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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

a darknet hacker in Silo S03E03 missing a mate in two with checks - intentional and plot-driven, or just sloppy? discuss

position from the episode 3 of season 3 of Silo.

White: Kh6, Re1, Bd3, pp c3 d4 g7
Black: Kg8 Rf7 Nf6 pp c6 d5

White, a darknet hacker, has just played Kg6 instead of Re8+ Nxe8 Bh7#

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

at least a month too late for the Discourse, oh well

Gadget from Chip and Dale, eyes wide open, captions says 'why would i deceive you?'

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

i seem to have uncovered something about myself

Poster produced by the tentpolegame.com prompt

Dead men tell the best secrets.

Messages from the Dead Drop
The Agency's chief interrogator of the dead (Bette Midler) channels murdered operatives from a soundproof séance room beneath Langley, trading secrets for closure. When a vanished deep-cover courier (Christopher Lloyd) comes through the board claiming he was killed by his own handler, a burned field officer with a faked death of her own (Tatum O'Neal) must work the case through the medium she buried years ago. Chasing the leak is a relentlessly cheerful internal investigator (Joan Cusack) who keeps accidentally helping. Somebody is killing spies to keep them talking.

Bette Midler · Tatum O'Neal · Christopher Lloyd and Joan Cusack
a Wes Craven film
PG-13
for intense séance sequences, some violence and brief strong language
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
“Midler grilling Lloyd's ghost about a 1983 dead drop was worth the ticket, but the 4K is a pass.”
r/criterion user
“Midler vamping at a seance table like it's a briefing room is the only reason this thing breathes.”
Critic Review
Domestic box office
$416M
Critic score
42/100
Trailer bait
A great trailer sold tickets, but it won't be in anyone's Letterboxd Top 4.

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

yet another game i need to get better at. would watch though, and it's not wrong about mckellen tentpolegame.com/m/A4J2LWdFWIlq

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Every family keeps its dead somewhere warm.
The Blood Under the Nails
A second-generation mortician (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) restores bodies his family's funeral home quietly launders for the mob, and starts keeping pieces of the dead he loved. A mob courier (Daniel Craig) arrives with a body that isn't finished and won't leave. The dying patriarch (Ian McKellen) demands one final arrangement — a burial he has no right to. A widowed detective (George Clooney) keeps coming back to the parlor to visit a wife he knows is somewhere else. Someone has to close the casket.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Daniel Craig with Ian McKellen and George Clooney
a Luca Guadagnino film

R for strong violence, gruesome images, sexual content and language
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian

“When Craig tells JGL "the dead don't forgive, they just wait" I had to sit there a second. McKellen could read a grocery list and still win.”
r/movies user

“Guadagnino turns an autopsy table into the year's most intimate dining room.”
Critic Review

Gross: 137M
Critic score: 72/100

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

anyway happy birthday Jon, hope you're having a lovely day, and maybe we'll see each other again i lifted the pic from @dgriffinchess.bsky.social because he always has the best photos

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

their player is a gm, but he's being squarely beaten by his lower rated opponent, and the position on their board looks like this:

chess position

White: Kg5 Bf5 Nc3, pp e6 d6
Black: Kd8 Rb5 p b2

Black to move

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is the bit we saw on video before we switched away from it again. wanna take a stab at reconstruction? ;p

position from later in the same game, with the moves i remember from the live video feed

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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 · 29/08/2026

well, if all else fails we could certainly ask George's opinion on things that are yellow and dangerous

The only thing we can do now,” said Benjy, crouching and stroking his whiskers in thought, “is to try and fake a question, invent one that will sound plausible.”
“Difficult,” said Frankie. He thought. “How about, What's yellow and dangerous?”
Benjy considered this for a moment.
“No, no good,” he said. “Doesn't fit the answer.”
They sank into silence for a few seconds.
“All right,” said Benjy. “What do you get if you multiply six by seven?”
“No, no, too literal, too factual,” said Frankie, “wouldn't sustain the punter's interest.”
Again they thought.
Then Frankie said: “Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?”
“Ah!” said Benjy. “Aha, now that does sound promising!” He rolled the phrase around a little. “Yes,” he said, “that's excellent! Sounds very significant without actually tying you down to meaning anything at all.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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

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 · 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 · 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 · 30/07/2026

what do you mean 'not in the word list'

Spelling Bee app screen, with the word huguenot spelled

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

a sense of enormous well-being

Black standard poodle on a lawn, looking left

Black standard poodle on a lawn, looking straight

Black standard poodle on a lawn, looking right

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I think he's trying to hypnotize me

Black poodle lying in the doorframe, paws crossed, looking into the camera

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

stokes trying to get a fastest Test fifty is all good and well, but there's also Ireland on the verge of going 2-0 vs India. dog walk in extreme danger

A bunch of screens on a desk

ENG v NZ on the larger screen, IRE v IND on a smaller one

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

you play rfe1 here and dare to bring this to me? bah!

chess position in which white has a very nice mate in three

W: Kg1 Rf1 Rd1 Be3 Bh5 Nd4 pp a2 b2 f2 g2 h2
B: Ke7 Ra8 Rh8 Bg7 Bc8 Nb8 pp a6 b5 e6 f6 h7

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

was mildly alarmed by this at first, ngl

middle aged man in a suit. on his sleeve is a yellowish sticker featuring among other things a drawing of a star

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Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Way too much draw on that, horrible. elbow at a painful angle. should do this more often too.

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