Happy Birthday to Anatoly Karpov, 12th world chess champion (1975–1985, 1993–1999).

One of the greatest players in history, he won over 160 tournaments during his outstanding career, and continues to popularize chess after his retirement from active play.

#HappyBirthday 🎂🎉🎈

"Never make a purely defensive move."

🔸 Edward Lasker (cited in Soltis, 2008)

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Biggest chess achievements by Anatoly Karpov.
1.-World champion for 10 years.
2.-Played total of 7 WCC matches.
3.-Number two in world for 14 years.
4.-Winning the Linares supertournament in 1994 with performance rating of 2899.
5.-Second player in history to break 2700 rating.

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Moscow Grand Prix: Semi-final matches start drawn

https://en.chessbase.com/post/moskau-grand-prix-live

Nakamura 🇺🇸 - Grischuk 🇷🇺 also finished in a draw.

Second semifinal games tomorrow, May 24. Do you think we will know at least one finalist or both Grischuk-Nakamura and Wojtaszek-Nepomniachtchi will go to tiebreaks?

Semifinals of #GrandPrixFIDE organized by the World Chess are on in Moscow.

The first move in Nepomniachtchi - Wojtaszek was made by Igor Rybakov - entrepreneur and investor of PRYTEK (Global investment & tech transform platform).

This game ended in a draw.

FIDE Women's Candidates tournament starts in a week.

8 strongest female grandmasters take part in this double all-play-all, and the winner qualifies for the World Championship Match with Ju Wenjun.

May 30 - June 18, Kazan 🇷🇺
https://fwct2019.com/

Moscow Grand Prix 2019. Round 3, game 1. Interview with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Radoslaw Wojtaszek

Euro sport in "24h with MVL"

"Mistakes are like accidents. They don't come singly."

🔸 Siegbert Tarrasch

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Soviet soldiers playing chess 1974.

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Grischuk's opponent in the #GrandPrixFIDE final will be decided in the Nepomniachtchi-Wojtaszek tiebreak tomorrow!