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The match took place in the boardroom of the Olympic Stadium. Commentary on the 5th game was provided by Hans Ree.
(Photo: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Poznań, 15th March 1931. Akiba Rubinstein is pictured giving a simultaneous display over 25 boards, at the city's Café Dobski.
(Photo source: the Polish digital archive, https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl.) #chess

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
1980. Dortmund. The last summer of childhood ... The draw in the last round against Tibor Karolyi brought the gold medal of the World Youth Championship ...

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
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Georgia's wonder women: Nana Alexandria, Nana Ioseliani, and Maia Chiburdanidze.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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Beth Harmon's Top 5 Chess Moves | The Queen's Gambit - Netflix
Wesley So will have a full-point lead going into the final two rounds of the 2020 #USChessChamps tomorrow. Xiong & Robson still not far behind!
With 8/9, Wesley So has a full-point lead before the final two rounds of the 2020 #USChessChamps tomorrow.

Xiong and Robson are on 7/9. These three players will claim the medals as the gap between them and the rest of the field is 2.5 points.
Savielly Tartakower versus Edgard Colle - with Vera Menchik looking straight into the camera - during a 1929 tournament in Paris (Gamma-Keystone Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
"Of course you don't become a world champion without being able to play in different styles when necessary... The ability to adapt is critical to success."

🔸 Garry Kasparov (2007). “How Life Imitates Chess”, p.26

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Reykjavík, 1980. The 6th-round clash between Walter Browne (USA) & Tony Miles (England), won by White in 47 moves.
Viktor Kupreichik (USSR) took 1st in the event, ahead of Browne, with Miles & Genna Sosonko (Netherlands) sharing 3rd-4th.
(Source: http://skaksogufelagid.is.) #chess

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Match against Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, in #Tehran, on the 22nd February, 2003. I won by the score of +2,=4. Mahdi Abdulrahim (current Chairman of the #FIDE Rules Commission), from the UAE, stands observing.

🔗 Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess)