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.

#SpartakKhimki | 🔴 0-0 ⚫️

🔗 FC Spartak Moscow (@fcsm\_eng)

Hikaru Nakamura's Top 5 King's Indian Attacks

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♟Sundays with Unity♟
November 29th, 2020
Participant Biography
🇷🇺RUSSIA🇷🇺

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)

Ex-World Champion Alexander Alekhine (France), pictured in play v. Movša Feigin (Latvia) in the opening round of the Hastings International, 28th December 1936.
(📷via Hulton Archive.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation."

🔸 David Bronstein

@UnityChessClub

60 years ago: Botvinnik wins return match against Tal

https://en.chessbase.com/post/60-years-ago-botvinnik-wins-return-match-against-tal

At 12, Bobby Fischer finished 20th in a field of 25 players in the US Junior Championship in Nebraska. At 13, he played the "Game of the Century." https://bit.ly/33EUzhg

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Interview with Kasparov before and after his 1995 WCC match with Anand.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

Sitting cross-legged in Istanbul (2000). At the 1988 Thessaloniki Chess Olympiad (gold medal!) and in chess tournaments afterwards, I always put my legs under me while playing. It helped my concentration, I felt like I was in a cocoon. My look says it all… 😂💪

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Tigran Petrosian ❤️

https://t.me/UnityChessClub

Happy Birthday, Niaz Murshed!
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/189808

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

Very beautiful win by the #personoftheday Sandro Mareco, who turns 34 today. He played against Hikaru Nakamura at the 2017 #prochess knock-outs.

Like over 10 million other Nigerian children, this boy can't afford to go to school.

But Omoyele Michael dreams of being a chess champ, inspired by the movie "Queen of Katwe," where a Ugandan girl escapes poverty through chess.

🔗 AJ+ (@ajplus)