♟Sundays With Unity♟
August 16th, 2020
Untitled U2200 Championship
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💎Prizes💎

1979. Armenia. How many hopes and expectations! In the same year, one of them will win a silver medal in the USSR Championship. The other is bronze. In a year another will become the Champion of the USSR. And that's not all ... Thank you, Lev Psakhis!

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey_e_kim)

"Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]..."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

Tigran Petrosian in play v. Yuri Averbakh in the 11th round of the 26th USSR Championship, Tbilisi, 27th January 1959. Petrosian won this game, and the event (held in the city of his birth); it was the first of his four Soviet titles.
(Photo: T. Archvadze / TASS.) #chess

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Black's king in this game: "If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself." 🤨

...Ke7!! ...Kf6!! ...Kg5! and go for checkmate! 🤯

🔗 Sam Copeland (@Sam_Copeland)

King Tries To Give Checkmate Himself! - Best Of The 1980s - Portisch vs. Pinter, 1984

Daily chess puzzle
Wolfgang Uhlmann - Thomas Pähtz, Halle 1984

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/155409

Alexei Shirov sacrifices his queen TWICE for an AMAZING checkmate 😲

#ChessOlympiad

Replay this game: https://www.chess.com/live/game/5300992024

Daily chess puzzle
Xiong - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, PNWCC 2020

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/165524

Day 2: Magnus fights back #c24live #impactchess

Magnus Carlsen hit back to level the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour final score against Hikaru Nakamura at 1:1, though only after another bruising battle!

Replay the games: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/kiva-finals-of-the-magnus-carlsen-chess-tour-2020/6/1/1
#c24live #ImpactChess

Via AP_Archive, footage of the FIDE_chess Candidates' Quarter-final between ex-World Champion Boris Spassky (USSR) and grandmaster Robert Byrne (USA), which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 1974.
Spassky won the match 4½:1½ (+3, -0, =3).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

"...They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since."

🔸 Bobby Fischer