SciFiChess

♟️ Chess

• I have played in numerous USCF over the board tournaments. Online, I mainly focus on daily and vote chess games including league competition for clubs, as well as promoting fair play. My goal is to become a USCF Master.
• Normally I accept friend requests and try to respond to personal messages, but my time for chat requests is more limited.
• Due to a busy schedule, I will be temporarily less active on chess.com beginning in summer 2023.

🇨🇳 Ding Liren (World Chess Champion)

🇨🇳 Ju Wenjun (Women's World Chess Champion)

🇨🇳 Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024)

• 🐲🐉 Year of the Dragon
• 🏮 Lantern Festival (February 24, 2024)
• 🧧 Red Pockets
• 👨🏻👩🏻👦🏻👧🏻 Clothes

♟️ Blog

• How Many Different Chess Positions Are There? (Quiz)
• How Many Different Chess Positions Are There? (Solutions)

• Geometric Partition of a Circle Using Lines

• Why are the black pawns attacking their king?

• Chess in the Year 2100

• Game Theory Problems Using Playing Cards

• Geometric Chess Puzzles
• Geometric Chess Puzzle Solutions

• How many different positions are there with 32 chessmen on the board?

• How many different chess960 positions exist after one move by each side?

• Quaternions

• Algebraic and Transcendental Numbers

• Zero to Infinity

• Classic Music Videos

• Bands of the 1970s

• Quantum Supremacy

♟️ Math and Chess Club (Super Admin)

• Math and Chess Club Info Page (100+ math and chess related links)
• Nuclear Fusion at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

♟️ The Great Viking Warriors

One World League

• 1WL 2020 Vote Chess Division 3b | Rounds 4 - 7
• 1WL 2021 - 2022 Vote Chess Division 2 | Rounds 1 - 7
• 1WL 2022 - 2023 Vote Chess Division 2 | Rounds 1 - 7 | 2W - 1D - 2L - 1 bye
  

Team Match Championship League | 12.5 - 9.5

• TMCL 2022 Division A Round 3 | Board 11 | 1 - 1
  
• TMCL 2022 Division A Round 5 | Board 18 | 0 - 2
  
• TMCL 2022 Division A Round 6 | Board 14 | 0 - 2
  
• TMCL 2022 Division A Round 7 | Board 19 | 2 - 0
  
• TMCL960 2022 Division A Round 3 | Board 18 | 1 - 1
  
• TCML960 2022 Division A Round 4 | Board 16 | 1 - 1
  
• TMCL960 2022 Division A Round 5 | Board 15 | 1 - 1
  
• TMCL960 2022 Division A Round 7 | Board 13 | 0.5 - 1.5
  
• TMCL 2023 Division A Round 1 | Board 27 | 2 - 0
  
• TMCL 2023 Division A Round 2 | Board 30 | 2 - 0
  
• TMCL960 2023 Division A Round 2 | Board 20 | 2 - 0
  
• TMCL 2024 Division A Round 2 | Board 52 | 0 - 0

♟️ Obsessive Chess Disorder

Team Match Championship League | 6.5 - 7.5

• TMCL 2022 Division B2 Round 5 | Board 7 | 0 - 2
• TMCL 2022 Division B2 Round 6 | Board 12 | 0 - 2
• TMCL960 2022 Division B Round 5 | Board 6 | 1 - 1
• TMCL960 2022 Division B Round 6 | Board 8 | 1 - 1
• TMCL960 2022 Division B Round 7 | Board 8 | 1.5 - 0.5
• TMCL 2023 Division B Round 2 | Board 9 | 1.5 - 0.5
• TMCL960 2023 Division B Round 2 | Board 8 | 1.5 - 0.5
• TMCL 2024 Division B2 Round 2 | Board 9 | 0 - 0

♟️ The Youngest Chess Grandmasters In History

♟️ Wikipedia Chess Links

• List of World Chess Champions
• Comparison of top chess players throughout history
• List of female chess grandmasters
• FIDE world rankings
• List of chess players by peak FIDE rating
• List of FIDE chess world number ones

♟️ United States Chess Federation Top Player Lists

♟️ FIDE Top 100 Player Lists

• Top 100 Players in Standard, Rapid and Blitz
• Top 100 Women in Standard, Rapid and Blitz
• Top 100 Juniors in Standard, Rapid and Blitz
• Top 100 Girls in Standard, Rapid and Blitz
• For 2024, Juniors and Girls were born in 2004 or after.

♟️ Pro Chess League

• Saint Louis Arch Bishops (2017, 2019 and 2020 League Champion)

♟️ Quotes

• “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Anonymous
• “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” – Mark Twain
• “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain
• “Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.” – Howard Cosell

• This is a passage out of #9 The Weirdest World Championship from 10 Craziest Events In The History Of Chess. The event was the 1978 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi.

  “Korchnoi was also bothered by a member of the Soviet entourage named Vladimir Zukhar, a parapsychologist who would sit in the front row and stare malevolently at him. Korchnoi suspected that Zukhar was hypnotizing him and interfering with his brain waves. Thanks to the “psychic,” Korchnoi was a nervous wreck by the seventh game.”

Updated February 4, 2024