After 5.5 hours Jorden van Foreest survives against Fabiano Caruana and it's Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri & Nils Grandelius who are the early leaders of #TataSteelChess 2021!
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After a Blunder by Alireza ,Carlsen finds the mate in 6 moves.π€©
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Anish Giri - Post Round 1 Interview
#OnThisDay history: It was a sad Thursday on January 17, 2008 when the 11th World Chess Champion Robert James Fischer succumbed to lingering degenerative kidney failure and died at LandspΓtali Hospital- National University Hospital of Iceland in Rekyjavik.
Amsterdam 1954, World Olympics. The Soviet team is playing with Holland. Chess competitions in those years were like a theatrical performance. The spectators were also active participants in the process!
π Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
π Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)
"Itβs generally - but erroneously - assumed that the best teachers are the best players, and that the best players can easily communicate the secrets of the game. Actually, the best teachers are often just interested amateurs..."
πΈ Andrew Soltis
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πΈ Andrew Soltis
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50 years ago - Jan Timman's first appearance at Wijk aan Zee, where he won the B-group. Pictured in play here v. Rob Hartoch on 28th January 1971.
(Photo: Verhoeff, Bert / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
π Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(Photo: Verhoeff, Bert / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
π Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
Rob Hartoch v. Jan Timman, Wijk aan Zee 'B' group, 28th January 1971. Victory in this game from the penultimate (14th round) helped Timman to 1st place & qualification for the next year's 'A' group. (Photo: B. Verhoeff / ANEFO, via http://nationaalarchief.nl.)β¦
hartoch_timman_1971.pgn
932 B
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Vasilios Kotronias - Best Chess Tactics
Today chess legend Maia Chiburdanidze celebrates her 60th anniversary. π
Women's World Champion at 17 by beating Georgian trailblazer Nona Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze kept the title for 13 years from 1978 to 1991.
π· by David Llada, 2018
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Women's World Champion at 17 by beating Georgian trailblazer Nona Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze kept the title for 13 years from 1978 to 1991.
π· by David Llada, 2018
#OnThisDay #HBD
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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 56
60 years old today - Maia Chiburdanidze, Women's World Chess Champion 1978-1991; holder of the International Grandmaster title since 1984.
Photographed here at the Amsterdam OHRA event, 22nd July 1986.
(Photo: B. Molendijk / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
π Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Photographed here at the Amsterdam OHRA event, 22nd July 1986.
(Photo: B. Molendijk / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)
π Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
From left to right the four chess players: Maia Chiburdanidse, Nana Alexandria, Nona Gaprindashvili and Nana Ioseliani
Chess Olympiad, Lucerne 1982
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Chess Olympiad, Lucerne 1982
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GLORY TO THE QUEEN 2020| Trailer
The trailer for the new full-length documentary film ππΉπΌπΏπ ππΌ ππ΅π² π€ππ²π²π», dedicated to Georgian legends Nona Gaprindashvili, Maia Chiburdanidze, Nana Alexandria, and Nana Ioseliani, has been released.
Glory to the Queen is a film about winning and losing on the chessboard and in life. It is a cinematic reflection on how womenβs struggle for independence and their rebellion against powerful male systems echoes in individual and collective life stories.
The trailer for the new full-length documentary film ππΉπΌπΏπ ππΌ ππ΅π² π€ππ²π²π», dedicated to Georgian legends Nona Gaprindashvili, Maia Chiburdanidze, Nana Alexandria, and Nana Ioseliani, has been released.
Glory to the Queen is a film about winning and losing on the chessboard and in life. It is a cinematic reflection on how womenβs struggle for independence and their rebellion against powerful male systems echoes in individual and collective life stories.