A very nice shot by Dutch photographer Frans Peeters, of old friends Jan Timman and Ulf Andersson, taken in Spakenburg, Netherlands, 29th June 2019.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Frank James Marshall - Best Chess Tactics

Daily chess puzzle
Indjic - Cruz, Chess Olympiad, Baku 2016

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/224568

Bartel - Spisak, Ustron 2006
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/62000

Congratulations to Teimour Radjabov on winning the #AirthingsMasters and booking a place in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals in San Francisco in September!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/champions-chess-tour-airthings-masters-2020-knockout/7/1/3

#c24live #ChessChamps #AirthingsMasters

Teimour Radjabov had barely shown a hint of emotion during the #AirthingsMasters, but this is what it meant to him to win it!

Teimour Radjabov: "Sometimes I can get emotional as well!" | Airthings Masters winner interview

Teimour Radjabov leads the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour after the first two events, with World Champion Magnus Carlsen with some work to do... for a change!

GM Michael Adams wins the Caplin British Online Chess Championship. 🏆 It is his 8th national title (he won the first in 1989!).

England's #1 beat IM Ameet Ghasi in a playoff for the title after both scored 7 out of 9 in the main event.
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Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr543516.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=9&fed=ENG&flag=30

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/british-onine-championship-2020#live

#c24live

Caplin British Online TB

Congratulations to Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant for winning the Caplin British Online Women's Championship with 7/7!

The online British championships in various categories will finish tomorrow with the final round of the main standard-play Championship.

An excerpt from the year's-end message from Carol Meyer, US Chess Executive Director (below you can find the link to the full text):

It was a good run Ponchik! Next time we will win it all,I promise! Thank you guys for all the support!

#SecondPlace #AirthingMasters #ChessChamps #PonchikForPremier

🔗 Levon Aronian (@LevAronian)

Via the Estonian archive http://www.ra.ee, an uncredited 1950 portrait of Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)