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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
On this day in 1887, Tartakower was born (pictured on the left playing Edward Lasker).
Savielly Tartakower
One of the first players to be awarded the GM title in its inaugural year, 1950, Tartakower wrote several books, the most famous of which, "The Hypermodern Chess Game" (1924) has been issued in almost 100 editions.

2-time Polish Champion Tartakower was one of the main organizers of the Chess Olympiad in Warsaw in 1935.

France had a lot of strong chess-players. Tartakower, Alekhine, Spasskij and now Firouzja. All however being born outside of France. How did MVL manage to make it ti the top, despite being actually born in France?
"No one ever won a game by resigning."

🔸 Savielly Tartakower

@UnityChessClub
Puzzle of the day by Polish and French GM Savielly Tartakower, who was born On This Day in 1887.

White Mates in 2.

Game: Saviely Tartakower vs Richard Reti, Vienna, 1920.
A superb picture of the Polgár family
TASS agency

🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
Airthings Masters Day 3: Nepo Maintains Lead; Carlsen Leaps To Second
Going into tomorrow's final 3 rounds, only Ian Nepomniachtchi can rest easy — just a single win (3 points) separates 2nd place from 10th! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-airthings-masters-2022-prelims/12/1/4
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Airthings Masters Prelim
-Meet 16 yrs old Indian Praggnanandhaa
-He stunned Norway’s world No1 Magnus Carlsen at the online rapid chess tournament Airthings Masters
-He won in just in just 19 moves
Life is not over even when you have 0 out of 12 😅 Every experience is unique, every defeat is a lesson learned. Next time will be better for sure 😅💪🏻

🔗 Alexandra Kosteniuk (@chessqueen)
Men Playing Chess in Damascus, 1888
Photographer unknown

Echoes of a thousand years...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
“A book cannot by itself teach how to play. It can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be learned by experience.”

🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca

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Photographed during the 4th USSR Team Championship, Voroshilovgrad (modern Luhansk), September 1955 - the Ukrainian team.
L to R: Zamikhovsky, Kots, Shianovsky, Vitkovskaya, Feldman, Vaisberg, Usachiy, Bannik, Lipnitsky.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)