Jorden van Foreest is back in the 2700 club after today's win over Etienne Bacrot! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-2021/5/1/1

🔴 Vincent Keymer 🆚 Nihal Sarin

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-2021/5/1/4

Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals

Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura have won in rapid chess, but the remaining 3 ties go to blitz tiebreaks, starting in 10 minutes!

"Without error there can be no brilliancy."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

@UnityChessClub

Frank Marshall during a simultaneous exhibition in Helsinki in late January 1912 (Helsinki City Museum).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Capablanca vs Lasker, St. Petersburg 1914. The famous game where Capablanca got two pieces for a rook, but Lasker defended well, and the game ended in a draw.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

Various Russian regional museums hold copies of all sort of little-known photographs: here's an undated photograph showing Evgeny Dragomaretsky and Mikhail Tal in a Moscow tournament. http://mignsk.ru

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

100 Years - 100 Brilliancies!

Boris Spassky during a 30-board simul at the Framingham State College, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1984 (AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Smyslov and Spassky...
Moscow 3 teams, 1973.
The wall board behind Korchnoi and Geller shows the game Keres-Shamkovich, after 11...0-0.
The player behind Korchnoi and Geller is Leonid Stein,

🔗 Davide Nastasio (@DavideNastasio)

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/262723

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

🗓 8 octobre 1893 : match entre Chigorin et Tarrasch.
Chigorin cherchait déjà à éviter les préparations de son adversaire dans les ouvertures.
Et Tarrasch allumait des cigares pour l'incommoder !
👨‍🏫 Georges Bertola vous raconte ce choc historique sur https://www.europe-echecs.com/art/les-echecs-a-st-petersbourg-avant-1917-2-6959.html