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

@UnityChessClub

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

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

🔗 Fabrice Wantiez (@FabriceWantiez):
As a public person, you cannot declare that! There are indeed some dark spots in his life, but we don't know the absolute truth and who we are to judge without knowing anything?
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

🔗 Jennifer Shahade (@JenShahade):
While Alekhine was hobnobbing with Hans Frank, Nazi leader of occupied Poland that orchestrated the slaughter of millions, another chess player’s parents died in the Łódź (Poland) Ghetto and Belgen-Bersen camp.

Isabelle Choko survived at 55 pounds when her camp was liberated.

A young Garry Kasparov (pictured, according to the archive records, in Baku in October 1977).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

A fine photo of the game between Magnus Carlsen & his future coach Peter Heine Nielsen, played in Rd. 6 of the Sigeman tournament in Malmö/Copenhagen, 6th May 2004.
Magnus won this game; Peter Heine shared 1st-2nd with Curt Hansen.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Game of the day!

Magnus Carlsen turns 31 today. https://amzn.to/3I8KDQi

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Happy Birthday GM Andrew Tang!
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/198169

🔗 Chesspuzzle.net (@Chesspuzzle\_net)

Happy birthday to World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen who is currently playing in the World Championship and looking to claim his 5TH TITLE! 🎉

Winning the title at a record age of 22, Carlsen has since defended it vs Anand, Karjakin, & Caruana.

Today he's playing the 4th round of his 5th WC match looking to defend the chess crown vs Ian Nepomniachtchi.

The fourth game Carlsen v Nepomniachtchi ends in a draw. After four games, the score is 2-2. #CarlsenNepo

Magnus Carlsen⚪️ - ⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi, Game 4: ½-½ (total: Carlsen 2-2 Nepomniachtchi) #CarlsenNepo #FIDEMatch2021

World Chess Championship 2021| Game 4

Nepo Holds Carlsen With Petroff In Game 4 FIDE World Chess Championship

Akiba Rubinstein, one of the greatest chess players in history, was born on this day 141 years ago

He defeated top players like Capablanca, Schlechter & was due to play vs Lasker, but WWII intervened. He is considered one of the best endgame players of all time.

Akiba Rubinstein's Best Chess Tactics

And one of the most prominent chess trainers, analysts and theoreticians Semyon Furman born on this day

Semyon Furman (1920-1978), mentor & long-term trainer of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov, & GM in his own right - at one time he was called the "World champion with White".

#WednesdayPuzzle by Semyon Furman, who was born #OnThisDay in 1920.

White mates in 4.

Game: Semyon Furman vs Boris Ratner, Vilnius, 1949

The most accurate game in world chess championship history was obviously game two of the 1972 Spassky versus Fischer match.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers."

🔸 Jeremy Silman

@UnityChessClub

Pictured at the 'National Tournament of Three Teams' in Moscow, April 1973 - grandmaster Vladimir Tukmakov (b. Odessa, 1946). He was appearing on Board 2 for the USSR Youth Team, behind Karpov on Board 1.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)