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)

"Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

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Efim Bogoljubow during a 1933 visit in Ströbeck, a German village renowned for its chess traditions dating back to King Otto III in the late 900s (Ullstein Bild Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

At the demonstration board, the 8th World Champion, Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 9th Nov 1936; d. Moscow, 28th June 1992.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Bobby Fischer in the 1960s, photographed by Hans Namuth (1915-1990). The German-born photographer's archive may contain further little-known Fischer photographs. https://s.si.edu/2VeEwWU

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100 Years 100 Brilliancies!