Bought @telegram Premium twice, it expires, and now I can't post stories anymore. 🙃 Didn't they make stories free for everyone a while ago? What am I missing here?
Queen of Chess, a new documentary from director Rory Kennedy, premieres February 6.
A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering the male-dominated world of international chess. After a 15-year battle to topple the world champion, she'll become one of the greatest chess players of all time.
While watching Alireza vs. MVL, @agadmator mentioned that 'any move is possible' in this variation and position. So, I played Bf4, only to immediately regret it when I saw ...e5! lesson learned: don't try this move in a bar or a library.
@telegram I am using the latest version of Telegram on Android. Since a few weeks ago, the scroll position within chats is not preserved correctly. When I navigate away from a chat and return, the position does not remain the same; it shifts slightly every time.
The Saint Louis Chess Club is proud to sponsor the USA team at the FIDE World Women’s Team Championship in Linares, Spain! Representing the nation’s finest chess talent are (from left to right) IM Anna Sargsyan, IM Tatev Abrahamyan, IM Carissa Yip, GM Irina Krush, WGM Zoey Tang, and the captain GM Melik Khachiyan.
Let’s cheer them on as they aim to bring home the world title! Best of luck to our incredible team! 🏆♟️
Photo by Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club
#STLChessClub
Polina Shuvalova was the most dominant force in the round-robins!
She farmed +13.7 Elo with a perfect 4/4 against a bunch of strong 2300s!
📷: Pavel Dvorkovich
🇨🇳 Wei Yi, 🇺🇿 Nodirbek Yakubboev, 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov and Andrey Esipenko reach the World Cup semifinals! 🔥
This is a World Cup full of upsets. No players from the world's top 10 remain, and only two semifinalists are above 2700 - Wei Yi and Sindarov.
Three of them will qualify for the 2026 Candidates! ♟️
Who are you rooting for?
ℹ️ What is the FIDE World Cup?
It is a knockout event with over 200 players. Each round has two classical games, and tied matches are decided in rapid and blitz tiebreaks. The top three finishers qualify for the 2026 Candidates, which decides who will challenge World Champion Gukesh D.
📷 FIDE / Michal Walusza
GM @andrey_esipenko comes out of the playing hall after defeating and eliminating his countrymate Aleksey Grebnev and moving to the Quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup 2025! Esipenko will take on Sam Shankland tomorrow. #chess#chessbaseindia#fideworldcup
While all eyes are on the World Cup, Amin Tabatabaei 🇮🇷 asserts his dominance over the open circuit, winning the 28th Bavarian Championship 🇩🇪 with 8/9 (1/2 pt bye + 7.5/8 score!) to return to 2700 live rating.
This is his final round game, 99.4% accuracy 🎯, 0% fear 🥶
For Danya ♥️
A legend, a teacher, a friend…
We never got to record a course with him, so we made one for him.
10 of his best games.
Free. Forever.
https://t.co/Nl5vJrmpV4
Danya was a Chess Life magazine columnist from 2014 through 2020, writing a monthly column on endgames.
Now, all of his columns can be downloaded as one .pdf file here (no US Chess membership required):
https://t.co/0O2MvthaM5
Words can’t describe how heartbreaking the passing of my coach, Daniel Naroditsky, is.
Just a few days before the Grand Swiss tournament in Uzbekistan which took place a little more than a month ago, I asked him to coach and accompany me.
Even though it was a last-minute request and he had to travel across the world to reach Samarkand, he booked his flight and figured everything out within hours. That’s who he was, always there, never hesitating to help.
We spent an amazing half month together. I’ll always be grateful for those days and everything I learned from him.
Danya was the most genuine person I have ever known.
I’ll never forget our late night bullet matches over the past 10 years. he was the only person in the world who regularly beat me in those.
Danya, your legacy lives on forever.
I’m sure somewhere up there, you’re playing blitz and discussing history with the greats.
@FIDE_chess This investigation should be done by an independent third party. Immediately. Before he is allowed to do any more damage to other players. You are far too close to the issue and should have investigated long before this.
This is one of the most disgusting and vile things I have ever read, and that's saying a lot as a woman growing up in chess. "Where were all of you when Danya was alive and unwell?". You are the CEO of the governing body of chess and in your first real comments since the passing of one of our greatest talents, coaches, and ambassadors you decide to blame the public when you have absolutely no idea who Danya had been in contact with?
Where the f*ck were you? Certainly not protecting your players from harassment because I'm sure that might have interfered with your protection of FIDE President Dvorkovich, close friends with Kramnik. You both accuse his friends knowing NOTHING about the support he received and remove any responsibility from yourself at the same time. Truly pathetic.
We aren't oversimplifying anything. We know the damage Kramnik did to Danya because he told us in some of his final painful words. Trivializing the world's call for justice against Kramnik's malicious campaign of harassment isn't "virtue signaling", but I'm not at all surprised this would be your take given your morals have been bought out for many years now.
But you are right about one thing. We absolutely didn't do enough while Danya was with us, we were not vocal enough about the failures of FIDE to uphold it's own bylaws, and that's what makes me the most sick. It's a mistake I won't make again. You are clearly unfit to lead FIDE. You are a disgrace to Chess and everything it should stand for. Resign immediately.
Words don't feel sufficient. I still don't want to believe it 💔 Thank you so much Danya for our blitz sessions, our late night calls, for sharing the mic with me during commentary, for the laughs, and for teaching me so much. You were always a beacon of light. We all miss you.