"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
chess24.com
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
Chess.com
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
chessbase.in
Polgar Challenge Day 1: Praggnanandhaa, Yoo and Abdusattorov share the lead 4.0/5 - ChessBase India
Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour Polgar Challenge started...
Bob Wade was born on this day in 1921. https://newzealandchess.co.nz/tournaments/misc/2021/Bob%20Wade/wwwOpen/
🔗 Jonathan Manley (@KingpinEd)
🔗 Jonathan Manley (@KingpinEd)
At the scene of one of his greatest successes - the San Remo tournament of January-February 1930 - World Champion Alexander Alekhine (right) is pictured with the president of the local chess club, A. Stuparich, in front of the Hotel Excelsior.
(📷via https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(📷via https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
"Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game."
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik
@UnityChessClub
Amsterdam, 10th July 1931. Max Euwe is among those greeting José Raúl Capablanca on his arrival at Centraal Station. Shortly afterwards the two began a 10-game match, which was won by the Cuban by the score of 6:4 (+2 -0 =8).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
https://t.me/UnityChessClub/20192
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
https://t.me/UnityChessClub/20192