#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

Vishy Anand thinks for 1 min 19 secs for a move in an Armageddon vs Mamedov | Gashimov Memorial 2021

White to play and win in great fashion.

From the game Spassky-Ciric (Amsterdam 1970). Let’s celebrate the great man on the day of his 85th birthday!

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)