AlainD

Software Engineer, musician. World champion at Entropy, LOA and Pacru. Represented UK and ZA at World Champs in Chess, Xiangqi and Backgammon. 🎼🚲🇿🇦🇪🇺

[AlainD @abdekker]

Thought for the day, courtesy Mahatma Gandhi: If you want good neighbours...be a good neighbour.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@manutiss @Vachier_Lagrave @franceinfo @franceinfovideo @PatRomedenne @ffechecs My name is Alain Dekker, the namesake of the Dekker Gambit: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g4!
https://t.co/vdKDq0Huq2
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Merci d'avoir joué mon ouverture, @Vachier_Lagrave... avec un brio que je ne peux pas !

[AlainD @abdekker]

@KoridzeLile Incredible!

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@dw_learngerman A) In

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@JJeff4t @DrEliDavid Yawn. People under adversity invent more. "Necessity is the mother of all invention". A lot of reported "oppression" is fictional which eventually becomes self-fulfilling.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@Chilly_in_the @SkyNews Its about being able to exist, John. With never-ending pogroms, the fresh barbarism of Oct 7, the Holocaust, the rising tide of anti-Semitism, the realisation they have nowhere to go...it drives people to insanity.

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

What the Springbok victory meant to South Africans. Kids everywhere crying. My favourite is the guy lifting a couch 😂🤣😂

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

🚨Recording of an intercepted phone call conversation between two #Hamas operatives confirming that it was an #IslamicJihad rocket that fell short of #Israel and landed within the compound of the #Gaza #hospital.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@GoodwinMJ Sadly, that gradual erosion in the credibility of the BBC mirrors my own experience.

Constant blurring of lines by taking a "middle ground" on every issue (from Brexit, to climate change, to their refusal to call Hamas 'terrorists') erodes trust.

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

An Islamic Jihad missile has killed many Palestinians at a Gazan hospital - a place where lives should be saved.

Shame on the media who swallow the lies of Hamas and Islamic Jihad - broadcasting a 21st century blood libel around the globe.

Shame on the vile terrorists in Gaza who wilfully spill the blood of the innocent.

Never before has the choice been clearer. Israel is standing against an enemy made of pure evil. If you stand for humanity - for the value of all human life - you stand with Israel.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@EliteMindSports 1.Rd6 (deflecting the Q and threatening Rxa6+). If 1...Qxd6 2.Qb3+ mates. Simple, but pretty.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@chesscom Proudest chess moments:
1) Represented South Africa at the Commonwealth Games (2001)
2) Best Game prize, Gibraltar (2007)
3) Chess opening officially named after me (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g4!? Dekker Gambit, Najdorf B90)

[Why must I lose to this idiot? @wmiltti]

@lichess Or this: don’t mate in one.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@Bennyficial1 @JesseKraai @chess_dojo This one happens to be trivial as only one move jumps out, but "mate in N" puzzles can be very tricky!

[John Lewis & Partners @JohnLewisRetail]

It’s the things we do that mean the most. 🛹
#TheBeginner

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

Königsberg https://t.co/WMGpsjYj2k https://t.co/ButY1WsDE1

[AlainD @abdekker]

@lichess Does the puzzle have an estimated rating? Feels about 1300-1400, although bishop pins can be tricky to spot. 1...Ra1+ is the key.

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@NJ_Timothy What is the point of commentators when they stir the bottom of the barrel with BS like this? She's gleeful cause she's a journalist and the govt are imploding. What red-blooded journalist wouldn't be with so much to report on. Give it a rest.

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@dw_learngerman a) mit

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@Chilly_in_the @BethRigby A GE would be welcome and be the logical result of no nominee reaching the 100 threshold, but unfortunately the one with the most endorsements wins in that case. The contest ends, and Con members will not be balloted.

[AlainD @abdekker]

@ryanredmond87 @BritainElects The problem is a FPTP voting system and the media which are divisive, splitting us into Remain/Leave, Left/Right, Lab/Con, etc.

We need consensual, grownup, serious politics. We need #ProportionalRepresentationNow.