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

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🔸15th Vasylyshyn GM 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Vovk,Y (2565)
⚫️Pacher,M (2453)
🔸1-0

21.Ng5! [White attacks the opponent's main weakness.]

21...Rc7? [¹21...Ne6 22.Nxe6! Rxc4 23.Rd8 fxe6 24.Rxe8+ Rxe8 25.b3±]

22.b4! [Black's knight has no proper square to go to. Black is suffering from his uncoordinated pieces.]

[22.Qa2!? Bc6 23.Nxf7 Rxf7 24.b4!‚ △b5 24...Nb7 25.b5 Bxb5 26.Bxb5 Qxb5 27.Rd7+–]

22...Ne6 23.Nxe6 [△Rd8]

23...Rxc4 24.Rd8 fxe6 25.Rxe8+ Rxe8 26.Qb2 e4 27.Be5 Bxe5 28.Qxe5+–

At the international tournament in Reykjavík, 1964 - grandmasters Mikhail Tal (USSR), Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) & Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland).

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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

🔸 Viswanathan Anand

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Last round of 1959 Candidates Tournament in Belgrade. Tal-Benko, Smyslov-Fischer, Keres-Olafsson and Petrosian-Gligoric.

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Euwe with his daughter, Fitina and Botvinnik at Groningen 1946. Botvinnik won the tournament with 14.5/19, Euwe in second with 14/19 and Smyslov in third 12.5/19.

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Move of the Day!

He was never a world champion but here's a remarkable fact about Akiba Rubinstein's play: he has beaten Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine in his very first encounter with each of these iconic masters.

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Game of the Day!

⚔️ The #PuzzleBattle World Championship kicks off today at 7 AM PST on http://Chess.com/tv ! ⚔️

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Taimanov - Geller, Moscow 1951
White to play and draw

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Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won his fifth world BLITZ title. He has won the world RAPID three times, and the CLASSIC title four times and now has 12 world titles in total.

"Triple crown again, hope this one will last more than a couple of days!" (as Magnus Carlsen said)

We are just starting 2020, but can say 2010 - 2020 was a decade dominated by Carlsen, and 2019 ended in big style. Now, he holds the three chess titles again - classic, fast and blitz - and on the new FIDE rating list he will be the world number one in all three categories as well.

He won the tournament in the tiebreaker match against
North American Grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura, who also finished with a beautiful score of 16.5 / 21. The first game of tiebreake ended in a draw, and Carlsen won the second. Carlsen and Nakamura split the prizes and won $ 55,000 each. Sure they will have a very happy new year! ;)

Congrats to them!