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)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 81

Daily chess puzzle
Freitag - Bachmann, Titled Tuesday 2020

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/233371

Happy Valentine's Day!
#ValentinesDay #HappyValentinesDay2021

Chess study AND finding love? Not as unlikely as you might think.

Read about a charity simul match turned love story here! 🏹❤️

https://www.chess.com/article/view/love-over-chess-board

Congratulations to Wesley So on winning the #OperaEuroRapid after beating Magnus Carlsen for a 2nd time in a Meltwater Champions Chess Tour final!

#c24live #ChessChamps

Congratulations to Teimour Radjabov on finishing 3rd in the #OperaEuroRapid after his victory in the #AirthingsMasters!

Wesley So is also now the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour leader, on the tiebreaker of having won 2 events rather than Radjabov's 1!

The Big Cannon | Wesley So vs Magnus Carlsen | Opera Euro Rapid 2021

Grandmaster Daniel King presents Wesley So vs Magnus Carlsen from the Opera Euro Rapid tournament 2021.

'My intuition was SCREAMING' 😱 | Magnus Calrsen vs Wesley So | Opera Euro Rapid 2021

Grandmaster Daniel King presents Wesley So vs Magnus Carlsen from the Opera Euro Rapid tournament 2021.

World champion Mikhail Botvinnik during a simultaneous exhibition in Amsterdam while touring the Netherlands in late 1958 (AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

@UnityChessClub

In the centre, a very young Svetozar Gligorić. Yugoslavia, early 1930s?

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

The history of the relationship between two world champions at the chessboard developed in a rather unusual way. At first, Mikhail won quite often, but then his more experienced colleague managed to find "keys" to the magician from Riga. Smyslov won the last two games (1976,1977)

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)