honestly i have no idea what i just watched today, nothing will ever have my heart like chess
julia 🐁
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julia 🐁
@juliacheerios
the picture certainly is in my eye, but i am in the picture 🍉
clinical psychologist, cohost of @chessfeelspod
- i think we can all agree that running in with 30 seconds left on your clock, wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, to the world championship is unacceptably attractive behavior
00:00 - daniel naroditsky is the reason i got into chess. five years ago i stumbled onto one of his educational videos and it changed my life forever. an absolutely devastating loss for chess and everyone who knew him. there really are no words but my heart goes out
- it’s never too late to achieve your chess dreams. judit didn’t win an international chess tournament until she was 9. magnus didn’t beat a gm until he was 12. bobby fischer didn’t play “The Game of the Century” until he was 13. gukesh didn’t even win candidates until he was 17
- this picture makes me feel the entire landscape of all human emotion in a single instance, i've never been rooting for anyone more in my life
- well. a very nice person i met last week saved his number in my phone in the funniest way imaginable and absolutely hacked the system: immediately had my full attention and i’m def going for dinner lmao
- my favorite part of the queens gambit is when they describe 1800s like literal gods
00:00 - dudes: i play chess, it's very intellectual chess: can i interest you in "the grob"? we also have bong cloud, fried liver attack, modern pterodactyl, toilet variation, hillbilly attack, hedgehog, pork chop, semi-slav, vulture benoni, monkey's bum, and of course, the scotch
- friends with benefits but the benefit is that i'll play OTB chess with you whenever you want
- casual sex implies the existence of rated blitz sex
- if you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship. real happiness comes from chess elo
