HOWARD, Wis. (WFRV) At Bark & Brew in Howard, there are two types of downward-facing dogs; the four-legged and two-legged kinds as every six weeks, the brewery hosts dog yoga classes.

Owner Tara Brunette says, I know for me, its hard leaving home and not being able to bring my pup with me, and I think a lot of people feel the same way, so being able to come to an event where youre enjoying yourself but you dont have to leave the dog at home and the dog is enjoying themselves as well, it makes for a good Sunday morning.

Folks can bring their dog or just interact with others, but no matter what, there is fun in store for everyone.

Luann Champeau from Green Bay brought her dog Hannah along to the class and said, I loved the class. It was very nice. We got to interact with other people and dogs. Its a great time.

The brewery began hosting yoga classes when it opened one year ago, with instruction provided by A to Z Movement. Whether you want a little relaxation or just some doggy kisses, anyone can enjoy the fun event.

Howard native Nicole Tauscher brought her dog Herschel and said, I loved it. Im a very beginner yogi, so I thought it was easy enough to handle but it feels good afterward. What better to do if youre a dog person? Its so fun to be able to bring your dog and do activities.

Bark & Brew is hosting their next yoga class on Sunday, May 5th. Classes are $23. For more information on the classes and the brewerys other events, visit their Facebook page.

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Unveiling the True Meaning of the Bhagavad Gita: Does the ancient scripture perpetuate casteism, or is there a deeper message? Join Acharya Prashant for an insightful discussion on the Bhagavad Gita's relevance in today's world. He explores the text's true meaning, separating misconceptions from its core message. Discover how the Bhagavad Gita can guide us towards a more just and equitable society.

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In this episode, we delve into a profound verse from the Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 2, Verse 2.46. Here, Krishna teaches Arjuna the significance of self-knowledge over mere ritualistic practices. The verse uses a powerful metaphor comparing a small well to a vast reservoir. Just as a single source of abundant water fulfills all needs, true understanding of the ultimate reality surpasses the need for countless rituals prescribed in the Vedas.

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's recent 15-day remand to Tihar Jail has drawn attention due to his special requests for reading material during his incarceration. Sentenced by the Rouse Avenue Court until April 15, Kejriwal has sought permission to have three books with him: the Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, and "How Prime Minister Decides" by Neerja Choudhary.

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It's not been decided which section of Tihar Jail that Kejriwal will be in. Other Aam Aadmi Party leaders like Sanjay Singh, Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, and K. Kavita are in different sections.

What is the Tihar jail routine?

Arvind Kejriwal's ED custody Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 and was first kept in their custody until March 28. Later, the court extended his ED custody until April 1.

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The ED had sought an extension of Kejriwal's custody for seven more days, but the court extended it by four days until April 1, citing "sufficient reasons" based on the ED's submissions. The probe agency stressed the importance of confronting Kejriwal with the evidence collected and statements recorded during the investigation.

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Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 after being questioned for over two hours at his official residence in Delhi. The ED has accused him of being the "kingpin and the key conspirator" of an alleged excise scam in collaboration with other ministers of the Delhi government, AAP leaders, and other individuals.

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GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Andrew Hong won the first Titled Tuesday events of April 2024. For Hong, it was a milestone, being his first-ever win in Titled Tuesday, and he did it outright with 10 points while Nakamura neededtiebreaks earlier after finishing in a four-way tie for first.

Nakamura also made the top five late, finishing fourth, while IM Meri Arabidze swept the women's prizes.

Joining Nakamura on 9.5 points in the early tournament, out of the original field of 672 players, were GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Levan Pantsulaia, and Gata Kamsky. The group of four only played two games against each other, and Nakamura was a part of both: the round before he and Kamsky made a draw, Nakamura came out ahead of Duda in round nine.

We highly recommend that you not try this opening at home, unless you are absolutely sure you know what you're doing.

If the four tied players that emerged from round nine weren't enough, those players all drew each other in round 10, which helped create a seven-way morass at the top of the standings with one round left. Kamsky was the "lucky" one who faced a player on eight points, but that was only fair; he was the person who toppled GM Magnus Carlsen in round nine.

Kamsky's 11th-round game wasn't easy, either, coming against GM Jose Martinez, but his win was only enough for fourth place after tiebreaks. Elsewhere, Nakamura defeated IM Rudik Makarian, Duda overcame GM Tuan Minh Le, and Pantsulaia won against GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Duda took two bishops and a better pawn structure to the house and finished second, leaving us to wonder what would have happened had he held against Nakamura earlier.

April 2 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)

(Full final standings here.)

