A bunch of poker players are using twitter, so I thought maybe it is popular amongst chess players, too?

In this thread, list Twitter accounts for (well known) chess players please!

Very strong players (IM+;WGM+)

A. Kosteniuk - chessqueen
N. Pogonina - Pogonina
H. Nakamura - GMHikaru
M. Carlsen - MagnusCarlsen
J.L. Hammer - gmjlh
A. Giri - anishgiri
E. l'Ami - erwinlami
S. Movsesian - sergimov
J. Polgar - juditpolgar
P. Svidler - psvidler
S. Polgar - SusanPolgar
Y. Dembo - yelenadembo
R. Ponomariov - ponomariov
M. Golubev - Mikhail_Golubev
P. Vallejo Pons - Chessidharta
I. Glek - Igor_Glek
J. Shahade - JenShahade
J. Aagard - GMJacobAagaard
V. Anand - vishy64theking (not 100% sure, but from some tweets it seems that it's really him, while others give me some doubts)
M. Pein - IM_MPein_chess
M. Ashley - MAURICEASHLEY
D. Reinderman - chessbookreview
R. Henley (never heard of him but a GM) - RonWHenley
E. Danelian - Elinachess
R. Ris - RobertRis
V. Aveskulov - Aveskulov
S. Conquest - stuthefox
T. Burg - twaburov
T. Sachdev - augustqueen
W. Spoelman - spoelie
E. Sipke - SipkeErnst
B. Muhren - Biancachess
A. L'Ami - alinalami (wife of E. L'Ami, former A. Motoc I think?)
T. Taylor (never heard of him, an IM) - TimTaylorArtist
D. Lima - gmdarcylima
A. Belakovskaia - USChessQueen (never heard of her, but according to description, she is: Women International Chess Grandmaster, 3-Time US Chess Champion, Leader of US Olympic Chess Team. Fide confirms by showing she is a WGM)
O. De La Riva Aguado - oskychess (A GM from Andorra, but I am not 100% sure it's him)
A.Ipatov - Ipatov_Chess (very strong young IM-soon-to-be-GM, got 3rd in the Capelle La Grande open recently with 2700+ performance)
A. Matnadze - AnaMatnadze
J. Houska - thelittlehat
A. Burtasova - chessterra
J. Rudd - IMJackRudd
T. E. Rendle - TERendle
L. Cooper - LozHCooper
A. Martin - AMartinChess
N. Davies - ChessImprover
S.P. Sethuraman - sethuramanchess (a GM, former world u-16 champ, youngest Indian GM)
J. Plaskett - JamesPlaskett

Weaker players and just chess-related

charlesgalofre
chesspics
chessFM
chessnews (hourly updates, pretty cool)
chess_strategy
chessvibes
chesscom
Chessbase
ChessQuotes
Fide_Chess (official FIDE account I think)
EUChessUnion (official ECU account I think)
MarkTWIC (Mark Crowther, creator of TWIC)
CCSCSL (St. Louis chess club)
Mfominykh
ChessTempo
ChessToday (account of ChessToday, the first daily internet chess magazine)
Tromso2014 (Tromso bid for Chess Olympiad)
kingscrusher (Mr. Kingscrusher himself! seems to be updated regularly)
ChessTweets (correspondence chess via twitter, not sure how does that work)
danheisman (he is v. strong, but officially only a CM like kingscrusher, so goes in this category I guess)
DrChessov ( not sure who he is IRL so I will put him here, says he is a chess coach and he is very popular, has like 30k followers and all tweets are chess-related)
EuropeEchecs
NYCChessBoxing (chessboxing FTW!)
johnchess (John Saunders, professional chess journalist, not a bad player himself if I remember correctly, somewhere around 2200 ELO)
chesscube
BioWaffen (an FM, pretty well known on Playchess at least when I regularly played there)
Marketingchess (Olena Boytsun)
Duttonchess (Canada's most active tournament organizer Mark Dutton)
chesshalloffame
RedHotPawn
chessninja (MigGreengard is awesome IMO)
ChessPuzzle (daily chess puzzle or something)
AttackTheKing (again, not sure who he is IRL, but definitely chess related Twitter. Says coach & professional player, has it's training website, etc.)
ChessOpenings
lennitaz (WIM Lorena Zepeda)
PattyLlaneza (WIM Patricia Llaneza Vega)
DailyChessVideo
chesscentral
ecfchess (English chess federation)
bladerunner60 (chess enthusiast Franco Romagnoli, constantly has updates to the current tournaments, pretty neat)
USChess (constantly updates too)
ChessChampKT (one of the biggest hopes of US chess, Kayden Troff. Updated constantly)
ChessWhiz
Planet_Kirsan (NOT an official twitter account of Ilyumzhinov but a parody, sometimes it's pretty hilarious)
Indianchess (real time updates of Indian chess players results from around the world, pretty badass)

Do they post chess-related material or do they tweet about waiting in line at Starbucks?

There is obviously other content too, but sometimes it is interesting to see short updates from tournaments by players themselves.. Like Nakamura, last tweet was "Oh the irony! The one time someone walks into my preparation in this tournament, I end up being the one who gets busted!". You wouldn't get this bit of info anywhere else I think

Ooooo oooo I bet Sergey Volkov has a great twitter!

Keep em coming boys & gals, the running list of what I've found so far is in second post ITT.

I gotta admit, his tweets are in general kinda whiny.

Are you following any others Kyle? If so, share plz

JenShahade

Gah, seems that I cannot update the post myself anymore, so here goes, if RT or BBJ could later add this to that post it would be great. I wanted to add two categories, all the names i already post belongs to the first one.

