"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

@UnityChessClub

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

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

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).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

"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)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Happy Birthday, Lewan Pantsulaia!
Pantsulaia - Smirnov, Heraklio 2002

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/186434

Super GM Levon Aronian to Move to St. Louis, Represent the USA

https://new.uschess.org/news/super-gm-levon-aronian-move-st-louis-represent-usa

Levon Aronian To Play For United States

https://www.chess.com/news/view/levon-aronian-armenia-united-states-st-louis

Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in June 2019, photographed by Carina Johansen.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Levon Aronian changing federations means that US Chess will have five competitors ranked among the top 20 in the world:

Fabiano Caruana (2823, #2)
Levon Aronian (2781, #6)
Wesley So (2770, #9)
Leinier Dominguez (2758, #14)
Hikaru Nakamura (2736, #19)

#USchess #FIDErating

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

Chess in the spotlight again.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giovannirodriguez/2021/02/24/will-the-internet-enable-women-to-end-the-chess-gender-gap/?sh=1bf05a955c66

Completely understandable decision of LevAronian to change the federation. I did the same in 2009 when I almost did not have any support from Ukraine.
But I am just curious, how many USA players will be in US team?!

🔗 Sergey Karjakin (@SergeyKaryakin)

Chess puzzle of the week - Laser Beam Checkmate #shorts