"Soviet chessplayer Anatoly Karpov, World Junior #Chess Champion (Stockholm, 1969), meets with children from School No. 20 in Tula."
Tula, USSR, September 1969.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess."

🔸 Benjamin Franklin

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GM Ray Keene, OBE, wrote a great article of physicists and chess on his weekly article in "thearticle" - see https://thearticle.com/the-physicists?utm_source=twitter.

From the RIA Novosti archives, a photo of 22-year-old Anatoly Karpov in post-mortem analysis of his 12th-round game v. Vladimir Tukmakov from the 41st USSR Championship in Moscow, October 1973.
(This is among the games featured in this 2020 blog post: https://dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/anatoly-karpov-at-the-41st-ussr-ch-moscow-1973/).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Vishy Anand [on game 32 of the 1978 world title match between Karpov and Korchnoi]: "I still don't know fully the Korchnoi team's motivation to play the Pirc Defence in that game [when the score was 5-5]. Is Karpov really weak in Pirc?"

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Tashkent. 2016. Asian Championship. It's only been five years ...

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

Anderssen's Best Chess Tactics!

Happy Birthday, Vlastimil Jansa!
Ree - Jansa, Krakow 1964
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/418689

Today's puzzle is from a game between world championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi and his second Vladimir Potkin. #CarlsenNepo
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/420758

The third game Nepomniachtchi v Carlsen ends in a draw. After three games, the score is 1½-1½. #CarlsenNepo

Ian Nepomniachtchi - Magnus Carlsen, Game 3: ½-½ (total: Carlsen 1½-1½ Nepomniachtchi)

After a clean Ruy López, game three of #CarlsenNepo ends peacefully. The players will have a rest day tomorrow and return back with Magnus Carlsen with the White pieces.

World Chess Championship 2021| Game 3

Nepo is getting 1 rating point for each draw against Magnus. He is 7 draws away from overtaking Fabiano in the rating list...

FIDE World Chess Championship Game 3: Magnus Bulletproof With Black

The #CarlsenNepo match remains in a deadlock as Nepomniachtchi drew his third game with Magnus Carlsen on Sunday. The latter said: "I was obviously making some fairly ugly moves but it seemed all to work out reasonably well." Report:👇👇

Game 3 - facts sheet.
1️⃣ I am not surprised.
2️⃣ After yesterday’s stormy one, today's has been a peaceful game (draw).☮️
3️⃣ Even with the draws the tension grows with every game!
4️⃣ Tomorrow free day.😉 See you on Tuesday! ❤️

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)

Photographed in Moscow during his 1969 defence of the World Championship v. Boris Spassky - Tigran Petrosian (b. Tbilisi, 1929; d. Moscow, 1984).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.”

🔸 Garry Kasparov

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World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov gives a simultaneous display in the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, USSR, May 1981.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)