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.

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

"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

@UnityChessClub

"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)

#OnThisDay in 1923 in Copenhagen, Aron Nimzowitsch played his immortal Zugzwang game against Friedrich Saemisch. After the final move 25...h6!! White will lose material because he has to move.

You can learn more about Zugzwang here:

https://www.chess.com/terms/zugzwang-chess

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Henrik and Magnus Carlsen. Bilbao 2010.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Outstanding: John Donaldson's "Bobby Fischer and His World"

https://en.chessbase.com/post/outstanding-john-donaldson-s-bobby-fischer-and-his-world

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/262233

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🔗 ᒍ ᑌ G ᗩ (@JugadiPrima)

CHESS DIVAS: 'Polya Chornye' - JUGA

CHESS DIVAS: 'Polya Chornye' - JUGA

The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the 4th event on the $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, starts Saturday at 17:00 CET! Check out all the details:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/space-themed-magnus-carlsen-invitational-returns

Judit Polgar in June 1994 (Sygma Collection).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us."

🔸 Howard Staunton

@UnityChessClub

The Game of Chess Had Patch Notes, Too - WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/chess-had-patches/

A superb picture of the Polgár family
TASS agency

🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Daily chess puzzle in memory of Paul Devos, seven times Belgian champion, who was born on this day in 1911.
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/203681

GM Alexander Riazantsev brings chess to new heights 🏔♟

The 2016 Russian champion climbed Mount Kilimanjaro's Uhuru Peak and played chess at its top. At 5,895 metres above sea level, it is the world's tallest free-standing mountain.

📷: riazantsev_alexander