Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳 wins the london chess FIDE open with 7.5/9.
He wins it jointly with GM Anton Smirnov 🇦🇺

Pragg has now officially crossed 2600 as he gained an impressive 15 elo points to his existing 2586.

Grandmaster from Peru, GM Cordoba won vs World's top 10 player, GM Grishuck, from Russia, this beautiful ending game with King+Bishop+Knight vs King.

Monaco #WomenGrandPrixFIDE standings after 5 rounds:
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1. Koneru - 3,5 points
2-6. Kosteniuk, Cramling, Goryachkina, Harika, Dzagnidze - 3
7-9. Muzychuk M., Muzychuk A., Zhao Xue - 2,5
10. Lagno - 2
11-12. Gunina, Paehtz - 1.

Humpy Koneru🇮🇳 keeps her lead, while Alexandra Kosteniuk🇷🇺 is now second after round 5! Here are today's results

Standings going into the final day of #GCTFinals. Join us at 7:50AM CST/8:50AM EST/1:50PM GMT for rapid and blitz!

China's No 1 Ding Liren defeats MVL in the second classical game to grab a 6-point lead before the rapid&blitz session. #GCTFinals #LondonChessClassic

What a defense by Magnus Carlsen who saves an incredible game against Levon Aronian.
This is the world champ's 107th unbeaten classical game and it helps him maintain a 6-point lead in the 3rd-place match. #GCTFinals #LondonChessClassic

Replay the game between Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave here #GCTFinals

From the position on the board and the player with White (Argentinian grandmaster Oscar Panno), this (uncredited) photo was taken on 11th November 1971 at the Pan-American Team Championship in Tucumán (Argentina).
Bobby Fischer was evidently there as a spectator!?

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"If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game."

🔸 Dan Heisman

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'The Talk of the Town' - an article on the 14-year-old Bobby Fischer from the September, 1957 issue of NewYorker.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/09/07/prodigy-3#

New York City, 1st January 1960. In the 11th round of the 1959/60 U.S. Championships, Sammy Reshevsky faces Bobby Fischer. The game was drawn in 40 moves.

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In conversation at the 27th Olympiad, Dubai, Nov-Dec 1986 - Soviet team members Garry Kasparov and Rafael Vaganian.

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Move of the Day!