“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.”

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik (1960) “100 Selected Games”

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On the left, hands of an strong international master. On the right (playing with black pieces), hands of a living chess legend: Evgeny Sveshnikov.
A famous 70-year-old chess master and writer, who has an opening system named after him (the Sicilian Sveshnikov line

Garry Kasparov wearing 3D glasses and using a joystick to control the chessboard in the first of four VR games against X3D Fritz in New York, November 11, 2003 (AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 78

25 years ago: Deep Blue beats Kasparov

https://en.chessbase.com/post/25-years-ago-deep-blue-beats-kasparov

Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/131041

“Grandmaster”. Photo by Lana Sator.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Daily chess puzzle
Esplugas Esteve - Vlachos, Sunway Chess Open 2020:

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/235743

Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So have taken the lead at the Opera Euro Rapid semi-finals. The return matches are ahead

A class act | Wesley So vs Teimour Radjabov | Opera Euro Rapid 2021

Grandmaster Daniel King presents Wesley So vs Teimour Radjabov from the Opera Euro Rapid tournament 2021.

Magnus Carlsen could afford the hiccup of missing mate-in-2 and still win Day 1 of his semi-final against MVL, with a repeat of the Carlsen-So Skilling Open final currently on the cards! Report:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/opera-euro-rapid-sf-1-carlsen-so-take-the-lead

Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short photographed by Mike Hollist in 1994.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Black threatens to capture on c5 and the white king is too far away… Is White in trouble? Just the opposite, White is about to win this game!

#YourMove #FridayStudy

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 79

"I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player."

🔸 Mikhail Tal

@UnityChessClub

Congrats to Boris Grachev on winning the strong Mark Dvoretsky Memorial tournament. With 6.5 points, he shared the 1st place with Ernesto Inarkiev (2663) taking the title due to better tie-breaks.
GMs Esipenko, Vitiugov, & others also took part in the event.

📷Eteri Kublashvili

Boris Grachev won the Mark Dvoretsky Memorial in Moscow. Ernesto Inarkiev is second, while Mikhail Kobalia is third https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/boris_grachev_wins_mark_dvoretsky_memorial_in_moscow/