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.

The participants at the great tournament at Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), July-August 1929.
The event was won by Nimzowitsch; Capablanca & Spielmann shared 2nd-3rd place.
Seated on the left is Vera Menchik, who was born in Moscow on 16th February 1906, 115 years ago today.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect."

🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch

@UnityChessClub

📷 Vera Menchik during a simul exhibition in London, 1926.

In 1927, London hosted the first Women’s World Chess Championship, and Menchik, representing Russia, won it with a superb score: +10−0=1.

Have you read a piece on her in our latest newsletter? http://subscribe.fide.com

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There is a nice story about Korchnoi and Petrosian. Korchnoi had a lost position and he said to Petrosian-A draw? Or should I resign? And Petrosian answered-A draw!🤝. But unfortunately their relationship wasn't this good forever.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

"...writers seldom compose more than a few lines about Menchik without mentioning that male players defeated by her became, ipso facto, members of the Vera Menchik Club, but what's known for sure about the origins of this cardinal component of chess lore?" https://bit.ly/3diZcDy

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Daily chess puzzle
Haakert - Beckemeier, Schachbundesliga 1983

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/234124

Carlsen To Play In FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship
The FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship will be held February 19-21, 2021. The first edition of the championship has big names such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladislav Artemiev, and Anish Giri among the participants.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-online-world-corporate-chess-championship-2021