I have over 50 feeds from #Chess-related news sources in my RSS Reader, but maybe I've chosen some very mainstream or very conservative ones: not one mention this morning of the fact that #FIDE is implementing very transphobic regulations.
Like, anyone who's been following the chess world in the past century knows that FIDE is far from an institution to be proud of, but come on...
Almost a year since I started playing and I've finally hit 600 #ELO.
I've seen some IMs say that the 'hell wall' in #chess is around 600, and my play is highly volatile depending on how tired/well/hungover I am, so I'm not expecting to get much better quickly.
I'm not sure what to aim for next. Double my rating in the next year? Hit 1,000 by end of the year? Maybe six months? Something like that.
A big upset in #QatarMasters as Alisher Suleymenov defeats Magnus #Carlsen in style!
Last time Carlsen was defeated by a player rated below 2520 was in the Norwegian Championship 2006 (2480, Berge Ostenstad).
Looks like we have a new Australian Chess Champion. Rishi Sardana drew his game today, but his nearest competitor, Frederick Lichfield, lost which leaves an unassailable 1.5 point gap with only one game to go.
Sardana has dominated the event and is a worthy winner.
Thanks to @lichess for providing the broadcast of the event.
If #Chess is so simple, how come #Musk never advanced beyond rudimentary, basic ranking? If it's so simple, how come he never made #grandmaster level? How come he never won any notable tournaments?
Very frequently I find myself have forgotten about why I did a particular move and what was the response I had in mind to different resulting variations 🤦♂️
That means I have to spent the time and energy to analyse the situation all over again 😕
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Ideally, my analysis should be attached to the game so that no matter the device I use, I can resume what I was working on before.
I can sort of understand the concern about males and females not competing in physical sports as it would give an unfair advantage usually to males but I can’t see why there is even a male and female split in chess at all.
Looks like a great Tasmanian fast chess championship. Congrats to young Will Rumley picking up the Rapid title to add to his share of Tas Junior Championship and Tas Open Championship this year. He's my vote for Tasmanian Chess Player of the Year.
And it was a Hobart Chess Club double, with Zach Lim taking the Tasmanian Blitz Championship with a superb 9/9.
Well done to all involved with organising and playing. I hope to be able to make it next year to see if I can test the youngsters a bit.
I’m not sure why men’s chess and women’s chess exist as separate categories in the first place – probably male insecurity – but it seems it’s a great opportunity for the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to be transphobic 😳
More general than #Chess question - when there is an activity with no known gender correlated advantage (other than disadvantage based on #sexism) what are gendered categories for?
Forgot about the chess with one thing and another, only catching up in the second half of the penultimate game. It's definitely a tense one. Is Black’s centre a target or an asset. That will be the issue here
The only beneficial thing to come out of the banning of #transgender women from female ladders in #chess is it unambiguously lets you know who around you is a sexist piece of shit.
Ok, so that's the end of Facebook for me. A real shame as I built a great community, but the algorithm is just too annoying and I'm seeing less and less posts by my friends and family.
Anyway, I'm starting a blog instead mainly to keep in contact with those people on Facebook that are special to me, and the community of friends I've built up in the world of chess. New friends are welcome too, though I intend to make this a happy space and not cross post from my blog much.
14-year-old Ukrainian chess player, Ihor Samunenkov, won the title of Grandmaster on Jan. 2, 2024. Samunenkovv is now the youngest player in the world to hold the title.
Share your best https://lichess.org game of June (only from June - only standard and not variant games and only one game per player - additional games will be ignored!) until June 5th by a comment of this post! The winner will be mentioned in a Lichess blog post with a commentary by a titled player of the game. Good luck! #chess#contest
Ukrainian chess player becomes youngest Grandmaster in the world (kyivindependent.com)
14-year-old Ukrainian chess player, Ihor Samunenkov, won the title of Grandmaster on Jan. 2, 2024. Samunenkovv is now the youngest player in the world to hold the title.