Ding Liren 🇨🇳 defeats David Navara 🇨🇿 in a 10-round rapid match with a crushing 7-3 score.

Zagreb #GrandChessTour is only a week away and will feature all 12 tour players:

Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, Vachier_Lagrave, Vishy Anand, Sergey Karyakin, Anish Giri, Shakhmamedyarov, Yan Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So and Ding Liren! Are you excited?

Russia's 16-year-old Arseniy Nesterov (2423) wins the 2019 #VoronezhMasters tournament with 6/7 points. Congratulations!

New York City, 21st Dec 1963. The 5th round of the US Championship is in progress at the Hendry Hudson Hotel.
Bobby Fischer is seen in play v. Sammy Reshevsky, who is standing to his right.
This was the event that Fischer won with 11/11.

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"Chess, like other arts, must be practised to be appreciated."

🔸 Alexander Alekhine

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Arthur William Dake vs Alexander Alekhine
"Dake it to the Limit"
(1-0 !!) One of the first acquaintances with American chess players ...

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Polgar's Family

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Move of the day :

33...Qa4+!! 0-1

Jonathan Tisdall - Judit Polgar, Reykjavik 1988

2019 Women’s Candidates. Closing Ceremony.

FIDE publishes the Player’s Contract for Participation in the FIDE chess.com Grand Swiss 2019 (Isle of Man, 10-21 October) that is expected to be the strongest Swiss-system tournament in the history of chess. Players have two weeks to sign.

https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/11683-fide-chesscom-grand-swiss-2019-players-contract.html

Summer Chess Classic - A Group

https://chess24.com/en/embed-tournament/summer-chess-classic-2019-a/3/1/1

⚪️#242 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Sanikidze,T (2512)
🔸Gasimov,Parviz (2303)
🔸Baku Open 2018

23.Nc4!? [23.h3?! Qc6 24.a5 Rbd8 25.Re1 Qxd5 26.exd5 Bf6 27.Rab1 Rd7 28.Nc4 h5 29.b4 cxb4 30.Rxb4 Bd8²; 23.a5! By blocking the opponent's queenside pawns, White could have prepared to put a mighty knight on c4. 23...Qc6 24.Ra3 Bf8 25.Re1 Qxd5 26.exd5 f5 27.Nc4 Re7 28.Rb3 Rg7 29.Rb6 Rd8 30.f3 Rf7 31.Kf2 g5 32.g3 Rfd7 33.Kg2 Be7 34.Rb1! Rc7 35.g4 fxg4 36.fxg4 Rdc8 37.Kf3 Rf8+ 38.Ke3 Rf6 39.b4 Bf8 40.bxc5 Rxc5 41.Rxb7 Rxd5 42.Ra7±]

23...b5 24.axb5 axb5 25.Ne3+/=

½–½

⚪️#242 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Semcesen,D (2464)
🔸Brynell,S (2409)
🔸Bistro Stella 2018

39.Rh7!? [39.Rb6! Rh8 40.h4 gxh3+ 41.Kxh3 e5 42.Kh4 Ke6 43.d7+ Ke7 44.Rc5 e4 (44...Kxd7 45.Rd5+ Kc7 46.Rxe5+–) 45.Rb7 Kd6 46.Rc2 Rhf8 47.Rd2+ Ke6 48.Rb6+ Ke7 49.Kxh5+–; 39.h4!? b4 40.Rb7 Rab8 41.Rxb8 Rxb8 42.Rb6 Rd8 43.Rxa6 e5 44.Rb6 Ra8 45.a6 Ke6 46.d7+ Kxd7 47.Rxb4 Rxa6 48.Rb7+ Kd6 49.Rh7 Ra2 50.Rh6+ Ke7 51.Rxh5 Kf6 52.Rh6+ Kf5±]

39...Kg6 40.Rb7 Kf6 41.h3 [41.d7+–]

41...Rab8 42.Rxb8 Rxb8 43.Rxa6+–

1–0