Polina Shuvalova picks up the first win of the day in the Challengers!

Polina Shuvalova enjoys her first Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee

Another victory in the Challengers for Erigaisi! It took 60 moves for his advantage to materialize but the result was never in doubt.

Erigaisi Arjun wins a very difficult game against Marc'Andria Maurizzi

18-year-old Indian prodigy Arjun Erigaisi is another rising star to closely follow: an impressive rating gain in 2021 and an amazing start of 2022 leading #TataSteelChess Challengers suggest he will soon enter top-100.

Tata Steel Challengers - Round 5

Mikhail Botvinnik and Leonid Stein, pictured during an excursion during the 16th Olympiad in Tel Aviv, Israel. In the background (left) it looks very much like Tigran Petrosian.
(📷via http://chesspro.ru.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

@UnityChessClub

Nona Gaprindashvili in 1972

🔗 Jürgen Lutz (@zugzwang\_76)

2017. Asian Youth Championship (Tashkent). A look into the future

Need a lift?

Isabelle Choko survived the Holocaust, just a few hours away from death to become French Women's Chess Champion/author/businesswoman and mom of three. She talked to us this summer for Ladies Knight: 👑

Listen: https://ladiesknight.org/2021/08/ladies-knight-with-jen-shahade-ft-isabelle-choko-lk033/

Player of the Day! Richard Rapport✨

Puzzle of the week, based on a game played by Gioachino Greco in 1620.
Solve the puzzle: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/415898

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

Throwin' it back to last night celebrations during Tata Steel Chess 2016! ♟ Six years on and it's great to see my friend mamedyarov and his swashbuckling chess in the joint lead after 5 rounds! 🔥

🔗 Fiona Steil-Antoni (@fionchetta)

Scary | Richard Rapport vs R. Praggnanandhaa | Tata Steel Chess 2022