Here are 8 chess puzzles from the games of RUS GM Igor Bondarevsky (1913 - 1979) : http://wtharvey.com/bond.html Find the winning moves. #puzzles

Alireza Firouzja Wins Brilliantly With Black Vs Sergey Karjakin | Online Nations Cup

Alexander Grischuk is warming up for the #SteinitzMemorial on Friday by leading the Play for Russian Charity Blitz Tournament after Day 1!

Such a nice win by Vladimir Kramnik against Ian Nepomniachtchi at #PlayforRussia charity blitz tournament

♟Sundays with Unity♟

May 10th, 2020

1️⃣Maksim Chigaev 2588 (GM) (RUS)
2️⃣Javokhir Sindarov 2557 (GM) (UZB)
3️⃣Ahmad Ahmadzada 2431 (IM) (AZE)
4️⃣Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez 2561 (GM) (ESP)
5️⃣Gabor Nagy 2502 (IM) (HUN)
6️⃣Parham Maghsoodloo 2676 (GM) (IRI)
7️⃣Saveliy Golubov 2468 (IM) (RUS)
8️⃣S.L Narayanan 2618 (GM) (IND)
9️⃣Ahmed Adly 2615 (GM) (EGY)
🔟Seyed Khalil Mousavi 2522 (IM) (IRI)

Women:
1️⃣Aleksandra Maltsevskaya 2272 (WGM) (RUS)
2️⃣Anna M. Sargsyan 2405 (WGM) (ARM)
3️⃣Anahita Zahedifar 2213 (WFM) (IRI)

Senior +50:
1️⃣Tair Vahidov 2401 (GM) (UZB)
2️⃣Oleksandr Kravets 1831 (UKR)

U16:
1️⃣Raunak Sadhwani 2545 (GM) (IND)
2️⃣Dambasuren Batsuren 2481 (IM) (MGL)

U2400:
1️⃣IM Abdimalik Abdisalimov 2397 (UZB)
2️⃣IM Alihan Huseyinoglu 2312 (TUR)

U2300:
1️⃣FM Amirmohammad Hamidi 2276 (IRI)
2️⃣IM Alejo Ismael Gimenez Aguirre 2265 (SPA)

U2200:
1️⃣Gilbert Elroy Tarigan 2149
IM (INA)
2️⃣Benyamin Babaniya 2187 (IRI)

U2100:
1️⃣Hamidreza Tahmasebi 2070 (IRI)
2️⃣Eray Kilic 2094 (TUR) (U16)

U2000:
1️⃣Haik A Vardanyan 1953 (ARM)
2️⃣Sajad Moradi 1963 (IRI)

U1900:
1️⃣Arman Pourgol 1828 (IRI)
2️⃣Ariyan Farmani Anuoshe 1892 (IRI)

U1800:
1️⃣Homayoun Mohtat 1784 (AFG)
2️⃣Mazda Edraki 1710 (IRI)

U1700:
1️⃣Abylai Amangeldiyev 1676 (KAZ)
2️⃣Jarullah Badghisi 1693 (AFG)

U1600:
1️⃣Meisam Safdarian 1529 (IRI)
2️⃣Behzad Salimiyan 1503 (IRI)

U1500:
1️⃣Sheralijon Ravshanov 1467 (UZB)
2️⃣Soheil Khodayvandi 1499 (IRI)

U1400:
1️⃣Arseni Tarasionak 1331 (POL)
2️⃣Hosein Kasaeian 1393 (IRI)

Unrated:
1️⃣Muhammad Fathul (INA)
2️⃣Ulfa Dianamatara (INA)


🎁Lucky Prizes:
50. Mitrabha Guha Mitrabha 2445 IM (IND)
100. Robert Aloma Vidal 2443 IM (AND)
150. Christopher Guzman 2258 FM (DOM)
200. Tara Asgharpourmasoleh 1680 (IRI)
250. Mohammadamin Molaei 2325 IM (IRI)
300. Mazdak Bakhtiari Kish 2069 (IRI)
350. Sharma Surender Kumar 1971 (IND)
400. Mohsen Chalangari 1625 (IRI)
450. Bobir Sattarov 2459 (UZB)


https://t.me/joinchat/BAHle1WqYMV-CbKE6nDgaQ

Leningrad, USSR Championship 1971. Three years later, the rivals will play the quarter-finals of the challenging matches. But while they don’t know about it ... Behind the back of Leo Polugaevsky the famous chess player Mark Zeitlin (one of the strongest masters of Leningrad)

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"You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player."

🔸 Jose Raul Capablanca

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Nana Alexandria (USSR), pictured during her Candidates' semi-final match v. Milunka Lazarević (Yugoslavia) at Bladel, Netherlands, August-September 1971.
The Soviet player won the match by the score 5½:4½.

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NatGeo "My Brilliant Brain" featuring Susan Polgar

Born on this day in 1925 Shenkursk Russia, Ratmir Kholmov.

Here are 24 chess puzzles from the games of RUS GM Ratmir Kholmov (1925 - 2006) : http://wtharvey.com/khol.html . Find the winning moves. #puzzles #chess

White Mates in 2.
Kholmov vs Y Kliavinsh, Vilnius, 1955

Kholmov giving a simultaneous display, c. 1984.

Move of the Day!

Prestel, Oliver (2131) - GM L'Ami, Erwin (2611)
Bundesliga 2017-18 Aachen GER, 2018.02.24

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/131646

Mikhail Tal Wins Blitz Chess Brilliancy - Tal vs. Karpov, 1987