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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

mixed day at work. got an iced coffee reference into the show today - good. referred to a player fluffing it instead of flubbing it - less good, perhaps i should log off sometimes

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

excellent game of cricket, wonder if the universe jos comes back now to try and slog a few, and looks like he is. hope that doesn't crock him forever

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Camillia Gomez @camicravestea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

👀 Germany 2.5-1.5 Uzbekistan 👀

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

is colombage a table tennis player in disguise? i'm in love with this bowling action, dan lawrence finally has a rival. i've never seen anyone look at the ball so lovingly before the run up even begins

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me: can I get some fries for the table The table, whispering to me: garlic fries Me: let’s make that garlic fries haha

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

we spent 5 minutes of the live show discussing if the transmission broke in this position because Gledura castled, which is completely illegal (the king moved 5 moves ago). I can now confirm that is indeed what happened. good thing (sorta) that he lost anyway, or there would be brouhaha aplenty

Position from Portelli-Gledura. Castling long here is clearly the best move, sadly it's also illegal because that king on e8 has been on a journey. Didn't stop the Hungarian GM from castling anyway, though, and game continued

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

taylor sheridan's brainworms are very much getting in the way of the competence porn he's still quite capable of producing, which is regrettable

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

yeah i saw that and had a flashback to maggie playing 3.bb5 h5 against me in one of the first iterations of the magnus tour 2020, and how much indignation it produced (not from me, to be clear). in hindsight, that was a show of respect, at least compared to this ;)

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

watching @norcrosscricket.bsky.social melting down live on air, 9 down, 2 to win. scenes

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

amazing game between yorkshire and surrey, very unfortunate that i couldn't watch it properly

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

zitron presenting himself as pablo torre of anti-ai is some of the funniest shit i've seen in a while

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There are only two stories that won a Hugo whose screen adaptation also won a Hugo. “All Systems Red” is the second one. The other is “Dune” Congratulations @marthawells.com.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

inspired by the post

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

today is the day i decide not to post the link, eh? well done that man

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

two more days, guys. hang tight www.youtube.com/live/-4euf__...

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

3 days of men v boys*, beginning today www.youtube.com/live/czZ3Amc... *they are, all four of them, whippersnappers, and nothing will convince me otherwise

joyce as a pup, sitting next to the xmas tree

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

enough with the thinking about moves malarkey, time to bang the clock. as my first coach told me: the harder the bang, the stronger the move www.youtube.com/live/XQMvaRx...

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Grand Chess Tour Finals 2026: Day 3 | Semifinal Rapid & Blitz

YouTube video by Saint Louis Chess Club

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

two more classical games (and probably some blitz) soon. yesterday was a fantastic day of somewhat imperfect chess, and frankly more of the same would be just fine with me www.youtube.com/live/Ko9K44W...

Black poodle looking mildly judgemental, but i mean, who wouldn't. i don't care if you have a minute left, re4 is clearly correct and should have been played, young man

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

currently trying to figure out how much weight i should assign to the fact that the hightower mastermind blundered what looked like mate in one, and then got very mad about it.

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

the gen z vs millennials battle royale begins today. two days of classical chess (with a penalty blitz round if there are no victors) and then a full day of rapid and blitz. www.youtube.com/live/YLjHBJ5... here's some gambollery while you wait

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

saw the discourse movie, do not regret going, now to try and separate two months of reading this website from what i saw for now, this is what a better man than me had to say on the topic aptsvet.livejournal.com/160640.html

aptsvet.livejournal.com

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

May have oversold this a bit, everyone is being very professional today (apart from jorden, for which we're very thankful) but at least we're getting playoffs

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

genuinely unmissable day of chess about to begin, with only pragg guaranteed a spot in the gct finals, a scenario that seemed completely impossible a couple of rounds ago www.youtube.com/live/eGCASm7...

Black poodle on hind legs looking out the window

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

decent ngl, especially the mention of breakfast, which i'm going to guess it inferred by looking at my selfies

screenshot of a google search instructing it to tweet like bsky user polborta

Brief summary of the round: Pragg's win was genuinely the most interesting of the bunch. A very subtle opening idea, followed by that characteristic calm, mounting pressure after Anish managed to stabilize, which eventually led to the inevitable late-time scramble mistakes. Fabi will bounce back from the near misses, but that took longer to convert than it should have.Anyway, the dog has opinions on the weather and breakfast is overdue.

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

not my favorite pic but it does have the @effinbirds.com tee in it, so we'll call that a wash

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

round 8 of the sinquefield cup www.youtube.com/live/9y-pPSF... pictured is the commentary team before and after keymer-sindarov

Black poodle with an extravagant hairdo looking intrigued

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

managed to seamlessly work this into a chess broadcast, maybe the highest point of my casting career

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

wesley when he's on+2 and his last two white games lasted 30 minutes in total

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

round 7 of sinquefield cup starting soon www.youtube.com/live/AbivSjd... pictured is a black dog in a dark room, about as easy to find as the remaining intrigue in the gct finals qualification race

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

back for more after the rest day. last chance saloon fast approaching for gct finals qualifiers - mvl must beat wesley today, sindarov probably needs to win 3 of the remaining 4 games to have a shot www.youtube.com/live/rBUIg5M...

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

wesley backing me up is nice (and not unexpected ngl)

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

rest day rehearsals about to commence www.youtube.com/live/XENi3MN...

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

more sinquefield cup coverage coming soon. action has been deranged so far (complimentary) - let's see how long they can keep this up www.youtube.com/live/82ws9DT...

Small black and white Russian spaniel would like you to throw the ball please

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the reacher kitty arc is healing me

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

round 3 of the sinquefield cup starts in an hour www.youtube.com/live/IxXk2Fy... footage of us trying to get to the cairns cup coverage below

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

didn't expect the new spiderman to be a worm tribute album

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

more delectable chess from st louis, coming right up www.youtube.com/live/7BEGn7-...

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

back in st louis for the final two events of gct '26. sinquefield cup coverage starts today, 2 and a bit hours from now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCj_...

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

people on the feed who said i need to watch hunt for the wilderpeople were absolutely right. it's majestical

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The cat, who does not live here, just came in, sniffed the overnight oats I’m eating and recoiled in exaggerated horror. I didn’t ASK you. Get a JOB

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