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Jul 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Happy #InternationalChessDay! My friend Ervin Sindik reconstructed all my games from the 1992 blitz tournament in Mar del Plata, Argentina, most never published before. Here is one, vs GM Zarnicki. chesspastebin.com/view/22507
He reconstructed them from video, and here is a version of it with my interview. Long ago! Look at all that hair!
I won the first ten games against the best players and felt invincible going into the final round against an amateur. And you've heard about pride and falls! But that loss to De las Heras was of course preserved and published so I won't recount it here..
In the spirit of the day, and since many of us have a lot of time in isolation, it's a great time to teach someone to play chess! It would also honor the recent passing of the man who taught me, my uncle, Konstantin Gregorian. #InternationalChessDay
*Grigorian, typo!

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Jul 22
A year ago, before the GOP primaries were over, I made a bet with a friend that neither Trump nor Biden would be taking the oath of office on Jan 20, 2025. The odds just got a lot better--for me and for the country. 1/6
I was never a Harris fan, but I'm also against closed-door decisions. Democracy works best in sunlight and a fight this late could be a catastrophe. It seems unlikely any qualified candidates will challenge her. The risk is an outsider seeking attention. 2/6
For her VP, I believe in the concrete. The lesson of 2004 (Kerry blundering by choosing Edwards over Gebhardt) is to get electoral votes in a state you need and can win. So Kelly in AZ, Shapiro in PA. Are many good candidates, and must push back to center. 3/6
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Jul 16
Three days later, it worked. Money and power, not ideology, not values. The financial support of a few people who believe caving in to Russia will profit them personally in the next few years is what passes for strategy in the Trump GOP.
But being angry at grasping demagogues like Trump & Vance is like being angry at a rabid dog, or at Putin. Yes, they are responsible for their actions, but we cannot expect different. They are what they are and say it. I’m angrier at those who say differently but act the same.
Trump and Vance don’t know anything about Ukraine, for example, and don’t care to. People with money and/or other leverage tell them what to say and they say it. The only way to change their behavior is to make a better offer, which is unlikely. It’s pathetic, but transparent.
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Jul 8
Twin horrors: 1) Russia bombing a major children's hospital as part of its daily terror and murder campaign against Ukraine. 2) The free world having the power to stop it and refusing to.
The more terrible war crimes Russia is allowed to get away with, the more terrible its next crimes will be. It's inertia and normalization of terror, born of cowardice and corruption in the Western halls of power.
Let's hear from the Burns & Sullivan team in the White House. Did they forget to exclude children's hospitals from the list of acceptable targets in their negotiations with Russia? Are their safe zones only for Russian airfields & military bases next to Ukraine?
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Jul 2
I've read the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. But maybe I missed where the Founding Fathers supported the idea of immunity for the president. Can Justice Thomas or other supposed originalists shows us where it was mentioned?
They are always referring to 18th century documents to validate everything from gun rights to states' rights, so I'm sure I must have missed something. Perhaps in a letter from Jefferson or Madison? Such a revolution requires a clear historical basis, does it not?
I've been checking Fox & other places you'd expect to defend this decision on the merits, but no. Is the Court simply trying to make the US president, or one convicted one in particular, into a kinglike figure? What's in it for Roberts? Trump will use this power, of course.
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Jun 29
An accurate description of Trump, but the chicken is now expired! Most of us hoping Biden steps down do so not because we like Trump, but because we oppose him so vehemently. If avoiding the shit & glass is what matters most, and it is, Biden running is a betrayal of that goal.
The stakes are high. Trump has his fanatical MAGA base while the most energetic part of the left hates Biden. Biden's weakness will suppress Dem turnout and not only return Trump to the White House, but wipe out good moderate candidates who need those votes.
Trump is a crook, a vandal, a would-be autocrat. His existence as a former president & current candidate is a stain on the American tapestry. But the powerful moral argument against him diminishes when Biden's backers prop him up for their own interests.
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Jun 28
Last night's debate turned the candidate dilemma into a crisis. Trump's energetic lies versus Biden's feeble truth is a catastrophe for America and the free world. A raving crook with no self-control and a shadow of a man being treated cruelly by those around him. 1/11
The people who have propped Biden up as a candidate to maintain their own power are accessories to the murder of US democracy and should be held accountable. If you can't walk or talk, you shouldn't run. 2/11
Biden's weakness helped make Trump II possible. A stronger Dem would have given a big boost to Haley. I lived through this with the ailing Yeltsin in 1996. Instead of allowing stronger candidates we got, "But only Yeltsin can beat Zyuganov!" 3/11
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