Nakamura won the $1,000 first place prize and wasn't quite done earning money yet. Duda won $750 in second place, Pantsulaia claimed $350 in third, and Kamsky won $200 in fourth. GM Denis Lazavik led tiebreaks for the three players on nine points to claim $100, while Arabidze scored 7.5 points to win the $100 women's prize.

Hong had much less difficulty in securing the early tournament out of a field of 483. He began on a perfect 9/9 score, including a win over Nakamura in round seven after things got very interesting right out of the opening.

The Hong train was stopped in its tracks in the 10th round, however, derailed by GM Alexey Sarana, who ultimately rode into second place with the victory.

Hong managed to get back on track in the final round, winning against Duda in a romp after Duda made the mistake of "castling into it." Hong's win secured the tournament after Sarana and GM Aleksandr Shimanov only managed a draw against each other.

Nakamura wasn't able to sweep the day but he did place in both events, recovering from losses in rounds seven and eight with three straight victories, including the final one over GM Matthias Bluebaum.

April 2 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)

(Full final standings here.)

Hong won the $1,000 first place prize, with Sarana accepting $750 for second, and Shimanov claiming the $350 for third. Nakamura added $200 to his total for the day, making him the big overall earner at $1,200. GM Dmitry Andreikin, who always seems to be lurking somewhere in Titled Tuesday, managed fifth place for $100. Finally, Arabidze tacked on her second $100 women's prize of the day.

The biggest standings change this week came in the junior section, with Lazavik taking the top spot from CM Artem Bardyk. Lazavik still has three tournaments left to reach the cap of 20 qualifying events, so it is difficult to see him falling back behind Bardyk. (GM Pranav Venkatesh, on 120.5 points through 15 tournaments, could potentially be another matter, though.)

Meanwhile, Nakamura continues to accumulate points, his top 20 results now averaging 9.3 points per tournament. The only change in the top five this week was Andreikin reclaiming the fifth spot from GM Jeffery Xiong. There was also a change to fifth place in the women's section this week, with WFM Katarzyna Dwilewicz taking it.

Continuing to lead the seniors and girls are Kamsky (no surprise after his early tournament this week) and WCM Veronika Shubenkova.

Juniors: GM Denis Lazavik (143.0 points)

Seniors: GM Gata Kamsky (159.0 points)

Girls: WCM Veronika Shubenkova (79.5 points)

The new Titled Cup fantasy game Chess Prophet continues as well. Current standings can be found here. (Login required.)

Titled Tuesday is Chess.com's weekly tournament for titled players, with two tournaments held each Tuesday. The first tournament begins at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time/17:00 Central European/20:30 Indian Standard Time, and the second at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time/23:00 Central European/2:30 Indian Standard Time (next day).

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Bullet Brawl is Chess.com's two-hour arena with a 1+0 time control where titled players compete for a piece of the $1,000 prize fund. Events take place every Saturday at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CEST.

The Bullet Brawl consists of a two-hour bullet arena with a 1+0 time control for titled players. This event is a score-based arena where players get paired based on their scores instead of their rating. The player who stacks up the most points by the end of the arena wins.

The event takes place every Saturday starting at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CEST.

The event features a weekly $1,000 prize fund, distributed as follows:

Bullet Brawl is open to all titled players. To participate in the event, head over to our Tournaments page and join the tournament within an hour before it starts.

While only titled players can play in Bullet Brawl, untitled members of our community who are looking for high-speed competition can play in the Community Bullet Brawl! Join our official Community Club and play in the Community Bullet Brawl every Saturday starting at 1 p.m. ET/19:00 CEST.

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Uniquely Unlucky

In this article I'm sharing a selection of exceptional blunders. In the process of looking for great moves, while browsing through a huge database of games played online, there is an abundance of blunders to be found. Massive amounts of blunders are played all the time by millions of online players. Most blunders are as stupid as they are predictable. However, in this huge pile of stupid moves, occasionally youll find an unexpected move that is unbelievable as well as devastating.

In general, I dont feel sorry for people when they blunder, because that happens to every player often enough. Especially with common positions, I dont really care for players that blunder. But there is an exception.

One a kind blunders

When a move is terrible, unnecessary and also illogical, no sane person should play it, ever. Thats why I find it interesting whenever I discover such a crazy move being played anyway. Theres something fascinating about knowing that somewhere in the world exists an unlucky soul that had to live through the experience of playing that move. Thats why I save positions like this whenever I find one.

Practically, it just means that these blunders are only made by one player, according to openingtree.com. Its a tool that uses the Lichess games database for all games played at a 1600 rating or higher. When looking at all Lichess games and also including all games on chess.com, its likely there will be more players falling for the same traps, but as it stands, they are still unique.

