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Triberg, July 1921.
Seated, L to R: Rudolf Spielmann, ?, Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein
Standing, L to R: Efim Bogoljubow, Aleksei Selezniev.
This was the first tournament that Alekhine played in after he left his homeland for good.

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"I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown..."

🔸 Anatoly Karpov

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Christmas came early this year for chess lovers! Kudos to US Chess for this great initiative.
If you have ever wanted to browse through nearly 80 years of Chess Life and Chess Review, today is your very lucky day. The US Chess Digital Archive is now live.

https://new.uschess.org/news/us-chess-digital-archive-live/
1996, Yerevan, World Olympics. Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Hakobyan. Russia-Armenia. Instead of one strong team - fifteen! - wrote one of the newspapers, implying 15 teams from the former USSR.

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A mere stomach bug couldn't stop Magnus Carlsen conquering Kolkata! A look back at some of the winners & losers of the Tata Steel India Rapid & Blitz:
Here are the final GCT Standings post tschessindia 2019.

The four finalists who will compete in London are Magnus Carlsen Ding Liren Lev Aronian Vachier_Lagrave
IM Titas Stremavicius (2506) wins the 2019 Saint Louis Invitational GM tournament.

With 6.5/9 points the Lithuanian shared the 1st place with GM Matsenko (2533) but took the title through the play-offs after drawing the Armageddon game with black.