A photo taken at the time of the Groningen tournament, August-September 1946.
L to R: Isaac Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aleksandr Kotov, Vasily Smyslov, Herman Steiner and (I think) Gavriil Veresov.

@UnityChess

The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.

🔸 Garry Kasparov (2017) Deep Thinking

@UnityChess

"The Match of the Century”: USSR versus the Rest of the World. Belgrade, March 29 – April 5, 1970.
This was probably the last time that Petrosian laughed before facing Bobby Fischer.

@UnityChess

Amsterdam IBM, 3rd August 1968. A draw is agreed after 83 moves in the final-round encounter between Aleksandr Kotov (USSR) and Lubomir Kavalek (ČSSR).

@UnityChess

Judit Polgar on growing up as part of her father Laszlo's groundbreaking educational experiment, the famous touch-move controversy when she played Garry Kasparov in 1994 and why no other woman in chess history has come close to her achievements.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/judit-polgar-interview-chess

3 chess stars
Ivanchuk, Dubov and Giri

https://t.me/unitychess

Move of the day : 17. Re7!! (1-0)
Geza Maroczy - Milan Vidmar, Ljubljana, 1922

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 14

27.Rb5! [A well-timed exchange sacrifice. By this sacrifice, White intends to create a protected passed pawn and a strong outpost for his knight on the c4–square.]

27...Rc8 [27...Bxb5? 28.cxb5! g6 29.g3 Rb1 29...Kg7 30.Rb1 Kf6 31.Nc4!± b6]

28.Re1 Bd8 29.Nc2 Bxb5? [¹29...Kg8 30.Kf2 h6 31.Na3 Bf5 32.Rb2 Rf7 33.h3 h5!²]

30.cxb5 Re7 31.Ne3! [Nc4]

31...c4 32.Nf5‚ Bb6+ 33.Be3 Bxe3+ 34.Rxe3 Rd7 35.Rxe4 g6 36.Nd4 Kg7 37.Nc6+–

🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 1
⚪️Jakubowski,K (2510)
⚫️Lobzhanidze,D (2428)
🔸1-0

Korobov Channels Inner AlphaZero, Still Leads Superbet Rapid & Blitz

Anton Korobov still leads the Superbet Rapid & Blitz #GrandChessTour after three days of rapid. The Ukrainian grandmaster is two points ahead of Aronian, Giri and Mamedyarov. Report:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-superbet-rapid-blitz-bucharest-grand-chess-tour-alphazero

FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg, results of the first day of the quarterfinals:

Vachier-Lagrave starts the Hamburg #FideGrandPrix quarterfinals with a victory against Topalov and will need a draw with white pieces tomorrow to advance to the semifinals.

The 3 other games end in draws.

🇧🇬 Topalov 0-1 Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷
🇷🇺 Grischuk ½-½ Navara 🇨🇿
🇷🇺 Dubov ½-½ Svidler 🇷🇺
🇨🇳 Yu Yangyi ½-½ Duda 🇵🇱

Games:https://worldchess.com/tournament/hamburg2019/9.Round-2-Game-1/Topalov-Vachier-Lagrave

Breaking news! The Masters will be announced on the 12-11-19. But we can already announce one of the players...
We are happy that this young American Grandmaster is playing in the Masters this year.
Jeffery Xiong is looking forward returning to Wijk aan Zee for the #TSCT2020