"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theater and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theater."

🔸 Boris Spassky

@UnityChessClub

1981 US Chess Championship

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

I'm absolutely thrilled to report the discovery of this great 1950s photograph involving a very young Bobby Fischer. The two ladies are yet to be identified.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

#OnThisDay in 2013, Magnus Carlsen won one of the most dramatic Candidates Tournaments in history. He would clinch his first world title vs Viswanathan Anand in Chennai later that year. Here's Carlsen interviewed by Peter Doggers after his win in London:

Magnus Carlsen on winning the London Candidates' Tournament

100 Years 100 Brilliancies! - 2

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/178112

Solution presented by Daniel King:
Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win shorts

Chess in Dakar, Senegal

From 'Chess in the USSR' 1990/4. Sakaev-Kramnik, Simferopol 1990.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

SF Deizisau convincingly wins the European Club Cup

https://en.chessbase.com/post/european-chess-club-cup-2021-final-2

In our newest lesson series, the world's #8 ranked chess player, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov gives a unique look at five of his greatest games!

If you've ever wondered what it takes to defeat a world champion like Carlsen or Anand, this lesson is for you! ⬇️

My Best Games – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

https://www.chess.com/lessons/my-best-games-shakhriyar-mamedyarov

Participants in the New York international tournament of March-April 1924.
Standing, L to R: Marshall, Tartakower, Maróczy, Alekhine, Réti, Bogoljubow.
Seated: Yates, Capablanca, Janowski, Ed. Lasker, Em. Lasker.
(📷: Ullstein Bild.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)