"My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice."
🔸 Garry Kasparov
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Garry Kasparov
@UnityChessClub
Bobby Fischer, photographed in New York City in 1962.
(📷C. Mydans, via LIFE magazine.) #chess
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(📷C. Mydans, via LIFE magazine.) #chess
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
These pictures 🐬were taken 📷at Hawaii just a few hours after I wrote (a piece of) chess history by finishing in a tie for first place 🏆with Boris Gulko and becoming the first woman to win the US Open.🇺🇸✌️That was exactly 23 years ago to this day. ❤️☺️
🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)
🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)
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100 Years 100 Brilliacies!
Daily chess puzzle with Rapport Richard!
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/329931
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/329931
Nakamura - Tari, Chessable Masters 2021
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/350635
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/350635
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Solution explained by Daniel King
The counter-attack || Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win || Nakamura - Tari shorts
The counter-attack || Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win || Nakamura - Tari shorts
“It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.”
🔸 David Bronstein
@UnityChessClub
🔸 David Bronstein
@UnityChessClub
Evgeny Sveshnikov, Grandmaster and Theorist of Chess, Dies at 71
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/world/europe/evgeny-sveshnikov-dead.html?smid=tw-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/world/europe/evgeny-sveshnikov-dead.html?smid=tw-share
Another photo of Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950-2021) from Wijk aan Zee, January 1981.
This was one of several occasions in that event in which he opened with the relatively rare (for him) 1.Nf3.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
This was one of several occasions in that event in which he opened with the relatively rare (for him) 1.Nf3.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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100 Years 100 Brilliancies!
Daily chess puzzle with Viswanathan Anand!
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/319159
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/319159
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Solution explained by Daniel King
Vishy the King | Chess puzzle of the week - White to pin & win!! #shorts
Vishy the King | Chess puzzle of the week - White to pin & win!! #shorts