After a Blunder by Alireza ,Carlsen finds the mate in 6 moves.🤩
#TataSteelChess
#magnuscarlsen
#AlirezaFirouzja

Giri is back to the Top-10

https://2700chess.com/

Anish Giri - Post Round 1 Interview

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!

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

"It’s 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..."

🔸 Andrew Soltis

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Vasilios Kotronias - Best Chess Tactics

Today chess legend Maia Chiburdanidze celebrates her 60th anniversary. 🎉

Women's World Champion at 17 by beating Georgian trailblazer Nona Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze kept the title for 13 years from 1978 to 1991.

📷 by David Llada, 2018
#OnThisDay #HBD

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.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Maia Chiburdanidze against Petra Feustel, 1976 Tbilisi Interzonal.

It seems Black is about to get mated but f5+ just gives the king a square on g5...Thinking face So how did Chiburdanidze finish the game?

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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GLORY TO THE QUEEN 2020| Trailer
The trailer for the new full-length documentary film 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗻, 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 women’s struggle for independence and their rebellion against powerful male systems echoes in individual and collective life stories.

Daily chess puzzle
Backes - Mucha, Schachjugend 2001

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/88373

✅ Solution.
43. Rg7+ Kf6 44. g5+! hxg5 45. Rgf7+ Kg6 46. f5+ Kh6 47. Rh7# 1-0