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Meanwhile, white to move and mate in 2.
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Yesterday the Division I of the Chessable Masters continued. Alas, our guy Wesley So got knocked down to the lower bracket by Magnus. Unfortunately, he just ran out of time: there are different time controls – 10+2 instead of 15+3. Nepo went down, too. Today, Wesley (yay!) plays Puer (aka Alireza Firouzja). Nepomniachtchi let the Peruvian Jose Martinez checkmate him, which was a sportsmanlike gesture. Martinez will play young Denis “the Menace” Lazavik, who defeated Nakamura and Giri. In Division 2, Jeffrey Xiong beat Anish Giri and David Anton was bested by Levon Aronian. Division 3… big field, including Grischuk and Tabatabaei.
Today I have OTB. I feel a little sluggish today, so I don’t know what’s going to transpire.
Coffee is needed.
Speaking of coffee… there’s a new one to try. I have a new coffee affiliate. I still have Mystic Monk, but after the hit job Voris did on them (and almost everyone else that wasn’t CM), people seem to have cooled toward them. I’ll still link to MM because they deserve a chance to keep building. I like monks who build stuff.
However here is another option that I’ll try for a while.
I see that a few people bought some the other day. I look forward to your reviews. I have not tried it. They are sending me some, but it hasn’t yet arrived.
I’m negotiating right now with some folks who want to put some Catholic ads on the blog, over which I will have some control. I apologize in advance. It’s a little humiliating, but I need the income and, frankly, Catholic enterprises need the support. We can all benefit. Most of the things I push in these Rome Shot posts are favorite causes of mine. Some of the new ads will not be so well known by me, but the people organizing it are on our side. Let’s just say that the Fishwrap won’t be one of them.
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2 things about the coffee, a priest friend of ours got 3 bags for Christmas. He had half of one and then gave them to us after finding out they were sedevacantist. I haven’t verified that, but take it with a grain of salt.
I thought it was OK, but not worth $20 a bag. Big IMO though. We’re coffee snobs so we are very picky about our coffee.
Honestly, the only ones we really like from Mystic Monk are their flavored coffees(Jingle Bell Java and Royal Rum). Yes, the irony is not lost on me that “coffee snobs” prefer a flavored bean.
I haven’t cooled towards the Mystic Monks. I looooove their coffee!!!
I was going to wait until after Lent, but if they’re struggling I think I’ll put in an order before…maybe for our parish coffee as well. Everyone will be happy to switch away from the Folgers :)-