Vanessa Sun

Chess writer & photographer. PhD student at MIT. Tweets also @vanessainstem

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

Hi chess friends! Having to take a break from chess things for a while bc my PhD isn’t going well 😅 You can find me tweeting more often at @vanessainstem in the meantime 😊

[Michael Rahal @Rahal_Michael]

Having lunch with @davidllada is always a good opportunity to update your social media profile picture! 🙏

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

@ChessMike genuinely, my top list of nicest people in chess has to be them two, you, greg, and lennart 🤩 i love this!!!

[FIDE (a Russian parody) @FIDE__chess]

For one day only, we are just the second most cringe federation.

[Irene Sukandar @irene_sukandar]

Awww congratulations to you both! Oh wait… that’s me 😍

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

This is literally the best chess news I’ve ever gotten (i haven’t been on here forever but logged on just to tweet about this). My chess OTP fr 😭❤️❤️❤️

[Eric Rosen @IM_Rosen]

I’m thrilled to share a special life update -- I recently married the amazing @irene_sukandar

We kept our relationship mostly private until now, but we’re happy to share this milestone publicly. Thank you for supporting our journeys, both on and off the chessboard. Here’s to the beginning of a beautiful chapter ❤️

[Jennifer Shahade @JenShahade]

“Mommy, is Deep Blue still alive?”

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

@ChrisBirdIA @LennartOotes @GrandChessTour Lennart is indeed a very special guest 🥺🥺🥺

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

@hellokostya @DGukesh Looking spiffy 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[Daniel Lona @Lona_Chess]

I'm very good at spending too much time on #chess.

[lula @lularobs]

chess twitter really fell off and honestly I think it’s because I stopped posting memes

[Jennifer Shahade @JenShahade]

I am fighting back against campaigns to silence me and retaliate against me for speaking up about sexual violence in chess.

I have fought many battles on the chess board and the poker table. This is the most important one.

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

just sold my set of Botez sisters chess pieces and of course the man I was selling it to couldn’t find me because, as he said, “I thought you were a guy” 🤪

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

@LA4VotersRights @lichess How do you know this?

[Sabrina Chevannes @sabzyc]

Story 2: 🧵 I have two older brothers and so have always been friends with lots of boys all my life.

I have been told that it’s this reason that I “got what was coming to me”, because I was “one of the lads”.

Just because I trusted them, it does not mean they should misuse it.

[Kostya Kavutskiy @hellokostya]

Helping coach the @USChess team this week for the 2023 Pan-Am Youth Championships! 🇺🇲

https://t.co/r9SpGZOAya

[ChessKid.com 👑 @ChessKidcom]

I’m so booking the FunMaster for my bday! 🤩

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

@ChessMike This is so fun!!! ☺️☺️

[Vanessa Sun @vanessasun64]

@SChevannes What’s the best way to reach out to you? (Can’t message due to Twitter settings)

[Jón Úlfur @JahnyErMjukur]

FIDE clearly thinks that words speak louder than action...

Nigel Short is having the biggest laugh of his life. Alejandro Ramirez, Timur Gareyev, and others are still free to play as many FIDE tournaments as they please.

Everyone at FIDE should be ashamed, but they don't care

[Yosha Iglesias @IglesiasYosha]

Grandmasters who have committed sexual assaults continue to play chess all over the world, while their victims quit the game they love

FIDE and most national federations will do nothing unless they are forced to. This is why we need public pressure

Speaking out is the only way