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
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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...
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
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I just saw small example from Karpov's game versus Yusupow played in 1986! The whole concept looks very familiar. Nowadays it's one of the main plans for white in Italian game https://www.newinchess.com/the-italian-renaissance-2 or https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1883717 Never underestimate the classics!
🔗 Ruslan Ponomariov ♔ (@Ponomariov)
🔗 Ruslan Ponomariov ♔ (@Ponomariov)