"Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality."

🔸 David Bronstein

@UnityChess

'Chess Life', January 1984.
Seated, L to R: Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Artur Jussupow, Jaan Ehlvest, Smbat Lputian.
Standing: Lev Psakhis, Sergey Dolmatov.
USSR took gold, ahead of West Germany (silver) & Iceland (bronze).
More details: http://olimpbase.org/1983k/1983in.html

An outstanding talent: Arthur Dake

https://en.chessbase.com/post/an-outstanding-talent-arthur-dake

FIDE website looks into the history of #FIDECandidates publishing a story about the first-ever 1950 Candidates Tournament in Budapest that set a trend and paved the way for the historical tournaments such as Zurich-1953.

Read it on our website: https://fide.com/news/475 #chess

✅ Solution: White heavy check mark White makes a draw with paradoxical 1. Kg5!
1... b5
(or 1... Kb3 2. Kxf5 Kc3 3. Ke5! Kxd3 4. Kd5 b5 5. Kc5 with a draw)
2. d4 b4 3. d5 Kb5 4. d6 Kc6 5. Kxf5 Kxd6 6. Ke4 Kc5 7. Kd3 Kb5 8. Kc2 Ka4 9. Kb2 with a draw.

First of all, both Kxf5 and Ke5 lose.

1. Kxf5 loses to b5 2. d4 b4 3. d5 b3 4. d6 b2 5. d7 b1=Q+)

1. Ke5 loses to b5 2. d4 b4 3. d5 b3 4. d6 b2 5. d7 b1=Q 6.d8=Q Qe4+ 7. Kd6 Qd4+ 8. Ke7 Qxd8+ 9. Kxd8 f4

Move of the day!

Daily #chesspuzzle
Spielmann - Tartakower, Vienna 1921

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/120229

Golden Games! Rosenthal vs Allies 1887

Happy 17th birthday to Awonder Liang! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

Awonder won the World Under-8 Championship in 2011, defeated his first grandmaster when he was just nine, and became a grandmaster at 14. 👏

Here are 16 mates and chess combinations from the games of USA GM Awonder Liang (17th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/lian.html + 100s of his games. Find the winning moves. #puzzles

World Chess Champ says:
Stay home and play chess

♟👑🏆🥇

https://t.me/unitychess

Two safe pawns up and one Rook (and King) against just one Rook (and King) wasn´t enough for the World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, to win the former World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

known as the best end game of all time!!

With over a HUNDRED MILLION views: Carlsen and Peter Svidler's final seconds were incredible.

World Champion vs Russian Champion

Grandmaster 2600+ didn't know basic check mate with Bishop + Knight
GM Abdusattorov: rating 2633 vs GM Kovalev: rating 2648
Result: 1/2 1/2

Top Five Moves: Candidates Edition

https://www.chess.com/article/view/top-five-moves-candidates-edition

Haik Martirosyan Wins Record-Breaking Titled Tuesday

19-year-old GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia won the April #TitledTuesday with 888(!) titled players that included top GMs Fabiano Caruana, Yan Nepomniachtchi, MVL and Hikaru Nakamura. Report:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/haik-martirosyan-wins-april-2020-titled-tuesday

Sundays with Unity (U16)

Sundays with Unity (Open)