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♟Sundays With Unity♟
🔰June Schedule🔰

🌐Women Championship:
June 6th, 2021
💵 $300

🌐U2200 Championship:
June 13th, 2021
💵 $400

🌐Mega & Team:
June 27th, 2021
💵 $1000

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Chess. 1901.

Then and now.

LIFE Magazine

🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)

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"Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies."

🔸 Jamie Murphy

@UnityChessClub

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Why did Bobby Fischer finally go to Reykjavík on July 4, 1972? In "Endgame" (2011), Frank Brady sums it up: "Pride, money, and patriotism." After his call with Henry Kissinger, Fischer "saw himself not just as a chess player, but as a Cold War warrior in defense of his country."

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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Interview with Kasparov where he talks about his famous game with Korchnoi from the 1982 chess olymiad.
After this game Kasparov basically became world number two.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

https://t.me/UnityChessClub/8250

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Viktor Korchnoi 🆚 Garry Kasparov

Chess Olympiad (1982), Lucerne SUI, rd 10, Nov-09
Benoni Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Hastings Defense Main Line (A64)

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The youngest GM in the world at the time, Judit Polgar, plays a chess simul against the Harlem chess team in New York, circa 1992.

I am not sure what the format was, but this was called "chessathon". Maybe GM Judit Polgar can share the details 🙂

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

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Anatoly Karpov during a June 1976 simultaneous display in Paris (Gamma-Rapho Collection).

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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29.Rh5!! 🤯

Parr was so pleased (and understandably so) with this amazing final combination that he had it woven into a tapestry and hung in his house!

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The Chess Game Immortalized In Tapestry - Best Of The 30s - Parr vs. Wheatcroft, 1938

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