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

Happy 27th Birthday to Hou Yifan, the four-time Women's World Chess Champion (2010, 2011, 2013, 2016)! Her highest live rating was 2687.5 (May, 2015).
She is widely considered to be the second-strongest female chess player in history (behind Judit Polgar). Among her top accomplishments are four Women’s World Championship titles and winning Biel 2017!

Hou Yifan became a grandmaster at 14 years old and was the youngest-ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship at 16.

She played this game against Ray Robson when she was just 10. Can you find how she finished it? Black to play. #YourMove