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Participants in the 4th 'All-Russian Chess Tournament', St Petersburg 1905/06.
Rubinstein is seated, 2nd from the right. 5th from the right is Romanovsky. On the far left, Duz-Khotimirsky.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
"If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner..."

🔸 Neil McDonald

@UnityChessClub
Leipzig 1960. Both “Viktor the Terrible” and “Robert II” made a significant contribution to the success of their teams. 10.5 (13) and 12 (15) - great results! A personal meeting? Draw!

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

https://t.me/UnityChessClub/18918
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In 1965, Petrosian described this as his favourite game: manoeuvre, sacrifice, mate.

Petrosian-Guimard
Gothenberg, 1955

🔗 Jonathan Manley (@KingpinEd)
Two photos of English grandmaster Jon Speelman, taken in the press room at the first Karpov-Kasparov World Championship match, Moscow 1984.
(Image credits: B. Dolmatovsky via http://ruchess.ru.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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Anya Taylor-Joy got to live out her The Queen’s Gambit fantasy and talk all things chess with Judit Polgár, a world-renowned champion who is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time 👑

🔗 Netflix (@netflix)
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These Canadians took a dip in the icy Oak Lake in Ontario for an unusual game of chess

🔗 Reuters (@Reuters)
Vote For The 2020 Chess.com Awards!‎
nnouncing the 2020 http://Chess.com Awards!

Cast your vote in these categories and be entered to win a 💎 membership!

* Game of the Year
* Player of the Year
* Creator of the Year
* Move of the Year
* Computer Game of the Year
* Book of the Year

https://www.chess.com/article/view/vote-for-the-2020-chess-com-awards
European Online Women's Club Cup concluded!
Congratulations to all the participants and to the Winners:
🏆Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo 🇲🇨
🥈UGRA 🇷🇺
🥉GAMBIT Volgograd 🇷🇺

Final standings can be found here: http://chess-results.com/tnr544199.aspx?lan=1&art=0
The FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships have concluded. 🏆

Our congratulations to all the participants and of course the winners! http://www.world2020.ge/

*Please note that the confirmed results will be available tomorrow after all the anti-cheating controls.

Team USA 🇺🇸 medalists at the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships:
🥇Carissa Yip (U-18G)
🥇Dimitar Mardov (U-12)
🥇Alice Lee (U-12G)
🥇Omya Vidyarthi (U-10G)
🥈Thalia Cervantes (U-18G)
🥈Zoey Tang (U-12G)
🥉Christopher Yoo (U-14)
🥉Bach Ngo (U-12)
Sunway Sitges Open R9: Leon Mendonca beats Nino Batsiashvili
Ivan Cheparinov, Moussard and Jaime Santos Latasain a three-way lead
https://chessbase.in/news/Sunway-Sitges-Open-Round-9-report