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

Lubosh Kavalek (b. Prague, 1943; d. Reston, 2021). Pictured in his native city in 1963.
He was twice champion of Czechoslovakia prior to his defection in 1968, initially to Germany. After settling in the USA, he was three times U.S. Champion.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player."

🔸 Savielly Tartakower

@UnityChessClub

A piece of Latvian archive footage with the iconic scenes of Mikhail Tal's arrival in Riga after winning the world chess championship at the age of 23 in May 1960.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Hastings International, 1966/67. In the 7th round (played 4th January), 14-year-old Henrique Mecking (Brazil) faces ex-World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR). The Soviet grandmaster won the game in 42 moves on the way to winning the event.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Move of the Day!

Happy 70th birthday to Fillipino GM Eugene Torre!

The first Asian player to qualify for GM title Torre became the first to beat then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov during 1976 Manila tournament.

Andreikin - Can, World Cup 2021
Solve the puzzle: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/337436

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

Magnus Carlsen's Training Camp for World Chess Championship 2021 and Exclusive Interview!

When you're giving a simul and one of the guys looks kind of familiar!
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/magnus-carlsen-i-m-hoping-this-time-there-will-be-fewer-draws
#c24live

At halftime when all was well🇳🇴

🔗 Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen)

My kind of crossover - Erling Haaland hanging out with the World's number 1 chess player Magnus Carlsen at Dortmund 🇳🇴 (📷 Lukas Butscher)

🔗 Rob Daly (@robtdaly)

Magnus Carlsen vs Lan Nepomniachtchi in the FIDE_chess World Chess Championship starts in just 20 days. ⬇️