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

👏 Congratulations to GM Vladislav Artemiev for winning today's Titled Tuesday with a score of 10/11! 👏

The pairings are out for the #MagnusInvitational, with Magnus himself facing Van Foreest, MVL, Firouzja and Giri on Day 1!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/magnus-carlsen-faces-firouzja-giri-on-day-1-of-his-invitational

This advice from Aron Nimzowitsch is still worth remembering: "First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy." Or, in short, RBD. https://bit.ly/3bM9rzr

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame."

🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca

@UnityChessClub

Blitz, Moscow, 1973.
Clockwise, from the left: Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Aleksandr Roshal, Semyon Furman, Mikhail Tal, Efim Geller.
(📷: Novosti Press.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"[John] Donaldson claims that Fischer’s quantum jump from age 12, when he was an also-ran in the bottom half of the US Junior and US Amateur, to age 13 when he played his famous Game of the Century, is the fastest ever improvement for a high level player." https://bit.ly/2OJXS2D

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Victor Korchnoi against Garry Kasparov during the 1983 Candidates semifinal in London (REX Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)