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I’m the preferred teacher of @vishy64theking ‘s son? Biggest chess accomplishment of my life.
I call home after my tournament and my son Akhil tells me, "Appa I'm playing rook roller checkmate." So I suggest a move. Then he says, "According to FunMasterMike on @ChessKidcom you don't do that!" So I ask him who is this FunMasterMike?
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One year.
We move forward by announcing the Naroditsky Fellowship committee:
Chair: IA Grant Oen
GM Hikaru Nakamura
GM Sam Shankland
GM Robert Hess
GM Kayden Troff
IM John Bartholomew
IM Eric Rosen
We will always ensure your profound impact lives on.❤️
Incredible reporting by @leontxogarcia
This story is so incredible (literally) that @el_pais has decided to feature it in its English-language edition (open access, no paywall): english.elpais.com/sports/20…
#chess #ajedrez
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Javokhir Sindarov: "Finally we won—I won a 2nd #ChessOlympiad before I became 21 so I'm very happy!"
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The youngest ever Woman Grandmaster! Go Bodhana, go England! 🌟 🏴
bbc.com/news/articles/cqwyzr…
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Uzbekistan hero Mukhiddin Madaminov: "We played this tournament very well, all players performed fantastic, so that's why I'm very happy to be part of this team, and it's not our last gold medal... we'll try our best & we'll achieve more & more results!"
#ChessOlympiad
I really enjoy interviewing @NodirbekGM and was honored to be there for this moment in his life
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Alice Lee after winning individual gold on Board 2 (she says she's played 20 Olympiad games and won 13, drawn 7): "I got into Yale University last year and I'm currently in my gap year"
#ChessOlympiad
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Mike: "But [Hans] turned it around. What does that explain about his resilience in the event?"
Levon: "I think he just got lucky his opponent didn't know the line!" (as Hans walks by the interview)
#ChessOlympiad
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"I beat him only at the Olympiads, while I lost to him three times in other tournaments," says Nodirbek Abdusattorov after a win vs. Fabiano Caruana on board one.
#ChessOlympiad
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THE FIRST-EVER 11-YEAR-OLD WGM!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on becoming the first 11-year-old in chess history to earn the WGM title! 🏴
She just made her final WGM norm at the Olympiad! Only Hou Yifan & Kateryna Lagno were even WGMs at 12! 🤯
📷: R Oleksiewicz
According to what was confirmed at the technical meeting, there are no forbidden parings at the Olympiad. The Olympiad pairings office just reconfirmed this to @chesscom
There is a very real chance we have Uzbekistan v Uzbekistan 2 in the final round.
“I want to be Mr. FIDE and I want to be Mr. Chess.” — @JanHBuettner at the Olympiad Presidential Forum
My favorite moves from the first half of the Olympiad:
youtube.com/watch?v=nllNMkDb…
In fairness to @GMJanGustafsson he did get through 3 pages
Jan Gustafsson after Germany beat USA: "After Frederik won it looked like it was a fairly simple draw, so I wasn’t that nervous anymore. Before that I was pretending to read my book, but it was a tense match, for sure!"
#ChessOlympiad
5 out of 5 on the scoreboard, 10 out of 10 as an interviewee
Alice Lee: "I think I just really like this event, it’s so fun, because I’m playing alongside the top American women, which is kind of rare for me. It’s usually the opposite, I’m playing against them. It’s just really great to be in such an environment!"
#ChessOlympiad
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"That's my dream, to have four boards, four GMs!" says U.S. captain Melikset Khachiyan.
#ChessOlympiad