"On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker (1926). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”

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Richard Reti's Best Chess Tactics

🔗 Sah cu Ceausescu (@CeausescuIulian):
Kasparov rare history : 17 year old IM Gary Kasparov on his way to winning the world junior championship in Dortmund in 1980. He was already rated 2595. #chess #kasparov
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🔗 Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63):
A nice photo, though the game ended in a draw.
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I prefer this photo of the podium at the end of the event! Chile's Morovic on the left, and Nigel Short showing his best side on the right! Both photos by Gerhard Hund.

🔗 Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 49

Daily chess puzzle
Wesley So - MVL, #AirthingsMasters 2020

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/236381

Inspired by Dubov checkmating Carlsen in the #AirthingsMasters, Sean Marsh looks as some famous checkmates in games at the very highest level!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/checkmates-at-the-top

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♟💙 | Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 👉 Only 1️⃣0️⃣ days to go!

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Today the first player arrived safely in #Wijkaanzee. No one less than 2020 winner Fabiano Caruana. First round in 11 days, next player will arrive on Thursday. Looking forward to the action! #tatasteelchess

🔗 Jeroen Van Den Berg (@Jvdbergchess)

Beating the champ, ending his run!

https://en.chessbase.com/post/beating-the-champ-ending-his-run

The great Paul Keres was born on this day, 105 years ago.
This group photo was taken at the 1952 Maróczy memorial in Budapest, a tournament that Keres won with 12.5/17, ahead of Geller, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Ståhlberg, Szabó & Petrosian. Keres is 4th from the left in the front row.

🔗 Andrey Terekhov (@ddtru)

Pictured at the Maróczy Memorial tournament, Budapest 1952, L to R: Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Aleksandr Tolush, Vladimir Alatortsev, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Tigran Petrosian.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"Morphy was so far ahead of his time that it took another quarter century for these principles of development and attack to be rediscovered and formulated."

🔸 Garry Kasparov

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#OnThisDay in 1916 Paul Keres was born. The five-time Estonian and three-time Soviet chess champion is considered to be one of the best players never to become world champion, along with Akiba Rubinstein and Viktor Korchnoi. Here's our full profile:

https://www.chess.com/players/paul-keres

Paul Keres was born 105 years ago today - check out our 8-part series on the life of the great Estonian chess player! https://chess24.com/en/read/news/paul-keres-viii-gulliver-among-the-lilliputians
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Outstanding: Paul Keres at the Chess Olympiad 1954

https://en.chessbase.com/post/outstanding-paul-keres-at-the-chess-olympiad-1954