Alexander Alekhine, photographed during the 4th chess Olympiad that was held in the cafe "Novak" in Prague. Next to him, the Swedish champion Gideon Stahlberg, who was his rival in that game. Alekhine was the best player in the Olympiad, scoring +10 -1 =7.

📸: Imagno / Scanpix

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Different and at the same time very similar chess fates of the two great chess players. Both are invariably correct, always speaking to the point. It is no coincidence that they played an interesting match with each other. Both are now little remembered ...

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

The newly-crowned Women's World Chess Champion, Nona Gaprindashvili, pictured on her return to Tbilisi in 1962. She gained the title by defeating reigning champion Elizaveta Bykova in Moscow by the crushing score 9:2 (+7-0=4).
(Photo: Georgian Chess Federation.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Rare interview with Smyslov from 1954 in Russian. I added English subtitles.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

12.Nxd5!!, 19.Bxg7+!!, and 20.Rxb7+!! 🤯

Surely this is the great Sammy Reshevsky's most brilliant attack! 👀

🔗 Sam Copeland (@Sam\_Copeland)

Reshevsky's Most Brilliant Attack! - Best of the 40s - Reshevsky vs. Vasconcelos, 1948

"Mysterious as an inhabitant of another planet" - that was the title of one of the articles. In real life, Tal did act and act as if he were only a temporary guest on Earth ...

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer analyzing one of their games from the 1992 match in Sveti Stefan (AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

The 11th World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer (1943-2008), pictured in his later years.
(📷via http://www.eg.ru.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

"I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

@UnityChessClub

Daily chess puzzle

Antoshin, Vladimir S - Vistaneckis, Isakas
URS-ch sf Vilnius (5), 1960

Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/273163

White obviously can't stop the b-pawn from queening and yet can make a draw. Do you have an idea how?

#FridayStudy #YourMove

Firouzja Wins 2021 Bullet Chess Championship

Alireza Firouzja won the 2021 #BulletChess Championship presented by SIG. The Iranian super-GM first eliminated top favorite Hikaru Nakamura in the semifinals and then was too strong for Andrew Tang in the final:

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/254912

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

Happy 18th Birthday to #ChessChallengers player Awonder Liang! The choice of what to put on the birthday cake probably wasn't too hard... 😀

Awonder is the second youngest American to become a grandmaster. Yesterday he had this beautiful final position on the board in the #ChessChallengers event:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/julius-baer-challengers-chess-tour-polgar-challenge-2021/5/1/5