The Subvariant

Felon47 gives Vietnam era draft dodgers a bad name, worse even than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (saying a LOT), and is completely unfit to comment on sailors in general, especially those of the current Navy; is ghastly gauche, and utterly devoid of substance. To the latter point, one must include his zealous infatuation with having his name on the Kennedy Center; a sad wanting for the culture of which he has next to nothing. The Comisión Provincial de Ajedrez en Ciego de Ávila (Cuba) held...

IN MEMORY OF ALEXEI NAVALNY The Russian Chess Federation held the 2026 Vassily Smyslov Cup in Moscow in early June; a round robin event of 8 players, the highest Group of which ("A") included 5 titled players, an average rating of 2072, and time control of 90 minutes with a 30 second increment per move. Fifteen year old Ivan Shinkorenko (2091) (Ivanovo) won the Group by a full point and undefeated, followed by Egor Zdorov (2110) and Artem Tsepilov (1990). Shinkorenko posted a performance rat...

IN MEMORY OF ALEXEI NAVALNY Following a rough start in the first round, and a break in round three, Aleks Manukyan anchored Team Armenia to win the 2026 International Interuniversity Team Chess Tournament for the ACF Cup a rapid event held in Moscow earlier this summer. Manukyan (2216) playing black gave up a draw to Roman Arihpov (1933, Belarus) in the first round. Starting in round four, Manukyan won six straight to lead Team Armenia's effort with 7.5 points, including a win against Grigori S...

Some people on social media suggested yesterday that Felon47 would not afford a state funeral for Joe Biden. His first inclination most certainly would be to keep Biden out of his spotlight, even in death. On the other hand Felon47 most certainly wants the largest send off of a funeral of any POTUS, ever, and so likely, IMO, would not give cause for some future administration to do the same to Felon47 himself. This is not to say he wouldn't have nasty things to say about Biden in multiple late n...

Making Todd Blanch the Attorney General has to make for one of the darkest days since Pearl Harbor, probably one of the 5 or so darkest days since the turn of the century, and one of the 25 or so darkest days since 1776. It is an assault on the Enlightenment. No one is surprised that the USA is in decline, that calling Blanche making America great and putting America First are just sad gallows-humor jokes, but the rapidity with which Felon47 is perpetrating all of this is the stunner. As all too...

It is a sad, dark day in the USA when a physician Dr. Fauci's stature must endure this kind of public treatment. Some years ago Forbes magazine carried an article about how roughly 54% of adults in the USA read at less than 6th-grade level, and my point in remembering this now is that since then we've seen no grand dynamic in society to remedy this intellectual depression. My initial guess was that literacy has probably gotten worse, but that actually is not the case as Worldmetrics estimates wh...

Mike Johnson wouldn't know a commie if a dozen kicked him in the shin in Red Square. The DSA leadership would be well to keep idiotic ideas like doing away with the Senate and defunding police departments far from their rhetoric. The idea is to win people's votes, not fuel the opposition with fodder of maga-level stupidity. There is a reason Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes did not respond to questions about these fundamentally flawed platform planks. Firouzja,Alireza (2759) - Carlsen,Magnus (2840) [...

RFK Jr is unfit to shine Fauci's shoes let alone criticize him or pontificate on constitutional rights. This nepo-baby from hell is out of his depth whenever he leaves Red Gate Farm, but instead of just living life being rich and famous he wants to destroy as much as he can as often as possible, and impress people with all the charm of a snake handler. Personally, since he's at large anyway, I'm very much in favor of letting him take charge of Felon47's health care top to bottom. Botvinnik,Mi...

At this point no Iran-war atrocity should come as a surprise, save, perhaps, a nuclear strike, but the most significant news is not from the middle east. Capital One recently (again from 2021) made known their closing of hundreds of accounts from the Felon47 business complex following their (routine?) money laundering due diligence. When you elect a person with 34 felonies, the money laundering also shouldn't come as a surprise, but making it known maybe is. I was going to say that Capital One m...

Zorhan Mamdani was way off the mark to primary, then unseat, Daniel Goldman. DG was/is NOT the enemy, and we fail to understand how the USA is better off without him. So shame on Mamdani, stuff your giddy-headed Knicks euphoria, and use some discretion please in who you attack. There are plenty of targets out there, and sorry I just can't get on the Mamdani band wagon for awhile, if ever. Goldman was a HUGE loss. Democratic socialists threw a victory party. It's too soon. | Opinion Reshevsky...

"I am not a violent man" (quote from Fawlty Towers), but it's not that much of a stretch of the imagination to understand how Rand Paul's neighbor could have attacked him. Paul says Fauci will face ‘repercussions’ for taking the Fifth. Browne,Walter - Fischer,Robert [B04] Zagreb (15), 03.05.1970 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Be2 Bg7 6.c4 Nb6 7.exd6 cxd6 8.Nc3 0-0 9.0-0 Nc6 10.Be3 Bg4 11.b3 d5 12.c5 Nc8 13.h3 Bxf3 14.Bxf3 e6 15.Qd2 N8e7 16.Nb5 Nf5 17.Bg4 a6 18.Bxf5 axb5 19.Bc2 Ra3 2...

The one thing you might have noticed about Felon47 is that he will say anything to win the moment. It makes no difference that his "winning" comment is precisely the opposite of what he said less than a couple of hours ago, he can't let the current moment fall into failure; truth and reality be damned. The future World Champion only just escaped with a draw, when Black (supposedly) became completely aware of the threefold repetion rule while sitting at the board. Fischer,Robert James (2760) ...