"Pure horror!" (Magnus Carlsen) for MVL as Fabiano Caruana unleashed a devastating novelty to win the first game back in Yekaterinburg and blow the #FIDECandidates race wide open! Full report:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/candidates-r8-caruana-stuns-mvl-to-blow-race-wide-open

#c24live

A photo from 1961, featuring Stein, Kholmov and Taimanov.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

GM Robert Byrne was born #onthisday in 1928.
The 1972 US Champion, Bryne represented the United States 9 times in #ChessOlympiads and won 7 medals. He was also a World Championship Candidate in 1974.
From 1972 to 2006, Bryne was the chess columnist for The New York Times.

"If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiosity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage."

🔸 Alexander Kotov

@UnityChessClub

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada):
This is Jose Raul Capablanca. And that seemed to be the fashion those days.
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🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada):
Guess the chess player!
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Footage of the last game from the 1985 WCC between Karpov and Kasparov.
One can imagine the heartbeat of these two legends at that moment.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

Due to Covid I haven't met my sisters for a year and a half, so now from distance I wish Happy Birthday to my sister Susan! 😘🌷🥂

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)

100 Years - 100 Brilliancies!

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/273936

Today yesterday's winners meet in Alekseenko-Caruana, MVL's life gets no easier vs. Ding, Giri & Wang Hao have a chance to leave 50%, and Grischuk perhaps has a last chance to enter the #FIDECandidates race by beating leader Nepo!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-candidates-2020#live
#c24live

Anish Giri scores his 2nd win of the #FIDECandidates to get right into the hunt to challenge Magnus Carlsen!
"A very, very good game - he managed to showcase all his strengths here!" (Magnus)

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-candidates-2020/9/1/3
#c24live

Anish Giri wins his game and the people of Yekaterinburg start to celebrate🇳🇱🔥

🔗 Max Warmerdam (@max\_warmerdam)

Here's the full Anish Giri vs. Wang Hao game. Finding 32.b4 and 33.Rc4 was so powerful for White!

#FIDECandidates

Happy 58th Birthday to Pia Cramling, the 5th woman to earn the GM title.

One of the strongest female players to never become a world chess champion, Cramling won the 2003 & 2010 Women's European Championship and represented Sweden in both open & women's Chess Olympiads.