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Our surprise guest on sunset was the founder and the president of Blitz Society, the amazing chess club in Paris, France and who was one of the friends and best supporters of Chess Forum since the very beginning in 1995. taken in Chess Forum by @chessforum

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Chord
By Atsuro Riley

Come the marrow-hours when he couldn’t sleep,
the boy river-brinked and chorded.

Mud-bedded himself here in the root-mesh; bided.
Sieved our alluvial sounds—

Perseverating fiddler-crabs pockworking the pluff-mud;

(perforated) home-bank gurgle and seethe;

breathing burrow-holes, under-warrens,
(pitched) pent-forts, coverts;

a rabbity heart-hammering amongst the canes;

bleat of something;

sleeping Mama grinding (something) with her jaw;

Daddy rut-graving gravel driving off;

the desolated train-trestle rust-buckling —and falling;

an echo-tolling cast-iron skillet like a gong;

downrivering gone (gone) gone (gone);

Sylvia supper-calling her fish-camp fish with a bell;

putting her tea kettle! wren-calls on for the crying
marsh-wren orphans;

R.T. tale-telling down by Norton’s Store
“Where every Story cauls a Grief”;

Daddy —nine-eyed, knee-walking— aisle-weeping at the Bi-Lo;

Mama mash-sucking sour loquats in the shed;

ire-salts quartzifying in the dark;

the caustics;

the fires;

far Fever Creek revival-tents hymning and balming;

bees thrive-gilding the glade;

hand-strang bottle-oaks (and intricated yardwire-works)
clocking and panging;

Viaduct Forge & Foundry beating time;

the bait-boys along the dock drum-dunting their buckets;

vowel-howling over the water;

the river;

RIVER.

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day is “perseverate”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/10/05/ by @chessforum

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Quarter life pizza slices.
By the age of 200, Madison can eat a.whole pie. taken in New York City by @chessforum

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In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo.
Courtesy of Agatha Chocolats by @chessforum

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“The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day is “adventitious”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/10/04/ by @chessforum

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October is here and Halloween is coming to town. taken in New York City by @chessforum

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**At Chess Forum, the conversation doesn’t always need words. ♟️**

A hand reaches.
A piece moves.
A clock clicks.
Someone hesitates. Someone doesn’t.

From the outside, over-the-board chess can look quiet.

Across 64 squares, it rarely is.

Every move says something: confidence, doubt, patience, pressure, risk.

This is the rhythm of New York chess—and one of the reasons I keep coming back to document it.

**64 Squares NYC**
*The people behind the game.*

#64SquaresNYC #NYCChess #ChessForum #OTBChess #ChessPhotography taken in Chess Forum by @chessforum

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Weekend Movie 🍿🎥♟️
Chess- A State of Mind (1986)
A documentary from 1986 showing some of the chess greats.
https://youtu.be/X3PYDK3gyVw?is=xc0nSatc0iUYg7Ky by @chessforum

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“How often is tittle tattle, as you call it, true! And I think if, as I say, they really examined the facts they would find that it was true nine times out of ten! That’s really just what makes people so annoyed about it.”
Agatha Christie

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day is “tittle”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/10/03/ by @chessforum

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Wednesday night was the third installment of our monthly poetry reading series: Poetry Knights.
It was a wonderful experience for the poets and the audience as poets of all ages and backgrounds.
Any poet interested in reading in our future events, please send us your email address and thr event organizers will contact you immediately.
We hope to see you all again in our next poetry evening towards the end of October. taken in Chess Forum by @chessforum

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White mates in 2.
Eltaj Safarli vs Bela Khotenashvili
Bela Khotenashvili is a Georgian grandmaster born in 1988. She attended Tbilisi State University and earned the IM title. Her highest classical rating is 2415.
She played in the Women’s World Chess Championship three times, appearing in the 2012, 2015 and 2017 tournaments.
Eltaj Safarli is an Azerbaijani Grandmaster born in 1992. He started playing in tournaments at age 6, though he saw modest success at first. He won the under 10 World Youth Chess Championship in Heraklion in 2002.
Safarli won the Azerbaijan Championships in 2010 and 2016. In October 2016, he reached a peak rating of 2694. This put him at number 46 in the world and number 3 in his own country.
Courtesy of sparkchess.com by @chessforum

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