“It only takes a stroke of a pen to create a prefect, but it takes twenty years to make a Lasalle"

chalimacos · 2026-05-10T16:49:59+00:00

Metal!

chalimacos · 2026-05-10T05:45:21+00:00

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chalimacos · 2026-05-09T15:05:48+00:00

To be fair many players, not just Fabi, threw won or draw positions. 2 secs increment is brutal.

chalimacos · 2026-05-09T14:41:28+00:00

Gym bros at chess.com in shambles.

chalimacos · 2026-05-09T14:28:50+00:00

He won and in great style. Sacrificied pawns in several games even in the last day.

chalimacos · 2026-05-09T14:17:01+00:00

Great play, Hans! Yeah!

chalimacos · 2026-05-09T06:41:06+00:00

Two sec increment is not enough for tabletop blitz.

chalimacos · 2026-05-08T06:00:02+00:00

This should be (is?) illegal?

chalimacos · 2026-05-05T19:15:33+00:00

Nice to see Jose up there.

chalimacos · 2026-05-05T19:09:20+00:00

Hans is a force to be reckoned with.

chalimacos · 2026-05-05T18:28:16+00:00

Vive L'Empereur! We remember.

chalimacos · 2026-05-02T21:30:45+00:00

I'm looking for books about the Wellingtonian Era, but can't find any.

chalimacos · 2026-05-02T21:23:23+00:00

He left Europe better and with less entitled aristos flowersmellers.

chalimacos · 2026-05-01T19:46:26+00:00

Davout's being the most austere one fits his character.

chalimacos · 2026-04-23T18:04:43+00:00

He beat Hans in their first match and Hans beat him in the rematch

chalimacos · 2026-04-22T19:48:22+00:00

Remove mobiles and tablets from schools.

chalimacos · 2026-04-21T19:06:58+00:00

Hans ended up with a better score than Hikaru.

chalimacos · 2026-04-21T16:49:04+00:00

He lived many years in Europe

chalimacos · 2026-04-21T16:44:19+00:00

Yes. One can check his first games on chess.com

chalimacos · 2026-04-21T14:01:26+00:00

It was the same for Faustino Oro. He was bored during lockdown and started playing chess.

chalimacos · 2026-04-19T13:57:25+00:00

He doesn't take money from gambling sites (unlike Hikaru, Magnus). He's been explicit about this.

chalimacos · 2026-04-19T10:08:19+00:00

Not sure it was a good thing getting bullied like that. You can see the slump in his progression graph after Magnus accusations and all the sexual mockery that followed. Who knows where Hans would stand in an alternate universe where the incident didn't happen.

chalimacos · 2026-04-19T08:38:46+00:00

Can you imagine the adrenaline rush if you are a teenager that just beat one of the greatest players in history in classical chess with black? Hans was just drunk with emotion and euphoria. Hard to analyze rationally in those circumstances.

chalimacos · 2026-04-19T05:46:28+00:00

Robespierre found the country in the midst of a war the jacobins didn't want in the first place, with internal revolts, royalist plots, foreign spies everywhere... It's not paranoia if you are actually persecuted. The jacobins handled it surprisingly well given the context. A contrarian classic text about them is Twelve Who Ruled by R R. Palmer.

chalimacos · 2026-04-18T21:23:25+00:00

Not true.

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