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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Chess on hard mode

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A cute little puzzle. White to play and draw.

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I played my first serious league match in 1973. I was playing for my school, St Peters, away vs Parkstone. My opponent smoked a pipe and lots of other people were smoking cigarettes. As you looked across the room, you could see the thick haze of tobacco smoke. Also 1973, Tal vs Donner. #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A gentle chess puzzle. Savage-Simons, 4NCL, Oxford vs Wessex, 2006. Black to play. #chess Solution share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/...

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Having found Richard Swift I tried a few more of his songs. Here's Broken Finger Blues. #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKA...

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Broken Finger Blues

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was watching "No Hard Feelings" on TV and this song was playing in one scene. I had to find it. Wonderful. I could imagine Barbara Lewis singing it with tweaked lyrics. Richard Swift "Would You?" #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4bg...

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Would You?

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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Little Stormzy came back to visit today to say thats for help in his early days. He is absolutely huge and it is probably the happiest I've ever been to see a dog!! Look at him go!

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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Another of my screw ups from 2025-26. I had planned 30.Nc5 here, realising the black queen was in trouble. However, I saw a ghost and played 30.Nb4. As I was waiting for the reply I realised 30...a5 was good and it duly came. I threw the rest of my advantage away a few moves later. Draw. #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Another of my favourite moments from 2025-26. The engines like 17.e4 and 17.g4 here, both of which I considered. I played 17.Nf4 which the engines don't like much at first but which they eventually realise is comparably strong. It also has the merit of setting a trap (see the thread). #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

White to play and draw (again, not sure who the composer is). #chess Solution: share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/...

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The worst of my 2025-26 season, playing Black. I had correctly calculated ...Qxc2 as good for me and but it was messy, it was the opening game of the season and I didn't trust my calculation. Instead I played an exchange sac which was just a blunder, ...Rxd2?? which was met by Nf6+ +/- #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Perhaps my favourite little moment in my 2025-26 season, playing White against IM Petr Marusenko. 49.Bxc5 wins but I found a simpler to calculate way based upon a double intermezzo. I played 49.Rh1 as 49...Bxf2 is met by 50.Rh6+ and if 50...Kc5 then 51.Rc6+ leaves a winning pawn ending. #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am ashamed to say that I failed to solve this study. White to play and draw (not sure who the composer is). #chess Solution share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/...

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

No Prime Minister should have to deal with all this nonsense with the monarch... not when they resign, not when they take over, not in a weekly update. Absolute waste of valuable time.

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Overturn this" would be number two on my list of favourite social media posts. Hard to beat "This is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes".

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Octopus can change color using thousands of specialized pigment cells in their skin called chromatophores. By expanding and contracting these cells, they can change colors and skin textures in a fraction of a second. Some species are simply famous for their extreme abilities. #octopus #marinelife

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/06/2026

#OtD 24 Jun 1943 a battle broke out within the segregated US military in the British village of Bamber Bridge. White military police opened fire on Black service personnel after they were unhappy about local residents supporting Black troops. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7894...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today’s independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

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!TUUR (Arthur van de Oudeweetering) @tuurone.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today #UzChessCup Shakhriyar's queen got caught straightforwardly by Mukhiddin Madaminov after 33...Rc4. In a more complicated & elegant fashion Grischuk caught Svidler's queen - in a blindfold game!; in the Amber tournament 2010 he had calculated up to 20...Bd3!! #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

One for Viz readers... looks like Sid the Sexist!

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Chess question... what is the correct pronunciation of Smyslov? As a kid I pronounced the first syllable like "my" but an another junior assumed it was like "system". This has bugged me on and off for about 50 years. Anyone (perhaps @simaginfan.bsky.social) definitively know the answer? #chess

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is a nice puzzle. Not sure if it is from a game or composed. White to play and win. #chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

By way of something other than chess, our retriever doing what retrievers do best

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

By far the most read of the Dorset Chess "COVID" bulletins was the first one by Martin Simons on the Stafford Gambit which got thousands of hits. www.dorsetchess.co.uk/stafford-gam... #chess #chesspunks

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Bulletin No.45 – The Stunning Stafford Gambit – Dorset Chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A couple of light articles I wrote in 2021 on the the lives of the World Chess Champions from Steinitz to Carlsen. A few broken links but still readable. www.dorsetchess.co.uk/bulletin-no-... www.dorsetchess.co.uk/bulletin-no-... #chess #chesspunks

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Bulletin No.46 – The world champions & what you may not know! – Part 1 Steinitz to Tal – Dorset Chess

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The discussion about luck in chess got me thinking about manners of different online platforms. 1/n

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882. She made groundbreaking advances in abstract algebra, but is probably best known for her eponymous theorems articulating the deep connection between symmetries and conserved quantities in physics. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Public domain, photographer unknown

Black and white portrait of Emmy Noether standing. She is in her early-to-mid twenties. Noether wears a long, dark skirt with a white blouse that has high shoulders. A dark belt with a shiny buckle is cinched around her waist. Her hair is pulled back, and she is looking slightly down and to the right of the photographer.

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Playing online chess? This is great background music. I have it on loop #chess #skymusic

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

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The Carney doctrine

Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

White to play and win A simple but elegant study by Vančura, 1922. #chess #chesspunks

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I haven't posted any chess stuff for a while but here is a very neat study, composed in 1923 by Georg Bernhardt. White to play and draw. A link to the solution is in the replies. #chess #chesspunks

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 29/11/2025

Still among my favorite science memes lol

Two red spinning balls are shown, one labeled +1/2 and its spin oriented positively and another labeled -1/2 and oriented negatively. Caption: "Electron spin explained: imagine a ball that's rotating, except it's not a ball and it's not rotating"

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Guardian is running what looks like some fairly damning stuff on Boris Johnson. None of the other papers are referencing it. Are they not sure of the Guardian's sources? Do they not consider it very bad? Or do they just think it is unremarkable as it is about the liar Johnson?

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

White to play This is a superb study by Alois Wotawa with two implementations of the main theme. #chess #chesspunks

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

White to play. This is from Tyler vs Winter, 1933. The prosaic Rxc1 would leave White a pawn down. Can you find a better continuation and the precise follow up? Solution in the replies. #chess #chesspunks

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Peter Anderson @thispetera.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

White to play and win This position is from Kosintseva vs Sultangareev, 2002. How did White gain a decisive advantage? #chess #chesspunks

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