#chess tag

[galaxacious]

Look at Chessbase India & the crowd's reaction to the finish of the WCC round 11:

Honestly an incredible end. This round was special because it came off the back of seven straight draws. Gukesh as well made this an interesting round by fucking up his opening and then spending 1 hour and 17 seconds making his eleventh move, the longest think of his career. Ding was down an hour of time after 5 moves. Severe time pressure played a large role in the outcome of the match, but what an end it was.

[schrodingersgirlboss]

i can't stand these kinds of posts lmao babe either you're lying or your school chess champion was just as bad as you 💀

[hag-lad]

HA!!!! I beat my friend’s eight year old son at chess!! I am literally Beth Harmon

[imnotviciousreally]

I fucking suck at this game

[divorcedwife]

chess inspired fashion

[novaalexanderwrites]

♟️Characters as Chess Pieces Game♟️

I'm making a new tag game, fellow writeblrs, and I'm going to tag a ton of people :P

Which of your characters would be each piece and why? You don't have to go by any kind of standardized symbolism if you don't want, it can just be vibes.

♔King: Theodore Magnus-Monroe - he isn't involved in the story much, is the money behind the queen, but is undoubtedly an important member of the community.

♕Queen: Sapphire Thorneheart- she is a powerhouse, highly influential, and sort of terrifying. She's well-known and respected, but she will not hesitate to defend her territory.

♖Rook: Razi Wood- A reliable person who sees the world in a straightforward way.

♘Knight: Rosalind Bloodswell- The wild card, they see the world through a unique lens and makes unexpected moves.

♗Bishop: Marcus Magnus-Monroe- Easy to overlook and forget but you definitely shouldn't because he will end the game if you let him.

♙Pawn: Frigga Thorneheart- This was the last character I'd decided on, and it might be unexpected, but Frigga is a people pleaser and at the whims of her queen. She takes small steps, and because of that people are quick to disregard her, but once she get to the end of her rope, she will grow and change into something formidable.

I tag: @juno-freehugs @mama-ivy @aalinaaaaaa @pb-dot @at-thezenith @holdmyteaplease @mjjune @darkromanceclh @jolovesfandoms @asterhaze @orbwrapsupreme @sehnxsucht

[decarabias]

forever thinking about royal’s bad ending. my thing with it is that maruki doesn’t necessarily give anyone what they want most, he gives them what’s most appropriate for them to want within a maruki-approved framework. iirc there’s a really interesting text sequence in the game where he just straight up changes someone’s career because they’re not “good” at it, regardless of whether that’s what they actually want. why struggle at all? ever? right?

and so ultimately i don’t think goro akechi’s greatest wish is necessarily ren. i think it’s a wish for sure, but his greatest wish is his own agency. despite any regrets he has and the fact that shido and yaldabaoth treated him like a pawn, he's generally pretty adamant about owning his choices and their consequences. he doesn't want that erased. and instead, you end up with pleasant boy™ if you take maruki’s deal. maybe maruki (incorrectly) thinks sanding off all of akechi’s rough edges will make him easier for ren to love. but the crux of it is really that maruki has to essentially lobotomize him to preserve the illusion of his perfect reality, because their ideologies are so diametrically opposed that akechi would spend every waking moment fighting back.

this isn’t to undermine ren’s importance to akechi btw — he explicitly acknowledges that he wishes they had met earlier, and there are countless moments throughout their confidant that underscore how much it means to him that they mirror each other so well. he absolutely does want more time with ren, just not under these circumstances.

and that’s also what makes ren’s choice on 2/2 doubly devastating. he knows that either way he loses akechi. and if he takes maruki’s deal, he loses him knowing that his last moments with the real akechi involved the two of them being unforgivably out of sync.

[amielot]

Touch starved round 2

Dream: Who kicked that? Not me.

Bonus:

[peachducy]

[deadpooltato]

[carcarrot]

columbo - "the most dangerous match"

[galaxacious]

2000 puzzle rating on Lichess?

2000 puzzle rating on Lichess!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shubhadeep385]

Indian Grandmaster D. Gukesh 🇮🇳 on Thursday (December 12, 2024) became the youngest World Chess champion at 18 years after beating title-holder Ding Liren of China 🇨🇳 in the 14th and last game of a thrilling showdown in Singapore.🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

"Checkmate."

[dear-ao3]

no no cause hold on Who goes through a scathing media day having the most insane fight seen in potentially years that results in all kinds of weird shit being dragged up with another driver because you essentially called him a two faced bitch for saying you deserved a penalty, a penalty which didn’t even affect the outcome of the race and was also objectively stupid, the driver in question being not only the union director trying to actively get your ass out of community service for saying fuck but also not even someone you’re in a title fight with remotely, mostly because you’ve already won the title and the other guys car is a shit box, which then sparks both of your team principals to go at eachother which they’ve been frothing at the mouth wanting to do for potentially years, all before attending the driver end of year dinner and sitting on the exact opposite side of the table as the guy you’re having beef with then commenting the 🥩 emoji under yet another drivers post saying oh don’t worry the two you’re thinking of were at opposite ends of the table lol and then thinks, in the middle of all this, which by the way is the last race of a season that is not only the longest in history but also one where you were not dominant and won the world title literally with a rear wing that was angle grindered in the garage cause it sucked that bad, and in the midst of continued heated debates over whether or not you yourself are going to retire before your contract is up and also about who your teammate is going to be for the foreseeable future “yeah. this is the perfect time to announce that i am going to be a father.”

[divorcedwife]

for international chess day