"Without error there can be no brilliancy."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

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

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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.

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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

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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

This match was contested in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Russia) between October 8 and November 14, 1893. The time control was 15 moves an hour, and the stakes were 5,000 marks per side. The first player to win ten games would win the match, but if each player won nine games, the match would end without a winner. In Dreihundert Schachpartien, Tarrasch wrote that he received an invitation "couched in the most flattering terms" from St. Petersburg. On the other hand, Garry Kasparov stated in his On My Great Predecessors, Part I that Tarrasch challenged Chigorin. In any case, the German arrived in St. Petersburg on October 4 and the match began four days later.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=85135

Chigorin vs Tarrasch 1893

"Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

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footage from the 16th Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1964 - featuring the likes of Botvinnik, Petrosian, Smyslov, Kotov...
https://jfc.org.il/news_journal/60479-2/94503-2/

Mikhail Botvinnik after winning back the world chess championship title from Mikhail Tal in Moscow, May 1961.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

The sixth World Chess Champion, also dubbed as “the Patriarch of the Soviet Chess School”.

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)