The love for the game was never matched with a better delivery, with intelligence and respect for everybody. The extent to which he will be missed will be matched only by the endurance of his legacy.

A mindful presence, elegant, charismatic, articulate, literate. He might start explaining an opening idea and end up discussing an old XIX century chess book by Staunton or making a fun impersonation of Kasparov.

Kudos to @raquelbmi.bsky.social and @ferriol.bsky.social, first authors of the study, for the insane amount of good work put into this.