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Rare interview with Smyslov from 1954 in Russian. I added English subtitles.
🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)
🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)
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12.Nxd5!!, 19.Bxg7+!!, and 20.Rxb7+!! 🤯
Surely this is the great Sammy Reshevsky's most brilliant attack! 👀
🔗 Sam Copeland (@Sam\_Copeland)
Surely this is the great Sammy Reshevsky's most brilliant attack! 👀
🔗 Sam Copeland (@Sam\_Copeland)
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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)
🔗 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)
🔗 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)
(📷via http://www.eg.ru.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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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
🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch
@UnityChessClub
Daily chess puzzle
Antoshin, Vladimir S - Vistaneckis, Isakas
URS-ch sf Vilnius (5), 1960
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/273163
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
#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:
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:
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Solution presented by Daniel King
Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win
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
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/julius-baer-challengers-chess-tour-polgar-challenge-2021/5/1/5
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Liang, Awonder vs. Mammadzada, Gunay | Polgar Challenge 2021
Replay the Polgar Challenge Round 5 game played on 08/04/2021 with computer analysis
The resumption of the #FIDECandidates Tournament is only 10 days away! Here's GM Alex Yermolinsky's analysis of the situation halfway—an article that includes his annotations to all (!) 28 games played last year:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-will-win-the-2021-candidates-tournament
https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-will-win-the-2021-candidates-tournament
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Who Will Win The 2021 Candidates Tournament?
The 2020-21 FIDE Candidates Tournament will take its place in the annals of chess history as an unprecedented event. Never before has a tournament stopped due to force majeure been resumed a full year later. Yes, the first World Championship match between…
Polgar Challenge Day 1: Praggnanandhaa, Yoo and Abdusattorov share the lead 4.0/5
Team Kramnik - Team Polgar: 25-25
https://chessbase.in/news/Challengers-Chess-Tour-Polgar-Challenge-Day-1-report
Team Kramnik - Team Polgar: 25-25
https://chessbase.in/news/Challengers-Chess-Tour-Polgar-Challenge-Day-1-report
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Polgar Challenge Day 1: Praggnanandhaa, Yoo and Abdusattorov share the lead 4.0/5 - ChessBase India
Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour Polgar Challenge started...