♟⚽️ | Round 5 of the #TataSteelChess Tournament has been officially opened with a hit on the gong by @psv player Daniel Schwaab. What are your expectations of this round in the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven? #ChessonTour
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.
@UnityChess
Ivanchuk won against Shirov in the third round of Hoogovens Tournament with a wonderful queen sacrifice.
@UnityChess
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
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
"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
@UnityChess
🔸 Marcel Duchamp
@UnityChess
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).
@UnityChess
The event was won by Taimanov (USSR), ahead of Hort (ČSSR) & Ivkov (Yugoslavia).
@UnityChess
A 1962 portrait of the charismatic chess champion Lisa Lane, by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.
@UnityChess
@UnityChess
Way to go Gary Lichinsky!
Mahwah boy is a nationally ranked chess player, patented inventor. And he's only 12
https://t.co/HmRcDcyBG7
Mahwah boy is a nationally ranked chess player, patented inventor. And he's only 12
https://t.co/HmRcDcyBG7
northjersey
Mahwah NJ boy is top-ranked chess player, inventor. He's only 12