These titles literally help girls and women receive funding from their federation while at a lower rating. More funding = easier access to playing chess. Therefore reducing the gender gap and giving more opportunities to play and become stronger.

Here are 3 sci-fi book recommendations from Your Friendly Neighborhood Rocket Scientist and author #booktwitter #sciencefiction #mustread #scifi #authorsoftwiiter #writingcommunity #space #science #bookrecommendations #mars #startrek #marsexploration

BREAKING: The Department of Education has terminated its DEI Council, withdrawn its Equity Action Plan, canceled $2.6 million in DEI training contracts, and placed all DEI staffers on leave, effective immediately. They are laying siege to the institution—with more to come.

I GOT A TITLE!! I’m a WCM now 🥹 #chess

Teach every women and girl game theory. #IWD Gravitas CatalystInc

Last week, I voulenteered at a Norwegian prison to teach chess to the inmates. I shared my experience on social media, hoping to inspire others to volunteer at the prison. But I had not expected Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard to contact me and generously donate a huge collection of

Nature is Amazing ☘️ Since 2016, French eagles have been trained to spot and take down drones, from miles away.

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Out today, on @forwardcess, @chesstempo, newinchess.com and your local chess specialist!

Den of thieves!

I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the team at Chessiverse! Chessiverse is a platform where you can play and practice against 500+ human-like chess bots. We aim to promote "stress less" chess improvement in a community of like-minded learners. We have some innovative

New pod just dropped! 🎙️ #DojoTalks IM Kostya Kavutskiy interviews GM Jacob Aagaard on positional play, chess improvement, the right mindset for training, & much more! Don't miss out!! 🔥 youtu.be/KXz-a9m1jIs

I Felt All This , He Was Cooking 🤣

Well, I just played Magnus Carlsen for the first time in my life. It was a blitz game on Chess.com in their "Freestyle Friday" tournament. I lost. I finished the event with 7/11. I started playing Freestyle Friday back in February, and this is the best I've ever finished. 🙂

I won the Central California Open, in clear first. This is the first time that I've won an open tournament, and I'm pretty happy about this. I'm headed to Charlotte soon for an IM norm event, so hopefully I can keep up this good form. 😃

Congratulations to Rose Atwell for earning an IM norm and to Gauri Shankar for earning the IM title this weekend at @charlottechesscenter's 35th GM/IM Norm Invitational! Rose Atwell Gauri

I had a quick draw in round 9 to earn my 2nd IM norm! I finished on 6.5/9. I think I gained 54 FIDE points with this performance. Big thanks to the organizers for hosting this event! I'll be back in Charlotte in November for more events. Photo by the Charlotte Chess Center -

I played WGM Jennifer Yu in round 5 of the US Women's Championship. We got a draw. I was lucky. Below I took gxf5. I thought "why not take a pawn". But now I'm much worse after Rhg1+ Kh8 Bb5. This gets her the e5 square for her other bishop and her pieces are too active.