The Russian women's team is the European champion. Team Ukraine won the open event https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/russian_women_s_team_is_european_champion/

Photo: Artem Pugachev #CFR #ETCC2021

Thanks to his win today vs Mamedyarov, Alireza Firouzja reaches 2803.8 and overtakes Ding Liren in the live ratings, thus becoming the new world #2 and the youngest player ever to cross 2800!

📷: Anastasiia Korolkova

23rd European Teams 2021

23rd European Teams Women 2021

Great performance!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWjh3ChtL6r/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

1973. Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (bottom right) gives a simultaneous display against workers at the Zeya hydroelectric plant in the Amur Oblast of the Soviet Far East.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

🔸 Viktor Korchnoi

@UnityChessClub

16-year-old Bobby Fischer in Zurich in mid-1959 (Keystone Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Spassky filmed in exile. Clock those flares. http://ow.ly/kcyf50GSSSQ

🔗 Jonathan Manley (@KingpinEd)

10 years ago. Moscow, 25th November 2011. In Round 9 of the Tal Memorial, Ian Nepomniachtchi is seen in play v. Lev Aronian; behind, Vasily Ivanchuk is in play v. Sergey Karjakin.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Another photo of Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Tal Memorial, Moscow, November 2011.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Citizen Karpov.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Here is Lan Nepomniachtchi vs Magnus Carlsen in the sixth round of the FIDE World Blitz Championship in Dubai, 2014.

Move of the Day!

Daily chess puzzle with Ossip Bernstein, also an inaugural recipient of the Grandmaster title.
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/416785

Daily chess puzzle with Oldřich Duras, one of the first 27 players awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1950 for his past achievements.
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/416847

The most exciting moment for the millions of chess fans has arrived. Tomorrow is the opening and in 3 days the 1st game between the World Champion Magnus Carlsen (NOR) & the Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS). Follow the action on the official website:
https://fideworldchampionship.com