Eight times French champion รtienne Bacrot turns 38 today. Happy Birthday! #chess #OnThisDay
Try to find the winning combination from his game against Anna Muzychuk. White to move.
Try to find the winning combination from his game against Anna Muzychuk. White to move.
Alireza Firouzja grabbed to sole lead at the #TataSteelChess tournament, but remarkably this was not the most shocking development of round 8 as Andrey Esipenko beat Magnus Carlsen in their first-ever confrontation in classical #chess!
https://en.chessbase.com/post/tata-steel-chess-2021-r8
https://en.chessbase.com/post/tata-steel-chess-2021-r8
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Tata Steel R8: Esipenko stuns Carlsen, Firouzja grabs the lead
Alireza Firouzja grabbed to sole lead at the Tata Steel Masters by beating Pentala Harikrishna with the black pieces, but remarkably this was not the most shocking development of round 8 as Andrey Esipenko defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in their firstโฆ
Found a box with (analogue) pictures from the Corus tournament 2001. Watch them on my Flickr page. https://flickr.com/photos/vanreem/albums/72157718033629526 #TataSteelChess #chess #chesshistory
Flickr
Corus Chess Tournament 2001 Wijk aan Zee
Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, January 12th to January 28th, 2001
Stopping the game and disturbing players in time pressure is never acceptable, specially in this specific situation. This half point would not put any halt on Alirezaโs career but let us be firm now and not let it happen again. Spread the word #chess #justiceforalireza
๐ Elshan Moradiabadi (@eli\_1985\_mor)
๐ Elshan Moradiabadi (@eli\_1985\_mor)
Buenos Aires, 14th November 1978. In the opening round of the international tournament sponsored by the newspaper Clarรญn, grandmaster Oscar Panno (Argentina) faces ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR).
(Photo: http://www.lanacion.com.ar.) #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(Photo: http://www.lanacion.com.ar.) #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
First day of Salamanca University #chess festival. Veselin Topalov and Nurgul Salimova leading with perfect score 2 out of 2. https://salamancachessfestival.com
Yuri Averbakh, the world's oldest grandmaster, turns 99 today!
Until recently, he was still visiting the central chess club in Moscow and took an active part in the work of Chess Federation of Russia chess museum.
#OnThisDay #99yearsyoung #chess
Until recently, he was still visiting the central chess club in Moscow and took an active part in the work of Chess Federation of Russia chess museum.
#OnThisDay #99yearsyoung #chess
Happy 71st Birthday to GM Evgeny Sveshnikov!
A 2-time Latvian, Moscow, and World 65+ Senior champion, Sveshnikov is best known as a great theoretician, who had enormous contribution to Sveshnikov's system and the Alapin Variation of the Sicilian Defence. #OnThisDay in #Chess
A 2-time Latvian, Moscow, and World 65+ Senior champion, Sveshnikov is best known as a great theoretician, who had enormous contribution to Sveshnikov's system and the Alapin Variation of the Sicilian Defence. #OnThisDay in #Chess
Dear #Chess Lovers,
I invite you to watch my
'CHESS DIVAS' first song
YouTube premiere!
โค๏ธโ๐น๐งโโ๏ธ๐ผ
โช๏ธโซ๏ธ
Lyrics by Alexandra Kosteniuk
๐น
On March 8th for
#InternationalWomensDay
Thanks for sharing!
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๐ แ แ G แฉ (@JugadiPrima)
I invite you to watch my
'CHESS DIVAS' first song
YouTube premiere!
โค๏ธโ๐น๐งโโ๏ธ๐ผ
โช๏ธโซ๏ธ
Lyrics by Alexandra Kosteniuk
๐น
On March 8th for
#InternationalWomensDay
Thanks for sharing!
๐ค
๐ แ แ G แฉ (@JugadiPrima)
World Champion Alexander Alekhine, pictured on arrival in New York, 20th March 1929.
(๐ท Gamma-Keystone Collection.) #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(๐ท Gamma-Keystone Collection.) #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Via the Austrian Archive, photos from the 1st round of the great international tournament at Semmering, 8th September 1937. Josรฉ Raรบl Capablanca is pictured in play v. Reuben Fine; Salo Flohr is seen in play v. Paul Keres. The event took place at the Grand Hotel Panhans. #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
https://t.me/UnityChessClub/11395
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
https://t.me/UnityChessClub/11395
Trivia: Can you identify the 9-year-old little kid who won his first major event in 2004?
Bonus question: Guess the event name.
#Chess #ChessBaseIndia #Trivia
๐ ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia)
Bonus question: Guess the event name.
#Chess #ChessBaseIndia #Trivia
๐ ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia)
Forwarded from Unity Chess Club
UNITY CHESS INFOGRAPHIC
โ๏ธ Chess History - Tournaments
โฆ๏ธ Groningen 1946
#chess_history_tornaments
#Groningen_1946
@unitychess
โ๏ธ Chess History - Tournaments
โฆ๏ธ Groningen 1946
#chess_history_tornaments
#Groningen_1946
@unitychess
The Polgars in Sydney, Australia 1992: & Australian Female chess players: Left to right Nancy Jones, Susan Polgar, Judit Polgar Sofia Polgar (she says she no longer has the jumper :-( , Teresa Gibin, Carole Holmes (at the back) and Vernonica Klimenko #chess #polgarsisters
๐ GaryLanechess (@garylanechess)
๐ GaryLanechess (@garylanechess)
๐ท The young Vladimir Kramnik at the board during a session of the Kasparov-Botvinnik chess school.
Botvinnik is seated on the right, Kasparov on the left. The blonde head belongs to Alexey Shirov. Year 1987 (?).
#OnThisDay #Botvinnik #Legend #chess #Soviet #USSR
๐ International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)
Botvinnik is seated on the right, Kasparov on the left. The blonde head belongs to Alexey Shirov. Year 1987 (?).
#OnThisDay #Botvinnik #Legend #chess #Soviet #USSR
๐ International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)
Bobby Fischer, photographed in New York City in 1962.
(๐ทC. Mydans, via LIFE magazine.) #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(๐ทC. Mydans, via LIFE magazine.) #chess
๐ Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)