Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/232978

Alexey Shirov - Best Chess Tactics

♔ The 2020 http://Chess.com Awards Player of the Year is Magnus Carlsen!

Carlsen won the majority of ALL super-tournaments in 2020, founded his own tour, and served as host for a string of online tournaments that generated incredible drama and chess enthusiasm. 👏

Max Warmerdam wins Vergani Cup

https://en.chessbase.com/post/max-warmerdam-wins-vergani-cup

The first #FridayStudy of 2021 is an old one by Otto Blathy. Can this white bishop get around the black rook and deliver mate? #YourMove!

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

♟ | Flashback Friday! It’s time for a puzzle... Which game in the #TataSteelChess Tournament 2020 does this position belongs to? And what is the right move for white to win?

🔗 Tata Steel Chess (@tatasteelchess)

♟Sundays With Unity♟
January 10th, 2021
🏆Team Tournament🏆
🔵14:00 GMT🔵
🔷120 Minutes 🔷


💎3rd Unity Chess International Team Championship

💵 $600 Guaranteed Prizes

🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body. 

Unity Chess main channel in Telegram:
https://t.me/UnityChessInternational

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

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

🔷 Minimum 3 players needed to make a team.


🔷Regulations:

1️⃣ Each team will have a captain who is responsible for the team. The captain will register the team and will be paid the prize, any claim can only be made by the captain of the team.

2️⃣ Each team has 5 players

3️⃣ Entry fee:
Africa, Asia, Latin America: $10 per team.
The rest: $20 per team.

4️⃣ Type: Arena; 3+0

5️⃣ Berserk allowed

6️⃣The average rating of top 3 players in each team will be the rating for that team and shows the category for the prizes. For example if the average rating of top 3 players is 1950, that means that team has a chance to win the prizes for 1600-1999 category.

7️⃣ For individual ratings, the maximum current FIDE rating of all three formats will pick.

8️⃣ All players in each team need to be from the same country or same Fide flag.

9️⃣ Unrated players will use their peak Lichess blitz rating minus 100.

🔟 Players compete individually, but at the end the sum of top 3 players of each team who got the most points will consider for the total points of that team.

🛑No more registration will get accepted one hour prior to the tournament!

⛔️One player cheated, the whole team going out from the winners list.

💠💠💠Individual Prizes💠💠💠

Open:
1️⃣$60
2️⃣$40
3️⃣$20

Women:
1️⃣$30
2️⃣$20
3️⃣$10


💠💠💠Team Prizes💠💠💠

🔰2000+🔰
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20


🔰1600-1999🔰
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20


🔰U1600🔰
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20


✅ Best African teams in each team sections:
1️⃣$20

🎁 A country with the most team participants will receive an additional $60 ($20 for each section). The team that didn’t win the prize will be eligible to receive that special prize.

Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-team-championship-january-10

Tournament: https://lichess.org/team/unity-team-championship-january-10

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

At the Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, 4th September 1954 - the opening of the 11th FIDE Olympiad.
L to R: Gereben, Lilienthal, Prins, Boleslavsky, Smyslov, ?, Keres, Barcza.
(Photo: B. van Meerendonk, via http://geheugenvannederland.nl.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

I’ve learned over the years that it’s impossible to please everybody. Some people unfortunately came up a little short with their own achievements. That’s why they constantly attack and insult others who are way more successful to forget about their own failures. Sad! 👎

🔗 Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar)

A 1942 drawing by John Baker: British navy troops relaxing on a ship during World War II.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Moscow-1982, Interzonal tournament. The defeat by Alexander Belyavsky left the ex-world champion in 3-4 places. The draw was enough to leave the candidates' matches. But it was the tournament of Garry Kasparov and "Big Sasha"!

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

Soviet grandmaster Mark Taimanov. USSR, 1950s?
(Photo: V. Galaktionov, Novosti Press.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

As we can see here, Kasparov has requested to check Karpov's chair, just in case if there are no electronic devices.😅 Fischer and Korchnoi would be proud.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)