Kasparov's famous stalemate blunder in world blitz championship 1988.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

Four world chess champions (three past, one future).

(Image found online; with no details of who took the photo, or where. Perhaps during the Aeroflot Open, Moscow, February 2004?!)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Daily chess puzzle in memoriam Isaac Lipnitsky
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/261548

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

Ivan Saric spoilt what was looking like another great day for Ian Nepomniachtchi, though Nepo still leads the #CroatiaRapidBlitz going into the final day before Garry Kasparov takes over from Saric!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/croatia-gct-2-saric-shocks-nepo

#c24live

The final day of the #CroatiaRapidBlitz has begun!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/grand-chess-tour-zagreb-rapid-and-blitz-2021#live

#c24live

7-7-2021 Lara Bassem Amin welcoming her baby brother Leo 😍❤️🙏🏻

🔗 GM Bassem Amin (@GMBassemAmin)

BREAKING!
World's #1 Junior, GM Alireza Firouzja has officially become a French citizen now.

Alireza Firouzja stopped representing Iran in late 2019 and played under the FIDE_chess flag since then.
Big boost for French 🇫🇷 Chess!

Nihal Sarin Wins Back-To-Back Tournaments, Enters World's Top 100

Our story on 16-year-old Nihal Sarin winning two strong tournaments in a row in Serbia, gaining 35 Elo points, reaching a virtual rating of 2655, and entering the world's top 100:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/nihal-sarin-wins-tournaments-serbia-enters-world-top-100

📲 Did you know that #FIDEWorldCup has its own telegram channel?

It publishes all relevant information about the event: accreditation, PCR testing, transfers, accommodation, any changes in the schedule and other useful notes.

Follow it here: https://t.me/joinchat/RhHmTphRJ0thM2My

If you have visited Madrid recently, you may have run into this character. He calls himself "King Enigma" and he shows up at emblematic landmarks of the Spanish capital, like Parque del Retiro, Gran Via, Opera or Puerta del Sol.

Checkmate! Mysterious "King Enigma" travels through Madrid looking for rivals to play chess

🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
May, 2021
Volume 28

🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
May, 2021
Volume 28
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Pal Benko was born #onthisday in 1928. A Hungarian-American chess player, author, and composer of endgame studies and problems, Benko was a 2-time World Championship Candidate.

Spassky's salary during his reign as a champion was 500 soviet rubles per month (a soviet minister's salary at the time) and his seconds Geller and Krogius 250 rubles. Seems like nothing, compared to what Carlsen now earns, but in USSR most people earned no more than 150 rubles.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

"The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is affected by combinations."

🔸 Richard Reti

@UnityChessClub