Ding and Gukesh share their favorite athletes from other sports 😲 #DingGukesh

Russian 🇷🇺 "neutral" chess players parading in Moscow yesterday:

105 years ago Latvia and Soviet Russia signed Peace Treaty, recognising the independence and sovereignty of 🇱🇻. 20 years later Kremlin brutally violated the treaty occupying Latvia. Treaty is valid and relevant also today but one must keep in mind that 🇷🇺 has bad legal record.

Unfortunately International Chess Federation is not following IOC MEDIA recommendations, and allows Russian 🇷🇺 players who participated in war propaganda tournaments, takes pictures with Russian 🇷🇺 soldiers, have Oligarch sponsors and who gets orders and financial support from the Kremlin🇷🇺

Dear @fidechess, Can "neutral" Russian 🇷🇺 youth teams take pictures with sanctioned individuals, who has not only supported, but voted in the Duma for illegal annexcation of Ukrainian🇺🇦 territories?

A happy birthday to Malcolm Pein, Mr Telegraph chess himself, as well as an International Master, author, chess charity executive and tireless organiser of major chess events.

Golf writer Ben Thapa travels the world (7 continents!), playing golf with locals, and writes about it. Several books by now, Ill feature in the next one! Was a very enjoyable experience, despite the rain! Great company, learned a lot about golf too. mygolfjourneybook.com

Before Chennai masters, Anish Giri gave a passionate interview, dizzing Freestyle chess. I would argue that having drawn all 8 games in the tournament so far, most quite uneventfully, exactly exemplifies why we need Freestyle chess. ChessBase India

Russian 🇷🇺 propaganda media, writing the story of Lahno leaving Ukraine 🇺🇦 to represent Russia 🇷🇺 sovsport.ru/chess/articles…

Russian 🇷🇺 organised chess simul, in illegally occupied parts of Ukraine 🇺🇦. Russian IM wearing a Russia 🇷🇺 shirt. International Chess Federation has an obligation to stop this illegal use of chess for politics. Arkady Dvorkovich Dana Reizniece-Ozola Lukasz Turlej Emilchess European Chess Union

Former International Chess Federation President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov posing with Russian "special military operations" soldiers. A statement by FIDE would be reasonable. kirsan.today/novosti/item/5…

Keymer Chennai Masters. Carlsen Norway Chess. Aronian St. Louis Rapid+Blitz. Its noteworthy that winners of Freestyle events also dominate the traditional chess tournaments. Freestyle seems to inspire and improve, rather than limit.

The Grandmaster Fantasy Football League has started. It is noteworthy that Freestyle has taken a commanding lead, while Classical is struggling.

The game of Hex (also called Nash) was invented in 1942 by the Danish poet Piet Hein & rediscovered by John Nash in 1942 who used to play it on the bathroom floor in the mathematics dept in Princeton.

No, this is exactly the part Anish Giri gets wrong. Openings are deeply analyzed to exhaustion, so if you give defensive players the Classical starting position and a slow time control, chess becomes something we would like it not to be. Slow Freestyle ✅ Rapid classical ✅

All of Magnus's coaches are all cursed to have the worst opinions alive

The usual reminder that International Chess Federation President Arkady Dvorkovich 🇷🇺 gave priority to meeting Szijjarto, instead of leading the FIDE General assembly last year in Budapest. One can speculate why the 2 needed to talk, but solely about chess seems rather naive....

Maps are people.