The great Mikhail Tal during the 50th USSR Chess Championship in April 1983. Half-way through, he withdrew due to illness (Sputnik Archive).

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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

🔸 Alexander Alekhine

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Bobby Fischer [in a January-February 1964 article]: "In a set match, Morphy would beat anybody alive today." https://bit.ly/3rRlz7z

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The Magnus Carlsen Story - Part 2: Euro Road Trip
When Magnus was 12 and "merely" an IM his parents took the family on a year-long European Road Trip! Like any family adventure, it included playing Garry Kasparov...

World champion for three years...Magnus Carlsen at his home in Oslo at the end of August 2016, photographed by Ilja Hendel.

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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever!

Puzzle of the Day!
Solve this puzzle on interactive board:
chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/55598

The March issue of British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine includes an interview with the FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich.

Courtesy of BCM, we published some excerpts from the interview on the FIDE website: https://www.fide.com/news/985

#interview #FIDE

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/257842

Match wins for Carlsen and So, while MVL-Giri and Nepomniachtchi-Nakamura end 2-2! Who will advance to semifinals? We'll find out after day 2 which begins on Wednesday at 17.00 CET! #ChessChamps #MagnusInvitational

The superstar of Latin American chess Oscar Panno turned 86 today.

He played for Argentina in Chess Olympiads 11 times and won multiple international events, but his career peak was competing in the 1956 Candidates tournament. He also pursued his civil engineering career.

Winners of the Lloyds Bank Masters, London, August 1981 - L to R: grandmasters Ray Keene (England), Yasser Seirawan (USA) & Tony Miles (England), pictured with ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR).
(Photo via British Chess.)

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“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are still sufficiently fresh in my mind..."

🔸 Mikhail Tal "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal"

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English International Master (now grandmaster) Glenn Flear, pictured in play v. Maxim Dlugy (USA) in the 1st round of the London GLC International, 11th March 1986. In the background, John Nunn can be seen in play; his opponent was Boris Spassky.

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Vassily Ivanchuk, pictured, according to the archive, in Moscow in 1988. I believe, though, that the photo is from the televised Moscow rapid tournament of May 1987, in which Ivanchuk was on Board 8 for the 'Younger Generation' team.

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