#OnThisDay in 1909 Olga Rubtsova was born. She was a four-time Soviet women's champion and the fourth women's world champion (1956-1958). Later she also became the first women's world correspondence chess champion, in 1972. [Image from Dutch newsreel at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Rubtsova]

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📽 This 1957 video shows 1st Women's Chess Olympiad and you can see Olga Rubtsova who played for the winning Soviet Union team.

Сredit:Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
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Kira Zvorykina and Olga Rubtsova, the winning Soviet Union team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Women%27s_Chess_Olympiad

To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

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Workers of the VAZ Volga automobile plant play chess, Togliatti, USSR, 1981

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The great Leonard Barden turns 91 today. https://bit.ly/2QaCdxW

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Seegolam - Muendle, Chess Olympiad, Manila 1992

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Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen on winning the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour and $140,000 after an absolutely epic final against Hikaru Nakamura!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/kiva-finals-of-the-magnus-carlsen-chess-tour-2020/11/1/7

Magnus Carlsen wins the MC Tour Finals after beating Hikaru Nakamura in a 7-set thrilling match.

The two players fought an equal battle for 6 sets and the 4 rapid + 2 blitz games of the 7th set to decide the champion through an Armageddon. Big Congrats! #ImpactChess

Magnus Carlsen won a truly epic match against Hikaru Nakamura. Check out our final video report on the final set!
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As close to losing as you can get!♟ #c24live #ImpactChess

Carlsen Wins Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals In Armageddon

https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-wins-magnus-carlsen-chess-tour-finals-armageddon

Dear all, sincere apology for the delay in the release of the U2200 tournament. This has been due to the corrections of several errors of Fide IDs that were submitted & more were found out after the provisional list was released. Thankfully, we are wrapping up on the few remaining forms & the results will be published tomorrow evening. As such the Unity Management Team has revised the registration forms/process. This will ensure these errors are not repeated in the forthcoming Mega Event & future events. Your Country Representative will advise on the new process of registration.

Regards,
Pedram Atoufi
August 21st, 2020

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Left to right: grandmaster David Bronstein, World Chess Champions Tigran Petrosian and Nona Gaprindashvili, Tengiz Giorgadze, and grandmaster Yuri Averbakh. Photographed in Tbilisi, USSR, early 1960s. (Photo source: http://dspace.nplg.gov.ge.)
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