Maugrim posted:

Castles roosting on an open file
Black knights nipping at your pawns
Wayward queens being hung without trial
On chessboards like manicured lawns
Everybody knows a queen and bishop in a row
Help to make opponents sweat
Tiny clergy in their fianchetto
Will find it hard to dodge the threat

They know that bishop's on his way
To pin them to a rook and take them away
And that weakened king is gonna wait
For a pawn and queen in a lobster-pincer mate

Now I'm offering this simple phrase
To players from 300 to 2070
Although it's been played many times, many ways
Don't push f6 or f3

Zwabu posted:

Even though it's an easy win I like that Black's move contains a little trap that a short on time player could fall into.

jesus WEP posted:

i didn't know until today that there's a video of hikaru and scott hansen having a drunken physical fight while yasser talks poo poo and laughs about it with caruana, because yasser is the coolest dude in chess

jesus WEP posted:

it has been a banner weekend for world champions having meltdowns

Sub Rosa posted:

Best part of this is he had to delete it because the person he retweeted changed their display name to Unionize Tesla

Hand Knit posted:

Oh hell yes, I was worried this was dying down.

Charles Ingalls posted:

It’d be really fun to see a JCS analysis ( like they did with prince Andrew and Casey Anthony) of some post-allegation Neumann interviews

uPen posted:

It's not a great sign for them that their methods for catching cheaters are so flimsy that knowing how they do it invalidates the method.

jesus WEP posted:

Zwabu posted:

Even though this puzzle wasn't rated really highly, I like it.

Had to spend a long time looking at it because it hit one of my common blind spots - White looks like they can defend the combination, but there is a critical pin that turns White's defense into smoke and mirrors.

Black to move and win:

Zwabu posted:

Yes.

Bharatrocity posted:

Off to a normal start

cheetah7071 posted:

The most astonishing engine performance I've heard of is that computers can play Diplomacy at the level of the best humans. Diplomacy is a 7 player free for all where it's almost impossible to accomplish anything alone, so the core game is about convincing other players to help you out, in ordinary language

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

neaden posted:

it seems like it was a bit of an open secret which makes it hard to see how he was allowed to continue as a coach.

rollick posted:

I want a board that's the kind of thing you get in books and newspapers and I can't find a good one on any site

algebra testes posted:

My favorite chat comment so far is "I could lose this position with black or white no problem"

AARD VARKMAN posted:

bringing my secret weapon to the world championship: a vintage bag of sun chips

jesus WEP posted:

half mill phil

e: entirely wrong thread lol