♟Sundays with Unity♟
May 17th, 2020

Scene from the 1949 Women's World Championship in Moscow. Photo from Hutchings/Purdy collection.

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Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely...

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz

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A KXAS-TV archive clip showing six-time U.S. champion Walter Browne during a 54-board simultaneous display in Forth Worth, Texas on August 5, 1984. After he won his first U.S. title in 1974, he was widely quoted for allegedly saying: "In chess, Fischer is god but I'm the devil."

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Happy 77th birthday to Genna Sosonko! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

The Russian-Dutch grandmaster emigrated from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands in 1972. He won a gold medal at the Haifa 1976 Olympiad. Nowadays, he is most famous for his excellent books, such as "The World Champions I Knew."

GM Eltaj Safarli won the Nakhchivan Open on his 28th birthday!🎂

Here are 25 mates and chess combinations from the games of AZE GM Eltaj Safarli (28th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/safa.html . Find the winning moves. #puzzles

Carlsen, Lagno Winners At Steinitz Memorial

Congratulations to the winner of the first Chessbrah Invitational, Alireza Firouzja! A huge thanks to all those who played and watched our event.

Firouzja Wins Chessbrah Invitational

It's Carlsen-Grischuk, Aronian-Firouzja and more in Round 1 as the full pairings are out for the 3-day #LindoresChess preliminary stage!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/lindores-abbey-rapid-challenge-2020#live
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♟Sundays with Unity♟

Statistics on the number of participants from each country in Unity Weekly International Chess Tournament.

May 17th, 2020

👤IRI:157 👤RUS: 70 👤Col:55

👤IND:30 👤ARM:24 👤UZB: 24

👤UKR:23 👤KAZ: 22 👤ARG:21

👤CUB:18 👤AFG:18 👤AZE:16

👤ESP:16 👤INA:13 👤PER:13

👤VEN:12 👤TUR:11 👤TKM: 10

👤USA:10 👤GER:6 👤HUN:6

👤HUN:6 👤GEO:4 👤MGL:4

👤CRO:4 👤PHI:4 👤 BUL:4

👤CHI:3 👤DOM:3 👤PAR:3

👤ITA:3 👤LIT:3 👤ENG:3

👤BLR:2 👤ECU:2 👤SRB:1

👤DEN:1 👤MEX:1 👤CZE:1

👤MKD:1 👤MOL:1 👤 GUA:1

👤FRA:1 👤IRQ:1 👤NED:1