At the international tournament in Reykjavík, 1964 - grandmasters Mikhail Tal (USSR), Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) & Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland).

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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

🔸 Viswanathan Anand

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Last round of 1959 Candidates Tournament in Belgrade. Tal-Benko, Smyslov-Fischer, Keres-Olafsson and Petrosian-Gligoric.

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Euwe with his daughter, Fitina and Botvinnik at Groningen 1946. Botvinnik won the tournament with 14.5/19, Euwe in second with 14/19 and Smyslov in third 12.5/19.

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Move of the Day!

He was never a world champion but here's a remarkable fact about Akiba Rubinstein's play: he has beaten Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine in his very first encounter with each of these iconic masters.

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Game of the Day!

⚔️ The #PuzzleBattle World Championship kicks off today at 7 AM PST on http://Chess.com/tv ! ⚔️

♔ Featuring top players: Hikaru Nakamura, Sam Sevian,
Parham Maghsoodloo, and more! ♔

https://www.chess.com/article/view/puzzle-battle-world-championship-official-rules

Daily #chesspuzzle
Taimanov - Geller, Moscow 1951
White to play and draw

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/67531

LIVE: Puzzle Battle World Championship - Day 1 with hosts GM Hess and IM Rensch #puzzlebattle

https://t.co/GvZCNmKNam

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won his fifth world BLITZ title. He has won the world RAPID three times, and the CLASSIC title four times and now has 12 world titles in total.

"Triple crown again, hope this one will last more than a couple of days!" (as Magnus Carlsen said)

We are just starting 2020, but can say 2010 - 2020 was a decade dominated by Carlsen, and 2019 ended in big style. Now, he holds the three chess titles again - classic, fast and blitz - and on the new FIDE rating list he will be the world number one in all three categories as well.

He won the tournament in the tiebreaker match against
North American Grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura, who also finished with a beautiful score of 16.5 / 21. The first game of tiebreake ended in a draw, and Carlsen won the second. Carlsen and Nakamura split the prizes and won $ 55,000 each. Sure they will have a very happy new year! ;)

Congrats to them!

Magnus wrote a post on Instagram saying, "Been a great year on and off the board. On to the next one."

One of the pictures he shared in the post was this one with his girlfriend!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6x-wLNBcjV/

“In an environment where female players are such a tiny minority, the Women World Championship is an invaluable opportunity to show off talent and grow the game.”

John G. Zimmerman, Sports Illustrated
https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018/12/17/lisa-lane-hou-yifan-womens-chess-gender-inequality-world-championships …

🔸15th Vasylyshyn GM 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Mosesov,Danylo (2355)
⚫️Vovk,Y (2565)
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25...h5! [A multi-purpose move: 1. Covering the weakness on h6.2. Driving the white g4–knight away from the protection of the e3–square. 3. Gaining more space and restricting the opponent's queen.]

26.Nxf6 [26.Nf2 Be3! 27.Rb1 Rbd8‚ 28.Nh3 Nxc2–+]

26...Be7! 27.Nxh5+ gxh5 28.Qg3+ [28.Qxh5 Rh8 29.Qf3 Rh6!–+ △Rbh8]

28...Kh6!–+ [28...Kh8? 29.Qg6 Bg8 30.Qxh5+ Bh7 31.Bg4!= △Bf5]

Magnus Carlsen arrives for the game and starts the clock. His opponent Maxim Matlakov makes the move 1.d4 and Magnus' thinking time begins. Usually in a 3-minute blitz game you want to make your moves as soon as possible. However, Magnus takes his time - he drinks his water, removes his suit and then after 20 seconds, which is quite a lot of time in a blitz game, his first move!

This just goes to show what confidence the World Champion has on his abilities!

The opening round of the 1969 IBM tournament (played 15th July).

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The king is a strong piece - use it !

🔸 Rueben Fine

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