Happy 85th birthday to the legendary tenth world chess champion and two-time Soviet champion, Boris Spassky! 🏆🎉

The 10th World Champion, Boris Spassky, was born on this day in 1937.

He won the title by defeating Tigran Petrosian on his second attempt (Moscow 1969), after a failed challenge in 1966, but conceded it to Bobby Fischer three years later. He is the oldest living World Champion.

In May 2019, I published this remarkable find: on November 19, 1938, Gustaaf de Clercq, the president of the AVRO tournament, publicly congratulated Capablanca on his 50th birthday and the Cuban responded in English. On that day, Capablanca was paired against Alekhine and lost.

#SundayPuzzle by the person of the day Alexey Dreev, who turns 53 today!

White mates in 4.

Game: Aleksey Dreev vs Arman Pashikian, Legnica, 2013

📷 Mark Livshitz

The 1st Champion of European Blitz Dreev won 5th Parsvnath Open and the European Rapid Chess Championship of 2012.

He represented Russia in 5 chess Olympiads, winning 3 Golds.

“Those who think that it’s easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game, a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed”

🔸 Victor Kortchnoi

@UnityChessClub

Some reprobates in Lviv, Ukraine (or Lvov, USSR, as it was known back then), in 1984.

🔗 Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess)

Player of the Day! Wilhelm Steinitz ✨

Daily chess puzzle with Ignaz von Kolisch, who was the best player in the world when this game was played.
Solve the puzzle, view the solution and the game: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/467673

final round of this year's #TataSteelChess ...

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2022/13/1/1

♟💙 | Game of the day - round 13: Richard Rapport - Anish Giri. The battle for the second place of the 84th #TataSteelChess Tournament. Or will Mamedyarov secure his second place behind Carlsen?

'My best memory of Wijk aan Zee is people here singing a nice little song for me' - Magnus Carlsen

♟💙 | Chess, movement and creativity are the key to the growth of children's brains - see what happens when Telstar players join a chess lesson at primary school

Anish Giri plays a quick draw against Richard Rapport in the last round of the tournament

Salem Saleh vs Vladimir Fedoseev | Commentary by Sagar Shah

And the other game of the day, Mamedyarov-Caruana, is also over, with Mamedyarov and Rapport sharing second place: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2022/13/1/2

Discover more about Spassky's brilliant career and his best games ⬇️

https://www.chess.com/players/boris-spassky

Hans or Zhansaya, who arrives over a minute late in a Blitz game, blunders mate in 1 and then smiles