“A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.”

🔸 Leonid Shamkovich

@UnityChessClub

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Magnus Carlsen, Linares 2007. #Smartfish

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Daily chess puzzle
Solve here: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/346523

Solution explained by Daniel King
Chess puzzle of the week - Black to play and win #shorts

Congratulations to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on winning the Sinquefield Cup -the final leg of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour.

With a final day of all draws, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the clear winner of the 2021 #SinquefieldCup.

Check out the full Day 9 recap from IM Kostya Kavutskiy here: https://grandchesstour.org/blog/2021-sinquefield-cup-day-9-recap

📸: @LennartOotes

Final standings:

Wesley So clinched 1st place in the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, having performed the best of the field cumulatively throughout the full tour!
#SinquefieldCup

And here are the final standings/winnings of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour -

🥇 Wesley So - $100,000
🥈 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - $50,000
🥉 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - $25,000

My favorite is this 1903 photograph, showing Tolstoy with his son-in-law, Mikhail Sergeevich Sukhotin, who married Tatyana, Tolstoy's daughter, in 1899. Their first five children were born dead but then they had a daughter, Tatiana, whose living descendants now live in Italy.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)