I've been meaning to address this article for a while, as it seems to have become quite popular in the chess world. In fact, last month I decided to investigate the gender gap in chess using FIDE data online. All figures below were made by me. A long-ish thread:

I'm not gonna get cooked on Twitter again. Nepo is the overwhelming favorite regardless of what the stats say

Played my first OTB tournament in a year and did quite well -- took 7th out of 17 and finished my tournament with a beautiful combination! Black to play and win

Sargent’s “The Chess Game” at Tate and he forgets the eval bar 🤦‍♀️

the FIDE circuit is entirely a cost saving measure because FIDE doesn’t have the funds to run a real qualification cycle it’s amazing that this isn’t a bigger scandal

The final round of this tournament will be the best birthday present ever 🥳

Chess needs and deserves better sponsors.

Sacrificing the exchange

BUPE DAST

So this is what life coaching from Kramnik looks like

Alireza: Old man Hikaru is past his prime Hikaru: Young man Hans is past his prime

Didn't know Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen were playing in the Women Chess Olympiad?

chess bros be like what an insane move bro. absolutely nasty work. whole time it's just the knight moving in an L like he always does

From Illinois to Norway, thanks guys! Hope to see you achieve the next stunt Sjakksnakk

On Wednesday, world chess champion Garry Kasparov tied Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer that can examine two hundred million positions per second, in the fourth game of their six-game series. Earlier in the week, Kasparov admitted he committed a catastrophic blunder in game two,

Prayers for Uncle Yermo! Two-time US champ GM Alex Yermolinsky is hospitalized in Turkey after a quadruple bypass. Check out the following fundraiser co-organized by Grandmasters Shabalov and Kaidanov for more information. Your support is also appreciated. gofundme.com/f/uncle-yermo-…