During the 1959 Candidates tournament, with a devastating score of 0-5 against Mikhail Tal and fearing hypnosis, Pal Benko used a pair of dark sunglasses when facing the Latvian.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, pictured in play during his Candidates' quarter-final match v. Lev Polugaevsky in Moscow, January 1974.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Daily chess puzzle with @Tigerkatten!
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/263533

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

Wesley So wins his 3rd US Chess Championship

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/wesley-so-wins-his-3rd-us-chess-championship

Carissa Yip won her 1st US Women's Championship

Final standings & prize money for the 2021 U.S. Championship:

#USChessChamps

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Final standings & prize money for the 2021 U.S. Women's Championship:

#USChessChamps

Nikita Vitiugov first played in the Russian Championship as a 19-year-old in 2006 and has missed just one of the 15 tournaments since — in 2021 he finally won, with Valentina Gunina winning her 4th women's title!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/vitiugov-and-gunina-win-russian-championship-titles

"А я так долго шёл до пьедестала, что вмятины в помосте протоптал". Means so much for me! Russian Champion 2021.

🔗 Nikita Vitiugov (@N\_Vitiugov)

The last four seconds.

🔗 Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru)

Revisit our conversation with stars Anya Taylor Joy and Thomas Sangster
: https://netflixqueue.com/anya-taylor-joy-and-thomas-brodie-sangster-make-bold-moves/

This evening, "King Enigma" visited Got Talent España, one of the most popular TV shows in Spain. In primetime, he played against Risto Mejide.

It was a high stakes game: had he lost, he would have had to reveal his secret identity 😱 ♟

🔗 Got Talent España (@GotTalentES):

Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1940s (Multimedia Art Museum Archive, Moscow).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)