<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><id>https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog.atom" /><title>M-A01's Blog</title><updated>2026-02-19T10:58:35.682Z</updated><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog/the-day-it-finally-happened--my-racing-kings-shield-victory/MrdbVSgg</id><published>2026-02-19T10:58:35.682Z</published><updated>2026-02-19T10:58:35.682Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog/the-day-it-finally-happened--my-racing-kings-shield-victory/MrdbVSgg" /><title>The Day It Finally Happened — My Racing Kings Shield Victory</title><category term="Chess" label="Chess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess"></category><category term="Tournament" label="Tournament" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Tournament"></category><category term="Chess_Personalities" label="Chess Personalities" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess_Personalities"></category><category term="Over_the_board" label="Over the board" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Over_the_board"></category><category term="Chess_variant" label="Chess variant" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess_variant"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=2SCn1K3rwlRR.webp&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=cc4e034e637e544e9544f287d399278a7673143b&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After years of trying, countless close calls, and a long personal journey both on and off the board, today became the day everything finally came together.</content><media:thumbnail url="https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;h=550&amp;op=thumbnail&amp;path=2SCn1K3rwlRR.webp&amp;w=880&amp;sig=cc4e034e637e544e9544f287d399278a7673143b"></media:thumbnail><author><name>M-A01</name></author></entry><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog/2500-the-ultimate-comeback/RJaRGnSl</id><published>2026-02-13T15:02:21.418Z</published><updated>2026-02-13T15:02:21.418Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/M-A01/blog/2500-the-ultimate-comeback/RJaRGnSl" /><title>2500: The Ultimate Comeback</title><category term="Chess" label="Chess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess"></category><category term="Chess_variant" label="Chess variant" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess_variant"></category><category term="Lichess" label="Lichess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Lichess"></category><category term="Off_topic" label="Off topic" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Off_topic"></category><category term="Chess_Personalities" label="Chess Personalities" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess_Personalities"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; alt=&quot;M-A01 2500&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=XqmBqGlS8FyZ.webp&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=740f718face4a5ebb9c73b62d32d6edb4d915e41&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the grind to glory... 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