The brilliant trio of FIDE http://Chess.com Grand Swiss winners:
🥇 Wang Hao (his second trophy is for the qualification to the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020)
🥈 Fabiano Caruana
🥉 Kirill Alekseenko

Kirill Alekseenko, a 22-year-old player from Saint Petersburg, has drawn with Alexander Grischuk, Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, and Vishy Anand, has beaten Sergey Karjakin and he's currently fighting for a spot in the Candidates tournament. Quite an ascent.

Wang Hao, a 30-year-old Chinese grandmaster, secures a sensational spot in the 2020 Candidates tournament with a fine performance in the FIDE Grand Swiss, an event filled with many superstars. Notably, two Chinese players in a Candidates tournament is a historic first.

The proud holders of GM norms for their #IOMchess performance (from L to R):
Jonas Buhl Bjerre (15-year-old)
Raunak Sadhwani (13-year-old)
Vincent Keymer (14-year-old)
Dinara Saduakassova
Soumya Swaminathan

Congratulations! 👏👏👏

The top women’s prize of #IOMChess ($10,000) was shared by Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳 and Dinara Saduakassova 🇰🇿 who both scored 5½ points, with the Indian player receiving the trophy on a better tie-break.

One of the earlier encounters between Karpov and Kasparov. This one is from Moscow 1981. And they had no idea how big will be the rivalry between them.

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"It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material."

🔸 Efim Geller

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Mikhail Tal, A Positional Player, Part I

https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/mikhail-tal-a-positional-player-part-i

Soviet grandmaster Lev Polugaevsky, pictured in play against Gyula Sax (Hungary), in the opening round of the AVRO tournament at Hilversum, 12th June 1973.

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A magnificent piece of footage from the end of the famous 1953 Candidates tournament, featuring David Bronstein, Paul Keres, Samuel Reshevsky, Mark Taimanov, Vassily Smyslov and others. bit.ly/2BtLF8l

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