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Rest day at #TataSteelChess in Wijk aan Zee is a perfect moment to watch the 1979 gem "The Love for Wood" documentary on the Dutch chess players (with English subtitles!). You can see Jan Timman, Hans Ree, Piet Hein Donner, Max Euwe and others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48r-JTSAVM&t=212s&fbclid=IwAR0tJ-RNNxms9OE-t6VqKznuGSg6_UD4eRLd2ZSrNufPRswdZhW6Nd6_zYY

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The Love for Wood (chess documentary 1979 - ENG subs)

This documentary is about well known Dutch chessplayers in 1979. It features Jan Timman, Hans Ree, Piet Hein Donner, Max Euwe and others. It's a beautifull documentation of those days and the state of chess at that time.

Directed by Jop Pannekoek. Camera:…

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"Chess is more than just a game. It's a way to relax for people who have been working all day and it's been said that chess is good for cognition. For sure it enhances systematic thinking," - says former world champion and FIDE President Max Euwe in the documentary.

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#TataSteelChess Rest Day 🌊

🔗 Fiona Steil-Antoni (@fionchetta)

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💙 | The famous opera tenor Andrea Bocelli had a difficult question for Fabiano Caruana at the official opening of the #TataSteelChess Tournament.👇

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Showing future world champion Alireza Firouzja around in Amsterdam on a #tatasteelchess rest day. We'll both be back to work tomorrow - exciting times!

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Carlsen & Nakamura both miss the 2021 Grand Chess Tour.
Henrik Carlsen: "To try to make a schedule with 4 GCT tournaments, Norway Chess & the Champions Chess Tour would give an enormously tight program, even without a World Championship match"

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/carlsen-nakamura-missing-in-2021-grand-chess-tour-field

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You said WHAT? | Tari vs Firouzja | Tata Steel Chess 2021

Grandmaster Daniel King presents Tari vs Firouzja from the Tata Steel Chess tournament 2021. Support on Patreon: 🔥

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The Carlsen family in Reykjavík in March 2004, where Magnus Carlsen met Garry Kasparov over-the-board, as photographed by Omar Oskarsson.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

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"From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans."

🔸 Efim Geller

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RIP Lubosh Kavalek. Photo from the great Wijk aan Zee #TataSteelChess 1975 tournamentbook that he wrote. There he drew tournamentwinner Portisch with a fantastic queen sac which earned him the (Leo vd Kuijk) prize for the most spectacular game. 'I got the prize, he got my queen'

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19-year-old Yasser Seirawan (the reigning World Junior Champion), pictured at Wijk aan Zee, January 1980.

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The Greatest Chess Game Of All Time Explained - Kasparov vs. Topalov, 1999

https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/the-greatest-chess-game-of-all-time-explained-kasparov-vs-topalov-1999

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