This photograph by Misha Friedman shows Ian Nepomniachtchi and Magnus Carlsen working together during the training camp in Kragerø in August 2013, for the Norwegian's world title match against Vishy Anand. Eight years later, they get to face each other in a match of their own.

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24...Rxc4!!, 28...Nxf2!!, 32...Bg1+!!, and 33...Ng4+! 🙌

One of the best chess finishes of all time: Molinari vs. Roux Cabral, 1943, the "Uruguayan Immortal" 👏🇺🇾👏

"The Uruguayan Immortal" - Best Of The 40s - Molinari vs. Roux Cabral, 1943

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/79094

Garry Kasparov [in a May 1, 2021 tweet]: "To become a classic, you must know the classics."

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Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/185223

Is this the best game of 2021 so far? Thinking face That's for you to decide.
Watch GM Ben Finegold break down a BRILLIANT game from yesterday's Russian Team Championship Premier League on our YouTube Channel below!

Good friends! ❤️
Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer

"Neither of us were absolutely at our best, but we had great fighting spirit!" said Magnus Carlsen after taking the lead on Day 1 of the #NewInChess final! Full report:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/new-in-chess-classic-final-1-magnus-takes-the-lead

Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen on winning the #NewInChess Classic, his first tournament victory on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour! The World Champion has also taken over from Wesley So as the Tour leader

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-new-in-chess-classic-knockout/7/1/4

Spectators during the 1960 world chess championship match between Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal. The lost luxury of being able to analyze a wild Tal game without the temptation of a smartphone, Stockfish or YouTube's comment box.

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"You can only get good at Chess if you love the game."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

@UnityChessClub

As Mother’s Day approaches, we remember some influential moms whose children succeeded thanks to their strength, encouragement and advice.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/06/obituaries/mothers-day.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Bobby Fischer serving while taking part in a celebrity tennis match with NBA star Gail Goodrich in California, June 1972 (AP Archive).

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Spassky versus Fischer, through the lens of Walter Greene.

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Laugardalshöllin, Reykjavík, July 4, 1972. The silence before the storm (@AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Taimanov and his first wife, Lyubov Bruk, in 1963:

ЛЮБОВЬ БРУК и МАРК ТАЙМАНОВ (фортепиано) Бразильера

13 Year old Magnus Carlsen gets a visit from Garry Kasparov
If you look closely, at one point of the video, Carslen says : "I hope to become a world champion. It has to happen before 2020."
And he made it before 2020. In 2013, he defeated Vishy Anand and grabbed his title.

🔗 theChessMemer (@ChessMemer)