♟Sundays with Unity♟

🏅Weekly International Online Tournament

⏹ Rules & Regulations:
1️⃣ Type of tournament: Open
2️⃣ Every Sunday at 11:30 am (Arizona time)
3️⃣ Time control: 1/+1
4️⃣ Website: Lichess
5️⃣ Total time: 60 minutes
6️⃣ The Tournament Entry Fee: $10 by Saturday noon, after that $15
7️⃣ Free entry for the following players:
GM, WGM, IM, WIM, FM, WFM
8️⃣ Participants will be provided with a link and password half hour before the competition begins.
9️⃣ The registration deadline is up to two hours before the tournament starts.
🔟 All prizes will be paid within 2 days
*️⃣ Note: Cash prizes are given to the top six places, ranked by Lichess.

🏆Awards:
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20
6️⃣$10
🎁Lucky Unity Awards
In order to further motivate and excite the participants, the following places will be awarded the Lucky Unity Awards:
The 22nd, 33th, 44th, 55th, 66th, 77th, 88th, 99th, 111th and 199th places that will be announced at the end of the tournament by the Lichess site. Each of these players will be paid $50

⏹ Registration requirements:
1️⃣ Fide ID Number
2️⃣ Username
3️⃣ Real name
4️⃣ Sending those information via Telegram or Email to:
@PedramAtoufi
unitychess@gmail.com
*️⃣ Make your payment with your card via PayPal to: info@unitychess.com

⏹ Prohibitions:
1️⃣ Using computers.
2️⃣ Sharing the code with players who have not registered.
3️⃣ Using inappropriate language in chatting.
*️⃣ The goal of this tournament is providing a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!

*️⃣ Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns:
Email: unitychess@gmail.com
Telegram: @PedramAtoufi

40 years ago #OnThisDay 5th World Champion Max Euwe (right in the photo) launched the Dutch version of Teletekst . It is still widely used in the Netherlands (more than elsewhere) due to a quickly developed version for smartphones.
In fact, to demonstrate the possibilities of this new medium, Euwe played a game of chess against the Teletekst editor-in-chief Wim Stokla. The event was held in the VU University in Amsterdam. On that day, about 2,000 people in the Netherlands had a TV suitable for Teletekst.

“In chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.”

🔸 Emanuel Lasker, ‘Brettspiele der Völker’, 1930.

@UnityChess

Amsterdam, 17th May 1976. As part of the commemoration of Max Euwe's 75th birthday (which featured a 4-player grandmaster tournament won by Karpov), 10-year-old Nigel Short gives a simultaneous display.

@UnityChess

In this photo from the same event, Nigel Short is seen with grandmaster (& later Fide President) Friðrik Ólafsson of Iceland, one of the participants in the Euwe Jubilee tournament.

@UnityChess

Move of the Day!

Daily #chesspuzzle
Karpov - Kavalek, Turin 1982

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/93681

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 35

Belgrade, Round 2: Fischer beats Petrosian, Spassky crushes Larsen

https://en.chessbase.com/post/belgrade-fischer-beats-petrosian-spassky-crushes-larsen

Possibly Vachier Lagrave's finest game? 👀

✔️ audacious exchange sac
✔️ queen and rook sacs
✔️ underpromotion
✔️ king hunt

For me, it's the 5th best game of the 2000s 📊

Vachier-Lagrave Sacs Exchange, Queen For King Hunt - Top 10 of the 2000s - Fontaine vs. MVL, 2007

RIP Arianne 😢

https://t.me/unitychess

Levon Aronian plays with his wife in St. Louis.

Ian Nepomniachtchi's 5 Most Brilliant Moves

#StayHome
It could save lives

https://t.me/unitychess

Woman played with Kasparovs trainer
When the lady saw that she would have a chess battle against the coach of the best chess player ever: Garry Kasparov.
She turned on her camera and filmed this unforgetable moment.

The old man playing with black pieces is the legendary, Alexander Nikitin.

Two kids playing chess in strong level, like Masters or maybe even Grandmasters