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).

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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)

Trivia: Can you identify the 9-year-old little kid who won his first major event in 2004?

Bonus question: Guess the event name.

#Chess #ChessBaseIndia #Trivia

🔗 ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia)

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/275424

Solution explained by Daniel King
Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win

Kings of Lagos: Children learn chess to seek escape from Nigeria’s slums

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/kings-lagos-children-learn-chess-seek-escape-nigerias-slums-363092

Interview with Ian Nepomniachtchi (in English, with Russian subtitles)
In the big interview, conducted on the evening of the last round of the #FIDECandidates, the new challenger for the world championship Ian Nepomniachtchi talks in detail about the tournament, preparation, Magnus Carlsen, and more.

🔗 Ruslan Ponomariov ♔ (@Ponomariov):
It was my first meeting against legendary Korchnoi. I didn't really remember what he told me after the game😅 I am very grateful to him that he never thought to retire from chess and we played 11 classical games. The last one was in Karlovy Vary 2007. How would you play?
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🔗 Think Like a Machine (@ThinkLikeaMach3):
Black can save himself with devilish idea: 46...Rd8!! 47.Nc7 Rac8!! (Could you spot the idea already?) 48. a8=Q Rxc7 and the New White queen is trapped 🤪🤪🤪.
Thank you to @Ponomariov for the position. You are invited to send me from your games as well.

A picture I took 6 years ago in Oslo: Hundreds of people showed up for the launch of PlayMagnus' new chess set.

🔗 Tarjei J. Svensen (@TarjeiJS)

My 1996 World Championship trophy which completed the world’s 1st ever Chess Triple-Crown (world blitz/rapid/classical world championships). The base was made from an Olive Tree (from the region where the match was held) & the top (olive tree) was made of pure silver FIDE chess

🔗 Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar)