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«The Key To Invincibility? No Pressure!» — Hikaru Nakamura after winning first leg of the Grand Prix
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Closing Ceremony of FIDE Grand Prix First Leg. Hikaru Nakamura Receives the Medal, Gives a Speech.
Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, 30th November 1948. Ex-World Champion Max Euwe is pictured with his wife Carolina, en route to a tour of Iceland, and North & South America.
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🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz
@UnityChessClub
Prizewinners at the European Junior Championship, Groningen, Netherlands, 1972/73.
Left to right: Aurel Urzică (Romania; 3rd), Oleg Romanishin (USSR; 1st), Tony Miles (England; 2nd).
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Left to right: Aurel Urzică (Romania; 3rd), Oleg Romanishin (USSR; 1st), Tony Miles (England; 2nd).
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Miracle Chess Tactics 1! 📖
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Solution explained by Daniel King
Chess puzzle of the week - White to play shorts
Chess puzzle of the week - White to play shorts
Lev Psakhis (centre) kindly presented me with a lilac coloured book, in Russian, on Rashid Nezhmetdinov - a brilliant but obscure figure whose foreign excursions were limited to Bucharest and Ulaanbaatar. He has subsequently become famous thanks to the streaming generation.
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🔗 Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess)
A portrait of the Dutch grandmaster and former World #3 Jan Timman (b. 1951), taken in early 2021.
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“A craze for playing chess – yes, chess – is sweeping through the England camp and there is an unexpected candidate for the grandmaster.”
Read more ⬇️
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/03/england-grandmaster-manu-tuilagi-looking-to-checkmate-wales
Read more ⬇️
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/03/england-grandmaster-manu-tuilagi-looking-to-checkmate-wales
the Guardian
England grandmaster Manu Tuilagi looking to checkmate Wales
The centre has swapped brawn for pawns in training camp and has impressed his international teammates with his ability on the chessboard
Congratulations to Mahammad Muradli for winning the 2022 Azerbaijani Championship in Nakhchivan, February 4-18. This is the second national title for the 19-year old IM, three years after his first one.
More info: https://fide.com/news/1586
More info: https://fide.com/news/1586
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MUST WIN | Levon Aronian vs Hikaru Nakamura | FIDE Grand Prix Berlin 2022
"My struggles are real life; they’re more than a story. Chess is more than just a game to me."
Rochelle Ballantyne, working to be the first Black American female chess master, spoke with Chess Life Online about why representation matters (2018).
https://new.uschess.org/news/qa-rochelle-ballantyne-representation-important
Rochelle Ballantyne, working to be the first Black American female chess master, spoke with Chess Life Online about why representation matters (2018).
https://new.uschess.org/news/qa-rochelle-ballantyne-representation-important
US Chess.org
Q+A with Rochelle Ballantyne: "Representation is Important"
Rochelle Ballantyne leapt into the chess community’s collective consciousness with the 2012 release of Brooklyn Castle, a documentary that chronicled the triumphs and struggles of the I.S. 318 chess team in New York.