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.

Rudik Makarian (2405) is the U19 - Moscow Youth Champion!
With 7.5/9 points, the 15-year-old IM finished a full point ahead of the nearest rival Aram Yeritsyan.

The 2nd leg of #WomenGrandPrixFIDE starts in Monaco on Dec 2:

Humpy Koneru
Aleksandra Goryachkina
Kateryna Lagno
Elisabeth Paehtz
Valentina Gunina
Dronavalli Harika
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Pia Cramling
Anna Muzychuk
Mariya Muzychuk
Nana Dzagnidze
Zhao Xue

The traditional #Russia🇷🇺 vs #China🇨🇳 match is taking place in the Botvinnik Central Chess Club in Moscow, Russia from 26-30 November.

Teams of five men and five women from the two countries will face each other in classical chess.

First games of Russia - China match were played in Moscow. Guests take the lead 6-4