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♟Sundays With Unity♟
September 6th, 2020
Women Championship
PDF File
✍️ Registration:
1️⃣ North America & Europe:
https://www.nachesshub.com/Organizers/Details/A6030651
2️⃣ Asia, Africa, Latin America:
Via Representatives
Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-chess-women-championship
Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/iZOpUiyN
September 6th, 2020
Women Championship
PDF File
✍️ Registration:
1️⃣ North America & Europe:
https://www.nachesshub.com/Organizers/Details/A6030651
2️⃣ Asia, Africa, Latin America:
Via Representatives
Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-chess-women-championship
Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/iZOpUiyN
67 years old today - English grandmaster Michael Stean.
Pictured here at the FIDE Zonal tournament in Amsterdam, Nov-Dec 1978 - in play v. Jan Timman, and standing by the board during his game v. Tony Miles.
(Photos: B. Verhoeff / ANEFO, via https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Pictured here at the FIDE Zonal tournament in Amsterdam, Nov-Dec 1978 - in play v. Jan Timman, and standing by the board during his game v. Tony Miles.
(Photos: B. Verhoeff / ANEFO, via https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
67 years old today - English grandmaster Michael Stean. Pictured here at the FIDE Zonal tournament in Amsterdam, Nov-Dec 1978 - in play v. Jan Timman, and standing by the board during his game v. Tony Miles. (Photos: B. Verhoeff / ANEFO, via https://www.n…
timman_stean_1978.pgn
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"If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens."
🔸 Irving Chernev
@UnityChess
🔸 Irving Chernev
@UnityChess
#FridayStudy returns! This one is by Richard Reti, one of the best players of the early 20th century & a prominent composer of endgame studies.
White is two pawns down & yet wins! Can you find how? Don't stop halfway - this study offers resourceful play from both sides.
🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)
White is two pawns down & yet wins! Can you find how? Don't stop halfway - this study offers resourceful play from both sides.
🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)
"In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson."
🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔗 Europe-Echecs (@EuropeEchecs)
🔸 Viswanathan Anand
🔗 Europe-Echecs (@EuropeEchecs)
My last visit to the Linares tournament, in 2008.
I used to spend 6 or 7 weeks per year in this small town, year after year. It is hard to believe that in the last decade I only visited once. It saddens me that this tradition faded away...
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
I used to spend 6 or 7 weeks per year in this small town, year after year. It is hard to believe that in the last decade I only visited once. It saddens me that this tradition faded away...
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
Not the highest quality, but nice to see young Tal and Petrosian playing ping-pong.
🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)
🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)
"In an interview published this year, just after this 85th birthday, Mr. [Wolfgang] Uhlmann estimated that he had played about 15,000 games in serious competitions. 'Chess is my life,' he said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/sports/wolfgang-uhlmann-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/sports/wolfgang-uhlmann-dead.html
NY Times
Wolfgang Uhlmann, East Germany’s Top Chess Player, Dies at 85
Supported by the Communist regime, he won major tournament after major tournament during the Cold War years and beat stars like Bobby Fischer.
Daily chess puzzle
Yu Yangyi - Nepomniachtchi, Saint Petersburg 2012
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/181170
Yu Yangyi - Nepomniachtchi, Saint Petersburg 2012
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/181170
chesspuzzle.net
Puzzle 181170: White to win
Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Yu Yangyi - Nepomniachtchi, Ian, St Petersburg 2012.
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The big day is finally here - a truly classic book, Winning Chess Strategies is now in Chessable form! With over 10 hours of high quality video instruction from the man himself, Yasser Seirawan. And it's on sale now: http://www.chessable.com/yasser-strategy
🔗 Chessable (@chessable)
🔗 Chessable (@chessable)
Giri replaced by Duda in #NorwayChess: “Would've loved to play”. Here are the details: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/duda-replaces-giri-in-norway-chess
COVID-19 At Spanish Championships
Two players who intended to participate in the Spanish championships were tested positive for the coronavirus. They are part of a group of seven who were quarantined. Report:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/covid-19-at-spanish-championships
Two players who intended to participate in the Spanish championships were tested positive for the coronavirus. They are part of a group of seven who were quarantined. Report:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/covid-19-at-spanish-championships