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

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November 29th, 2020
Participant Biography
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Sergey Viktorovich Volkov is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Russian champion in 2000. Volkov competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000, 2002, and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2007.

Born: February 7, 1974 (age 46 years), Saransk, Russia
Education: Mordovskiy Gosudarstvennyy Universitet Im. N.p. Ogareva
Title: Grandmaster (1998)
FIDE rating: 2570
Peak rating: 2659 (July 2007)

Born on this day in 1913 in Rostov-on-Don - grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky. Joint USSR Champion in 1940, he is perhaps best known as the trainer of Boris Spassky during the latter's ascent to the World Championship during the 1960s

« Some of Bondarevsky ideas are so fine that one feels like turning to some of our masters and saying: "That's the way to play chess!" » Piotr Romanowski

🔗 Europe-Echecs (@EuropeEchecs)