World Chess Champions

Using a chess notebook that I have set up in Gemini's NotebookLM, I got it to create a timeline of male world champions with photos, country flag and length of reign. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

I asked NotebookLM to create a similar timeline for the women but instead it came up with key milestones for women in chess. See Figure 2.

Figure 2

My notebook has access to 48 sources so there is plenty of scope for more research, summaries etc.

Hiatus

Since arriving in Australia on June 19th 2025, I've not played a game on Lichess. My last game was on June 15th so it's now over four weeks. I need to get back into the swing of things. My current rating is 1537 in Rapid (10 + 5) after playing 80 games. Already I feel that I am quite out of practice.

Since writing the above, I received the following email:

Figure 1

I'm confused Maia seems to have been around for some years now. Agadmator makes mention of it four years ago. Anyway, I took advantage of the offer and signed up using my Lichess account. So far I've played three games in a 15 + 10 format and won all of them. My rating is currently 1909. Figure 2 shows a profile screenshot.

Figure 2

So far I've only played the Regular, starting with 1500 and rising meteorically to 1909. This rating is certainly inflated but I'll perservere with it for a while as it's quite relaxing and explore some of the other modules. 

UPDATE: I simply found the user interface incomprehensible and could make little sense of it. I'm abandoning it and returning to Lichess that at least makes sense. Just a waste of time really but at least it got me back into playing active chess on a more regular basis ... hopefully.