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
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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

♟ | Vachier_Lagrave : “What can be played, what should be played... There is a lot of things I can do, there are a lot of openings I’ve been playing in the past few months. You will see as the tournament enfolds which openings I choose to play”. #TataSteelChess

Carlsen on beating Firouzja
"I knew in my heart that once I’d taken that decision I wasn’t going to back down later on & look for equality, so I knew at that point that at least mentally I’d already burned some bridges!"

Round 1 #TataSteelChess report:
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/tata-steel-1-carlsen-gambles-to-beat-firouzja

♟ | Round 2 of the #TataSteelChess Tournament starts at 14.00 (CET).

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Borgov: Pleasant stuff for a grey Sunday #TataSteelChess

🔗 Willum Morsch (@WillumTM)

♟Sundays with Unity♟
January 17th, 2021
U2200 Championship

♟Sundays with Unity♟
January 17th, 2021
U2200 Championship

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January 17th, 2021
U2200 Championship
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♟ | The second round of the #TataSteelChess Tournament 2021 has been played! White heavy check mark Check out the results, interviews and photos. 👇

https://tatasteelchess.com/news/round-2-tata-steel-chess-tournament-2021/