World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995), shovelling snow outside his dacha at Nikolina Gora, Moscow oblast, USSR, February 1963.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic."

🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik

@UnityChessClub

Saduakassova - Maltsevskaya, #GrandSwiss2021
White just played Rd3. Which move did both players miss?
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/411033

49-year-old Alexei Shirov will take on 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja today on top board of the #GrandSwiss after Shirov & Najer both caught Firouzja in Round 5:

FIDE Grand Swiss Women

The pairings are out for Round 7 of the #GrandSwiss, but first there's a rest day ...!

Today's a rest day in Riga, so a good chance to check out the story so far, with MVL hitting the front in Round 6 while Caruana had a somewhat lucky escape!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/grand-swiss-6-mvl-sasikiran-catch-the-leaders

#c24live #GrandSwiss2021

Visited the memorial of one of the best chess players in history. Mikhail Tal, what a legend ⚡️♟

🔗 David Howell (@DavidHowellGM)

Cheers for a rest day tomorrow! #FIDEGrandSwiss

🔗 Irene Sukandar (@irene\_sukandar)

Visitando el monumento al "Mago de Riga", Mikhail Tal ♟⬆️ #ajedrez #chess #FIDEGrandSwiss #riga #latvia

🔗 Carolina Lujan (@imcarolinalujan)

On the eastern outskirts of Riga, in the New Jewish Cemetery, is the final resting place of the 8th World Champion Mikhail Tal.

Andris Tihomirovs wrote an interesting article about it: https://grandswiss.fide.com/2021/11/02/mikhail-tals-resting-place/

📷: Milan Dinic

When technique matters - Endgame analyses from Riga

https://en.chessbase.com/post/technique-matters-endgames-from-riga

Today marks 108 years since Elisaveta Bykova was born.
She became Women's World Champion in 1953 by defeating Lyudmila Rudenko. She lost the title to Olga Rubtsova in 1956, won it back in 1958 and kept it until 1962, when she lost it against Nona Gaprindashvili.

📷: Gerhard Hund