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)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Happy Birthday, GM Teimour Radjabov!
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/180735

Judit Polgar on why beating Kasparov wasn't her most memorable game against her fellow legend: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/judit-polgar-on-beating-kasparov-not-being-the-game-of-her-life

How to play the Queen's Gambit: Alexander Baburin vs Daniel King 2004. Queen Sacrifice!

Happy 30th Birthday to Le Quang Liem (World #31)! In June 2019, he won the Asian Championship with 7/9 ahead of Firouzja, Vidit... A few weeks later, he won the Summer Chess Classic in St. Louis with 6/10 ahead of Xiong, Howell, Shankland, Jones, Liem is the reigning Asian champion and was the world blitz champion in 2013.

People will be surprised when they tune in and I am playing snooker😆

#magnusinvitational

🔗 Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen)

Giri leads, while So, Firouzja, Nepo and Karjakin are among the players who would miss out on the knockout if the prelims ended today!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-magnus-carlsen-invitational-2021-prelims/5/1/1

#MagnusInvitational #ChessChamps

Anish Giri soared into an early lead as Magnus Carlsen’s space-themed online chess event blasted off in style.

The Netherlands No.1 rounded off Day 1 of the $220,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational with three wins in a row including a stunning triumph over Carlsen.

https://championschesstour.com/giri-leads-as-space-themed-magnus-carlsen-invitational-lifts-off/