"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre."

🔸 Boris Spassky

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Three images of ex-World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR), in play v. György Szilágyi (Hungary) & Coen Zuidema (Netherlands) at the IBM tournament, Amsterdam, July 1966.

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Mikhail Botvinnik 🆚 Coenraad Zuidema

Amsterdam IBM (1966), Amsterdam NED, rd 6, Jul-11
Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Delayed Exchange Variation (D75)

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Tony Miles - born 65 years ago today - became world junior champion in Manila, 1974. On his right at the closing ceremony is his second, Bernard Cafferty. https://bit.ly/2x51T9i

Miles on a stretcher with back pain, playing in Tilburg (1985)

Tony Miles (1955-2001) would have turned 65 today.

The first Englishman to earn the grandmaster title in over-the-board play, Miles was a world class player in especially the late 1970s and 1980s. He famously beat Anatoly Karpov in a game where he answered 1.e4 with 1...a6!?.

The historic game at the 1980 European Team Championship where Tony Miles beat Karpov with 1...a6.

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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Tony Miles.

http://wtharvey.com/mile.html

https://chesspuzzle.net/Player/Tony_Miles

Happy 36th birthday to Alexandra Kosteniuk! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

Kosteniuk became the 10th woman to earn the GM title at the age of 20. Her biggest accomplishment came four years later, when in 2008 she won the Women’s World Chess Championship.

Here are 43 mates and chess combinations from the games of Women's World Champion RUS GM
Alexandra Kosteniuk (36th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/kost.html + 100s of her games. Find the winning moves. #puzzles

Have a great birthday! Pia Cramling (Chess Player), 57 years old. I wish for all of your wishes to come true. Happy birthday! https://ift.tt/3auqlyC

Here are 24 mates and chess combinations from the games of SWE GM
Pia Cramling (57th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/cram.html + 1000s of her games. Find the winning moves. #puzzles

Magnus Carlsen's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Moves