The 5th game of the match in progress.

Color footage from the 44th USSR Chess Championship (Moscow, November/December 1976), with Petrosian, Balashov, Karpov, Sveshnikov and a few other Soviet heavyweights of the 70s. It was the first time Karpov had won it.

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On December 1, 1986, during the last round of the Dubai Olympiad, Włodzimierz Schmidt, playing against Garry Kasparov, showed us how to resign when playing the gods.

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Judit Polgar in Dortmund in July 1996, from a time when stunning games against the world elite mattered more than anything else (Sportphoto Archive).

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Daily chess puzzle
Unzicker - Skoeld, Chess Olympiad, Dubrovnik 1950

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Mikhail Gurevich turns 62 today. He reached his peak as a player during the years 1987-1991, when he climbed to #3 in the world ranking. He also assisted Garry Kasparov in several matches for the title.

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Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich was born on the 22nd of February 1959 in Kharkow, USSR. Awarded the IM title in 1985 and the GM title in 1986, he was USSR Champion in 1985 (after a play-off and tie-break). In 1987 he won the Keres memorial, was 1st at Moscow and 2nd at Leningrad after Rafael Vaganian. In 2001 he won the Belgian Championship with a perfect 9/9 score. Gurevich qualified for his first Candidates match by placing 8th at the FIDE World Cup (2005), but lost to Peter Leko, 3 1/2 - 1/2.

He currently lives in Turkey, and has added a third national championship to his resume' by winning the Turkish Championship (2006). In 2008 he won the Turkish Championship again. He is also a FIDE Arbiter and a FIDE Senior Trainer.
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Gurevich still had a comeback some years later. In 2001 he won the Belgian Chess Championship with a perfect score (9/9). He achieved his highest rating of 2694 on the January 2001 rating list, raising again to 14th place in the world ranking.

📸: Boris Dolmatovsky

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Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal, pictured in play in the international tournament in Leningrad, July 1977.

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"I like the moment I break a man’s ego." -

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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Moscow, July 1979. Viktor Kupreichik is pictured in play v. Tamasz Giorgadze on top board in the match between the Georgian & Belarussian republics in Semi-final Group 2 of the 7th USSR People's Spartakiad.

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Mikhail Chigorin, the father of Russian chess, was a great tactician! We take a look at some of his famous check-mating attacks:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/chigorin-s-checkmates

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Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, July 1972.

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16-year-old Soviet Master of Sport Garry Kasparov in play at the 7th USSR People's Spartakiad, Moscow, July 1979. He played on Board 2 for Azerbaijan in this event, behind grandmaster Vladimir Bagirov.

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Bobby Fischer on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show"

https://en.chessbase.com/post/bobby-fischer-on-johnny-carson-s-tonight-show

Bobby Fischer solves a 15 puzzle in 17 seconds on Carson Tonight Show - 11/08/1972