The selection

# 1 Hillbilly Attack (Schaeffer Gambit)

Setup

The Hillbilly Attack is not a strong opening and this specific variation is fairly speculative, but it can be dangerous for players that aren't familiar with it. White is threatening mate very early in the game.

Key Moment

Black missed the threat and plays Nd7, blundering a mate in one. But that's not the part that interests me.

It's the one white player that lost the game from this position!

#2 Successful Pirc Trap

Setup

Thanks to my friend Kevin who shared this idea with me recently.

After blacks plays Nxf4 the game is over, white has a forced mate in 2 after Nxc7+ Kf8 Rd8#. In 7.6k games (99.3%) of all 7.7k games in the database white plays Nxc7+, only 57 players (0.7%) blunder and play Nxf4. After Nxc7+ around 1,000 black players resign and the other 6.7k players are forced to play Kf8.

Obviously, white's trick worked and the game is essentially over and black can safely resign, like the thousand players that did so on the previous move. But there's a reason people keep saying "never resign". And even in a desperate position like the one after Kf8, there's always hope. In this position 2.3% of players will not see the mate in one. Mostly because their greedy eyes are distracted by the free Rook. Only 13 white players (0.2%) are oblivious to both the checkmate and the free Rook, and will simply play a move like Nf3 or g3.

Key moment

My heart goes out to the player that played Rd7, arguably the worst possible move white can play, perhaps literally the worst move. Everything went according to plan, with finish in sight, all they had to do was drag the Rook a 7 square distance towards the enemy back rank. So close!

#3 Is this even Legall?

Setup

This one is not a mouse slip. This one is just a player being stupid.

It's hilarious that there are 825 players that go for the free Queen (5. Bxd1), but that's nothing special. Thousands of players have fallen for this trap or one of the many variations of the same tactic.

Key Moments

Again, there's one unlucky player that missed his opportunity to win and went on to lose the game even.

This one is worse. Playing Bxf7+ to force the King to e7, only to play Kxd1 anyway. This player was lucky enough to save some dignity and win the game.

#4 Caro-Kann Pawn Tactic

Setup

This a fairly common position in the Caro-Kann Botvinnik-Carls Defense. White makes a mistake in response to Qb6 and black can win the pawn on d4 after removing the defender.

Key moment

We can only speculate on what happened here, my money would be on a misclick.

That's All!

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MADISON Madison City Chess League or MCCL was well represented and awarded for masterful playing at the 2024 Alabama State Scholastic Chess Championship.

Twenty-three MCCL members competed in this event on March 23-24 in Pike Road with hosts Pike Road Elementary School and Rasberry Chess Academy. Alabama Chess Federation runs this annual event.

Several Madison schools won top team awards in their sections at the State Scholastic, MCCL Executive Director Todd Guthrie said.

Bob Jones High School was the first-place team in the High School Championship section. Team members are Xavier Bruni, Steven Pan, Nirvana Rajbhandari, Aadi Saxena and Jacob New Andrew Yang.

Xavier Bruni was named High School State Champion. Steven Pan finished in third place in the section, and Andrew Yang and Jacob New tied for fifth place. Aadi Saxena finished eighth, and Nirvana Rajbhandari finished ninth.

Discovery Middle School ruled as first-place team in the Middle School Championship section. Team members are Noah Hsu, Caden Jordan and Holland Lang. Individually, Sophia Jerez of Journey Middle School finished third in the section.

The team from Rainbow Elementary School with Annabelle Hsu and Dennis Lenski was the first-place team in the Elementary Championship section. Individually, Esteban Jerez of Horizon Elementary School finished second in the Elementary Championship section. Dennis Lenski tied for second. Annabelle Hsu finished in sixth place.

The Mill reek Elementary School team with Brandon Edmondson and Ananth Ravishekar was the first-place team in the Primary Championship section. In individual standings, Ananth Ravishekar finished second in the Primary Championship section, Milan Malak from Heritage Elementary School tied for second, and Brandon Edmondson finished in fifth.

Congratulations to MCCL member Grattan ONeill who finished third in the High School Under 1,300 section, Guthrie said. Abigail Barbre from Discovery Middle School and Daksh Sunil from Liberty Middle School both finished tied for fifth place in the Middle School Under 1,100 Section.

Christopher Chan from Columbia Elementary School finished second in the Elementary Under 700 section. Austin Pullum from Rainbow Elementary School finished tied for first place in the Primary Under 400 section.

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As eight of the world's very best grandmastersGMs Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Gukesh Dommaraju, Vidit Gujrathi, and Nijat Abasovdescend on Toronto, Canada for the 2024 Candidates Tournament, only one can emerge with the rights to faceGM Ding Liren in the 2024 FIDE World Championship.

