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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.
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?
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?
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Miracle Chess Tactics 2! 📖
PUMA partners with Magnus Carlsen and Champions Chess Tour
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/puma-partners-with-magnus-carlsen-and-champions-chess-tour
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/puma-partners-with-magnus-carlsen-and-champions-chess-tour
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
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)
🔗 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)
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
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca
@UnityChessClub
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)
L to R: Zamikhovsky, Kots, Shianovsky, Vitkovskaya, Feldman, Vaisberg, Usachiy, Bannik, Lipnitsky.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)