How to get good at chess
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/14/how-to-get-good-at-chess-the-queens-gambit?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1605347419
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/14/how-to-get-good-at-chess-the-queens-gambit?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1605347419
the Guardian
How to get good at chess
You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game
FIDE Rating List, Jan 1973:
1. Fischer (USA) 2780
2. Karpov (USSR) 2660
3. Tal (USSR) 2660
4. Spassky (USSR) 2655
5. Korchnoi (USSR) 2650
6. Portisch (Hungary) 2650
7. Petrosian (USSR) 2640
8. Botvinnik (USSR) 2630
9. Polugaevsky (USSR) 2625
10. Larsen (Denmark) 2620
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1. Fischer (USA) 2780
2. Karpov (USSR) 2660
3. Tal (USSR) 2660
4. Spassky (USSR) 2655
5. Korchnoi (USSR) 2650
6. Portisch (Hungary) 2650
7. Petrosian (USSR) 2640
8. Botvinnik (USSR) 2630
9. Polugaevsky (USSR) 2625
10. Larsen (Denmark) 2620
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FIDE Rating List, Jan 1973:
1. Fischer (USA) 2780
2. Karpov (USSR) 2660
3. Tal (USSR) 2660
4. Spassky (USSR) 2655
5. Korchnoi (USSR) 2650
6. Portisch (Hungary) 2650
7. Petrosian (USSR) 2640
8. Botvinnik (USSR) 2630
9. Polugaevsky (USSR) 2625
10. Larsen (Denmark)…
1. Fischer (USA) 2780
2. Karpov (USSR) 2660
3. Tal (USSR) 2660
4. Spassky (USSR) 2655
5. Korchnoi (USSR) 2650
6. Portisch (Hungary) 2650
7. Petrosian (USSR) 2640
8. Botvinnik (USSR) 2630
9. Polugaevsky (USSR) 2625
10. Larsen (Denmark)…
2020 #SpeedChess Championship
Two matches left in the #speedchess round of 16!
Don't miss these next two matches 👀
Sunday: Duda vs. FabianoCaruana
Monday: Anish giri vs. Artemiev
Two matches left in the #speedchess round of 16!
Don't miss these next two matches 👀
Sunday: Duda vs. FabianoCaruana
Monday: Anish giri vs. Artemiev
♜ The #SpeedChess Championship continues this Sunday with a must-watch matchup!
⚔️ GM Fabiano Caruana vs GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda ⚔️
⚔️ GM Fabiano Caruana vs GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda ⚔️
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♟Sundays with Unity♟
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🔴14:00 GMT🔴
💎4th UnityChess International U2200 Championship
💵 $600+ for 100+ players
🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body.
Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-chess-u2200-championship
Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/Rc12hDuq
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🔴14:00 GMT🔴
💎4th UnityChess International U2200 Championship
💵 $600+ for 100+ players
🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body.
Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-chess-u2200-championship
Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/Rc12hDuq
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♟Sundays with Unity♟
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 75 minutes🏆
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 75 minutes🏆
Forwarded from Unity Chess
♟Sundays with Unity♟
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 105 minutes🏆
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 105 minutes🏆
Forwarded from Unity Chess
♟Sundays with Unity♟
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 110 minutes🏆
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 110 minutes🏆
Forwarded from Unity Chess
♟Sundays with Unity♟
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 115 minutes🏆
November 15th, 2020
U2200 Championship
🏆After 115 minutes🏆
Nigel Short and Victor Korchnoi during the Phillips & Drew Kings tournament in London in April 1980 (Colorsport Archive).
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
Did you know that the 2nd book in history printed in English was about chess?
The first English publisher William Caxton's translation of "The Game and Playe of the Chesse" was published in 1476. "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" came out of his press a year earlier.
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The first English publisher William Caxton's translation of "The Game and Playe of the Chesse" was published in 1476. "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" came out of his press a year earlier.
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Hilversum, 18th April 1983. In the 3rd round of the Dutch championship, Jan Timman faces Cornelis van Wijgerden.
(Photo credits: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
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(Photo credits: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Do you want a real-life chess heroine? Here's 12-year-old Judit Polgar ready to shock the male-dominated world rankings, photographed by Steve Douglass in 1988. If you read about her and study her games, you'll find reality to be more satisfying than fiction.
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🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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One of the greatest world chess championship games! 👏
Tigran Petrosian makes TWO trademark exchange sacs, and finishes with one of the prettiest final moves ever played in a world championship! 👀
Tigran Petrosian makes TWO trademark exchange sacs, and finishes with one of the prettiest final moves ever played in a world championship! 👀