David Pruess @DPruess

@RepJoshG If you swap “ridiculous” for “fantastic” then it’s one of the oldest ways in the book for me to praise you.

@RepJoshG You can’t just swap words in what someone says, and then criticize them for the new version of your quote. Totally ridiculous!

One gradual but steady shift I notice in general in Sports is that, most of us have become personality/ team, cult fans than lovers of the game itself. The game we supposedly love is the loser in the process. If my favourite player plays a bad game and still wins, I am happy. If someone plays a great game against my favourite player and defeats him/her, I am angry and resort to abuse over other player for defeating my favourite player. To express my disappointment, I also abuse my once favourite player to satisfy my ego. To all true sports lovers out there, enjoy the sports, shots, moves, good technique,scores etc no matter who plays it, no matter the outcome. Don’t become slave to personalities,cults,teams. Love and enjoy the game itself no matter who plays it. Men may come, men may go, human values, the spirit of sports itself should be the winner every time . If there is a WC between my student vs another player, my stance would still be, may the one who plays well deservingly win. I will not expect my student to win just because I like them, or they are my student. (Please do not drag individuals into this, try to focus on the point being made). We should be deserving of what we dream to achieve, we should raise our standards all the time and get better. Sports or any profession is only a tool through which we should build our own human dignity, values,principles, skills. While striving to become a better in any field, we should become even better human beings in the process. Chess/the game/the sports should the winner not individual personalities. Most things connected to chess ( and I guess everywhere else as well) has been degrading way too fast. Too much hype over everything, extreme unbalanced, unobjective reactions, players behaving like actors to feel accepted by fans, fans expecting their heroes to win all the time and resorting to abuse if they lose, amateurs judging professionals most of the time with idiotic comments, explanations. Too much commercialisation, money money in everything, publicity publicity in everything, zero sensitivity, absolute lack of respect or love to the game itself, or to the greats who have achieved so much through a lifetime of grit, sacrifice,love for the game,determination when they do not do well. I believe strongly that individuals can have any opinion on any subject, but don’t necessarily have to express them in public, openly, all the time just because we have those opinions or because we are excited over something. Most of the time, our opinions don’t matter, our opinions are based on incomplete,incorrect assumptions and data. We don’t know the context, we don’t know what is going on behind the scenes with people who really have skin in the game. Let’s do more research, wait patiently for all facts to come out before forming firm opinions or pass judgements over others. Let’s focus on raising our own standards, let’s achieve great things ourselves before we point fingers at others. Let’s not be too curious about what is happening in others lives. May we all become more human once again.

@vkhosla @Stanford @Google @sundarpichai Or maybe— just maybe— it’s you who are stupid, short-sighted and selfish? And don’t even understand the people you are commenting on?

My main opponent. Democrat Adam Smith, has been a warmongering politician for nearly three decades. He voted for the Iraq War in 2002, a multi-year war that took the lives of a million Iraqi people. He also supported bipartisan military assaults on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. He voted for tens of billions of dollars for the genocide in Gaza. The shameful reality is that Smith is is not the only warmongering Democrat — 173 House Democrats have voted to fund the Gaza genocide, including many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Electing more Democrats preparing to be team players who maintain the status quo is not going to help build an antiwar movement that can end the genocide, the war on Iran, and the U.S.-funded Israeli assault on Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq.

"I see the bar which is killing me all the time, irritates me. But if we just want to have fun we should erase that bar"- @GMJuditPolgar The queen has spoken!! 👑 #noengines

@StevenCheung47 100% wrong on every count. You are the awful human.

Hilarious chess video from @Chessentials_ youtube.com/watch?v=En10PF… Loved it!!!

@BarackObama says a mass murderer.

@ChessbaseIndia @GMJSindarov Fantastic conversation!!!

@DanielRensch I rewatched it with the family and it DOES hold up. 100%. Great great film!

@tommartell @Tunde_OD From my small sample size in magic, yes-- the best players I’ve seen lose were very gracious. Maybe with so much luck involved (and few draws) they are more accustomed to losing? I used to be very upset about losing, but I would hide it, and certainly be polite to the winner.

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@ProudSocialist By pretty much any logic, the U.S. is a terrorist regime.

It’s my 12th birthday ! I cannot believe it’s been that long since the CCC opened its doors. It’s been a journey, so I’d like to share a quick reflection as I am waking up this morning. It may come across as a bit direct, so please forgive me in advance. ------------------------------ Reflection: When I was a teenager, my dad once took me to a chess club that met in a restaurant.If you’ve spent time around chess clubs, you know the scene: church-basement energy, and a few grumpy regulars. My dad walked in, looked around, and quietly (or not so quietly if you ask my mom!) decided he wouldn’t be bringing me back. He didn’t see a sport. He saw disorganization. Something that looked like it wasn’t worth his son’s time. That moment stuck with me. Over time, I realized something important which became a driving value of mine: if a parent who wants to support their child feels uncomfortable walking into a chess club, chess has already lost. Everything we’ve built at the Charlotte Chess Center comes back to that idea. We stopped pretending chess had to live in borrowed spaces and organized with a lower standard. We built a community in a way that treats everyone who walks through the door as someone we serve. Over the years I’ve watched a lot of trends come and go. Programs promising to produce xxxx GMs, platforms trying to gamify the soul out of chess, millions raised and dumped into speculative projects artificially flooding cash into the ecosystem only to then go away once the ideas fail, leaving holes in the community and reducing trust. Chess is a niche community built on simple principles: consistency, trust, and culture. You can copy tournament formats and programs, but culture isn’t something you can duplicate. The CCC isn’t a pop-up model. We’re here 24/7/365 providing year-round infrastructure for the chess community. Consistency builds trust. Trust builds culture. Culture builds community. I often hear discussions about the “Chess Capital.” For me, New York City will always hold that cultural title. The history there is incredible. But Charlotte has become something different: a true grassroots chess community. With no sponsors or significant contributions, Charlotte has become the city for chess players, by chess players. In 2013, about 450 unique rated players played a rated game in Charlotte across all affiliates. Today, the CCC alone brings in over 2,700 unique rated players every year. Compare that to more “famous” clubs like St. Louis or the Mechanics’ Institute, which hover around 1,200 unique players per year. We have the largest number of players per capita in the country. While we may not be the self proclaimed “chess capital”, we are the city for all chess players. To be clear, there are others who are building their own communities and cultures, and we aren’t the only ones doing meaningful work. There are too many to name, but I have great respect for Impact Coaching Network in NYC and our neighbors at the Columbia Chess Club (SC). As for me, my days of serious tournament play are mostly behind me, at least until the World Senior 📷. But chess is still part of my daily life. I play online games every day, follow major events, and stay deeply connected to the game because I believe the people leading chess communities should genuinely love the game. To this day, I still show up every Tuesday for TNA to give a guest lecture and review members’ games. I don’t have to do that anymore, but I still do. It’s personal. It’s one of the last threads connecting me to the very beginning, back when we were just a handful of players meeting at the Asian Library before the Charlotte Chess Center was even an idea. I never imagined employing 60+ staff members or running one of the largest chess communities in the country. When my dad walked into that chess club years ago, he decided it wasn’t a place worth bringing his son. Twelve years later, thousands of players walk through our doors every year. We built the kind of chess community I wish had existed when I was a kid. We’ve built a community where a kid can start in Coach Geoff’s fundamentals class and grow all the way to Grandmaster without leaving their hometown. Our team brings together the administration, education, and tournament organization that makes that dream a reality. That wasn’t supposed to be possible at all, but especially for a city like Charlotte, but we proved that it is. We didn’t build a brand. We built a community.

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@WallStreetApes Loony nonsense! If a Native American bombed a bunch of U.S. cities, would you excuse them because European settlers started this war 400 years ago, and they are just finishing it? You can’t pick one random event 50 years ago to blanket justify wrong actions today.

@sweet_1501 @lisamurkowski Trump himself is the leading sponsor of terror in the world.

@lisamurkowski Our troops are NOT supported. They should not be there. They should be refusing to kill foreigners at the orders of the corrupt and evil US government members such as yourself. You are simply EVIL.

@tommartell As are most times, unfortunately. But now even worse than before.