Watch Day 1 of the special Casablanca Chess event ft. Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand and Bassem Amin with us on Twitch and YouTube, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar, with live cameras from the beautiful venue - a Moroccan palazzo.
Watch Round 5 of the Sharjah Masters with commentary by our host IM Irene Sukandar and player cameras on top boards now as three players - GMs Niemann, Chithambaram and Saleh - are still tied for the lead after drawing their games yesterday:
Join our host IM Irene Sukandar for Round 4 of the Sharjah Masters! Co-leaders Saleh and Niemann face off, while the only other player on 3 points, Aravindh, takes on Tabatabaei. Watch now, with player cameras on top boards!
Watch Round 3 of the Sharjah Masters with us and our host IM Irene Sukandar! Top seed Arjun Erigaisi will try to bounce back with a win over Nikolozi Kachavara after his surprising loss to Nikolas Theodorou yesterday, who plays Hans Moke Niemann this round.
Join us and our host IM Irene Sukandar for Round 2 of the Sharjah Masters 2024 now on YouTube and Twitch, with Vasyl Ivanchuk taking on Amin Tabatabaei and other exciting pairings!
"It was my first in-person chess competition, and I was full of optimism. I faced a severe-looking child who wore a food-stained sweatshirt emblazoned with a cartoon penguin." @robaeprice for Business Insider
The Sharjah Masters 2024 starts today with GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Parham Maghsoodloo, Yu Yangyi and others. We will cover the event with commentary by our host IM Irene Sukandar on Twitch and YouTube from 12:45 UTC today and 10:45 UTC the following days until 22 May!
I did the first #chess board render with my #RustLang chess engine :o I'm really happy with how it turned out. And it also shows that the white kingside castling worked xD (Assets from itch.io)
Legendary names of the chess world in action at the European Seniors Teams Championship. Greats of the past like Nunn and Beliavsky are playing.
It's a shame that Russia's war against Ukraine deprives us of former great players from there, but, of course, I support the ban on Russian participation.
It's also a shame that the International community can't show consistency as Israeli teams are allowed to take part.
Almost a year since I started playing and I've finally hit 600 #ELO.
I've seen some IMs say that the 'hell wall' in #chess is around 600, and my play is highly volatile depending on how tired/well/hungover I am, so I'm not expecting to get much better quickly.
I'm not sure what to aim for next. Double my rating in the next year? Hit 1,000 by end of the year? Maybe six months? Something like that.
I am now working on my own chess API and it’s actually pretty fun. I learned that using bitboards is apparently very efficient. So I now use 8 64bit bitboards, 2 for the color and 6 for the pieces (I thought about just using 7 because you COULD theoretically represent the colors in one bitboard, but using 2 makes it faster at the expense of an extra 64 bit, which is neglegible). Gonna continue on this in the upcoming days :3
Bloody hell. A chess scandal film with Emma Stone attached. 😳
Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder Reteam with A24 for Ben Mezrich’s Carlsen-Niemann Chess Scandal Story (Exclusive)
The indie upstart seems to have outwitted streamers and studios to win 'Checkmate' with a seven-figure deal that left competitors' head-spinning.
Hehe. Pojawiły się nagrania z prób do #Eurovision2024 i widać, tam też naszą reprezentantkę Lunę z piosenką "The tower". Widać też, że tańczy z kimś, kto strojem przypomina Saurona, ale chyba ma być hetmanem szachowym, zwłaszcza, że w tle są wieże szachowe. Bo wiecie - "wieża" = "tower".
Problem tylko, że w szachach "wieża" to "rook". Jeśli faktycznie taki był zamysł naszej ekipy, to gratuluję xD
Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning the Titled Arena April '24! Runner-up GM Daniel Naroditsky was just 4 points behind and third place went to GM Andrew Tang, who finished the tournament with 7 berserked wins in a row!