“Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s OK to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless”

🔸 Magnus Carlsen

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From Pal Benko’s ‘My Life, Games & Compositions’ (Siles Press, 2003), a two-page spread featuring Dr. R. Cantwell’s photos of Bobby Fischer’s visit to the hospitalised Mikhail Tal, during the FIDE Candidates’ tournament at Curaçao, 1962.

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Move of the Day!

Bf6!

Daily #chesspuzzle
Havasi - Sacconi, Chess Olympiad, Folkestone 1933

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/112898

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Jussupow - Beliavsky, Madrid 1995

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/114763

Best Chess Tactics Ever! - 3

We are going to win this game!

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🎂#OnThisDay in 1921 the 7th World Chess Champion, Grandmaster Vassily Smyslov ♟ was born in Moscow. His games for the world title with Botvinnik belong to the chess hall of fame. Smyslov remained an active player late into his career - at the age of 62 he reached Candidates' Finals

Here are 45 mates and chess combinations from the games of World Champion, RUS GM Vasily Smyslov, (1921-2010) : http://wtharvey.com/smys.html + 100s of his games. Find the winning moves.

https://chesspuzzle.net/Player/Vasily_Smyslov

Happy birthday, Yasser Seirawan!🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂 The former World Junior Champion has also won the US Championship four times, and he is one of the most loved personalities in the American chess scene.

Olimpiu G. Urcan:
After a seven-hour game which you've lost, the most painful moment may very well be the next two seconds when your opponent quickly points out the obvious way you could have saved it. 😂

Candidates 2020: In-form Nepomniachtchi stretches the lead

https://www.fide.com/news/459

"What?!" Evgenij Miroshnichenko and Daniil Dubov on the critical moment in the Alekseenko versus Giri game in round six.

Comedies, Tragedies, And Masterpieces: Anand vs Ivanchuk II‎

Anand Vs. Ivanchuk blitz game - A missed mate in one