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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza

@mattgiulp.bsky.social

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Did a master in Social Sciences at UC3M. Now doing a PhD at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Trying to figure out something about political parties, referenda, national identities... that kind of stuff. A chess player by passion, not by talent or skill.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I was on this completely lost position (pictured left), kept playing out of spite and a few moves later stumbled upone this mate in four position (pictured right) and I think that winning this way made me happier that if I had just won a normal and well deserved victory.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Just found myself here. White (me) to move. Whats the best and only none losing move and how certain are you that you would have played during a game?

Chess position on a lichess board, the FEN is: 4r3/2P3pp/p1Pp1k2/3P4/P7/2N1p1P1/4K3/8 w - - 4 37

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yet, if I follow the engine line after that, I get to this other drawn postion. So, all things considered, I don't know how to win this but then neither does stockfish.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Then we are in this position (ignore the green arrow), there are no more checks and no way of preventing the promotion of the d pawn, and, since you can't defend the f2 pawn, the position is lost. So I have to deviate from my idea and after 1. Kc5 Kb3 2. h4 Kc3 take with 3.Kxcd5.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I took a not very deep look at the Spanish data some time ago, and it does look like the gender gap suddenly appears in 2019, which does coincide with the electoral emergence of the far right. I wonder whether there are such abrupt changes in other countries.

Graph showing the average self-positioning in a 1 to 10 left-right scale for men and women, by year of the survey and decade of birth. A gender gap, with women identifying as more left wing, appears suddenly in 2019 for survey respondents born in the 90's and voters born in the 2000's, but not for any other period or cohort.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@lichess.org being sneaky when choosing the problem of the day.

The problem of the day on lichess, which today features the final position of the 2024 World Chess Championship Match.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

This actually poses a relevant question which I honestly don't know how to answer. How do we put forward the results of empirical research to a media environment that is completely fascinated with the narratives that the far right tells about it self and simply does not want to snap out of it?

Two tweets from the other side. The first one is from the professor in international law Yuan Yi Zhu, and says: «I'll shut up after this, but despite some improvement of late, political science continues to have a big issue with the study of right-wing politics. It's still being treated as a pathology by default, which means that there are huge blind spots in the literature.»

The second tweet, by Political Scientist Tarik Abou Chadi, quotes Yuan's tweet and says: «The far right is one of the most studied topics in political science in the last years. Far more than progressive movements and parties. We have an abundance of evidence. Much of it however goes against perceived wisdom of practitioners in media and politics and thus gets ignored»

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