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Sam Lowe

@greenlantern44.bsky.social

These days it’s weird for younger people like me to think of a time where writers went, “the Riddler’s kind of a harmless loser” when most writers we know of insist on having him be some kind of grand chessmaster

November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM Everybody can reply

Oliver 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇬🇪🇪🇺💪🍁☮️

@oliverw514.bsky.social

After decades with no one in Russia daring to challenge Putin’s lies, the lack of feedback dulled his knack for propaganda. On the world stage, no one buys his act anymore. He’s finished—though in his mind, he’s still the grand chessmaster.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=46uj...

Во Імя Путєна! (анімація) [ENG SUB]

YouTube video by Фріоніс

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October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

Stephanie Brownback

@osu16bit.bsky.social

He looks like the old guy on the cover of the Chessmaster

October 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM Everybody can reply

BadNES 1.10n

@nesrom-ebooks.bsky.social

Chessmaster (J) [f1][o1].nes

October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM Everybody can reply

Emmy

@emmyisonbluesky.bsky.social

he's however the wisest person in kjerag, and he abuses that wisdom through the perspective of a chessmaster, he sees everyone as chess pieces he should place strategically to benefit kjerag

he's literally a leader, a tactician even! golly i wonder why he's a tactician in this alt...

October 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Bryan Fichter

@bryanfichter.bsky.social

He's a chessmaster

October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM Everybody can reply

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"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez"

@captainruck.bsky.social

Very funny that people put this line under a photo of Stringer Bell, who famously did react to a lot of things and got killed because he tried to play chessmaster and underestimated the people he was manipulating

Welcome to Ninety Nut November @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11d

dumb business mindset meme saying "learn to sit back and observe. not everything needs a reaction." but it's also like good advice, you can just wait and not say anything you might regret later. anyway thanks for reading the alt text. i love you.

oh its a picture of idris elba before he went mostly grey, he's kinda tenting his fingers? he's wearing a rather nice sport coat. sort of a broad checkerboard pattern in a brownish color. idk i'm not the menswear guy

October 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Jim Swanson

@jimswanson.bsky.social

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies at 29,

In a statement shared to social media on behalf of the Naroditsky family, the center called the former World Junior Champion's death "unexpected."

tinyurl.com/wIbzjR

October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM Everybody can reply

The Jerusalem Post

@thejerusalempost.bsky.social

Daniel Naroditsky, Jewish-American chessmaster, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 29. Naroditsky was one of the top chess players in the US, and had gained the title of grandmaster at only 18 years old.
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Jewish chess grandmaster passes away at 29 | The Jerusalem Post

Daniel Naroditsky, son of a Ukranian immigrant, had begun playing chess at the age of 6. His influence extended beyond the chessboard, according to the International Chess Federation.

www.jpost.com

October 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM Everybody can reply

WallCat

@wallcat.bsky.social

Most adorable chessmaster ever! 10/10 would lose and then give salt lick and ear scritchies

October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM Everybody can reply

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Bruce

@contrasoma.bsky.social

This Amiga port of Chessmaster 2000 isn't gonna code itself.

October 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM Everybody can reply

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Merrick Garland is a criminal

@hrismode.bsky.social

I didn't expect that!

[ Das hatte Lipschitz nicht erwartet -- common saying about a chessmaster below master class ]

October 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Tommy Dignan

@dignan92.bsky.social

I love how Jack Perry is booked as a smart wrestler these days. A real chessmaster. It makes sense to me. #WrestleSky #AEWDynamite #AEW 🤼

October 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM Everybody can reply

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bakoon

@bakoon.bsky.social

in the new 3D chessmaster game this is the king and queen

October 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM Everybody can reply

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ΘΔ luna's her name and wide's her game!! (slots OPEN!!)

@lunaaltername.bsky.social

// milky hyper growth !!!

a loyal pawn serves her chessmaster well, and moreso does she do so when she has the honor of being promoted!! but its a miracle a piece like me even manages to fit on a square with all of this newfound,, range? potency? wwidth n such,,!!

me as a pawn from chess, skimpily clad in an outfit reminiscent of common depictions of pawns with a bulb on the top and a multi-layer stack of very uncovering cloths for the ridges,, my butt is visible on a view above where it shows my tush is quite visible!! the text on my panties reads "loyal puppy pawn",,,,

now promoted to a queen, my body has filled out quite a large amount of space!! my hips have been widened quite much, now clad in undies and also some stockings with attatchment straps, and my boobs have fully left the outfit!! theyre very large and sputtering milk, only wearing small gemmy piercings,,,,, i now have a crown on and a "dress" that really hardly covers anything!! my butt's even more visible now what with its size, and my panties now read "good girl queen",,,,!!!

October 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Jason Kauzlarich

@jasonkauz.bsky.social

The Chessmaster 2000

Pictured: a wise old man with long white hair and beard playing chess on a board that is glowing because it’s the year 2000 and this is future chess.

October 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM Everybody can reply

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bonnie 🏁 🎼❄️ 🌙❄️

@bonnieintheblue.bsky.social

Rambling a bit more about Constantine, Moldir, and Igor because I need to get this out of my head.

Spoilers for Reverse 1999 ch 3, 4, and 8. (I haven't read 9 or 10 yet, so no spoilers there)

I'm still kinda ticked about Constantine. She was (and is) portrayed as a master manipulator, but she kinda sucks at it. The first time we see her manipulating events, it's literally to outwit a group of 12-year-olds, with the full force of the foundation backing her up. Smart 12-year-olds, mind! But still 12!

The second time, she's so incredibly heavy-handed in her manipulation that Druvis, Regulus, and Sotheby all see through her immediately. Druvis is pretty smart, and Regulus CAN be, but Sotheby?? One of the most naive people in the cast?? And then when they see through her, she just tries to force them to do what she wants.

And this is our chessmaster.

I kept comparing her with Kokichi and she was falling soooo short.

Moldir and Igor on the other hand...

Moldir's interesting because she's so open, straightforward, loyal -- like, you'd never think she could deceive anyone. And thing is, she DOES kinda suck at it, esp re: people she cares about. Look at how she tries to deceive Lopera and folds like a deck of cards within minutes.

But she's still successfully manipulating events and (maybe??) deceiving her father. She's managing it by:

1) knowing her limits. She's trying not to outright lie much...instead, she's deceiving almost fully via lies of omission and sort of...redirecting her emotional reactions? Like, when she's upset, she knows it's going to show, so she tells father without giving away the full reason she's upset.

2) planning within an inch of her life. She had that thing with the bullets and Lilya *down*, man. And she did it right in front of her soldiers, in such a way that they didn't really understand what she did to report back to dad. And with Lopera, she knew her main plan (convincing Lopera) might fail, so she had a backup plan (the tranquilizer bullet, both to knock her out and disable the tracker)

So we're still talking better than Constantine here.

With Igor...honestly I need to go back and rewatch, but iirc he's good at using his troops/subordinates/family effectively so the enemy doesn't see what's coming. He's not particularly heavy-handed (or at least, not till he's ready to strike), and he operates strictly on a need-to-know basis. Like, he doesn't even fully trust his own "children" with everything he knows/is planning.

I'm honestly not sure if he's seeing through Moldir and ignoring it because she hasn't done anything TOO disloyal yet, or whether he just has a blind spot where she's concerned. Either way, I don't think it's because he isn't smart enough not to see it.

October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Timur222

@timur222.bsky.social

20th Century Video Almanac (Software Toolworks) budget was more than $500,000
Not sure which Chessmaster game is still referring to

October 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM Everybody can reply

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☠GEARPUNK☠️

@gearpunk.bsky.social

Men I've written this year:

1; Just a Guy
2; 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
3; Transgender AND a menace
4; Dictator with a Chessmaster sidekick

Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 25d

Men I’ve written this year:

1. Unnamed goons
2. Trans man bestie to ghoul girls
3. Ace dude who helps magical cephalopods do ecoterrorism
4. Male magical cephalopod who <redacted positive gender related thing>

Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 25d

Men I've written this year:

1. watches his not-male coworker promoted past him
2. exiled and never heard from again
3. dead
4. forced to join a priesthood

October 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Bube

@bube.bsky.social

This is what I immediately thought of, lol. And after that, my mind went to Chessmaster 3000 with the customizable pieces (the theme in this screenshot was awesome).

October 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM Everybody can reply

Norah

@norah.xyz

you should keep doing it. the guy on the cover of Chessmaster 3D is quite intimidating, so it still works

October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Scott Rochester

@scottrochester.bsky.social

#WIPsnips 7 Oct 'safe'

Safety!

Chester is the bit of Worringfolk which is most detached from the overlord in Wor

And the ChessMaster is more than just a chess master

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#scifi #SlenderWolf #LessonLearned #Chester #Wallasey #Wirral #Warrington #writingCommunity #battles #survival