But who will it be? That's the question we're looking at today. Below, you can see the odds that each of these stars takes one step closer to the glory of becoming a world champion, and read on to find out why. Many thanks to Tai Pruce-Zimmerman (@chessnumbers) for running the numbers!

In addition to the stats, four grandmasters have graciously offered their thoughts on the favorites, underdogs, and everyone in between: commentators extraordinaire GM David Howell and GM Robert Hess, 12th women's world champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Chess.com resident GM Rafael Leitao. Our thanks to all of these brilliant players!

Note: Stats are based on players' official March 2024 ratings.

Caruana is the only player in the world, besides GM Magnus Carlsen, who enters the Candidates Tournament maintaining a 2800 rating. He also has by far the most Candidates Tournament experience in the field, with 2024 being his fifth straight. It all adds up to some very high expectations for the three-time U.S. champion.

Most of our grandmasters agreed with the stats that Caruana is the single favorite in the tournament.

Although I don't like giving predictions in general... Caruana has been showing very consistent results in the last year and clearly is the main contender to win this tournament.

GM Alexandra Kosteniuk

By rating, Nakamura is easily one of the top two players in the Candidates, on a margin of almost 30 points over Firouzja. Nakamura has been in the world's top five every month for a year and, after Caruana, has the tournament's best chance at advancing to the World Championship.

Nakamura just constantly looks like he's in the zone... and he's turned winning into a habit.

GM David Howell

The youngest of the four players who has been in a Candidates before, and one of just three participants who has ever been rated 2800, Firouzja has the third-best statistical chances to win the event. Still, he finds himself closer to the rest of the field than to the top two of Caruana and Nakamura.

The grandmasters were rather split on Firouzja's chances.

If I had to make a bet with these odds, Firouzja would be my choice for a value bet.

GM Rafael Leitao

Nepomniachtchi has won this tournament twice in a row, his first two times playing in it. Statistically speaking, however, this fact neither increases or decreases his odds of winning a third time in a row, and he is just a fraction less likely than Firouzja to take the tournament.

There was perhaps no greater disagreement between the grandmasters and the percentages than with Nepomniachtchi.

This percentage almost feels disrespectful!

GM Robert Hess

The ranking of the three Indian players in the field has been constantly shuffling in the past few monthsin fact, in the official March rankings, all three of them were rated exactly 2747but as we enter the Candidates, it is Praggnanandhaa who finds himself at the top of the numbers hierarchy.

Howell and Kosteniuk were very high on Praggnanandhaa as well, while Hess and Leitao have all three Indian players about the samea reflection of their bunched-together ratings.

Pragg has great nerves, a very flexible opening repertoire, and is so universal. All key ingredients for a successful Candidates campaign.

GM David Howell

Gukesh is only 17 years old, the youngest player in the tournament. Of the three Indian players, he is the only one who has cracked a 2750 rating so far, becoming the first Indian player in 37 years to surpass GM Viswanathan Anand, but he has lost a few points since then. And that seems to be reflected in his stats.

Not surprising for the youngest player, all four grandmasters were a bit worried about Gukesh's chances, but not for talent reasons.

It's always hard to predict results from youngsters, so I'm just looking forward to seeing him performing in his first Candidates.

GM Alexandra Kosteniuk

Vidit stumbled in March with a 3/9 finish at the Prague Masters, giving him the second-lowest rating in the field as the tournament begins. While bad performances before the Candidates historically don't mean very much, Vidit's statistical odds are not as high as they would have been with a higher rating.

Definitely the most underrated player... he's not behind his two compatriots, with the advantage of being a more mature player.

GM Rafael Leitao

Yes, out of 10,000 simulations, Abasov won the tournament a grand total of seven times. His rating is more than 110 points lower than anyone else in the field, giving him a major uphill battle.

You might expect the GM panel to agree with Abasov's low odds... and they do.

Abasov truthfully has zero chance of winning this event, but will determine who in fact challenges for the world championship.

GM Robert Hess

If you want even more expert opinions, GM Daniel Naroditsky posted his thoughts on Reddit, and even Carlsen himself was interviewed by Howell below:

It is pretty clear that the expectations on Caruana are stratospheric, but he has met such expectations before. If it doesn't happen for him, the numbers may like Nakamura next, but other grandmasters see Nepomniachtchi as bigger threat. Firouzja may be the least predictable player in the field. The Indian players total 18.5% in their chances, but it's almost impossible to say which one of them specifically might surprise.

Who do you think will win the Candidates and why? Let us know in the comments!

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