Chess players. Soviet Union. Volkov Ervin, 1957.

🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)

Moscow, October 1973. In play during the 41st USSR Championship - one of the strongest of them all - Viktor Korchnoi and, in the background, Tigran Petrosian, one of five World Champions (past & future) playing in the event.
(📷V. Velikzhanin, TASS.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Can you recognize this Grandmaster?

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Garry Kasparov was sixteen when he made his debut in the USSR team in the European Team Championship at Skara, January 1980. He was second reserve, and scored five wins and one draw. He won against Simon Webb (1949–2005) in the first round. Photo: Lars Grahn

🔗 Lars Grahn (@larsgrahn)

Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal gives a simultaneous display in Philharmonic Square, Riga. 1980s.
(Photo source: archive of the Latvian Sports Museum.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Mikhail Tal casting a spell.

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Local hero Ruslan Ponomariov at the opening of the World U/16 Youth Olympiad in Artek 1999. The baby-faced Ukrainian would go on to win the FIDE KO World Championship title three years later. (Photo c/- Olympiad organisers.)

🔗 Ian Rogers (@GMIanRogers)

Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov on this day in 1997.

🔗 Jonathan Manley (@KingpinEd)

On May 11, 1997, exactly 24 years ago, Garry Kasparov made the infamous 7...h6 bet against Deep Blue. The computer did play the critical 8.Nxe6! and won quickly. You'll find Kasparov's thoughts on this dramatic incident in chapter ten of his book "Deep Thinking" (2017).

Deep Blue (Computer) 🆚 Garry Kasparov
New York, NY USA: IBM Man-Machine: 1997.

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100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Legacy.

🔗 Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen)

Daily chess puzzle
Bacrot - vishy Anand, Corsica Masters 2001
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/190688

Tani Adewumi Makes New Headlines Becoming National Master At 10

Tani Adewumi, a 10-year-old Nigerian refugee who won the New York State K-3 Championship at eight years old, reached a new milestone last week: he conquered the title of national master!

https://www.chess.com/news/view/tani-adewumi-national-master-at-10

I just loved this story of Tani Adewumi, a 10-year-old Nigerian refugee who’s already a chess master! He’s a reminder of the extraordinary potential within every young person—and our duty to help them reach it.

🔗 Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama)

1' KICK-OFF!

Chess grandmaster and Candidates' winner Yan Nepomniachtchi took the symbolic kick-off.

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🔗 FC Spartak Moscow (@fcsm\_eng)

Hikaru Nakamura's Top 5 King's Indian Attacks