13 years ago today, I scored my first major tournament victory, sharing first place at the 2008 World Youth u18. Time really flies! Hard to believe this was almost half my life ago.

🔗 Sam Shankland (@GMShanky)

'Grandmaster discussion' - a photo from the Novosti Press archives. The circumstances of this one are not clear, but it features Lev Polugaevsky, Anatoly Karpov, Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Botvinnik.
USSR, 1975.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Anatoly Karpov in mid-1986, about five or six months after he lost the world champion title to Garry Kasparov (Sputnik Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Grandmaster Artur Jussupow (USSR), pictured at the 25th Olympiad, Lucerne, Switzerland, Oct-Nov 1982.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Tony Miles at the start of his first-round game against 14-year-old Nigel Short in the Phillips and Drew Kings tournament in London, April 11-25, 1980. The game, a 69-move draw in a Queen's Indian, was a terrific display of fireworks (Hulton Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Today is 'Trainer's Day' in Russia , so here is a photo from 1981 of perhaps the most influential trainer of modern times, Mark Dvoretsky, giving a simultaneous display at the Pioneers' Palace in the Lenin Hills, Moscow.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Solve the puzzle: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/402296

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

Former Women's World Champion Xie Jun celebrates her 51st birthday today.
In 1991, she dethroned Maia Chiburdanidze, who held the title for 13 years. She lost the title to Susan Polgar in 1996, but regained it in 1999 and kept it until 2001.

📷: Andrzej Filipowicz , Wikipedia

♟💙 | Happy Birthday to Jeffery Xiong! Xiong turned 21 today 🎂

Biografía:
👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Xiong
👉 https://chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=Jeffery+Xiong

25 days until clocks start!

Lan Nepomniachtchi takes on Magnus Carlsen in the FIDE World Chess Championship starting Nov.24th!

Dubai will host the next FIDE World Chess Championship. Magnus Carlsen of Norway to defend his title against Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. The two players will compete for a prize fund of around AED 9 million.

Indian chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will be an official commentator for the FIDE World Chess Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Check out both player's top 5 most brilliant moves: 👇👇

Magnus Carlsen's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Moves

Ian Nepomniachtchi's 5 Most Brilliant Moves

"...you’re playing a player like Magnus, one of the greatest players in the history of chess, and you know that he won’t make a single moment in any game easy for you, so you’ll always have to work for everything."

Read our full interview w/ Caruana ⬇️

As the game between Najer and Saric ends in a draw, Alireza Firouzja is still the sole leader of #GrandSwiss2021 with 3½ out of 4.

11 players are half a point behind: Yu, Ponkratov, Saric, Hovhannisyan, Nihal Sarin, M. Petrosyan, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Najer, Tari, Sevian.

After 7 wins in a row, Firouzja finally settles for a draw — will anyone catch him in the lead?

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-chess-com-grand-swiss-2021/4/1/1
#c24live #GrandSwiss

Lei Tingjie (🇨🇳 2505) defeated Valentina Gunina and became the sole leader of the Women's Grand Swiss. With 3½/4, so far she only gave half a point to Paehtz.

A group of 10 players is following with 3/4.
https://grandswiss.fide.com/grand-swiss-women/

#GrandSwiss2021