Very strong players (IM+;WGM+)

R. Ponomariov - ponomariov
M. Golubev - Mikhail_Golubev
P. Vallejo Pons - Chessidharta
I. Glek - Igor_Glek
J. Shahade - JenShahade
J. Aagard - GMJacobAagaard
V. Anand - vishy64theking (not 100% sure, but from some tweets it seems that it's really him, while others give me some doubts)
M. Pein - IM_MPein_chess
M. Ashley - MAURICEASHLEY
D. Reinderman - chessbookreview

Weaker players and just chess-related

charlesgalofre
chesspics
chessFM
chessnews (hourly updates, pretty cool)
chess_strategy
chessvibes
chesscom
Chessbase
ChessQuotes
Fide_Chess (official FIDE account I think)
EUChessUnion (official ECU account I think)
MarkTWIC (Mark Crowther, creator of TWIC)
CCSCSL (St. Louis chess club)
Mfominykh

Do we just want world-class players or chess in general?

Dan Heisman is danheisman

I think that's the only good one I'm following that wasn't already listed.

Dan Heisman - danheisman

EDIT: Kyle just beat me to it.


Thanks for posting all of these YKW. I knew about a few of them, but there are plenty stronger players I didn't know about.

Very strong players (IM+;WGM+)

R. Henley (never heard of him but a GM) - RonWHenley
E. Danelian - Elinachess
R. Ris - RobertRis
V. Aveskulov - Aveskulov
S. Conquest - stuthefox
T. Burg - twaburov
T. Sachdev - augustqueen
W. Spoelman - spoelie
E. Sipke - SipkeErnst
B. Muhren - Biancachess
A. L'Ami - alinalami (wife of E. L'Ami, former A. Motoc I think?)

Weaker players and just chess-related

ChessTempo
ChessToday (account of ChessToday, the first daily internet chess magazine)
Tromso2014 (Tromso bid for Chess Olympiad)
kingscrusher (Mr. Kingscrusher himself! seems to be updated regularly)
ChessTweets (correspondence chess via twitter, not sure how does that work)
danheisman (he is v. strong, but officially only a CM like kingscrusher, so goes in this category I guess)
DrChessov ( not sure who he is IRL so I will put him here, says he is a chess coach and he is very popular, has like 30k followers and all tweets are chess-related)

Very strong players (IM+;WGM+)

T. Taylor (never heard of him, an IM) - TimTaylorArtist
D. Lima - gmdarcylima
A. Belakovskaia - USChessQueen (never heard of her, but according to description, she is: Women International Chess Grandmaster, 3-Time US Chess Champion, Leader of US Olympic Chess Team. Fide confirms by showing she is a WGM)
O. De La Riva Aguado - oskychess (A GM from Andorra, but I am not 100% sure it's him)

Weaker players and just chess-related

EuropeEchecs
NYCChessBoxing (chessboxing FTW!)
johnchess (John Saunders, professional chess journalist, not a bad player himself if I remember correctly, somewhere around 2200 ELO)
chesscube
BioWaffen (an FM, pretty well known on Playchess at least when I regularly played there)
Marketingchess (Olena Boytsun)
Duttonchess (Canada's most active tournament organizer Mark Dutton)
chesshalloffame
RedHotPawn
chessninja (MigGreengard is awesome IMO)
ChessPuzzle (daily chess puzzle or something)
AttackTheKing (again, not sure who he is IRL, but definitely chess related Twitter. Says coach & professional player, has it's training website, etc.)
ChessOpenings
lennitaz (WIM Lorena Zepeda)

Very strong players (IM+;WGM+)

A.Ipatov - Ipatov_Chess (very strong young IM-soon-to-be-GM, got 3rd in the Capelle La Grande open recently with 2700+ performance)
A. Matnadze - AnaMatnadze
J. Houska - thelittlehat
A. Burtasova - chessterra
J. Rudd - IMJackRudd
T. E. Rendle - TERendle
L. Cooper - LozHCooper
A. Martin - AMartinChess
N. Davies - ChessImprover
S.P. Sethuraman - sethuramanchess (a GM, former world u-16 champ, youngest Indian GM)
J. Plaskett - JamesPlaskett

Weaker players and just chess-related

PattyLlaneza (WIM Patricia Llaneza Vega)
DailyChessVideo
chesscentral
ecfchess (English chess federation)
bladerunner60 (chess enthusiast Franco Romagnoli, constantly has updates to the current tournaments, pretty neat)
USChess (constantly updates too)
ChessChampKT (one of the biggest hopes of US chess, Kayden Troff. Updated constantly)
ChessWhiz
Planet_Kirsan (NOT an official twitter account of Ilyumzhinov but a parody, sometimes it's pretty hilarious)
Indianchess (real time updates of Indian chess players results from around the world, pretty badass)

You welcome

Ok, done for now, but I bet there is still some out there so if u know any that are not listed share!

To RT or BBJ, if one of you could edit my second post and include everything that I wrote together with those two categories I would be very grateful. It's just easier to see everything if its in one post and up there.. Thanks

can you put it all in one post? I'm lazy, but if you post what you want as your 2nd post I will swap it in

Thanks

Haha, volkov's twitter must indeed be offering coaching and affordable 15-minute games. YKW where's yours

I still dont have a twitter account :P

can anyone following nakamura relate what he twittered after his blindfold game against Kramnik today? That loss was pretty horrible

"Continuing my fabulous run of simply inexplicably awful games! Oh well, thankfully I'm getting all of this out of my system now.."

mine is Vedrickas, I haven't been using it pretty much at all and have like no chess content on it I might start using it more often though, giving short updates during tournaments seems neat