"My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

@UnityChess

From the same issue, a photo of the 3rd-round match between Sweden & the USSR. On top board, Anatoly Karpov faces Ulf Andersson; on board 2, Lars Karlsson faces Mikhail Tal.
Details here: http://olimpbase.org/1980e/1980fa03.html#urs

@UnityChess

Move of the Day!

Ne6!

Riddle solved: Flohr was winning!

https://en.chessbase.com/post/riddle-solved-flohr-had-a-forced-win

Daily chess puzzle
Alexandra Botez - Laubscher, Chess Olympiad, Baku 2016

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/140809

♜ The Best Chess Players Over Time ♜

Nakamura regrets when he does not win

Ending game with GMs

Petrosian's King March Staggers Kasparov - Best Of The 1980s - Kasparov vs. Petrosian, 1981

Anand Gets 1st Win At Legends Of Chess

Viswanathan Anand finally won his first match in the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. In a repeat of the 2012 world championship match, the Indian grandmaster defeated Boris Gelfand. Report:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess24-legends-of-chess-round-7

Vishy Anand: "I’m getting fed up with the Zoom world, to be honest. I really hope we can see each other’s faces again because it feels surreal. I’m sitting here alone, at home, my son wanders in once in a while - it just doesn’t feel real!"
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/chess24-legends-7-vishy-grabs-first-win-as-magnus-extends-lead
#ChessLegends

Carlsen (vs. Svidler) and Nepo (vs. Leko) won their 7th matches in 7 in the chess24 Legends of Chess, while Vishy Anand finally picked up a win by beating his 2012 World Championship challenger Boris Gelfand!
Replay the games: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/chess24-legends-of-chess-2020/7/1/1
#c24live #ChessLegends

♟Sundays with Unity♟
💎Untitled Players💎
🇵🇭PHILIPPINES🇵🇭
Part 2

Dear participants,

First of all, I would like to thank every one of you for all the support you give us. My team members and I receive many letters from players with lots of love and support, and this encourages us to make our event even bigger and stronger! We carefully read every suggestion, every concern you have –it’s important for us.

We understand that increasing prize fund will help a lot of chess players in this difficult economic situation all over the world.

After careful thinking and discussions with the team, we decided to eliminate King/Queen Project and go to monthly event instead of weekly.

Therefore, this decision made it possible to raise prize fund to $5000!

♦️We added $420 in prize fund to promote chess in Africa;
♦️In every rating category from unrated to U2400 and age categories U8-U16 added special prizes for girls;
♦️$1000 was added for Open and Women’s section.

For more details, prizes and dates of the tournament, please check the regulation.

Hope you enjoy this MEGA Event!

Regards,
Pedram Atoufi
Tournament director
July 29th, 2020

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♟Sundays with Unity♟
August 30th, 2020

💵 $5,000 Prizes for more than 260 players are 100% Guaranteed!

💎20th Unity International Tournament

https://lichess.org/team/unity-international-tournaments

🎥 All winners of the last tournament need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.

‼️All players are required to join the Unity Team, which has been formed on Lichess for this tournament.

‼️Titled player (GM, IM, FM, WGM, WIM, WFM) who have not updated titles on Lichess will be accepted only with following condition: 👇🏼

1. They shall have LICHESS RATING above below mentioned levels.
GM 2600 & WGM 2500
IM 2500 & WIM 2400
FM 2400 & WFM 2300

2. Also, they need to add title within 2 weeks once they avail free entry in their first tournament W.E.F 12th July 2020.

3. If they dont do so, they fail to avail free entry concession & they are eligible to play if they pay full entry fees.

Once they add titles to their account later as well, they can play free from that specific day.

‼️All players must take part in the tournament with their official Lichess ID otherwise won’t be able to win the prizes.

⏹Regulations:
1️⃣Type: Open
2️⃣Date: Sundays 16:00 (GMT)
3️⃣Time control: 3+0
4️⃣Website: Lichess.org
5️⃣Total time: 120 minutes
6️⃣Entry Fee: $4 plus tax for Europe & North America. The rest are $2 plus tax. No tax charge if you make your payment to representatives.
7️⃣Free entry for: GM, WGM, IM, WIM, FM, WFM, IA, FA.
50% off entry fee for Senior, NM, WNM, CM, WCM.
8️⃣The Berserk option is available.
9️⃣All players are required to have played at least 30 rated blitz games with their Lichess account.
🔟No more registration will get accepted 30 minutes prior to the tournament!

