His Queen, My King!
23 years after marriage, Aruna and Viswanathan Anand hold forth on what makes them the tightest of teams.

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Move of the Day!

Hard to play against a young man who grow learning all your career tricks...

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Petrosian vs Gligoric 1959 candidates tournament round 28. Fischer seems bored because Petrosian is thinking for too long, and Gligoric seems really annoyed of this😅.
Petrosian won the game in 45 moves.

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"Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapid play in favour of serious chess."

🔸 Vladimir Kramnik

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Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will fight for the Grand Chess Tour first prize of $150,000 in the finals of series that start in London on December 2.

Details: https://www.fide.com/news/227

Congratulations to Alexandra Kosteniuk who won the European Women's Rapid Championship on a better tiebreak over Olga Girya! 👏 Just a day before she became the European Women's Blitz Champion, too. 🥇🥇

http://chess-results.com/tnr467820.aspx?lan=1&art=4

The legendary game Nona Gaprindashvili - Maia Chiburdanidze took place in round 6 of the European Women Rapid Championship in Monaco. Chiburdanidze won.

The previous official game they played was in 1996; and the first in 1973, 46 years ago!