“Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.”

🔸 Emanuel Lasker (1926) "Lasker's Manual of Chess".

@UnityChess

Botvinnik vs. Bronstein, World Chess Championship 1951.

@UnityChess

The European Women’s Individual Chess Championship finishes in a five-way tie.
Congrats to Russia's Alina Kashlinskaya (2477) on becoming the 2019 European Women's Champion due to better tie-breaks.

Congratulations to Alina Kashlinskaya on winning the 2019 European Women's Championship!

European Women’s Individual Chess Championship — #ewicc2019 —
1. Alina Kashlinskaya 🇷🇺2. Marie Sebag 🇫🇷3. Paehtz Elisabeth🇩🇪

🔹 20th ch-EUR Indiv w 2019
🔹 PGN format

@UnityChess

Carlsen vs Anand | World Champion Battle | First Moves GRENKE Chess Classic 2019

Vishy Anand's game against Magnus Carlsen underscores how really great players are able to resuscitate, stabilize and navigate in really poor positions. The art of doing well after things went bad.

🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 2
⚪️Bacrot,E (2677)
⚫️Werle,J (2528)
🔸0-1

39...Rc2+! [Dragging the opponent's king to an inferior position.]

40.Kd3™ e4+! 41.Ke3? [¹41.Nxe4+! dxe4+ 42.Kxe4 Rxa4+ 43.Kd5 Raa2-/+]

41...Ra3+! [△e3]

[41...Rc3+!? △e3 42.Ke2 e3 43.g4 exd2–+]

42.Kf4 e3!–+ [The White's extra piece cannot deal with the Black's pawns.]

0–1

⚫️#196 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Huseynzade,Jeyhun (1979)
🔸Gasanov,E (2502)
🔸Baku Open 2018