1956 "Are you sure that you have a better percentage of points than Botvinnik?" - Larsen was asked at the finish of the Olympics in Moscow. "I stood and did not believe that everything happened so quickly" (Larsen)
🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
“Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.”
🔸 Emanuel Lasker
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Emanuel Lasker
@UnityChessClub
Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1968. Viktor Korchnoi faces Mikhail Tal in what proved to be the last of eight(!) successive victories at the start of this 15-round event, which he eventually won by 3 clear points.
(Photos: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(Photos: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1968. Viktor Korchnoi faces Mikhail Tal in what proved to be the last of eight(!) successive victories at the start of this 15-round event, which he eventually won by 3 clear points. (Photos: J. de Nijs / ANEFO, via http://www.n…
korchnoi_tal_1968.pgn
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Hilversum, 6th December 1982. The 1st game in a six-game match sponsored by the broadcasting organisation KRO, between Jan Timman and Viktor Korchnoi.
The match was drawn 3:3, with each player winning one game.
(Photos: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.) #chess
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
The match was drawn 3:3, with each player winning one game.
(Photos: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.) #chess
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
1973. Karpov visits the house-museum of Yasnaya Polyana, where Leo Tolstoy lived most of his life.
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
The real-life Queen's Gambit: how
Nona Gaprindashvili, world’s first female Grandmaster from Georgia, conquered the chess world:
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12351/real-life-queens-gambit-nona-gaprindashvili-georgian-women-chess-beth-harmon-netflix
Nona Gaprindashvili, world’s first female Grandmaster from Georgia, conquered the chess world:
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12351/real-life-queens-gambit-nona-gaprindashvili-georgian-women-chess-beth-harmon-netflix
The Calvert Journal
The real-life Queen’s Gambit: how Georgia’s Nona Gaprindashvili conquered the chess world
While the Netflix story is fictional, Gaprindashvili is a real chess player who became the Women’s World Chess Champion five times
A chess-like 4.000 years old board game from Harappa, Pakistan.
Harappa was a Bronze Age fortified city, part of the Indus Valley Civilization centred in Sindh and Punjab.
🔗 Danilo Giurdanella (@danilogiurdanel):
Harappa was a Bronze Age fortified city, part of the Indus Valley Civilization centred in Sindh and Punjab.
🔗 Danilo Giurdanella (@danilogiurdanel):
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Bobby Fischer's Best Chess Tactics
Radjabov, Teimour - Bortnyk, Olexandr, Doha 2016
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/20376?fbclid=IwAR2Y4v3cjNgffFGp1OESYAwh9-rSTwfjG_sESbUDcl6YTZibfZMBOu8ROKQ
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/20376?fbclid=IwAR2Y4v3cjNgffFGp1OESYAwh9-rSTwfjG_sESbUDcl6YTZibfZMBOu8ROKQ
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Puzzle 20376: White to win
Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Radjabov, Teimour - Bortnyk, Olexandr, Doha 2016.
Breakfast of champions. Sangak bread with avocado and honey!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CII3qeIBi0J/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CII3qeIBi0J/
Nice puzzle from #PersonOfTheDay GM Romain Édouard 🇫🇷 who turns 30 today. Happy Birthday.
White to move and win. From the game Edouard vs Terrieux, Besancon, 2006
White to move and win. From the game Edouard vs Terrieux, Besancon, 2006
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FIDE Online World Cadet & Youth Rapid Championships has started today with the selection stage that will stretch to December 13.
📺 FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich greets the participants. ⬇️
http://www.world2020.ge/
#YouthChess
📺 FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich greets the participants. ⬇️
http://www.world2020.ge/
#YouthChess