VÍDEO| Iturrizaga y Topalov analizan algunas jugadas tras la quinta ronda.

Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo🆚Topalov, Veselin

Salamanca Masters 2021 - Round 5

Alexei Shirov, leader of the III Salamanc Chess Festival

Moscow, April 1975. Anatoly Karpov is pictured at a press conference in the Soviet capital after he was declared the 12th World Chess Champion by FIDE_chess president Max Euwe, following Bobby Fischer's refusal to take part in the title match.
(📷Bettmann Collection.)

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"For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one."

🔸 Viswanathan Anand

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Moscow, 29th January 1961. Round 12 of the 28th USSR Championship final; Boris Spassky faces Georgiy Borisenko.

Viktor Korchnoi and Mark Taimanov can be seen in the background, they were facing Efim Geller & Lev Polugaevsky, respectively.
(📷: A. Bochinin.)

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 73

Breda, 31st May 1997. The final of the Dutch club championship between Panfox (Breda) & HSG (Hilversum).
Timman is in play v. Nijboer; behind him Ivan Sokolov is in play v. Ljubojević, while behind him Vaganian faces Ian Rogers.
(📷Stadsarchief Breda)

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Daily chess puzzle
Pedro Aderito - Tan Tzer Em, Chess Olympiad, Yerevan 1996

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/244664

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Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/169987

GM Alexei Shirov is the winner of the University of Salamanca Masters. He scored 6 points out of 7, making only two draws, with David Anton and Veselin Topalov.

https://www.salamancachessfestival.com/

📷 by David Llada