What it is like to join the Champion League of Chess

In June 2022, in the midst of the busiest time of the year both professionally and academically, I joined the Champion League on Chess.com on a whim. Here is the journey of how I got there.

I wish that the room won’t be this empty after 10 o’clock + A diary on playing chess

It’s weird. I sent a message. Nothing was sent back in return. Like always, I was slightly disappointed. But I guess maybe I was trying too hard. Maybe I should stop trying so hard? I don’t know. It’s an empty room and I thought I did the right thing. Right or wrong, only time couldContinue

A thought on Chess

In the time of crisis, we turn to books and people. Those who surrounded us, those who can see things we can’t see, think the way we don’t think, say the thought we don’t say, and act the way we don’t act. We just love to let ourselves be amazed of that. We need obstacles,Continue