The Smoldering Lips.
Wait, that’s better.

At a minimum, New England would be happy to be.

And he played at Parkview High!

Cripes. I had my non chess friends into it all day. What an embarrassment.
Were they worried about traffic? To be fair, I’ve never wanted to be in the city on New Years.

I’ve been sitting here waiting for game 8 to start.

Are we getting them again in the first round tomorrow ?!

If it had happened before the Christmas shopping season who knows how many pairs of chess pants I would have gotten.

But we all want to know….what was he wearing???

That is awesome.

Or maybe it was just staged the whole time to further his business war with FIDE.

Fun Jeff Treadway fact- I formed a Lemke’s Loathers Club (Lemke had taken his job) and sent him a membership card and his wife later sent me a note saying she’d join.

I saw them in concert a few years ago but they only played a couple of their songs about chess.

I was listening to the FIDE broadcast with Jovanka H and David Howell while walking the dog assuming it was safe.
Just heard “oh no, Ding has blundered!” But had no board to look at. Crushing.