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

Magnus Carlsen, Tromsø Chess Olympiad 2014.

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Happy Birthday, Christopher Lutz!
Lutz - Backwinkel, Schachbundesliga 1989

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/205188

GM Christopher Lutz
(born Feb-24-1971, 50 years old) Germany

He is a GM (1992) and has assisted the programming of Brutus (Computer), now Hydra (Computer).

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Happy 38th Birthday to India's Surya S. Ganguly, a 6-time national and the 2009 Asian champion.

He also assisted Vishy Anand in winning the World Championship matches vs Kramnik, Topalov, & Gelfand.
#OnThisDay in Chess

Today marks 7 years since the launch of chess24! Join us for 5 hours of live shows starting with Radjabov & Giri playing Hand & Brain 1 hour from now: https://chess24.com/en/live/video/45986e98f1-radjabov-and-giri---hand-and-brain-against-premium-users

Registration is open! Sign up now for the ChessKid USA Girls & Women's Championship.

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Did you know that for more than 20 years Anatoly Karpov plays chess against prisoners?

"Imagine, a person leaves jail after 10 years and has no family, no work, nothing to go on. I assumed that they can go to a chess club and through chess reengage with society."

#ChessForAll

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How to play the Queen's Gambit: Elmar Magerramov vs Garry Kasparov

Grandmaster Daniel King presents Elmar Magerramov vs Garry Kasparov, Baku 1977. Support on Patreon: 🔥

🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
December 13th, 2020
Team Championship
Volume 21

🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
December 13th, 2020
Team Championship
Volume 21
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A rare photograph of Akiba Rubinstein at the beginning of a simultaneous display in Göteborg in early 1920.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

A remarkable fact about Akiba Rubinstein's play: he has beaten Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine in his very first encounter with each of these iconic masters.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger."

🔸 Mikhail Tal

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Ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov, pictured in play in Moscow, 1979.

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A rare January 1926 group photograph involving Vera Menchik taken at the Imperial Chess Club on Brook Steeet as it hosted "the first tournament for girls that has ever taken place in Great Britain" (Topical Press Agency).

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Savielly Tartakower at the Folkestone Olympiad, playing Isaac Kashdan in the Poland versus the United States match on June 15, 1933 (Corbis Archive).

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Rare voicemail from Bobby Fischer on June 1992. Courtesy of Lou Hays, who was close to Bobby in the early 90s.
You can find it on YouTube, the title is Voicemail from Bobby Fischer. It doesn't have a lot of views.

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"The ungrateful machine is smashing my king." This 1983 clip from the BBC Archive is hilarious: Grandmaster John Nunn plays against an "emotional robot." For Ffookes sake... 😂

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Color footage from the 18th Chess Olympiad, Lugano, Switzerland, October/November 1968.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)