⚫️#159 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Dominguez Perez,L (2739)
🔸Topalov,V (2740)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

64...Rc1+! [64...Kc6 65.Rxa3 Rc1+ 66.Kb4 Rb1+ 67.Rb3 Rd1 68.d5+ Kd6 69.Ra3 Rb1+ 70.Kc3 Rc1+ 71.Kd3 Rd1+ 72.Kc2 Rh1 73.Ra6+ Kc5 74.Rc6+ Kb4 75.d6+–; 64...Rh1 65.Rxa3 Rh3+ 66.Kb4 Rh1 67.Rg3+–]

65.Kb4 Rd1 66.d5 Rb1+ 67.Kc3 Rc1+ 68.Kd3 Rd1+ 69.Kc2 Rh1 70.Rxa3 Kc5 71.Ra4 Rh3 72.Kb2 Rg3 73.Ra3 Rg2+ 74.Kb3 Rg3+ 75.Ka4 Rg8 76.Rc3 Rb8 77.Ka3 Rb7 78.Rc2 Rb8=

½–½

⚫️#160 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Shankland,S (2731)
🔸Rapport,R (2735)
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Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 160
public poll

C) B×e3 – 13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 93%
Gavin, @steve12345678910, @RichardPeng, Sahil, Srikar, Atharva, @WataxPin, Keilor, Michael, Hansika, Pranav, Abhi, Kasyap

B) Qc6 – 1
👍 7%
@Somebody_Sophia

A) b4
▫️ 0%

👥 14 people voted so far.

⚫️#160 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Shankland,S (2731)
🔸Rapport,R (2735)
🔸Champions Showdown Rapid Saint Louis USA 2019

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 160
public poll

A) Rb1 – 15
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 68%
@Momoghadam, @batonik107, reza, @MohamadAsp, @Steve1234567890qwerty, @A_Somewhat_Cool_Guy, @Qwerty123Tseries, @WataxPin, Vedant, Michael, Hansika, Pranav, Daniel, Abhi, @Kingbosskasyap

B) a3 – 6
👍👍👍 27%
Gavin, @Squirtle1, @SophiaCat_does_Chess, Sahil, Srikar, @Ndtaker

C) Ra3 – 1
▫️ 5%
@Mey_ro

👥 22 people voted so far.

Our newest team chess match with Daniel Rensch and Hikaru Nakamura playing MVL and Kevin Bordi is sure to be a lot of fun! 🇺🇸💥🇫🇷

Former World Champion Tigran Petrosian with the President of the USSR Chess Federation (and former cosmonaut) Vitaly Sevastianov, pictured at the FIDE chess Interzonal Tournament in Moscow, September 1982.

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“Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-”

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky

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Amsterdam, 22nd November 1950. In the 9th-round encounter in the international tournament that was held in the city's stock exchange, Gideon Ståhlberg (Sweden) faces Alberic O'Kelly (Belgium).

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Footage can be licenced via AP Archive, The Best of Vintage Chess - a British Movietone compilation

🔸Chess Display in Czechoslovakia - 1935
🔹Eleven Year Old Girl Check Mates Every Chess Competitor - 1937
🔸Chess Master - 1956
🔹Chess Championships - 1964
🔸Boy Wonder Challenges The Master - 1967
🔹Chess Congress - 1971

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Happy women's day to the great warriors of Indian chess!

Today at the #WTCC2019, we received the visit of Theodore J. Lyng, head of the US diplomatic mission in Kazakhstan.

https://goo.gl/ccYN2k

Theodore J. Wright, head of the US diplomatic mission in Kazakhstan: "I was a frustrated young chess player, and it has been sort of fulfilling a dream to visit this championship". #WTCC2019

📸: David Llada

#WTCC2019 round 4 results.
Open:
Sweden🇸🇪 3-1 🇦🇿Azerbaijan
USA🇺🇸 2-2 🇰🇿Kazakhstan
Russia🇷🇺 2-2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England
India🇮🇳 2-2 🇨🇳China
Iran🇮🇷 3-1 🇪🇬Egypt