JJ

“One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent.” (Siegbert Tarrasch)

[JJ @JJtheKnight]

Before you ask: no, I'm not the guy in the horse costume.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: The Dutch National Team visiting Times Square.

[Roelof Bouwman @RoelofBouwman]

Ergo: een minister van D66 die niet bestand is tegen controle door de volksvertegenwoordiging, krijgt bijles op kosten van de burgers die de volksvertegenwoordiging hebben gekozen.
Dooier dan Hans van Mierlo en Hans Gruijters kun je in 2026 niet zijn.

[JJ @JJtheKnight]

“Women lack opportunities in chess.”

Yet I can’t think of any man who gets paid to do silly dances at major events and post photos of his outfits.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Leiden might be the best candidate if you want to visit a Dutch city and avoid the tourist shithole that Amsterdam is in 2026

(I am Dutch and from Amsterdam)

Leiden is in some way might be more historically significant than Amsterdam (more on that in my reply)

You'll find zero tourists and as a tourist you won't even be able to see the difference with Amsterdam (except that there's no annoying tourists!)

[JJ @JJtheKnight]

@IMIljaSirosh @ChessBase Probably being moved to Kazakhstan 😬

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

When Ajax won the league a few years ago, they melted down their Eredivisie trophy into 42,000 small silver stars to send as a gift for each of their season ticket holders.

Football is nothing without the fans. Ajax are a classy club.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 OFFICIAL: Matthijs de Ligt will miss the World Cup after back surgery today. 🤕❌

“After 6 months of treatment and working hard to get back, surgery was the only option left. I’m disappointed i couldn’t help the team the last 6 months and obviously missing out on World Cup but I’m looking forward to doing everything to get back in front of the fans and feeling better again!”.

[ICC chessclub.com @chessclubICC]

Leonard Barden shared the anecdote that this composition, created by Julien Guisle for Le Figaro in 1956, was initially rejected because the editor thought there had to be a mistake: “This can’t be mate in four!” Can you prove him wrong and find the checkmate?

Check Solution:
https://t.co/Bw5HIzwjWE

[JJ @JJtheKnight]

@FressinetL @PHChess This is bad news, and not only for France.

[Benno de Jongh @benno_jongh]

Het was weer raak op Radio1 vanochtend. De gevestigde orde gooit het nu op 'we moeten de cijfers rondom immigratie beter uitleggen'.

Dus reken de komende tijd op gegoochel, selectief gequoot, gerommel en gelieg op tv en radio en in de kranten.

[JJ @JJtheKnight]

@FIDE__chess An electoral fraud, maybe?

[Ziggo Sport Voetbal @ZS_Voetbal]

De doelstelling voor volgend seizoen is duidelijk! 🏆

#ZiggoSport #LaLiga #ElClasico

[MrDodgy is on ChessFam @ChessProblem]

60 days have passed since CAS made their decision - if the Chess Federation of Russia refuses to comply within the next 30 days, they must be suspended for 3 years

will Dvorkovich resign before or after?

[JJ @JJtheKnight]

The chess version of this trend.

[Ege @egeberkina]

Recently these super realistic live TV broadcast shots have been going viral everywhere

Tried making one myself using GPT Image 2 + Kling 3.0

Prompt: A screenshot from a live Wimbledon TV broadcast during a packed Centre Court match. The camera cuts to the audience, an unbelievably attractive woman in her 20s with long black hair, flawless skin, elegant makeup, and a luxurious aura, seated in the VIP section wearing a sophisticated cream-white low-cut summer outfit with subtle jewelry. She smiles naturally while reacting to the match, unaware she's on camera. Wealthy spectators and champagne glasses around her, old-money tennis atmosphere, shallow depth of field. Full live tennis broadcast overlay: scoreboard, network watermark, broadcast graphics, 16:9 aspect ratio. The image looks exactly like a real TV screenshot, telephoto broadcast lens, realistic live color grading, slight compression artifacts, interlacing grain, subtle motion blur, imperfect live-camera framing.

[Thijs Zonneveld @thijszonneveld]

Dat Rick Ottema nooit om een ProTeam of WorldTourteam heeft gereden is een mirakel en een schande tegelijk. #marlygrav

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

On one side of the Atlantic, you have a 79-year-old former game show host who believes windmills cause cancer, personally ended a war that hasn’t ended, and that crowd sizes at his inauguration defied the known laws of mathematics.

On the other side, you have a 72-year-old ex-KGB man who has just accused Finland of secretly plotting to invade Russia.

Finland. Famous for saunas, reindeer, and minding their own business since approximately the Bronze Age.

Putin’s reasoning, delivered with the solemn authority of a man who hasn’t slept since 2003, was this: Finland joined NATO because they were waiting. Biding their time. Lurking. Ready to swoop in and grab Russian territory the moment Russia collapsed.
“Swoop in and grab what they could,” he said.

This is a man who sent 200,000 troops across an internationally recognised border, seized territory by force, and has spent four years reducing Ukrainian cities to rubble. Describing someone else as the type who swoops in and grabs what they can.

The psychological term is projection. The clinical term is considerably less polite.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, the other one is imposing tariffs on islands inhabited exclusively by penguins and receiving world leaders at a golf club in Florida as though the White House is simply too far to drive.

Two old men. Two fantasy worlds. Zero connection to observable reality.
The Cold War at least had the decency to be frightening. This is just embarrassing.

When your entire worldview runs on paranoia, grievance, and whatever the Kremlin version of Fox News feeds you at 3am, a fence looks like an invasion. A neighbour looks like a threat. And five million Finns quietly getting on with their lives looks like a geopolitical conspiracy.

[Mike Klein @ChessMike]

We made @alexandrabotez play 4 kids at once. In the ultimate Botez Gambit, she was losing on the first board after 8 moves. Was she able to recover?

https://t.co/nnLoPF5EYR

[Reuters @Reuters]

Humanoid robot Sophia took the stage alongside a live orchestra in Hong Kong in her first classical music performance, in an AI-themed concert that merged traditional art forms with innovation

[Andras Toth @chesscoachandra]

Pogosiants is one of my favorite study composers. This is a prime example of a great calculating exercise. WTM.

[Pavel Eljanov @Eljanov]

I can’t recall chess ever being recognized at such a high level in Ukraine! I hope this marks a new bright chapter in the history of Ukrainian chess. Keep going, Roman - and thank you, Mr. President!