“Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.”

🔸 Mikhail Chigorin

@UnityChessClub

Via http://ruchess.ru, a photo of Vasily Smyslov & Mikhail Botvinnik. Pictured in Moscow. Early 1990s?
They played 3 World Championship matches - in 1954, 1957 & 1958.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Bobby Fischer’s scoresheet from the 1st game of his 1971 Candidates’ Quarter-final v. Mark Taimanov. As reproduced in Kažić, ‘International Championship Chess’ (Batsford, 1974).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Fabiano Caruana - Best Chess Tactics!

Today's chess puzzle is quite difficult, but Magnus Carlsen found all the right moves while blitzing and bantering.
Carlsen - Aronian, Banter Blitz Cup 2020
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/195677

🗓 Yıl 2004
♟ Soldan sağa Magnus Carlsen ve kardeşi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Vuqar Haşimov və Eltac Safarli.

🔗 ZaurSmd (@zaursmd1)

Game 7 between Nepomniachtchi and Carlsen ends in a draw. After seven games, the defending champion is leading by one point: 4-3.

Ian Nepomniachtchi⚪️ - ⚫️Magnus Carlsen, Game 7: ½-½

After a historic game yesterday, the seventh game ends quickly and peacefully. The match score of #CarlsenNepo stands at 4.0 to 3.0 in favor of the Carlsen

World Chess Championship 2021| Game 7

Carlsen is drawing parallels: "I remember my first match against Vishy when I broke through and won the 5th game, then I managed to gradually equalize in the 6th and eventually win. I was slightly hoping that we could follow a similar scenario, but a draw is a very nice result."

Confident Carlsen Equalizes Easily In FIDE World Chess Championship Game 7

https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-world-chess-championship-2021-game-7

Today's second game 🤗 was very solid. There was not much difficulty for Magnus, he played a nice, expected forcing idea by giving up the center but as it became concrete simplification was the way to draw game 7. ✅

#FIDEMatch2021 #CarlsenNepo

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)

Sunday Puzzle by the #personoftheday Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who turns 42 today!

Try to solve it in under 10 seconds.
White mates in 3.

Game: Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs Alexander Moiseenko, Alma-Ata, 2016.

Nana Alexandria (b. Poti, USSR, 1949), pictured in 1964. She would go on to challenge for the Women's World Championship title on two occasions (1975 & 1981) and win the Soviet Women's Championship 3 times (1966, 1968 (jointly) & 1969).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph."

🔸 Irving Chernev

@UnityChessClub

Mikhail Botvinnik - Max Euwe, blindfold game (Netherlands, 1963)

Move of the Day!

Daily chess puzzle with Ian Nepomniachtchi
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/395974

Magnus Carlsen wins another game with white pieces and extends his lead to 2 points. After 8 games, the score is 5-3 in favour of the defending champion.
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#CarlsenNepo #FIDEmatch2021

Magnus Carlsen⚪️ - ⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi, Game 8: 1-0 (total: Carlsen 5-3 Nepomniachtchi)

After another Petrov, Magnus Carlsen
takes game eight and expands his lead with the white pieces. The match score stands at 5 - 3 leading into a rest day tomorrow. #CarlsenNepo