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

These are the pairings for #TataSteelChess round six ...!

'I like to sit with a chessboard, but when I use technology I use the best ones'

- Nils Grandelius

💙♟| The 6th round of the #TataSteelChess Tournament starts at 14:00 (CET)! Follow the games via the international live stream 👉🏼 http://www.tatasteelchess.com

💙♟| Game of the day - round 6: Carlsen - Rapport! Will co-leader Richard Rapport be able to hold with Black against the world champion? Or will he be able to play for even more in #TataSteelChess?

Magnus Carlsen joins the #TataSteelChess Masters leaders with a crushing win over Richard Rapport!