The_Love_for_Wood_chess_documentary_1979_ENG_subs_.134.mp4

"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.

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

#TataSteelChess Rest Day 🌊

🔗 Fiona Steil-Antoni (@fionchetta)

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

🔗 Tata Steel Chess (@tatasteelchess)

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

🔗 Bikfoot (@BikfootNL)

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

#c24live

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: 🔥

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)

"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

@UnityChessClub

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

Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999

Another coincidence, several posted about yesterday's 22nd anniversary of my famous game vs Topalov in Wijk aan Zee in 1999. It was Kavalek who first discovered a beautiful improvement on the game in his column. (28.Ra7!) Back before computers could see everything in 10 seconds!

🔗 Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63)

Maia Chiburdanidze - Best Chess Tactics!