Amsterdam, 31st July 1968. The 13th round of the IBM tournament. David Bronstein is in play v. Leonid Shamkovich, as Lubosh Kavalek looks on.

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A very young Boris Spassky. This photo appears in volume 1 of the 2-volume work 'Boris Spassky' (Ts. K. N. B., Moscow, 2000; edited by N. V. Krogius). The date and credit is not indicated.

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Move of the day :

21...Bf3!! -+ (mate in 4 moves is inevitable) 0-1

Yasser Seirawan - Alexander Beliavsky, Brussels World Cup 1988

Morphy the Legend 😎

July 1 FIDE rating list is out:

After his great blitz performance at
Norway Chess
, Maxime Vachier Lagrave
is the new blitz #1 with 2948, while
Magnus Carlsen
is #2 with 2920.

In standard, Magnus Carlsen is far ahead with superb 2872.

Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So catch up with Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead, who loses to Ding Liren.

New phobia - having an uncastled king against Ding Liren 👻😱🕷

With a relentless attack, Ding brings
Yan Nepomniachtchi's to heel and wins a nice game! 👏

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The players talk about their pre game rituals. Really curious to know what song Vachier_Lagrave is listening to during Croatia #GrandChessTour

Fischer vs Saidy US championship 1963/64 final round.
At this stage Fischer had 10/10 and in this game they entered a drawn Bishop vs Knight end-game with a slight advantage for Fischer.
He pushed and pushed and in the end Saidy cracked.
Fischer won with 11/11 a sensation!

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"Chess is the struggle against error."

🔸 Johannes Zukertort

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Minsk, January 1986 - the Candidates' quarter-final match between Soviet grandmasters Rafael Vaganian and Andrei Sokolov. Chief arbiter A. A. Zakharov can be seen by the board.

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So basically in every 25 years we have a new rating record.
It's interesting to look how ratings have changed durning history.

In 1970s there were only two 2700 players.
In 1990 Kasparov broke 2800.
And now there are ~40 2700 rated players and 13 players have been in 2800 club.

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