The Chess Viking

FIDE Master from Iceland 🇮🇸 | Sharing chess lessons as The Chess Viking ⚔️ | Learn pattern recognition, openings & tactics | YT & TikTok: @TheChessViking

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

@Dixit__Nikhil Sneaky old Smyslov!

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@tslav10 @FastbreakHoops5 Tell us you know nothing about basketball without telling us!

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@barstoolsports As a former ref, this is on the refs! Attack your problems when they are small...calling the obvious foul on the Wolves immediately would have avoided the retaliation.

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It's white to move and channel his inner Gotham chess voice! How did white seal an important win to remain in joint 1st place with two rounds to go at the Icelandic Championship?

#Chess #Tactics #ChessTactics

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

@askavrukh This seems unfair because black has always "seen a move ahead"

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@thewizardmelon1 I prefer not to call anyone out, but there's a ton of this "content" on Instagram, TikTok, etc. Exaggerated acting over famous combinations/tactics/traps/studies.

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

I have a question for chess players...

What do you think about content "creators" replaying famous games/tactics/studies like they found the moves themselves…or it happened in their own games?

✔️ fine entertainment
❌ misleading viewers

Which is it?

#Chess #HonestQuestion

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

@GatoFranco90 Yeah that's the worst for me!

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@kamrynheidi I like your list!!

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@silver83p Haha didn't notice that! Yeah good retreating moves are hard to find, white found a bad one and black missed the good one!

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

“The hardest move to find is a backward (retreating) knight move.” ✍️

Such a move could have decided the World Senior Team Championship (65+) earlier today. If Igor Gazik find the winning move here, Italy 🇮🇹 would have won the gold but instead Germany 🇩🇪 grabs the top spot.

Black to move and win after white's 25.Nde3?? 🧩

#Chess #Tactics

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

Chess would be a lot easier if someone could just tap you on the shoulder when there’s a tactic. I am sure my friend Runar would have spotted it if he was tapped 😅♟️

Black to move. Can you spot it?

#chess #chesstactics #chesspuzzle

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

Caption this! Your opponent just played 1.a3 in the 10th round of the European Individual Chess Championship! #Chess #eicc2026

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@barrylongii The GOAT

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@VinnysCorner1 Weirdly, I went Michael Adams, but retrospectively I should have gone Mutombo or Abdul-Rauf (literally one of my all-time favourites!)

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

@AIDrivenSecOps @Mekk If you have to play Kd1 on move 15 with white in such an opening you've roally messed things up!

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

Oh my! 15.Kd1 by Esipenko has to be one of the more embarassing moves someone has played or had to play at the Candidates, maybe EVER! #Chess #FIDECandidates

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

Gotta love it!

[Starazyme @Star_azym]

Returning on The Viking's post, GM Sivuk missed a similar mating theme in time trouble

https://t.co/TqWzJb1lzQ

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

Great performance so far and a very convincing win today against a strong player!

[ReykjavikOpenChess @ReykjavikOpen]

Estonian IM Narva Mai is having a very strong Reykjavik Open! She just beat GM-elect Nico Chasin in 23 moves with white and has a PFR over 2600 on course for a GM norm, having already faced more than the required three GM opponents! @OnTheQueenside #Chess #ReykjavikOpen

[The Chess Viking @ZibbitVideos]

I've actually done this for over 2 decades...didn't fix my timetrouble issues though unfortunately :-(

[ReykjavikOpenChess @ReykjavikOpen]

Interesting tactic by WIM Bodhana Sivananda,write down the time of every move. Do you do this as well?”♟️#chess #reykjavikopen