Hou Yifan became a grandmaster at 14 years old and was the youngest-ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship at 16.

She played this game against Ray Robson when she was just 10. Can you find how she finished it? Black to play. #YourMove

The real engine of American chess Rex Sinquefield

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Barselona (IRI)

Wolves of Iran (IRI)

Bushehr (IRI)

Abakuchaume (ZAM)

KBPL A (INA)

BKD Unity 1 (INA)

KBPL B (INA)

BKD Unity 2 (INA)

IRAN CHESS (IRI)

UnityChess A (IND)

Shahin (IRI)

The great Garry Kasparov playing chess simuls in Alcoy (Spain) on February 1, 1986, less than 3 months after becoming World Champion. I was there. Do you remember Kasparov?

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🔗 Mig Greengard (@chessninja):
Nice pic, classic local photog focusing on the audience and not on Garry ;-) I don't think many of the 32 games from this one are out there. El Pais had it at 25 wins, 6 draws, 1 loss to "local youth Chimo Corbi."

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

🔸 Savielly Tartakower

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Grandmaster Paul Keres, pictured in play in the international tournament in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, February-March 1975.

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Kavalek himself, pictured in play v. Donner in the 3rd round at Wijk aan Zee, 16th January 1975.

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Via AP_Archive, footage from Round 10 of the super-tournament in Linares (Spain), 29th January 1981. Featured are Boris Spassky, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Anatoly Karpov, Lubosh Kavalek, Larry Christiansen & Zoltán Ribli.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)