Daily Rome Shot 774

Meanwhile, in Dusseldorf there begins today the TEAM World Rapid Championship. The teams include 6-9 members and must include a woman and an “amateur” who has at least a 2000 ELO (rating). The winning team will get Euro 100K and the total prize purse is E 250K. Big names there, young and seasoned. Some team names: Helibronn Hustlers… Team MGD1 is back… another Indian team Six-pack. The Pensioners have Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik and Dominguez Perez Leinier… strong. Neustadt Weinstraße! The FIDE Managrment Board has Nigel Short! The Prez of FIDE is playing! My guy Wesley So is with WR Chess, … superpowers on this one Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, R Praggnanandhaa, Vincent Keymer, Hou Yifan, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and the amateur Wadim Rosenstein. If they don’t win the whole thing… well. Kompetenzakademie Allstars have Caruana, Levon Aronian, Gukesh, Keti Tsatsalashvili. Crazy. Three days of rapid. 15/10.

Meanwhile, my interest in things space and things chess come together in the news about India’s moon mission. As you might have heard, in the recent World Cup, the young Indians, Arjun, Gukesh and Pragg did amazing things. Young Gukesh and “old” Vishi are both in the world top 10. I suspect that, within a few years, there will be another Indian World Champ, especially of Magnus stays out.

Moving on, India has a young space program, too. They have a Moon mission underway, Chandrayaan-3 Mission soft-landing a rover, Vikram, on the surface near the southern pole. The Rover rolled out on 23 August.

However, we might have to take the positive news with a portion of green cheese.

Authenticity Of Indian Moon Landing Questioned After First Photo Released https://t.co/iNUf0BgrMh pic.twitter.com/fFt6YZzDa0

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 25, 2023

Instead of a puzzle here’s a shot of OTB as I write.

Black to move on the close board. Yeah I know the board is backwards.

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