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♟️ #Chess accounts to follow:

@lichess - Free open chess server, no ads etc
@Hrastnik - Chess enthusiast, often posting/sharing chess news
@Chess_Olympus - Notable people & moments from chess history
@Chess - Chess photographs
@gmmds - Chess Grandmaster, author of "Silicon Road to Chess Improvement"
@schachjugend - German Youth Chess Federation (in German)
@votechess - Collaborative chess games on the Fediverse, vote for next move
@ChessPuzzleBot - Chess puzzles, see profile for instructions

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For Such a Small Program, ZX81 1K Chess Sure Packs a Lot In https://hackaday.com/2026/04/03/for-su ch-a-small-program-zx81-1k-chess-sure-packs-a-lot-in/ #CheapYellowDisplay #Retrocomputing #sinclairzx81 #1kchess #chess #zx81

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The Sinclair ZX81 was hardly the most accomplished of 1980s 8-bit microcomputers, but its ultra-low-budget hardware was certainly pressed into service for some impressive work. Perhaps the most leg…

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The Ukrainian Chess Federation have won their case at CAS against the Russian Chess Federation.

This is after an earlier CAS decision was essentially ignored by FIDE, the World chess governing body, who have a decidedly soft approach to dealings with Russia.

Not really surprising, seeing the FIDE President is Russian, and FIDE has been largely bankrolled by Russian donors.

#Chess #Ukraine #Russia #Sport

.https://en.chessbase.com/post/cas-appe al-ucf-cfr-decision

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled in favour of Ukraine in its case against the Chess Federation of Russia, concluding that earlier sanctions imposed by FIDE were insufficient. The decision requires the Russian Federation to cease organising chess activities in several annexed regions within 90 days or face suspension from international competition. The case centres on events held in territories internationally recognised as Ukrainian. | Photo: TAS/CAS (Tribunal Arbitral du Sport)

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled in favour of Ukraine in its case against the Chess Federation of Russia, concluding that earlier sanctions imposed by FIDE were insufficient. The decision requires the Russian Federation to cease organising chess activities in several annexed regions within 90 days or face suspension from international competition. The case centres on events held in territories internationally recognised as Ukrainian. | Photo: TAS/CAS (Tribunal Arbitral du Sport)

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Court of Arbitration for Sport finds FIDE sanctions insufficient, imposes new measures on Russian Federation

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"When the telegraph emerged on the scene, the application to chess was almost immediate."

https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-e-sp orts-chess-by-telegraph/

#essay #chess #CableChess #technology #history

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Telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition.

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Telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition.

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The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph - JSTOR Daily

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Medieval chess was more inclusive than the world around it

Black, white, Muslim, or Christian: Players found common ground across the board.

by Andrew Paul

https://www. popsci.com/science/chess-medie val-race/

Chess at PG:
https://www. gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1 677

#books #literature #chess

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Two shatranj players in a detail from a Persian miniature painting of Bayasanghori Shahname made in 1430

 The Shâhnâmeh (Book of Kings) is major epic work of persian poetry "Ferdowsi Tousi". - 

A detailed Persian miniature painting. A enthroned figure in purple robes sits elevated on an ornate dais beneath a decorated arch, attended by a standing courtier in orange. Around and below the platform, a crowd of courtiers in white turbans and robes of red, blue, green and orange stand in attendance. In the foreground, two figures face each other across what appears to be a game board — the shatranj (chess) players referenced in the description — one in blue robes, one in green. Every surface is covered in intricate geometric and floral patterning: the tiled floor in hexagonal motifs, the walls and textiles in arabesques and gold.

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/photos/showgallery.php/cat/793

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Black, white, Muslim, or Christian: Players found common ground across the board.

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Black, white, Muslim, or Christian: Players found common ground across the board.

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Medieval chess was more inclusive than the world around it

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Project Gutenberg offers 78,088 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

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Cynus Chess Robot: a Chess Board With a Robotic Arm https://hackaday.com/2026/03/02/cynus-chess-robot-a-chess-board-with-a-robotic-arm/ #RobotsHacks #chessrobot #Reviews #Games #chess

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There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new locat…

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Cynus Chess Robot: A Chess Board With A Robotic Arm

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Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/taser-chess-teaches-valuable-lessons-the-hard-way/ #conductive #rasberrypi #Stockfish #behavior #learning #Games #chess #shock #taser #TENS

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Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the actions of various animals. From the famous Skinner boxes to many modern vid…

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Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way

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"The research is unambiguous: the gap in youth chess ratings has nothing to do with the intellectual capacity of girls and everything to do with the opportunities we create for them"

As in other intellectual and stem activities!

#chess #WomensRights #Equality

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-hidd en-pattern-challenges-chess-girls-face-in-competitions

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What 106,000 young chess players reveal about gender gaps in education is revealed by an extensive study of youth chess ratings. This article is distilled from a panel discussion at the Mindsets Chess in Education Conference, produced by the National Scholastic Chess Foundation (NSCF) and the Kasparov Chess Foundation, and held in New York City in December 2025. It uncovers the challenges chess girls face in chess competitions.

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What 106,000 young chess players reveal about gender gaps in education is revealed by an extensive study of youth chess ratings. This article is distilled from a panel discussion at the Mindsets Chess in Education Conference, produced by the National Scholastic Chess Foundation (NSCF) and the Kasparov Chess Foundation, and held in New York City in December 2025. It uncovers the challenges chess girls face in chess competitions.

