#chesspunks GM Jacob Aagaard Peter Heine Nielsen The Sonos proposal to compress FIDE ratings between 1000-2000 into 1400-2000 in order to fight deflation was to be debated yesterday. What was the result? I can find no mention.

#chesspunks GM Jacob Aagaard #FIDE FIDE still hasn't announced (either publicly or to federations) whether the Sonos rating proposals will go ahead on 2024-01-01. That's now 10 days away. Peter Heine Nielsen One for the Chicken Chess Club?

youtube.com/watch?v=y83BS_… highlights a serious problem. A responsible marketplace has to balance the interests of consumers and suppliers, and detect review fraud. Amazon has failed to do both tasks, and deserves to go the way of Ebay.

#chesspunks #fide GM Jacob Aagaard Peter Heine Nielsen Firouzja is clearly cheating to get to the candidates. If he takes the place after this chirade, I'll email all the top events I can think of (Norway chess, Tata Steel, Grand Swiss, St Louis etc) to ask them not to invite him.

Finished my 11th Steps workbook today - Step 4 Plus. Observations: * tactics are ok * endgame is in good shape * exploitation of positional weaknesses (steps jargon: mini-plans) is a weakness Looking forward to Positional Woodpecker Method #chesspunks #gmjacobaagaard

Notes from the rating deflation apocalypse... In the Leinster (Irish province containing Dublin) junior championships last week, in 4 of 6 age groups, a winner or co-winner lost rating points. The smart juniors protected their ratings and played an adult event. #chesspunks

The logical follow-on from ALTO (At Least Twenty One ) chess tournaments which are a successful innovation in the US is ...unrated tournaments. Would you be tempted to play an unrated tournament to protect your rating? #chesspunks

#chesspunks Step 5 problem I failed to solve. First two moves are "only moves" Black to play and draw:

I listened to Neal Bruce 's interview with Dr. Scull - Chess Journeys With modern tech and info availability, we had Spassky gm at 18 and Fischer/J Polgar GM at 15, now multiple 13yo GMs. The "no old masters" camp are asserting zero impact of tech on older chess students. #hogwash

Jones-ing for Positional Woodpecker? Moi? Bought 300 Most Important Chess Positions by Engqvist and found Muller's ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2: Positional Intuition over the weekend. #chesspunks GM Jacob Aagaard

Ever heard of the Meriwether Gambit? At the Sligo tournament, a v strong 13yo wanted to offer time odds for money games. I offered to play for $500 a game... (Or was I playing the Gutfreund gambit?)

Inspired by @doctorsculI I've returned to rated puzzles on chess.com last week. Today: new puzzle rating PB. Only +5 by 2825. My trick is that I keep going until I get 5 puzzles wrong per day, and put the ones I miss in a private chessable course. #chesspunks

#chesspunks With a 99% dormant X account, I posted about positional exchange sacs. For the first time, I'm getting OF spam, only for that post. Proves that exchanges sacs make you more attractive. #The_more_you_know

#chesspunks Neal Bruce GM Jacob Aagaard Dr. Scull - Chess Journeys Chess.com changed their puzzle rating system yesterday. I went from 2730 to 3002 in the week before the change. Excellent timing on my part, but also clear evidence that they needed to change something.

#chesspunks Neal Bruce Dr. Scull - Chess Journeys GM Jacob Aagaard This looks like the 3 knights mate. Challenge for november: do all the basic mates: Queen Rook Two bishops Bishop + knight Three knights Two knight v black pawn on e7 V engine is fine. Extra points for human opponents

#chesspunks GM Jacob Aagaard Is there a better ad for forwardchess.com/product/theore… than lichess.org/broadcast/fide… (where Shankland outplays world #45 Dubov in a drawn rook ending?