Some rare photos of Tal-Botvinnik 1961 WCC rematch.
We can see both how Tal is thinking and how Botvinnik is thinking.

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"The Middle Game is chess in excelsis, the most beautiful part of the game, in which a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring magnificent combinations."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”

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BBC News - Spassky vs Fischer: How the chess battle became a theatre event

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50599525

Averbakh-Petrosyan: friends and rivals. It's hard to believe, but Yuri Averbakh is personally acquainted with all world champions, starting with Euwe !!! And if you remember that he started playing chess when Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine were alive ...

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On this day in 1995: IBM unveils its chess-playing computer Deep Blue.

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US Chess Leads at London Chess Conference

A delegation from US Chess attended the London Chess Conference. Here's a report on the event.

https://new.uschess.org/news/us-chess-leads-london-chess-conference/

🔸TCh-SVK 2018–19
🔸Round 2
⚪️Cernousek,L (2436)
⚫️Balogh,C (2629)
🔸0-1

17...Nfd7! [A dual-purpose move: 1. Transferring the knight to the queenside in order to put more pressure there. 2. Clearing the path for the f7–pawn to attack the base of White's pawn chain on e4.]

18.b3 cxb3 19.Nxb3 Na4!‚ [19...Nxb3?! 20.Rxb3 △R×b5 20...Ra5 21.Bd2 Nc5 22.Rb1 Rfa8 23.c4 bxc4 24.Bxa5 Qxa5 25.Qf1!²]

20.Bd2 Ndb6 [△Nc4]

21.Bd3 Nc4 22.Bxc4 bxc4! [△f5]

23.Na1 f5! [The principle of two weaknesses!]

24.exf5 Nb6!–+ [24...Rxf5!? 25.Nc2 Bxd5 26.Nb4 Bb7 27.Ra1 Nc5 28.Rxa8+ Bxa8–+]

Humpy Koneru keeps the lead in Monaco Women's Grand Prix after a draw against Anna Muzychuk in the eventful third round. Nana Dzagnidze and Harika Dronavalli follow with half-a-point less.

Our report: https://www.fide.com/news/247

A decisive day's action in Monaco - Humpy Koneru, who won the 1st Women's Grand Prix in Skolkovo, is again the sole leader on 2.5/3!

https://t.co/GGVdNc8UGv

Valentina Gunina wins against her compatriot Alexandra Kosteniuk in the first decisive game of Round 3 at the #WomenGrandPrixFIDE in Monaco and escapes from the last position in the tournament table.

Valentina Gunina was not sure that her attack is correct but still decided to go for it in her usual style. She's got a cold at the beginning of the event, but now that she won she feels better! #WomanGrandPrixFIDE

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Interview with Gunina | 2019 FIDE Women's Grand Prix - Monaco | Round 3 |

Fischer with Euwe announcing match with Spassky Jan. 31, 1972.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobby-fischer

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"When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space...."

🔸 Arthur Koestler

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First World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz' greatest game 🤩

After Steinitz' fourth rook sacrifice in a row, Von Bardeleben walked out without resigning. Can you see the checkmate Steinitz planned? 🤔

https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/1st-world-chess-champion-wilhelm-steinitz-immortal-game-every-move-explained