These Canadians took a dip in the icy Oak Lake in Ontario for an unusual game of chess

🔗 Reuters (@Reuters)

Vote For The 2020 Chess.com Awards!‎

nnouncing the 2020 http://Chess.com Awards!

Cast your vote in these categories and be entered to win a 💎 membership!

* Game of the Year
* Player of the Year
* Creator of the Year
* Move of the Year
* Computer Game of the Year
* Book of the Year

https://www.chess.com/article/view/vote-for-the-2020-chess-com-awards

European Online Women's Club Cup concluded!
Congratulations to all the participants and to the Winners:
🏆Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo 🇲🇨
🥈UGRA 🇷🇺
🥉GAMBIT Volgograd 🇷🇺

Final standings can be found here: http://chess-results.com/tnr544199.aspx?lan=1&art=0

The FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships have concluded. 🏆

Our congratulations to all the participants and of course the winners! http://www.world2020.ge/

*Please note that the confirmed results will be available tomorrow after all the anti-cheating controls.

Team USA 🇺🇸 medalists at the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships:
🥇Carissa Yip (U-18G)
🥇Dimitar Mardov (U-12)
🥇Alice Lee (U-12G)
🥇Omya Vidyarthi (U-10G)
🥈Thalia Cervantes (U-18G)
🥈Zoey Tang (U-12G)
🥉Christopher Yoo (U-14)
🥉Bach Ngo (U-12)

9th round finished at #SunwaySitges and we have already some norms for some players but, probably, Hans Niemann is the player of the day, after crossing 2500 with his win over GM Sebastien Mazé and officially becoming a FIDE_chess GM today. Congratulations!

📸 Lennart Ootes

🔗 Sunway Chess Open (@SunwayChessOpen)

All set for tomorrow... One more round and the job is done!

🔗 Sunway Chess Open (@SunwayChessOpen)

He was friends with Misha and "Viktor Terrible". But in 1968 he chose Tal in the semifinal match. Genna Sosonko wrote a wonderful essay about Misha and a wonderful book about Victor ...

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

"The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn."

🔸 Richard Reti

@UnityChessClub

Chess master George Koltanowski had a chess puzzle in The Chronicle for many years. Here he plays several opponents blindfolded in December 1948.

Chess legend George Koltanowski: An archive deep dive of record-breaking chess champion and Chronicle columnist

https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/Chess-legend-George-Koltanowski-An-archive-deep-15819607.php

Buenos Aires 1980. Miguel Quinteros analyzes the game with Friedrik Olafsson. Hort and Andersson are watching. Wonderful times when grandmasters, having played a game, continued to communicate at the chessboard. Now this is rarely seen ... Especially at super tournaments

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

https://t.me/UnityChessClub/4386

Mikhail Botvinnik during a simultaneous exhibition while touring the Netherlands in late 1958 (Associated Press archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 47

Is 21...Nf4!! the greatest chess move ever played? 🤔

In game 6 of his 1960 world championship match with Botvinnik, Tal stunned the Soviet patriarch with this incredible intuitive knight sacrifice. 👏

🔗 Sam Copeland (@Sam\_Copeland)

Mikhail Tal Explains His Greatest Chess Move! - Best of the 60s - Botvinnik vs. Tal, 1960

Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868. The longest-reigning world chess champion, he retained his title for 26 years and 337 days from 1894 to 1921.

He was also a mathematician, philosopher, and excelled in other games like bridge or Go.

#OnThisDay #ChessHistory