Final standings:

Wesley So clinched 1st place in the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, having performed the best of the field cumulatively throughout the full tour!
#SinquefieldCup

And here are the final standings/winnings of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour -

🥇 Wesley So - $100,000
🥈 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - $50,000
🥉 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - $25,000

My favorite is this 1903 photograph, showing Tolstoy with his son-in-law, Mikhail Sergeevich Sukhotin, who married Tatyana, Tolstoy's daughter, in 1899. Their first five children were born dead but then they had a daughter, Tatiana, whose living descendants now live in Italy.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

@UnityChessClub

Efim Bogoljubow during a 1933 visit in Ströbeck, a German village renowned for its chess traditions dating back to King Otto III in the late 900s (Ullstein Bild Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

At the demonstration board, the 8th World Champion, Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 9th Nov 1936; d. Moscow, 28th June 1992.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Bobby Fischer in the 1960s, photographed by Hans Namuth (1915-1990). The German-born photographer's archive may contain further little-known Fischer photographs. https://s.si.edu/2VeEwWU

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/369410

Magnus Carlsen during the Dubai Open in April 2004, watched by Mohamed Al-Mudahka. They both scored 6½/9, with the 13-year-old Norwegian making his final grandmaster norm and becoming the youngest grandmaster at that time (Reuters Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Tactical cascade
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/279996

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

⛵️| Norway Chess 2021 💘 4 days to go!

Norway Chess is a 6-player double round-robin featuring World Champion Magnus Carlsen and taking place in the Clarion Hotel Energy in Stavanger, Norway from 7-17 September. Each of the 10 rounds consists of a classical game where a win is worth 3 points and a loss 0. If the players draw they play an Armageddon game, where the winner earns 1.5 points and the loser 1 point. No draw offers are allowed before move 30.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/norway-chess-2021