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

The Gift of Chess http://thegiftofchess.org

🔗 Impact Coaching Network (@icnnyc)

🔗 aaron thompson! (@aar\_thom):
Want to show so much love to how amazing @icnnyc 's 'Gift Of Chess' fundraiser is

ICN/Russ have been spearheading a cause to give 10,000 chess sets to the community & are finding great success!

Little supports the youth quite like the grassroots. This is a SHINING example ❤️

The Gift of Chess Featured on ABC

Did you know that Nona Gaprindashvili is a die-hard fan of FC Barcelona?

For her 80 birthday this year, she got a fantastic present from her federation - a Lionel Messi t-shirt with the footballer's autograph.

📷 The young Vladimir Kramnik at the board during a session of the Kasparov-Botvinnik chess school.

Botvinnik is seated on the right, Kasparov on the left. The blonde head belongs to Alexey Shirov. Year 1987 (?).

#OnThisDay #Botvinnik #Legend #chess #Soviet #USSR

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

🏆Mega & Team🏆

🗓June 27th, 2021

🕒15:00 GMT

💲1000

The zoom link for the tournament is provided below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5458245959

♟Sundays With Unity♟
June 27th, 2021
Mega & Team

♟Sundays With Unity♟
June 27th, 2021
Mega & Team

♟Sundays With Unity♟
June 27th, 2021
Mega & Team

🏆13th Unity Chess U2200 Championship🏆

🗓July 11th, 2021

🕒15:00 GMT

💲400

✅Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-chess-u2200-championship

✅Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/1PKB7ZGY

“In our current 21st century, I see that many books these days focus on heavy computer-based opening theory. This material might be applicable for top professional players, but for a regular improving player, this might be too overwhelming. This book however, has a little bit of everything. It trains the improving player to become a universal player, which is very important for them to reach a high level in chess. It teaches the openings in terms of ideas, and gives excellent exercises where you have to figure out the best move, and use the correct thinking process. It teaches how to play the strategy, tactics, and even endgames involvig the opening thats gone over, and I think this will help the student not only understand the opening, but understand the game of chess as a whole better, I highly recommend this book for improvement.”
 
🔷Aleksandr Lenderman American Chess Grandmaster

🌐 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0973P53V4/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_glt_7BR69AEKBWD8ARHYKHE3

Bobby Fischer with Ferdinand Marcos in Manila, October 1973. In the background, we see Imelda Marcos and Christina Ford (Associated Press Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Anatoly Karpov in simultaneous play in the early 1970s.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)