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)

February 15, 1985 was "a day of shame in the history of chess" according to Kasparov. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Termination decision, it is now clear that many statements by the anti-Campomanes forces were untrue. https://bit.ly/3pnkLoQ

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

12-year-old Judit Polgar in 1989 (Sygma Collection).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever! - 82

Happy Birthday, Sergey Tiviakov
Tiviakov - Tukmanov, Rostov on Don 1993

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/105772

FIDE Candidates Tournament To Resume In April

It's official: the #FIDECandidates Tournament will resume in the second half of April in Yekaterinburg!
Arkady Dvorkovich told Chess.com there shouldn't be any travel issues for the Chinese players:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-candidates-tournament-to-resume-in-april

Only 1505 hours to go!
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-candidates-2020#live
#c24live #FIDECandidates

389 days after the FIDE Candidates was stopped in March 2020 it's now set to restart with Round 8 on April 19th in the same city of Yekaterinburg!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fide-announces-candidates-to-resume-in-april

Congratulations to Hikaru Nakamura
for hitting 1,000,000 followers on Twitch! 👏

What a massive milestone!

"She's always a conversation starter." - Where is Carlsen and So playing from? Here are the players themselves giving a small tour. #ChessChamps #OperaEuroRapid

One of the strongest teams in the western pool at the World #CorporateChess Championship, American Express has 17-year-old IM Carissa Yip on the first board.

Carissa defeated her first grandmaster when she was just 10 years old and is surely ready for more wins next weekend!

Far from the elegance and refinement of the Bourg Tibourg, but still a great place to start a game

Alexander Bradley

A closer look into Wesley So's brilliant victory over the World Chess Champion at the Opera Euro Online Rapid. Learn more about how he played, prepared, and how he does what he does!

Details: https://chessbase.in/news/A-closer-look-at-Wesley-So-s-victory-over-Magnus-Carlsen-at-the-Opera-Euro-Finals

#OnThisDay 115 years ago Vera Menchik was born. Menchik was the first women’s world chess champion and by far the best female player of her time. She was invited to several men’s tournaments and defeated e.g. world champion Max Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky.