This week, the Galician #Chess Federation (local federation under national federation under international federation) published the whole calendar of events for 2024, while the International #Chess Federation just published the schedule for the World Rapid and Blitz Championship on the next month...

Good luck to all the players around the world getting their visas to travel to Uzbekistan.

#chess Petrov Defense is boring... oh wait

https://www.chess.com/events/2023-qatar-masters/04/Gukesh_D-Yilmazyerli_Mert

I will need a whole week to study the subtleties of yesterday's #chess endgame between WGM A Pourkashiyan and WGM G Tokhirjonova.

https://www.chess.com/events/2023-us-womens-chess-champioship/06/Pourkashiyan_Atousa-Tokhirjonova_Gulrukhbegim

I can't believe I did the same mistake again for the 99th time 🤦‍♂️

Pretty sure on the 100th I'll remember to avoid long-side defense when setting up Lucena.

#chess is hard 🤷

Hey #chess and #languages lovers. I have a doubt about the use of "still" in the sentence:

- The game is still close to even, but you lost your winning advantage.

It refers to a mistake where you had an advantage and after that you don't, but you're not losing. So "still" has the meaning of "it could be worse" or "you still have a chance".

My problem is I'm too literal and to me "still close to even" only makes sense if it was "close to even" before, but it wasn't.

I understand "but still" is a common construct in English to show a concession so this would make more sense to me:

- You lost your winning advantage, but still the game is close to even.

Or maybe better with "and yet":

- You lost your winning advantage, and yet the game is close to even.

Am I too crazy/literal or is there some logic to my thinking? 🤔