Mikhail Botvinnik after winning back the world chess championship title from Mikhail Tal in Moscow, May 1961.

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All eyes on them: Mikhail Tal making the opening move against Bobby Fischer in Zurich, May/June 1959 (Keystone Archive).

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https://t.me/UnityChessClub/9496

Footage from Yugoslav television, Bobby Fischer annotates Spassky vs Geller Candidates 1968.
Courtesy of Dimitrije Bjelica.

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The most brilliant game from the most famous chess tournament of all time. 👀

Geller vs. Euwe, Zurich 1953 featuring 22...Rh8!!

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The Greatest Chess Defense Of All Time - Best Of The 50s - Geller vs. Euwe

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/190847

Solution explained by Daniel King

Chess puzzle of the week - Kiss of Death shorts

Wesley So Officially Becomes U.S. Citizen

Reigning U.S. chess champion and super-GM Wesley So got his American citizenship on February 26, 2021, at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in St. Paul/Minneapolis, reports USChess. Story:

Reigning US Champion & Meltwater Champions Chess Tour leader Wesley So is now officially a US citizen! He also welcomed Levon Aronian and the competition he'll bring to the US team: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/wesley-so-is-now-a-us-citizen
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FIDE approves hybrid format for World Cup 2021 qualifiers.

As the epidemical situation remains complicated all over the World, a significant number of qualifiers will be held in the hybrid format. This decision is considered inevitable and exceptional.

https://fide.com/news/976

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American chess genius Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) would have turned 78 today.

Sweeping through the Interzonal and Candidates matches to beat Spassky and become the world champion, he went down in history as one of the best players of all time.

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"I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want."

🔸 Bobby Fischer (1999) Radio Interview, geocities-dot-jp

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"Spacial perception" is the greatest ability one should have to play chess, according to Bobby Fischer. "If you make this move, it will be there, if he makes this move, it will be there, & you just sort of see the position as it could be."

1972 interview: https://t.me/UnityChessClub/33437

Learn from the master himself!

https://www.chess.com/lessons/play-like-bobby-fischer

It's Bobby Fischer's birthday. He left an indelible mark on the history of chess. He was a human - with his virtues and faults. I remember him.

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)