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

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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.

Buenos Aires, 1994. Pia Cramling with Miguel Najdorf and his wife Rita.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Nice win by the #personoftheday Pia Cramling, who turns 58 today.
The game if from the 1984 Biel Chess event, played against Viktor Korchnoi.

If anyone in Reykjavík can track down this car or its 1972 owner, I'd like to buy it, or whatever is left of it.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card."

🔸 Max Euwe

@UnityChessClub

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/262107

Solution explained by Daniel King

Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win shorts

Happy 37th Birthday to the 12th Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk.

Kosteniuk was also the 2004 European women's champion & a 2-time Russian Women's. She won team Gold medal playing for Russia at 3 Chess Olympiads, 5 European, and the 2017 World Team Championship.

Also known as Kosteniuk is a former women's world champion and as we speak she is LIVE commenting on the #FIDECandidates with Sergey Karyakin, Evgeny Tomashevsky, and Kateryna Lagno!

https://twitch.tv/chesscomru

Magnus: "[Nepo] couldn’t quite understand why he wasn’t consistently playing in the best tournaments 6-7 years ago & I said it’s because you cannot maintain focus. You should be one of the best players in the world but it’s all up to you!"
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/candidates-r10-nepo-closes-in-on-match-with-magnus
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The 2021 World Championship Challenger, Ian Nepomniachtchi, pictured with the 12th World Chess Champion, Anatoly Karpov.
(Photo via http://chessmateok.com.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada):
I had a brief exchange with Nepomniachtchi about this photo. It was taken in Tula in 1998, after a simul exhibition.

Karpov offered a draw at some point in the game, but it was so crowded that Nepo didn't hear him. So Karpov went on and defeated him after 3,5 hours.

"The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly."

🔸 Boris Spassky

@UnityChessClub

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/190546