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/

Koneru Humpy receives BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award

https://en.chessbase.com/post/koneru-humpy-bbc-indian-sportswoman-of-the-year

🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
December 20th, 2020
U2200 Championship
Volume 22

🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
December 20th, 2020
U2200 Championship
Volume 22
PDF

Reshevsky versus Smyslov at the great Zurich tournament, September 1953 (Ullstein Bild Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

https://t.me/UnityChessClub/27687

"The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

@UnityChessClub

16 year old Spassky vs Smyslov Bucharest, 1953. Spassky won this sensational game, and many years later in an interview Spassky said that at one point Szabo was leading, and all the Soviet players received a message from the USSR: "Start making draws with each other."

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

https://t.me/UnityChessClub/16136
https://t.me/UnityChessClub/18618

Boris Spassky vs Vasily Smyslov
Bucharest (1953), Bucharest ROU, rd 1, Jan-??
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Leningrad Variation. Benoni Defense (E31) · 1-0