"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

Reigning champion Wesley So scores a nice technical victory over GM Dariusz Swiercz: #USChessChamps

After winning yesterday's game GM John Burke makes a draw against GM Aleksandr Lenderman, featuring a topical line in the Sveshnikov: #USChessChamps

After losing yesterday GM Daniel Naroditsky bounces back to take down GM Jeffery Xiong! #USChessChamps

Carissa wins an excellent game to move to 1.5/2: #USChessChamps

IM Carissa Yip finds the fantastic shot 20.Bh7! with Ne4 to come, and Black is in big trouble! #USChessChamps

Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1930s.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw."

🔸 Jeremy Silman

@UnityChessClub

Mikhail Tal, pictured playing blitz in Moscow in March 1960, a few days before the start of the match against Mikhail Botvinnik that would bring him the title of World Champion.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)