Ju Wenjun and Koneru Humpy break away from the pursuers. In round 8 of #WomenGrandPrixFIDE in Skolkovo, both of them won again.

Ju (6,5 points) and Koneru (6) will face each other in the last round, and there two more rounds to go before that. https://wgp2019.fide.com

In 1977, Garry Kasparov dispatched his opponent Guy West in just 12 moves.

Tickets for the FIDE World Fischer Championship Semis/Finals are now available!

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A lot of supertournaments. This is good and ... bad! It’s clear why it’s good. And it's bad because tournaments are becoming too much alike. But the tournament of grandmasters in Moscow (1967) is remembered by all connoisseurs of chess history. Stein, Spassky, Tal, Portisch ...

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"The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation."

🔸 Garry Kasparov

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Who are You playing today?

Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940, American)
Chess Players, 1891

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Female of the Species
US Chess Review, December 1946.

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Bobby Fischer 1970: The forgotten simul

https://en.chessbase.com/post/bobby-fischer-1970-the-forgotten-simul

Move of the Day!

Ian Nepomniachtchi

...Qg4!👌

Game of the Day!
Spanish Game - Morphy Defense

GM Nihal Sarin

Round 4 of FIDE World Cup began in Khanty-Mansiysk. Four games ended decisively.

Four victories for White in Round of 16 at #FIDEWorldCup:

🇨🇳 Ding ½-½ Alekseenko 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 Grischuk 1-0 Dominguez 🇺🇸
🇷🇺 Vitiugov 1-0 So 🇺🇸
🇷🇺 Nepomniachtchi ½-½ Yu 🇨🇳
🇵🇱 Duda 1-0 Xiong 🇺🇸
🇦🇿 Mamedyarov ½-½ Radjabov 🇦🇿
🇫🇷 Vachier-Lagrave 1-0 Svidler 🇷🇺
🇻🇳 Le ½-½ Aronian 🇦🇲