What are your favorite chess books, about chess but not instructional. Think "Queens Gambit" or "The Immortal Game" but not a "how to" book. #chess

@chesscom.bsky.social Nice win today! Well played!

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Question for you, why am I unable to update my ChessBase 18 games with games from 2024 in the 2024 Mega Database? Must be something simple I am missing? Thanks.

Productive annual International Chess Fellowship of Rotarians (ICFR) Board meeting yesterday. India, Canada, Philippines, and USA represented. If you are a Rotarian and play chess, message me. We would like to invite you to participate in the ICFR and its global chess activities. #chesspunks #chess

Sometimes sage advice stays with you for many decades. While attending a Board meeting many years ago, I remember a Catholic Nun commenting, "Words Matter, Be Careful with The Words That You Use". Some advice is timeless!

Tennis is in a sad position with the men's and women's #1's (or former #1) testing positive for doping. Both are receiving akin to a slap on the wrist, bringing up the question of fairness in applying the rules. Much is still unknown, but there are questions that deserve answers. #tennis #wta #atp

I'm looking forward to tracking the progress of Andy Murray coaching Novak Djokovic! Two big personalities on the same team, going to be fun! #atp #wta #usta #tennis

Why do you recruit a highly ranked doubles team and then bench them for a "tie" deciding match? Even more of a head scratcher is when your Team Captain is a former top ranked doubles player himself. #tennis #sports #atp #usta

@fide.bsky.social Hey Julia, welcome to BlueSky. JJ is my coach and mentioned you grabbed the FIDE handle! Cheers,
Jeff

@chesscom.bsky.social Hey coach, welcome to bluesky!

@amylundy.bsky.social Jannik Sinner is hitting the ball as hard and as well as any player I have followed in the past decades. His only weakness right now as I see it is the black cloud of the doping appeal against him. This also seems to be a potential tennis public image problem. Your thoughts?

@jenshahade.bsky.social Just bought another book written by you, Play Like a Champion. Hoping to create flash cards from your puzzles.

I am already liking the "show less like this" option in my feed. Most of the "show less like this" kind of posts are gone! Kudos BlueSky!

I just signed up yesterday and I am getting a warning of "Invalid Handle". What is causing this?

#chesspunks #chess 2 of 2: The other Chessbase 18 "improvement" allows you to download games from chess.com and lichess.org. I tested it using my username and a sparring partner's and it only downloaded a small fraction of chess.com games and most, but not all of the Lichess.org games.

#chesspunks #chess 1 of 2: I just upgraded to Chessbase 18 and they have a few interesting "improvements". One is a "Blunder ELO" that helps you monitor blunders against the complexity of your position. Some may use this to help determine if your opponent played "fairly". The other ...(new post)

#chesspunks Anyone else enjoying the Lichess 45/45 League? I played in season 41 and had a lot of fun with our team. Sign up now to participate in Season 42 starting in a few weeks.

@saychess.bsky.social Hi Martin, I have followed your lead and signed up for Bluesky. I also left twitter (X) a few months ago and was hoping to find a site like this to stay in contact with the chess community. I have posted the same on Discord (Next Level Training with Noel Studer).