"Every move creates a weakness."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

@UnityChessClub

In 1980 when Tal was asked about his peak, his answer was extraordinary- Obviously now I would crush the 1960 version of Tal.
Do you agree with Tal here?

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

In an interview with BBC broadcaster Bob Friend, Victor Korchnoi described his relationship with Anatoly Karpov at the start of their 1978 world title match in Baguio City, Philippines.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Best Chckmate Combinations Ever! - 80

Daily chess puzzle
Grünberg - Zbikowski, Schachbundesliga 1984

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/232963

Day 1 of the #OperaEuroRapid Finals saw Carlsen and So trade blows, while Radjabov leads in the 3rd place match!

#c24live #ChessChamps

No love lost between Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So on Day 1 of their #OperaEuroRapid final! Check out our report:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/opera-euro-rapid-final-1-so-hits-back-against-carlsen

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So struck back to level the match after Carlsen took the lead. Here are the highlights of the #OperaEuroRapid final.

Wesley So: "I just play my Chessable course!"

FIGHT BACK | Wesley So vs Magnus Carlsen | Opera Euro Rapid 2021

Nina Grigorievna Sokolova, the mother of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov, passed away today in Moscow. She was 101 years old.

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

Karpov always speaks with pride about his chess victories, about his precious stamps collection. But I never saw him as proud as when he talks about his mother, Nina Grigorievna. I always asked about her in our interviews, because I loved to observe how his face would lit up.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Karpov's mother, Nina Grigorievna Sokolova, portrayed in 1939. Photo from the family archives included in the photobook published in 2010, as a tribute to Karpov.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Nina Grigorievna passed away today in Moscow, age 101. As Arkady Dvorkovich put it, "Nina Grigorievna devoted her whole life to the upbringing of her children, and she was extremely successful in this endeavour".

"If it is true that a player’s style is his person, then everyone plays as he is intended to by nature. I am naturally cautious, and I altogether dislike situations which involve risk."

🔸 Tigran Petrosian

@UnityChessClub

"The year 1953. The Karpov family with friends in Zlatoust." Anatoly Evgenevich is the small child in the centre. (From Karpov's personal archive, via http://itogi.ru.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Boris Spassky during a 41-board simul in New York, February 4, 1974 (Bettmann Collection). A witness noted that his "only loss was to Charles Maddigan, an intense young man from Manhattan...who disappeared as enigmatically as he had arrived, without commenting on the match."

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)