“No one ever won a game by resigning”
Saviely Tartakower

Magnus Carlsen wins the 2022 World Rapid Chess Championship.Having led the entire tournament , Carlsen wins his final game to score 10/13 , and earns his FOURTH World Rapid Championship!

Magnus Carlsen is the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Champion! 🥇
Magnus leaves Almaty as the World Chess Champion in Classical , Rapid and Blitz! Congratulations!🍀

Creeping Queens (part Two)
The French Defence features a similar maneuver.

19...Kd7!

This move, paving the way for the queen to go to h7, is usually preceded by the closure of the center by ...c5 -c4.

This move shouldn't have come as a surprise for White considering Black's last. He now retreats his knight to limit the activity of Black's queen.

Allowing a cheap trick and thus making Black's positional dreams come true.

And Bronstein was in complete control and won the game.

At the beginning of the new year, it is good to remember the oppressed Ukrainian and Iranian loved ones who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of humanity from the slavery of ignorance and bigotry. may their soul rest in peace and their memory cherished.

Wishing a year full of peace and friendship for all the inhabitants of the earth.

Let's continue with another classic - a game of Alekhine 's featuring the Qb1-a2 maneuver.

Alekhine wrote: 'White has to solve two problems: to relieve the knight on f3 from the unpleasant pin and at the same time to find an effective antidote to the threatening advance of Black's f-pawn.