photo of Zelenskyy meeting Dehtariov, they are seated at a table in office. via Zelenskyy's Twitter: https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2046590735655272634
Photo of Dehtiarov, holding an award and standing with Zelenskyy
I was incorrect in my first post: Dehtiarov is still just 17! Today he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who presented the newly minted grandmaster with the Future of Ukraine award
they fixed it (probably)
Screen grab of Chessbase video course that teaches colors-reversed Black openings you can play as White, including the Benoni https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/sokolov_understanding_middlegame_strategies_vol_14?ref=RF11-VGHZV4QBIP
need a chess informant symbol for objectively good and bad. also, where you been @chesscom.bsky.social
Sort of thin on details, no? The website's "about us" and "contact us" pages are just a list of social media handles.
He keeps talking about quitting Twitter....
best and only explanation I've seen
I got my best ever OTB win with this one. Opponent didn't even shake my hand. Just stopped the clock, set his pieces back up, and withdrew from the tournament.
Got him! Black to play.
Interesting conversation from @chessdojo.bsky.social on the Hans Niemann doc and the Take Take Take partnership with Lichess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2R4...
Vishy Anand reflects on his legacy, the current generation, and the future of chess!
We sat down for 54 minutes with the 15th World Champion and India's first GM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsK...
The first page of Spassky's score sheet from Game 17 of his match against Fischer. It is neatly and legibly printed in blue ink https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2026/books-manuscripts-objects-from-three-important-collections/world-championship-1972-scoresheets-round-17-22-23
arbiter Lothar Schmid's score sheet for the same game, also neat and in blue ink https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2026/books-manuscripts-objects-from-three-important-collections/world-championship-1972-scoresheets-round-17-22-23
fischer's score sheet from the same game. also in blue ink and completely illegible both because of the handwriting and the fact that it's in descriptive notation, I'm pretty sure. https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2026/books-manuscripts-objects-from-three-important-collections/world-championship-1972-scoresheets-round-17-22-23
three images from erofeyev's moskva-petushki
At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron
We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...
If you're missing the candidates tournament, Chessbase India made about three candidates tournaments worth of video. I'm still catching up
Here is IM Sagar Shah interviewing future FIDE president @anishgiri.bsky.social for two and a half hours
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MeE...
Today 270 chess games will start every second on chess.com. Just wanted you to know.
screen grab of text from the article: By game 17, Fischer was three points ahead with only eight games left, so that his draw with the black pieces was a good result. The game did have two special moments, one at the start and the other at the end. For the first and only time in his competitive career, Fischer defended with the Pirc Defence 1 e4 d6, named after a Yugoslav and Slovenian grandmaster. Why the choice? The most likely reason is as a “thank you” to Lubosh Kavalek, the Czech GM who had become Fischer’s chief aide since he broke with his original second William Lombardy earlier in the match. Kavalek often used the Pirc and the similar Modern Defence 1 e4 g6 in his own games. Twenty years later, Kavalek also helped Nigel Short for part of his world-title campaign, which included a match victory against Anatoly Karpov, before the Englishman lost the championship series to Garry Kasparov in London in 1993. Fischer was well prepared, and assessed correctly that after his 21...Qe5! the closed position and his well-centralised knight would give him a level game despite his nominal deficit of knight and pawn for rook. Spassky may have overlooked the threefold repetition of position at the end of the game. He was reported to have appeared startled when Fischer went to arbiter Schmid to claim a draw after 45 R1c2, announcing that his next move would be 45...Re1. The first occurrence had been before the adjournment, so could easily be missed. However, the Stockfish chess engine gives White less than half a pawn advantage at that point. The entire episode confirms that Fischer v Spassky 1972 was a pivotal moment in chess history, at least in the USA and Europe, which is unlikely ever to be repeated.
the great Leonard Barden, reporting for the FT, manages to slip in a few hundred words about the game after covering the auction (the scoresheets were estimated to sell for for (£5,000-£7,000)
The scoresheet for Game 17, which Fischer drew with the Pirc, while already on +3. A high-water mark for 1. e4 d6
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Show, not tell - I guess. By the way, what do you guys make of this report? (also @phchess.bsky.social) - and who is behind "Chess Topics"? chesstopics.com/new-sponsors...
Hadn't seen this site before, and I agree it's very curious there's no information about the publisher or authors... The handful or articles I clicked through do appear to be human-written and not terrible. Odd.
Oh you're studying the games of bot Vinnik? Is that like Mittens? I haven't played that one yet
close-up of Roman Dehtiarov at the board with the White pieces
Dehtiarov chose to stay in Ukraine with his family, in Kharkiv, near the Russian border, after the full-scale invitation and has limited opportunities to play, according to GM Pavel Eljanov, who helped multiple families relocate to Europe in 2022
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📸: European Chess Union
players standing on the podium at the European Individual Chess Championship. They are holding novelty checks showing their prize winnings. Congratulations to the Winner and Medalists: 🏆IM Roman Dehtiarov 🇺🇦, 9 points 🥈GM Nijat Abasov 🇦🇿, 8.5 points 🥉GM Aydin Suleymanli 🇦🇿, 8.5 points Photo via European Chess Union
18-year-old Ukrainian international master Roman Dehtiarov (2452) just won the European Individual Chess Championship with 9/11 and a 2781 performance rating.
Quite an upset against a field with many 2600+ GMs. (He was 126th seed by rating)
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"We're not creating value for ourselves, we're creating value for the entire chess community."
Thibault Duplessis, our founder and lead developer, on his vision for Lichess, recent projects, the Take Take Take agreement, interests outside of chess, and more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtIJ...
so much chess from before I was even remotely paying attention. thank you!
I'm team Boris. Just glad everyone is playing
..flak, but i'm still annoyed, 15 years later, that nobody even tried figuring out, or asking, if there was more to it than simply 'my best format is blitz, i'm going to crawl over broken glass and humiliate myself to get to blitz'.
9/n
this is a good moment to introduce this interview:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUp...
because boris is always worth listening to, and also because at around 1:30 he mentions, umprompted, a few things that support what i'm about to say re: the openings in that tournament, and also a little..
3/n
ok take 2
the reason i appear to care - i was there when it was written etc etc, i was part of team grischuk in kazan 2011 (together with bacrot and riazantsev) so i had a front row seat to it
I’m with you. But then again, I’m a Fischer Boomer and was thrilled to see him run away with the candidate’s matches in the 70s.
I wonder how a 3-1-0 scoring system affects a player’s approach to a tournament. Do they play safer, not risking the dreaded goose egg?
Probably fun to watch. Wouldn't help the people who felt this candidates wasn't great because one player ran away with it. But I am not personally in that camp
