This photograph rests in the national archives of Mexico, with none of the individuals identified. The one in the middle is Carlos Torre, one of the finest chess players of the 1920s. This entertaining article discusses his involvement in a stunning game: https://bit.ly/3iTHwBu

🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.

🔸 Mark Dvoretsky

@UnityChessClub

🎂 #OnThisDay in 1837, Paul Morphy was born. He was the first great American chess player and considered by many to be an unofficial world champion.

🔗 Chess.com - India (@chesscom\_in)

How Did Morphy Checkmate His Dad Without A Rook? | King Hunt #Shorts

The Best Morphy Game You've Never Seen

Paul Morphy's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Moves

Footage of Tal becoming the first official Blitz champion in Saint John 1988.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

A study in concentration - via chesspro_ru, a fine photo of ex-World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), pictured in play v. grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura (USA) in the 6th round of the Tal Memorial tournament, Moscow, 22nd November 2011.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Going through my archives, I found this clip from the 2011 Amber Tournament with Ljubomir Ljubojevic showing Viktor Korchnoi why Bobby Fischer thought Black is better, a tempo, down, in a symmetrical position. Also with Veselin Topalov "refuting" 1.b4.

🔗 Peter Doggers (@peterdoggers)

Daily chess puzzle in memoriam of Milan Vidmar, who was born on this day in 1885.
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/73345

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Today's mic drop #quoteoftheday comes from the longest reigning World Chess Champion, Emanuel Lasker. #chess24

🔗 chess24.com (@chess24com)

Congratulations to Wesley So for winning the Paris Rapid & Blitz with a round to spare!

https://chess.com/events/2021-grand-chess-tour-paris-rapid-and-blitz

Corrected final standings of Paris Rapid and Blitz

Top-25 Blitz after GCT Paris https://2700chess.com/blitz #GrandChessTour #ParisRapidBlitz So (+45.2), Firouzja (+40.4), Caruana (+32.6), Vachier-Lagrave (-27.6), Radjabov (-52.0), Kramnik (-94.8).

What a start for Alireza Firouzja who wins his 3rd game in 4 rounds. Enjoy his win against Aronian and stay tuned for Kramnik vs Firouzja in the next round.
#grandchesstour #parisrapidblitz

Congrats to USA's Sam Shankland on winning the strong #PragueMasters tournament & once again entering the 2700+ Elo field. With undefeated 5.5/7 points, he finished clear 1st, half a point ahead of Jan-Krzysztof Duda, & improve his rating by 18 points.

📷 praguechessfestival-com

President of the Hungarian Chess Federation Laszlo Szabo knows good style 👌

Photo from today's contract signing for the Budapest Olympiad 2024.

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)