Sebastião Salgado quitte un monde en flammes, lui qui avait tant fait pour éteindre le feu de la destruction. #Photographie #Salgado #RIP

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On this day in 1971: 19-year-old Jan Timman faces 70-year-old ex-World Champion Max Euwe in the Dutch blitz championship, which was taking place in Weesp, near Amsterdam. (📷: unknown, via nationaalarchief.nl.) #chess

While Gukesh and Arjun were busy in Norway, 25-year-old 🇮🇳 Aravindh entered the World Top 10 for the 1st time after edging out Praggnanandhaa to win the Stepan Avagyan Memorial in Armenia! chess.com/news/view/arav…

Chess is joining the line-up of the 2025 Esports World Cup. Peter Doggers explains what’s going on here in New In Chess magazine 2025#4. newinchess.com/new-in-chess-2…

Christiaan Weijts schrijft in zijn column in @NRC over schaken en prijst het boek ‘De Schaakrevolutie’ van Peter Doggers. Terecht. Ook voor niet-schakers heel interessant omdat het verbanden legt met geschiedenis, cultuur, kunst, wetenschap, AI en filosofie.

In Brazil they have the perfect drink to accompany my book ‘a revolução do xadrez’! A XEQUE MATE Grupo Editorial Record

Join me June 26th in Amsterdam! thinkanddrink.nl/event-details/…

When I have a moment, I’ll write a post about Peter Doggers’s monumental book, "The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age". In the meantime, if you’re lucky enough to be in Amsterdam, I wouldn’t miss this if I were you.

Dear Vladimir Kramnik Forgive me for addressing you publicly, but I feel that the chess world and the new generation need to know about who you are and I want you to remember it as well. Vlad, you have always been an inspiration to me and to the majority of people who know you, as

TWIC 1600 is another milestone, MDC in Roman numerals, also my initials. Things are getting tough financially for all creators this year, I'm no exception. I am at the point where I'm looking for additional part time work. Donations would be very useful right now.

The team of the Amsterdam Chess Open is organizing a blitz tournament on July 27th in Amsterdam: chessopen.amsterdam/en/post/sunday…

Have we ever seen 10-hour days of top-level chess? Now we have. Here’s my story on Freestyle today. freestyle-chess.com/news/caruana-a…

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Enjoyed writing this one! And learned some endgame stuff along the way.

The Chess Revolution has reached Italy, published by Mondadori ! ❤️🇮🇹

With Lazavik-Gurel making the rounds, it shouldn't be hard to find what Arthur de Winter missed in his black game vs. Dimitri Reinderman (Groningen 2023).

Mijn agent Paul Sebes: ‘Als het boek verdwijnt, verdwijnt ook het denken’ nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08… nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08…