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100 Years 100 Brilliancies!
It's our birthday!! 🎉🎉🎉
#OnThisDay http://Chess.com was launched 14 years ago.
Thanks to everyone who plays and learns on our site! 👏
#OnThisDay http://Chess.com was launched 14 years ago.
Thanks to everyone who plays and learns on our site! 👏
Congrats to former women's world champion Tan Zhongyi and World No 33 Yu Yangyi on winning the women's and open sections of the 2021 🇨🇳Chinese chess championship.
Yu Retains Chinese Title But Loses To Ju
Two weeks after clinching the Shenzhen Masters, Yu Yangyi won his 3rd Chinese Championship title, this time over the board. One of his two losses was against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-chinese-chess-championships-yu-yangyi-tan-zhongyi
Two weeks after clinching the Shenzhen Masters, Yu Yangyi won his 3rd Chinese Championship title, this time over the board. One of his two losses was against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-chinese-chess-championships-yu-yangyi-tan-zhongyi
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Yu Retains Chinese Title But Loses To Ju
Two weeks after clinching the Shenzhen Masters (online), GM Yu Yangyi won his third Chinese Championship title (over the board!). GM Ju Wenjun, who chose to play in the open section, was one of two players to beat the eventual champion. How to watch? You…
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Hikaru Doesn't Need to MOVE to Checkmate?!
The new Champion of Azerbaijan will be decided tomorrow. The first game of the final between grandmasters Nijat Abasov (2665) and Vasif Durarbayli (2606) ended in a draw. The winner will also get a spot in the #FIDEWorldCup 2021.
"All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration."
🔸 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
@UnityChessClub
The 1981 World Championship match between champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR) & challenger Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), Merano, October-November 1981.
(📷J. Cooke, V. Rastelli / Corbis.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
(📷J. Cooke, V. Rastelli / Corbis.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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One of the most dramatic moments in world championship history: Nigel Short loses on time at move 39 in a better position in the first game of his 1993 match against Garry Kasparov, after he declined a draw offer.
🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiù G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)