📲 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

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Garry Kasparov during a simultaneous exhibition in Zagreb on May 19, 1993.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Magnus Carlsen at his first FIDE World Cup in Tripoli, Libya in June/July 2004. https://amzn.to/2UDHsvu

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Happy B-Day Ian Nepomniachtchi 🎂! Wishing you a great day. P.S. did you read all those books in the background? 😱

#HappyBirthday #ChessChamps #Nepo

🔗 Play Magnus (@PlayMagnus)

Daily chess puzzle with @GMjtis
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/170543

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

The exciting Anand vs Kramnik match starts in one hour as part of the #SparkassenChessTrophy. The 2 former world champs will play a 4-classical-game match with the twist that castling is not allowed. #dortmundchess

📷Amruta Mokal

An interesting no-castling match between Kramnik and Anand is afoot in Dortmund. https://bit.ly/3wI5MtB

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)