NOV 12 

NEWSWEEK 

…Becoming a grandmaster is the highest title in chess, and to achieve it you have to reach a rating of 2500 and three “norms”—in general, a norm is a strong performance with a rating of 2600 in select international chess events. When I received the title of grandmaster in 2014 I was 23 and had six norms. It’s still fairly rare for a woman to become a grandmaster, but I believed I was good enough…. {Wenjun Ju} 

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Never gets old. #BingoBangoBongo https://t.co/80DwIzRDao pic.twitter.com/bnzK9JcLgo

— World Poker Tour (@WPT) November 13, 2020

The hit of the day is..

De slagzet van de dag is https://t.co/Nip8xi1xjl

— slagzet.com (@slagzetcom) November 13, 2020

"To be fair, I don't think I've been very dominant recently. I want to be a lot more dominant than I've been." An in-depth interview with Magnus Carlsen, who turns 30 in two weeks. https://t.co/q6wm1RmQpg pic.twitter.com/DjBOaUyd2f

— Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan) November 12, 2020

How true is The Queen's Gambit? British women's chess champion @thelittlehat, Times chess correspondent and three-times British champion @DavidHowellGM compare the Netflix smash to chess life as they know it. https://t.co/qSkP7byxEb

— Dominic Maxwell (@dominicjmaxwell) November 12, 2020

In the Spirit of P.M.

[Event “GameKnot Blitz”]
[Site “http://gameknot.com/”]
[Date “2020.11.12”]
[Round “-“]
[White “bart777”]564
[Black “juliantt”]1935
[Result “1-0”]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qxg4 d5 8. Qxf4+ Nf6 9. e5 Bc5 10. d4 Bxd4 11. Qxd4 Ne4 12. Be2 Ng3 13. Qf4+ Nf5 14. Bh5+ Ke6 15. Bg4 Rf8 16. Bd2 Nc6 17. Nc3 Nxe5 18. O-O-O c6 19. Rde1 Qf6 20. Rhf1 Kd6 21. Bxf5 Bxf5 22. Ne2 Rf7 23. Bc3 Raf8 24. Ng3 Be4 25. Nxe4+ dxe4 26. Rd1+ Ke6 27. Qxe4 Qxf1 28. Qxe5# 1-0