Congratulations to Ian Nepomniachtchi, who has won the #FIDECandidates with a round to spare and will play Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship title!
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-candidates-2020/13/1/2
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https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-candidates-2020/13/1/2
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FIDE Candidates Tournament: 3 Winners In Final Round, Wang Hao Announces Retirement
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-fide-candidates-chess-tournament-round-14
Candidates Tournament 2020-2021: A happy and tired winner
https://en.chessbase.com/post/candidates-tournament-2020-2021-a-happy-and-tired-winner
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-fide-candidates-chess-tournament-round-14
Candidates Tournament 2020-2021: A happy and tired winner
https://en.chessbase.com/post/candidates-tournament-2020-2021-a-happy-and-tired-winner
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FIDE Candidates Tournament: 3 Winners In Final Round, Wang Hao Announces Retirement
The FIDE Candidates Tournament finished with three decisive games on Tuesday. GM Ding Liren quickly defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi, who had already secured tournament victory. Just as quickly, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Wang Hao, who announced his retirement…
All 4 matches are going to the final game today, after Firouzja came back from the dead against Mamedaryov, Liem Quang Le escaped against Nakamura, and Wesley So beat Levon Aronian on demand! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-new-in-chess-classic-knockout/1/3/3
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World Champion Alexander Alekhine, pictured on arrival in New York, 20th March 1929.
(📷 Gamma-Keystone Collection.) #chess
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(📷 Gamma-Keystone Collection.) #chess
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"A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course."
🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch
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Via the Austrian Archive, photos from the 1st round of the great international tournament at Semmering, 8th September 1937. José Raúl Capablanca is pictured in play v. Reuben Fine; Salo Flohr is seen in play v. Paul Keres. The event took place at the Grand Hotel Panhans. #chess
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There's ♥️ in this 40-year-old photograph: Petra Leeuwerik and Victor Korchnoi during his world championship match against Anatoly Karpov in Merano, October/November 1981 (Paris Match Archive).
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🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
Two portraits of the 10th World Chess Champion, Boris Spassky, taken at the press conference in Reykjavík, 30th June 1972, prior to his title match v. Bobby Fischer.
(📷J. Cooke, Sports Illustrated.)
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(📷J. Cooke, Sports Illustrated.)
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Kiev, 1954 - participants in the 21st USSR Championship final - Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Viktor Korchnoi and Yuri Averbakh are pictured with young chessplayers from the local Pioneers' Palace.
(Photo via http://chesspro.ru.)
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(Photo via http://chesspro.ru.)
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Three qualifying rounds in a row! the winners and prize-winners of the "Young Stars of the World" tournaments in Kirishi will compete against the world champion. This is becoming a pleasant tradition! S. Karjakin - 2005, F. Caruana - 2006 and I. Nepomniachtchi - 2003, 2006, 2007.