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

Paul Keres - Best Chess Tactics

Footage from Paul Keres’ spectacular golden jubilee celebration (Tallinnfilm, 1966).

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Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/130143

The second top GM who arrived safely in #wijkaanzee is Vachier_Lagrave. Welcome back, Maxime, it is great to have you here after 6 years of absence. First round in 9 days. #tatasteelchess

🔗 Jeroen Van Den Berg (@Jvdbergchess)

Congrats to Max Warmerdam, who just scored his third GM norm (and his second in two weeks time!) to become the latest Dutch grandmaster!

https://www.chess.com/events/2020-bassano-january/09-Niemann_Hans_Moke-Warmerdam_Max

♟💙 | This year we welcome four debutants in the Tata Steel Masters! How do you think these GM's are going to perform during the #TataSteelChess Tournament?

https://tatasteelchess.com/news/four-debutants-in-tata-steel-masters/

White heavy check mark FIDE approves Online Chess Regulations.

The FIDE Council has approved a new set of rules to be applied to official online chess competitions. The document will be incorporated into the laws of chess.

Find the Regulations here: https://fide.com/news/889

#FIDE #OnlineChess