The Women's World Championship match is tied at 3.5:3.5 with 5 games to go after a 67-move draw in Game 7!

The first symbolic move in Game 7 was made by Wang Xiaochun, Deputy General Counsel of China in Vladivostok.

Ju Wenjun opened with 1. e4, like in games 2 and 6 that ended in draws. Game 4 that she won, started with 1. d4.

A beautiful chessgame was played on January 16, 1996.
Ivanchuk won against Shirov in the third round of Hoogovens Tournament with a wonderful queen sacrifice.

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Vassily Ivanchuk vs Alexey Shirov
"Chucking the Queen"
Hoogovens Group A (1996), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 3, Jan-16
Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik System (D44) · 1-0

"The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem."

🔸 Marcel Duchamp

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Half a century ago - the 8th round of the Hoogovens tournament, in progress in Wijk aan Zee, January 1970.
The event was won by Taimanov (USSR), ahead of Hort (ČSSR) & Ivkov (Yugoslavia).

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A 1962 portrait of the charismatic chess champion Lisa Lane, by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.

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Move of the Day!