A smiling Ulf Andersson, pictured after his triumph at the international tournament in Gothenburg, July 1971. The 20-year-old Swede shared 1st-2nd place with Vlastimil Hort, ahead of World Champion Boris Spassky, thereby scoring a GM norm.

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At the Havana olympiad 1966 Fischer had a winning position against Spassky, but the game ended in a draw. The story goes that after the game Fischer pointed out an "improvement", but Spassky quickly refuted it. After that Fischer was so upset that he said: He got embarrassed.

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On Feb 10, 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

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Player of the Day! David Bronstein ✨

Kramnik and Kasparov.

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Daily chess puzzle from an old correspondence game
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"Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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Pawn races in Rook ending are always interesting | Irene Sukandar vs Loek van Wely

Natalia Zhukova ♟🥊

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2022 FIDE Grand Prix Berlin R6: Nakamura Reaches Semifinals On Day Of Nerves

On the last day of the #FIDEGrandPrix group stage, Nakamura joined Aronian in the semifinal lineup while Groups B and D will be decided in tiebreaks tomorrow.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-fide-grand-prix-berlin-r6

After a tense and exciting last round of the pool stage of the Berlin FIDE Grand Prix, Hikaru Nakamura holds a very important draw while Richard Rapport and Leinier Dominguez score crucial victories to reach tie-breaks.

After Levon Aronian (pool C), Hikaru Nakamura also advances to the semi-finals (A), while the other two pools will see tie-breaks tomorrow: Wojtaszek-Rapport (B) and So-Dominguez (D).

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool A

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool B

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool C

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool D

“I’m a new American, I have to prove I can be as good as them, or even better”— GM Levon Aronian

GM Hikaru Nakamura after a draw with Andrey Esipenko in Round 6 of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022