Average Joe

Software Developer, IT Project/Product Manager, Financial Market Trader & Chess Lover

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

"I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

Imagine Elon Musk as a 2900-rated chess GM. Incredible for the game, but no SpaceX. No Tesla. ♟️🚀
It makes you wonder: how many world-changing minds have been lost to the 64 squares since Chaturanga? Just thinking.🤔 #chess

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Chapter 32 🎂. Happy birthday dreamer boy

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

Christa Pike Irony: the state tried to kill her by lethal injection, the execution failed, they rushed her to the hospital for treatment… only to potentially come back and say, “Okay, now that you’re feeling better, let’s try that again.” 😭

Talk about a medical discharge with a terrifying follow-up appointment.

[Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar]

On March 24, 2005, Bobby Fischer arrived in Reykjavík, the city where he would spend the rest of his life. He was wearing his favorite custom-made Birkenstock sandals.

He had spent nearly nine months in a Japanese immigration detention center after his arrest on July 13, 2004, for attempting to travel on a revoked U.S. passport.

To help him avoid deportation to the United States, where he was wanted for violating U.S. economic sanctions by playing a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia, the Icelandic Parliament granted him full citizenship on March 21, 2005. Three days later, he arrived in Reykjavík.

He remained there until his death on January 17, 2008, at the age of 64, matching the number of squares on a chessboard. ♟️

The photos at the bottom are from when I visited his grave. I was much more emotional than I expected.

The photo with the chessboard shows one of the starting positions from Fischer Random, using the current rules that we created together, rules that are now used worldwide.

I wrote about Bobby Fischer and, in detail, how I helped him finalize the rules for Fischer Random through our countless games together in Budapest, in my memoir, Rebel Queen.(https://t.co/lY5ayc0OAW).

I also included two Fischer Random positions in my book: one using the initial rules and another using the finalized rules we worked on.

#BobbyFischer

@FIDE_chess @ECUonline @USChess

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

So……

Let’s talk.

How many Premier League titles have I won then? 🤔

[Mayank Chaudhary @_mayyyank]

The night Gukesh won the World Championship in 2024, I was interviewing Vishy Anand.

That very same day, he told me that it had happened to him, and it would happen to Gukesh as well... it simply comes with the World title. People will try to demean it... people will try to discredit it.

He qualified for the Candidates legitimately, became the youngest Candidates winner ever, and stood as the youngest World Championship challenger. He beat Ding Liren fair and square to become the youngest player in history to claim the world title. None of this was handed to him on a silver platter.

All Gukesh needs to do is not give a damn about anyone or anything, and he is doing so wonderfully, simply by doing what he is supposed to do: play

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

@FIDE_chess Yes, if he wants to lose his after Bg4!

[Tyler Winklevoss @tyler]

You don't need the government to tell you how to make AI safe. These questions were asked and answered by Isaac Asimov in the 1940s. The frontier labs can hardcode Asimov's Laws of Robotics into their models today. What are they waiting for?

[Bloomberg @business]

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, is set for a $23 billion leap in his net worth with the IPO of his refinery business

@jennzaba explains why the continent's biggest listing promises to supercharge the Nigerian's wealth https://t.co/NCouc62bnh

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

That is a different argument entirely when comparing with global benchmarks, and I would agree it was a bad investment in USD terms. However, when you live, work, and spend exclusively in Nigeria, your biggest financial enemy isn't the US Dollar; it is domestic inflation. The Dangote Cement IPO did exactly what a great equity investment is supposed to do: it completely outpaced inflation and dramatically multiplied the investor's local purchasing power.

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

This is incorrect, Dangote Cement was priced at ₦135.00 per share when it was listed on the NSE in 2010. DANGCEM is currently trading at ₦1,034.00 per share on the NGX. An investment of ₦1m during the 2010 IPO would be worth ₦7,659,259.26 today, and you would have received approximately ₦1,909,259.26 in cumulative cash dividends over the years. Always do your research before you post.

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

@DamienJosh56755 Sorry about this; I reached out to one of the arbiters. He assured me the matter is being looked into and will eventually be resolved.

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

@SkySportsNews Apologies should never be enough for such clear errors, someone needs to be fired or at least suspended

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

The Dangote Refinery IPO is the ultimate Nigerian IQ test. Paying ₦525 a share for a business that relies on dollar-priced crude oil, while the local currency struggles, is wild. Are we investing in Nigeria's future, or is Dangote just inviting us to share in a dollar-backed monopoly while the Naira fights for its life?

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

@chesscoachandra Nf6 before b4

[Average Joe @AbyemJ]

@Sir_BiolaPr is the joker a joke to you?

[Olimpiu Di Luppi @olimpiuurcan]

Chess has all the attributes of an ancient curse: too deep for mere relaxation, too difficult to master, too unrewarding to guarantee good living, and too beautiful to quit.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Life is too short for chess, and too short to go without chess!