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3-time Georgian champion Baadur Jobava, 4-time Bulgarian champion Ivan Cheparinov, and Polish chess prodigy & later 8-time US Chess Champion Samuel Reshevsky were #OnThisDay in 1983, 1986, and 1911 respectively. Happy Birthdays to the 3 outstanding chess grandmasters!

8-year-old Samuel Reshevsky is giving a simultaneous exhibition in France in 1920.

The Polish prodigy, who became one of the strongest American grandmasters, 8-time US champion and a contender for the world championship, was born on November 26, 1911.

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🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

The world map of Grandmasters per capita, based on the stats from the FIDE database. 🌐♟

You can see that European countries have the highest concentration of GMs in population, up to 5.13 per 100,000 people!

#FIDE #Grandmaster #Statistics

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

Diego Maradona meets Anatoly Karpov: (19-09-2005)

In Conversation: GM John Burke
Check out our in-depth interview with GM John Burke, the winner of the 2020 U.S. Junior Championship! Six key games go under the microscope.

People (men watching) couldn’t believe a 12 year old girl could sacrifice material & almost beat Tal (classical & blitz world champion) in our first ever blitz game (in Russia). The game ended in a draw as he found incredible game saving ideas. He gave me great advice after! 👑

🔗 Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar)

Even a chess player of the old school could hardly resist Mikhail Tal's charm. Alexander Kotov warmly writes in his book "Jokingly and Seriously" about his meetings with the 8th world champion

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.

🔸 Magnus Carlsen

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16-year-old Bobby Fischer - the world's youngest grandmaster - is pictured in play v. Edgar Walter in the 1st round of the Zürich international, 19th May 1959. This encounter - a draw - features in Fischer's 'My 60 Memorable Games'.
(Photo: Ullstein Bild.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

The 1980 Olympics were difficult for the USSR national team. The Hungarian team was ahead for a long time. In the 11th round, they managed to beat the USA with great difficulty. The victory was brought by the youngest member of the team who defeated Leonid Shamkovich.

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

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Leonid Stein in 1964 (Lviv, Ukraine)

🔗 Grabinsky Vladimir (@grandcoach)

Move of the Day!

Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board:👇👇

Something that makes people put their smartphones down, gather together, and think by themselves, can't be a bad thing. #chess

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Congrats to Magnus Carlsen, Yan Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura on making it to the semifinals of the #skillingopen tournament!

It's Carlsen vs. Nepo and So vs. Nakamura in the #SkillingOpen semi-finals, starting tomorrow!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/champions-chess-tour-skilling-open-2020-knockout/3/2/2
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