Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 75

Daily chess puzzle

Karpov - Taimanov, Leningrad 1977
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/92917

Myers - Swicarz, Titled Tuesday 2021

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/244582

"Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization."

🔸 Samuel Reshevsky

@UnityChessClub

Garry Kasparov's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Openings

Carlsen and Giri are still on for their Valentine's Day date, but Nakamura is out after losing a winning position against Shankland!

#c24live #ChessChamps #OperaEuroRapid

WesleySo finished third in the preliminaries and will face Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the #OperaEuroRapid quarterfinals.

A chance for revenge for the Airthings Masters as Magnus Carlsen takes on Daniil Dubov again in tomorrow's #OperaEuroRapid quarterfinals!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-opera-euro-rapid-2021-knockout#live

World no. 3 Ding Liren got a consolation win over Magnus, but he lost a shocking 8 games to end bottom of the table: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-opera-euro-rapid-2021-prelims/13/1/8
#c24live #ChessChamps #OperaEuroRapid

Young chessplayers in Arboga, Sweden. The year is 1964, according to the archive.
The boy watching on the right is none other than the legendary Ulf Andersson.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me."

Bobby Fischer

Ex-World Champion Boris Spassky, pictured at the 21st Olympiad, Nice, June 1974. He played on Board 3 for the gold-medal-winning USSR Team.
(Photo credit: J-P. Tilquin.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Victor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov at Hastings, December 1971 (Popperfoto Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

William Lombardy on Samuel Reshevsky [in his 2011 book "Understanding Chess"]: "His physical stature was that of the smallest ape. But he had the heart, the courage, and the determination of a gorilla protecting his turf and family."

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 76

Daily chess puzzle
Jolanta Zawadzka - Edyta Jakubiec, Poland 2016

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/14526

Magnus Carlsen has won today's match, but the three remaining matches go to a 4th and final game!