"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."

🔸 Vladimir Kramnik

@UnityChessClub

Another interesting 1978 photograph of Kasparov from the Sputnik archive.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

A nice photo of Garry Kasparov that I found in an old Russian book. ⚽️♟

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

Via http://chesspro.ru, a photo of the young Vladislav Artemiev (b. Omsk, Russian Federation, 5th March 1998).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

Daily chess puzzle
Lombardy - Reshevsky, New York 1956
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/348580

Happy 41st Birthday to Hungarian GM Péter Lékó!

A winner of several major chess events, Leko narrowly missed becoming the 2004 Classical World champion when he drew the match vs Kramnik. In 2005 & 2007 FIDE World Championships, he finished 5th & 4th respectively.

If I play the King’s Gambit whatever my result is I’ll have some fun!" (Nepomniachtchi) Big report on a dramatic Day 2 of #NorwayChess:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/norway-chess-2-nepo-beats-firouzja-with-king-s-gambit

"After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are
in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived"

🔸 Edmar Mednis

@UnityChessClub

100 Years 100 Brilliancies!

On May 17, 1920, Samuel Reshevsky gave a 20-board simul in Paris, an event widely covered in the international press. On December 31, 2018, I published this finding from the film archives of the Columbia Broadcasting System: brief but brilliant footage from that display.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Courtesy of Progress FILM archives, here's a fine March 1969 clip of Tigran Petrosian engaged in a simultaneous exhibition in Paris.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Daily chess puzzle
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/43374

Solution explained by Daniel King
Find the mate! Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win shorts Nielsen - Carlsen, 2005