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)

🏆Mega & Team

🗓June 27th, 2021

🕒15:00 GMT

💲1000


🟢Team:https://lichess.org/team/unity-chess-mega--team-tournament

🟢Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/kv7AWfB1

The Polgars in Sydney, Australia 1992: & Australian Female chess players: Left to right Nancy Jones, Susan Polgar, Judit Polgar Sofia Polgar (she says she no longer has the jumper :-( , Teresa Gibin, Carole Holmes (at the back) and Vernonica Klimenko #chess #polgarsisters

🔗 GaryLanechess (@garylanechess)

He came properly equipped for one of the greatest matches in chess history.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Tigran Petrosian ❤️

https://t.me/UnityChessClub

Daily chess puzzle with Vachier_Lagrave!
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/317089

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

Very worrying news. The world's oldest grandmaster, 99-year-old Yuri Averbakh, is in intensive care with COVID-19. His condition is 'serious'.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess):

Happy birthday to six-time World Championship candidate Boris Gelfand! 🎉
His staying power as a top player is legendary as he was ranked in the top 30 for nearly 27 years.

Replay some of his best games here: https://www.chess.com/players/boris-gelfand

Happy 46th Birthday to 14th World chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik!

A Classical World Champion from 2000-2006 with wins over Kasparov & Lékó, Kramnik became the 1st undisputed World Champion after defeating Topalov in the 2006 unification match. #OnThisDay

📷Lennart Ootes

Peace and love from Santa Barbara!

🔗 Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru)

This would be Carlsen's path to the #FIDEWorldCup title if all the favourites won:

R2 - Martinovic
R3 - Tari
R4 - Matlakov
R5 - Esipenko
QF - Firouzja
SF - Giri
Final - Caruana

Check out the pairings & try predicting the brackets yourself!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fide-world-cup-2021-pairings-are-out

#c24live