF)

chess folks: good interview with @chesscom.bsky.social, who had several pieces of excellent advice that stuck with me ("save it for the post-mortem")

also, you should follow j.j. & their podcast co-host @fide.bsky.social here so they can peel off twitter for keeps

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How 2025 Became My Year of Endgames… (Pt. 3) And what happened next LOL

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I finished my essay and it got emotional

How 2025 Became My Year of Endgames… And what happened next LOL

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play u1800 and focus on consistency. If you're losing to lower rated players, it's because you're making errors that will make some (not all maybe not even most) of your games against 1800+s one sided in their favor. Stop making those errors and you get better games when you play up too.

Oh man I have one of those which... I should have brought into consideration before buying a touch screen laptop

It took me close to 30s to realize all four boards are 8x7.

You live in Durham North Carolina it would be like trying to explain water to an fish

I only learned what stomp clap was this week

It took me almost a minute to catch it and when I sent it to my friend who is around 1800 it took him even longer!

That is not what is wrong with the boards

My favorite way to annoy my spouse is by doing things she thinks are dumb and then unbeknownst to both of us they turn out to be what the cool kids are doing

We had our cool queer Gen z neighbor over last night and she kept saying "swag," played pokemon with me, and split half a bottle of malort

It's not not a bongcloud yet!

Republicans cheer for ‘mass deportation’ – a dark new chapter in America’s history of othering ‘them’ The convention celebrated Trump’s vision of immigration as a disease. The GOP idea of a cure would mean I, and millions of others, would not exist

let's just all ask ourselves very seriously where we think *this* is going and whether or not we'd like to go there

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If I were in charge of photos and promotion for a major women's chess event, I would have fun playing against expectations. Like, my promos would have this aesthetic

That's my lvl 1 yamper btw, kicked off the whole gala

One of the best assemblies at the pokemon gym next to my house

By insisting the original argument is entirely unfounded and the source of the racism, they're denying the possibility that racism in the original writing and in the tradition of originalism is inherently absurd.