Has there ever been a more spectacular resignation in chess than that of Włodzimierz Schmidt to Garry Kasparov in the last round of the 27th Chess Olympiad (Dubai, December 1, 1986)?😂

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 16

Move of the day : 39... Rc1!! (0-1)
Yuri Averbakh vs Viktor Korchnoi, Yerevan, 1965

Meet Abhimanyu Mishra, the youngest International Master in the world! This boy from New Jersey achieved the title at the age of 10 years 9 months and 3 days, eclipsing Praggnanandhaa's record of the youngest IM by 17 days.

https://chessbase.in/news/Abhimanyu-Mishra-becomes-the-youngest-IM-in-the-world

Hikaru Nakamura: "I think pretty much everyone’s not had the greatest of years, which has made it into something akin to the stock market: it’s not necessarily about what your rating is, it’s what have you done for me lately?"

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/nakamura-on-a-tough-year-fortnite-choker-more

Carlsen, Caruana, Giri To Play 2020 Tata Steel Chess
The lineup of #TataSteelChess 2020 (Wijk aan Zee, January 10-26) is announced:

Carlsen 2870
Caruana 2822
Giri 2776
Nepomniachtchi 2773
So 2760
Anand 2757
Yu Yangyi 2753
Duda 2748
Artemiev 2731
Firouzja 2720
Xiong 2712
Dubov 2676
Kovalev 2674
Jorden van Foreest 2632

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2020-tata-steel-chess-tournament-participants

Alexander Grischuk defeats Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a masterfully played game, gradually converting a slight advantage into a full point, and becomes the first finalist of FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/hamburg-fide-gp-2019/3/1/2

The passing of a chess era: former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who had battled Gary Kasparov in the previous five world championship matches, would not have a chance to do it again in 1993. He was eliminated by Nigel Short in the Candidates Semifinals, Linares, May 1992.

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"As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively."

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky

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Amsterdam Interzonal, 8th June 1964. The opening moves of Larsen-Portisch (which saw the unusual 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.exd5 exd5 5.Qf3!?).
Larsen won in 33 moves, & it made it into his '50 Selected Games'.

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Bent Larsen 🆚 Lajos Portisch

Amsterdam Interzonal (1964), Amsterdam NED, rd 15, Jun-08
French Defense: Winawer. Delayed Exchange Variation (C01) ·

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