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💙 | The best kept secret of the North Sea coast and the perfect place for the #TataSteelChess Tournament: Wijk aan Zee! 😍

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#OnThisDay 135 years ago, the first game of the first official #chess world championship was played. The match between the eventual winner Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort started on January 11, 1886 in Cartier's Hall on Fifth Avenue in New York.

Via http://chesspro.ru, a photo of the traditional USSR v. Yugoslavia friendly match in Tbilisi, November 1973.
Among those pictured: Chiburdanidze (who was only 12 years old!), Gaprindashvili, Litinskaya-Shul, Petrosian, Taimanov, Vaganian, Vasiukov, Gligorić.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"My first tournament victory endowed me with a curious psychological weakness which I have had to work long and hard to eradicate - if indeed I have eradicated it! ..."

🔸 Alexander Alekhine

Piotr Romanovsky - Alexander Alekhine, Moscow 1920.

Alekhine offered a draw after move 9, that was accepted. It was enough for him to win the title.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik signing autographs before the USSR v. Finland match in the opening round of the 11th Olympiad, Amsterdam, 4th September 1954.
(Photo credit: W. van Rossem / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

OLIMPIADA THESSALONIKI 1988
Judit Polgar con 12 años y un impresionante 12,5 puntos en su 13 partidas en el segundo tablero. Y los primeros tableros de Suecia Pia y de Hungria Zsuzsa que en sus respectivos primeros tableros sumaron 23 puntos de las 27 jugadas.Yo, de espaldas.

🔗 Juan Manuel Bellon (@Jmbellonlopez)

Happy 31st Birthday to Sergey Karjakin! 🎉

In 2002, he became the world's youngest Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 7 months & went on to develop into the world championship challenger (2016), losing to Carlsen only on tiebreak.

#OnThisDay #HBD #chess

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#Sergey Karjakin - Best Chess Tactics

Blackburne's Best Chess Tactics

Puzzle of the Day!
IM Zatonskih, Anna (2431) - GM Muzychuk, Anna (2555)
Olympiad Women 2018 Batumi GEO, 2018.10.05

Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/138162

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 52

Daily chess puzzle
Nakamura - So, #SpeedChess 2020

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/229716

♟ | Super talent Alireza Firouzja is coming back to Wijk aan Zee for “the Wimbledon of Chess”. In 2020 Firouzja finished 9th, what are your expectations for him during the #TataSteelChess Tournament 2021?

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