Grandmaster. All chess and no play.

London
Joined February 2012
Daniel King retweeted
Today: Bodhana… an International Master of Chess at the age of 11…What a sensational player @TangramTx $XBI
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Black to play and calculate… #ChessPunks let’s go!
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The iron logic of calculation #ChessPunks let’s go!
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One of my favourite themes! #ChessPunks let’s go!
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🏆 Step Carefully - #Chess Puzzle of the Week 🏆 🧩: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/18961 📽️ by @DanielKingChess: youtu.be/mazZ22svYdE
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And here is my take on the game: youtu.be/ZrRfclZfXpw
You have to watch this 2-minute video of the game between World Champion D Gukesh and Alexander Donchenko. What drama - just look at the expressions of both the players in the final moments!
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Great community, great club.
11 years on this site, but 64 (fitting for a chess club!) years playing OTB! And we're only getting started! Join the biggest club in London and 2025 ECF Club of the Year! hammerchess.co.uk/joining/
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Spassky!!
1 move to crush black's hope
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Last night, Brentford FC, this morning, Fulham FC! Chess commentary :) Great tournament, classy venue organised by @hammer_chess
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Football pitch on one side, Thames on the other, chess in the middle!
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Just a bus stop in Hounslow #BRECHE
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Angine de Poitrine are a tremendous band! Great to see their chess knowledge on display.
The band is actually called Angine de Poitrine, but we like this niche Chess post very much...
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youtube.com/watch?v=b-a5CHaT… I News investigation of Vadim "Wadim" Rosenstein part 2 of 3 alleges: Most of his Russian business was historically logistics services for Novatek, a major gas company owned by billionaires close to Putin Timchenko and Mikhelson. BTW Timchenko is a big sponsor of Russian chess. Since Dec 2025 its official main business in Russia in its financial reporting changed from logistics to wholesale of household goods. The accounts show 90% of revenues now come from wholesale of household goods. The Rosenstein family business in Russia has two parts. Vadim’s and that of his cousin Mikhail. The latter owns and heads a company called 2R Integra. Vadim’s Russian company VR RUS and Mikhail’s company 2R Integra share the same registered address in Russia (Moscow, Sovkhoz Krekshino Settlement, Ozernaya ul. D. 5 Str. 1). Mikhail was also a founder of VR RUS. Mikahil’s revenues have increased by 40 times since 2022 when the war began to reach over RUB 2 billion per year. Mikhail’s company’s main foreign counterparty now is Polycab India Limited (India) which supplies defence cables (heat and fire resistant) which may be used in army tanks (and specifically in the turret rotation systems), rocket launch systems, chains used in aviation, warship and submarine construction for the military. 2R Integra obtained Russian state certification to import Polycab’s cables on 27 July 2026. The 2R Integra website previously stated “We handle import/export of complex technical products (including sanctioned items)” according to the program. Since the war began, according to customs records, VR RUS has imported from France, Germany, Czech Republic, Turkey various industrial goods, such as nickel-copper pipes, steel rope, etc, all supplied by his own companies in W. Europe and WKB Systems GmbH, which is controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Budarin. The film further cites German reports that he has supplied materials to Viktor Budarin’s Russian company that were used to construct buildings in occupied Mariupol, and that he has continued to supply the sanctioned Novatek. His businesses in Russia have paid over RUB 400 million in Russian taxes in the last 3 years. The video claims that the European External Action Service—the EU’s diplomatic service (in September 2026, no actual date given)—has noted a preliminary review into WR Group Holding GMBH and associated entities for potentially breaking the Russian sanctions regime. Key subjects of the internal review include WR RUS, 2R Integra and Inco Engineering (Prague). This is the 2nd of 3 videos (there was nothing new to me in the first video, released about a week ago). The 3rdvideo will be released on 20 September, apparently showing how sanctions busting included importing via Kazakhstan, and how WR’s girlfriend Alina Silaeva has her own sanctions busting business involving falsification of flight documents for jets of Russian oligarchs.
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