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I totally agree with @MillenniumBug , although I think this time in particular Fide do have the bar always on for the commentators (but not the moves), unlike in previous events. Even though I was mos…

You probably saw it already, but you were referenced by Jovanka on the info about Tan's second, @OnTheQueenside :) https://www.youtube.com/live/hbtSoU_Q5k8?t=7992

@konwa said in #12: > Maybe that wasn't so far off as Lei does have a boyfriend, Raymond Song, who was part of her team for her match with Ju Wenjun. According to ChessBase India, Radjabov and Song ar…

Really nice to have this detailed analysis on why/why not each of them can win. I think I had never seen this exact format before. It was surprising to me that many people predicted Vaishali, she's fo…

@TotalNoob69 It does seem that it never picked up, but it's for sure a project to be aware of in this conversation. And anyway, doesn't seem totally abandoned either, Scid vs PC latest version seems t…

@dboing I guess you already know that, but Scid does have a pattern search (Search -> Material/pattern). And I don't know anything about it, but about query language, there's CQL: https://www.chesspro…

As it was mentioned here, I think the SCID projects can supply most of the use cases, the interface is pretty ugly indeed, but the functionality is really good. I think it's also worth mentioning this…

As usual, thanks for the great article :) Someday I need to take a better look at Xie Jun's games, I know very little about her, but was really nice to see her interview in the most recent Women's Wor…

Thanks a lot for the article! I haven't watched her games yet, but Candela Francisco (from Argentina), who won the 2023 girls U-20 world championship (being barely a 17 year old) could be an interesti…

Great article! Really nice to see more coverage of women's chess. I think in the Russian part it would've been important to also note that both the rapid & blitz women's world championships were won b…