the funniest thing ding could do is win the match and then spend 2 years dropping to 2600

Hans Niemann Drops Out of the 2700 Club rookreview.com/news/hans-nie… #chess

Carlsen headlines the Move Cup in Barcelona from January 19-20, a new 8-player rapid tournament with 10+1 time control.

"It's a shadow to live with a World Champion who is now world's number 30" — Levy Rozman rookreview.com/news/its-a-sh… #chess

Silent Magnus. A famous checkmate 🤔 Can you name it before the last move? #TotalChess

FIDE announced "coordination with state security forces to ensure a secure corridor, hotel security, and continuous surveillance of the playing hall," and an ambulance on-site at the venue 24/7. for the World Junior Championship in Caracas, Venezuela. fide.com/fide-world-junior-u…

Dear FIDE President @turlov You promised to follow International law and the CAS verdict, yet you allow the FIDE Rated Russian 🇷🇺 Rapid Championship to proceed, despite participant from Illegally occupied Crimea 🇺🇦 and Luhansk 🇺🇦 Why do you not take any action? @iocmedia

How could this proposal be "formally supported" on the day it was determined there wasn't enough interest by the delegates to even form a quorum? I specifically remember during the QC meeting they stated they felt the pilot project for the 45+30 time control was a failure.

My recent post about ChessEver was shared on Reddit with a title focused on my use of the word “communist” for Lichess. I posted a clarification there and want to share it here too. I’ve written critical posts about Lichess before, but that doesn’t mean I don’t respect what they’ve built. I’ve also said many times that my company, ChessEver, has been able to make progress thanks to their work. We’re grateful for that. I don’t see these things in black and white: I can appreciate Lichess and still disagree with some of its decisions. My recent post, where I called Lichess “communist” in the opening, was shared here without the full context or a link to the original. I’ve already apologized to Lichess’s founder, Thibault, for misinterpreting his GitHub bio. I took the wording seriously and thought it reflected his philosophy. He explained that it was satire about labels other people had applied to Lichess. I got that wrong. I didn’t intend the word as an insult or criticism. When I used the word, I was thinking about free access, equal treatment for users, and voluntary contributions to something built for the community. I still see similarities that explain the comparison, but that’s my interpretation, not how Lichess describes itself. I misunderstood the context of the founder’s bio, and I won’t keep using the label. My broader point was about the kind of company I want ChessEver to become: a sustainable business that also contributes to the chess community. That’s the discussion I wanted to have.