Happy New Year! Let 2020 bring you a lot of interesting chess games and brilliant moves on and off the board!

#happynewyear2020 #FIDE

Despite winning both rapid & blitz world championships at the end of the year, Magnus Carlsen did not manage to return to the top position in the #blitz rating – Hikaru Nakamura preserved his #1 spot.

https://t.co/6KXkqD6w7B

That moment when Carlsen lost his composure against Firouzja at the World Blitz 2019. This led to Alireza later complaining about his opponent speaking in Norwegian and disturbing him.

Full game video: https://t.co/OuQoi603q9

Video about the appeal: https://t.co/ZoHJXWys6c

Participants in the Amsterdam IBM tournament, July 1975.
L to R: Uhlmann, Hübner, Jansa, Timman, Raičević, Smejkal, Sosonko, Makarichev, Razuvaev.

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I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

🔸 Susan Polgar

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Daily #chesspuzzle
Maroczy - Romi, San Remo 1930
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/73580

This February 20, 1948 Polygoon Hollands Nieuws clip shows three Soviet heavyweights before the start of the 1948 world championship: Keres and Smyslov taking a walk on the Scheveningen boulevard in The Hague and Botvinnik with his family meeting Soviet ambassador Vasily Valkov.

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The 7 Best Chess Moments Of 2019‎

https://www.chess.com/article/view/best-chess-moments-2019

Magnus Carlsen 🏆🥇

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Game of the Day!

Valentina Gunina 2019

24.Bxh6!

🇷🇺Gunina, Valentina (2501) 🆚 🇫🇷Sebag, Marie (2476)

Best of 2019: Event, News, Player, Stream

https://www.chess.com/news/view/best-of-2019-event-news-player-stream

IM Volodar Murzin (🇷🇺 2422). At 13 years old, he behaves like a consummate professional. Like Magnus Carlsen, or Karpov before him, one of his main abilities is to outplay his opponents on apparently equal endgames. Here is an example:

Meet the 13-year-old endgame wizard from Russia - Volodar Murzin

GibChess 2020 starts in 20 Days! Are you ready for the return of world's No.1 Open Tournament?

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🔸15th Vasylyshyn GM 2018
🔸Round 4
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