Roaring Pawnさんのイラストまとめ

@One_guy_lyk_dat @Tunde_OD If pawn is able to queen, thus becoming the most powerful (wo)man, how we can say it's the least powerful?😉

#art Marina Kalinovsky

@Chess__News @golubev_mikhail The entire evolution of the game has been toward speeding it up (castling, two-sq pawn move, etc)

@32gcfhkmm’s No-Castle chess is therefore futile/retrograde pursuit.

Besides, it doesn’t fix the key issues of modern chess, opening “theory”/intrusion of engines

#chess960 DOES

Gamblers,
by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich
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@GMSokolovIvan It's been a long-time trend in chess away from ideas and concepts toward mechanics, like mechanical parroting of opening moves, mechanical play of engines with humans imitating their style, etc.
And now you have to master another mechanics, taming your mouse🙄

Antonio Hélio Cabral🇧🇷 (Marília, São Paulo, 1948)
Xadrez, 1988
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Capablanca

by José Olivella in Vida Moderna, 5 Jul 1911
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#Intuition is a set nonconscious cognitive processes, not based on deliberate thinking, whose outcome is difficult to articulate, but it’s real & effective nonetheless. It gets better w/practice by picking up on recurring patterns.

But how to best set up the practice? @cfchabris

A chess card from 1991 by M. Ruijrok
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An old #chess postcard
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