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.

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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

🔹 12th World Teams 2019 R4
🔹 PGN format

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#WTCC2019 round 4 results
Women:
Egypt🇪🇬 1,5-2,5 🇭🇺Hungary
Georgia🇬🇪 2-2 🇺🇦Ukraine
Kazakhstan🇰🇿 2,5-1,5 🇺🇸USA
Armenia🇦🇲 1,5-2,5 🇨🇳China
Russia🇷🇺 3,5-1,5 🇮🇳India