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The Hidden Pattern – challenges chess girls face in competitions

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Intro toot hitting for the new instance:

Professional: #SocialMedia #ContentStrategy #marketing

#Coding:
#programming #webdev #php #javascript #html #css

#Sports:
#soccer #mastodonfc #soundersfc #ReignFC #THFC #COYS #BVB #barcelonafc

NonSoccer: #AtlantaFalcons #SeattleKraken #StLouisCardinals

Games: #mtg #dnd #minecraft #chess #tft

#Reading #WorldBuilding #ConLang #linguistics #dogs #pets

#Making #DIY #Linux #Ubuntu #Android

Disclosure: #WotCStaff

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Today in 1996, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

I remember it well, because I happened to be very into my chess at the time.

#OnThisDay #chess

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fen2board

A #Python script to convert #chess positions (FEN notation) and games (PGN format) into beautiful chessboard diagrams.

Supports multiple output formats:

Terminal display with Unicode chess pieces and ANSI colors

ASCII text with monochrome or color modes

RTF documents with Chess Cases font or ASCII characters

https://codeberg.org/adele/fen2board

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Terminal with unicode chars and ANSI colors

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fen2board - A Python script to convert chess positions (FEN notation) and games (PGN format) into beautiful chessboard diagrams.

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A Python script to convert chess positions (FEN notation) and games (PGN format) into beautiful chessboard diagrams.

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People have played #chess remotely for as long as technology has allowed them to do it, going back all the way to 1844, on the telegraph. https://spectrum.ieee.org/telegraph-ch ess?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

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Telegraph chess connected players in different cities, prefiguring modern online play and showing the enduring bond between chess and technology.

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Chess went electric in 1844 with a telegraph match between Washington and Baltimore. How did this game shape the future of chess and technology?

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One of the world’s earliest surviving chess sets ♟️

This nearly complete set dates to the 12th century and is believed to come from Nishapur, Iran. Made of molded and glazed stonepaste, the pieces take beautifully abstract forms. This set is now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

@archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #AncientIran #medieval #chess

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One of the world’s earliest surviving chess sets ♟️

This nearly complete set dates to the 12th century and is believed to come from Nishapur, Iran. Made of molded and glazed stonepaste, the pieces take beautifully abstract forms: the shah (king) appears as a throne, the vizier as a smaller throne, the elephant with tusk-like projections, the horse marked by a triangular head, the chariot shaped as a rectangular block with a wedge on top, and the pawns as faceted hemispheres with small knobs.

This set is now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Some updates about my go projects:
1. Weiqi Roadmap now has a chatbot, and I'm working on a huge update for new year
2. BadukTube now has about 1500 lectures
3. TsumeGod now has almost 5k tsumegos
4. OGS Script final stable release
5. (New) Katrain Theme and Go Clock(for offline use)

Check here: https://soumyak4.in/

#weiqi #baduk #go #igo #圍棋 #围棋 #바둑 #碁 #囲碁 #thegameofgo #strategyboardgames #boardgame #boardgames #chess #mindsport #china #japan #korea #guide #project #software #lecture

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Do you see sport content on the Social Web?

Sport is one of the biggest industries in the world. Not only does it provide entertainment, it builds communities.

But, we're wondering, how much sport content do you see here and what kind? Is it sports content that is relevant to you? What other sport content would you like to see?

Please feel free to share your thoughts in the replies and boost for more to get involved! ⚾

#SocialWeb #Sport #Poll #Fediverse #Mastodon #Sports #Football #F1 #Hockey #Rugby #Athletics #Chess #Running #Tennis

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An idea. Just a client-side mock-up at this point.

There's quite a bit in the ActivityStreams vocabulary to support this already, but I'd probably want to use some extensions to make it make sense.

#ActivityPub #Chess

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ChessLab, desktop #chess program written in #lisp with a new GUI toolkit.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/2025/11/ChessL ab-A-program-for-chess-players

> record and replay games, move table, positions analysis, play against the computer (UCI engine, stockfish), solve puzzles, 3D chessboard, selectable board surface and piece set…

Lisp = "Insane productivity!"

#commonlisp

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Ever since publishing the Barium toolkit, I’ve been hintingat real applications waiting to be written. That is, non-trivialprograms using Barium for their GU...

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#TIL

There's a #chess piece that moves along diagonals.

* In #Spanish is called "alfil", which comes from "elephant" in #Arabic
* In #English it's "bishop", #Portuguese "bispo", #Tagalo "obispo", probably from a time when the Catholic church had more weight than elephants in armies?
* In #French it's "fou", "crazy person".
* In #German it's "Läufer", "runner".

H/T:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_ the_Elephant
https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/alfil

#languages #Deutsche #Español #Français #Portugues

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alfil - Wikcionario, el diccionario libre

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Did you know that New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was the music supervisor for Queen of Katwe?

He also appears in the film as "Bookie Student" and was third assistant director. And he performs on the soundtrack as a rapper!

We are more thrilled than ever to offer free educational resources for this amazing film in our Resource Library! 👇 1/2

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=2u_6Z4W5tE s

#ZohranMamdani #Mamdani #QueenOfKatwe #MiraNair #Chess #Movies #PhionaMutesi #Rap

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Zohran Mamdani of Queen of Katwe on Kaya FM

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Zohran Mamdani of Queen of Katwe on Kaya FM

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Brain Sport

#photography #pixelfed #darktable #streetPhotography #urban #Paris #chess #blackAndWhite

📅 24/06/2025
📷 #Fujifilm #XT50, #TTartisan AF 27/2.8
⚙️ ƒ/11.0, ⏲️ 1/3.1, 🎥 27mm, 🎞️ 500