Only 2 more days until #JuTan2025 🔥🔥

I wanted to post this yesterday, but I got massively sick and wasn't able to. So I wish you a happy belated Valentine's Day.

The carnival celebrations in Germany are coming up in a few weeks, so it's time for the little pawns to get their costumes ready.

It's finished. Don't ask me why there are saltwater animals in a pond. It's a painting of a chess-playing frog; logic doesn't apply here.

(WIP) Here's how far I've gotten today. There is still a lot of work to be done before it is finished. Also, I have yet to come up with a name for them, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

I truly love this one!! I hope the finished artwork will be just as lovely as the sketch is.

I am certain spoilsport FIDE has a rule against that, but just imagine you turn up to your chess game and your opponent brought a clock covered with sparkling holographic chess stickers.✨

Despite my deep dislike for painting landscapes, I nevertheless decided to give it an attempt after seeing the paintings by LandscapesByMike on Etsy. Due to my lack of experience, I had to entirely rework it three times. It was exhausting. Probably won't paint another landscape for quite a while.

A few moves later, we are in this position: I calculated: Qd3 c4 Bxc4 dxc4 Rxc4. Thinking I could win two pawns back this way. But I had to learn that there are a ton of refutations to that. Most of them involve a pin on the a6-f1 diagonal. On this week's training plan: pins

Form today's game. My brain did a big oopsi. I missed the pin and blundered a bishop. I played Qb1. I disliked the qweentrade because I was scared that the pawns would march down the board. I recognized that if I allowed Qb4+, I would lose my horsey, so I played Qb1, still protecting that square.

Best way to watch the match #DingGukesh

Was in the mood to draw something cute, and now I'm seriously considering ordering them as stickers to cover everything I own with them.

Been reading Silman's complete endgame course, and I am starting to see results. Take the 14 hundreds to the endgame.

I am not 100% happy with some of the line weights, but I am too lazy to correct them.
Photo references: Maria Emelianova (photochess)

Really proud of how well I played that endgame. My visit to Saya seems to have worked wonders.

Doing research on how the horsey moves. 🐎

Hi, since I'm new here, I will do a short about me: I am a 24-year-old CS student. I got into chess in 2022 (due to the Sinquefield Cup incident). While I'm not particularly good at chess, this newfound passion has reignited my love for art. So that's what I'll post: bad chess and decent #chessart