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

@UnityChessClub

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)

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Epic draw puzzle explained by GM Daniel King!
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/378145

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

WGM Katerina Nemcova wins again to be the first and only player on 2/2 so far! #USChessChamps

Leinier Dominguez missed a great chance to defeat Fabiano Caruana in a 108-move battle, while Wesley So picked up his 1st win of the 2021 #USChessChamps!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/us-chess-champs-2-so-strikes-caruana-escapes-again