💠 Steps you need to take to participate in the tournament:

🟤 STEP 1
Read the regulations carefully

🟤 STEP 2
Go to the registration page and register for the tournament.
🌐 REGISTER PAGE

🔰 REGISTRATION:
Registrations can be done in 2 ways:
1. Representative
2. Website: unitychess.com

🟤 STEP 3
Select one of the payment methods and pay the input.

◾️ Payments for the entry fee can be made in 4 ways:
A) Representative
B) Website: Unity Chess Club Website
C) PayPal: sundayswithunity@gmail.com

🟤 STEP 4
Send the receipt of your payment to sundayswithunity@gmail.com

🟤 STEP 5
Go to the Unity team web page on the LICHESS site and join the team.

🔴Prohibitions:
1️⃣Using computers.
2️⃣Having someone else play for you.
3️⃣Using inappropriate language in chat room of Lichess.
4️⃣No one allowed to sending private message to any of our members in Sundays with Unity Telegram group without the permission of that person.
Any of these things happen, the player will straight goes to the Blacklist and won’t be able to play in the tournament anymore.

⏹The Power of the Jury:
1️⃣Requiring players to play under the camera if needed.
2️⃣Prohibiting offending players from participating in future matches.
3️⃣Issues a verdict for players who have committed a violation outside the rules of the regulations.
4️⃣Verification: Ask players to play some blitz games on camera with the presence of some members of the jury after the end of the tournament, in order to verify their performance in the competition.
5️⃣Asking players to move up their Lichess Blitz rating to certain level.

⏹Prizes terms and conditions:
1️⃣All results will be announced and prizes will be paid after 72 hours.
2️⃣Cash prizes are given to the top places, ranked by Lichess.
3️⃣If a player is eligible for two prizes between the sections, the higher prize is awarded.
4️⃣The USCF (United States Chess Federation) rated players who don’t have Fide rating, will be eligible to receive the section prizes. Here is the formula to calculate their Fide rating: (USCF-100= Fide rating). That means a USCF player with rating of 1650 would be eligible to receive the section prize for under 1600 (1650-100=1550).

🌐The goal of this tournament is to provide a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!

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♟Sundays with Unity♟
August 30th, 2020

💎20th Unity International Tournament

💵 $5,000 Prizes for more than 260 players are 100% Guaranteed!

🎥 All winners of the last tournament need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.

🔺Winners of class prizes can only receive prizes related to their rating level.
🔺For Rating Category prizes, we will be considering the Maximum current FIDE rating of all three formats.

Open:
1️⃣$500
2️⃣$250
3️⃣$150
4️⃣$100
5️⃣$80
6️⃣$70
7️⃣$60
8️⃣$50
9️⃣$40
🔟$20

Women's section:
1️⃣$200
2️⃣$100
3️⃣$80
4️⃣$70
5️⃣$60
6️⃣$50
7️⃣$40
8️⃣$30
9️⃣$20
🔟$10

2300-2399:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

2200-2299:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

2100-2199:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

2000-2099:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

1900-1999:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

1800-1899:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

1700-1799:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

1600-1699:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

1500-1599:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

1400-1499:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

U1400:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

Unrated:
1️⃣$40
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20
4️⃣$10
5-10: $5
Top 3 Women:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
Top 3 African:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

Senior 65+:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

Senior 50+:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

U-16 Boys:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
U-16 Girls:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

U-14 Boys:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
U-14 Girls:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

U-12 Boys:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
U-12 Girls:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

U-10 Boys:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
U-10 Girls:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

U-8 Boys:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5
U-8 Girls:
1️⃣$20
2️⃣$10
3️⃣$5

🎁Unity Lucky Awards:
The 50th, 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, 300th, 350th, 400th, 450th, 500th, 550th, 600th, 650th, 700th, 750th, 800th, 850th, 900th, 950th, and 1000th places that will be announced at the end of the tournament by Lichess. Each of these players will be paid $10.
Minimum 4 games are required to get eligible to win the Lucky Prizes.

🔺To receive prizes please contact the representative in your country.
If your country doesn’t have representative then send your information with your picture ID to this email:
sundayswithunity@gmail.com
Winners have the options to choose one of these 2 ways to receive their prizes:
1. PayPal
2. Western Union
Winners are responsible to cover the cost of all transfer fees.

https://lichess.org/team/unity-international-tournaments