Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 41

Puzzle of the Day!

GM Firouzja,Alireza (2728) - GM Giri,A (2764)
Chessbrah Inv May 2020 chess.com INT, 2020.05.16

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/138104?fbclid=IwAR2tXTNytZXyKzFfe8Hbzh016oTsiTJuYSjg1lfYTPQcB3AeTQLplehBWNQ

Beth Harmon's Top 5 Chess Moves | The Queen's Gambit - Netflix

Wesley So will have a full-point lead going into the final two rounds of the 2020 #USChessChamps tomorrow. Xiong & Robson still not far behind!

With 8/9, Wesley So has a full-point lead before the final two rounds of the 2020 #USChessChamps tomorrow.

Xiong and Robson are on 7/9. These three players will claim the medals as the gap between them and the rest of the field is 2.5 points.

Savielly Tartakower versus Edgard Colle - with Vera Menchik looking straight into the camera - during a 1929 tournament in Paris (Gamma-Keystone Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"Of course you don't become a world champion without being able to play in different styles when necessary... The ability to adapt is critical to success."

🔸 Garry Kasparov (2007). “How Life Imitates Chess”, p.26

@UnityChessClub

Reykjavík, 1980. The 6th-round clash between Walter Browne (USA) & Tony Miles (England), won by White in 47 moves.
Viktor Kupreichik (USSR) took 1st in the event, ahead of Browne, with Miles & Genna Sosonko (Netherlands) sharing 3rd-4th.
(Source: http://skaksogufelagid.is.) #chess

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Karsten Müller invited readers to analyse a fascinating rook endgame that occurred in a game between Vassily Smyslov and Pal Benkö. After taking more than one close look, Müller and Zoran Petronijevic are now closer to the truth!

https://en.chessbase.com/post/solution-of-the-endgame-riddle-smyslov-vs-benko

Match against Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, in #Tehran, on the 22nd February, 2003. I won by the score of +2,=4. Mahdi Abdulrahim (current Chairman of the #FIDE Rules Commission), from the UAE, stands observing.

🔗 Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess)

Game of the Day!

Vasily Ivanchuk

Daily chess puzzle
Saric - Narciso, Linares 2015

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/198172

Karakehajov - Thesing, Bucharest 2006

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/191941

Wesly So, is US Campion 2020
Congrats to GM Wesley So on winning his 2nd #USChessChamps title and the $40,000 top prize! He scored 9 points remaining undefeated in 11 rounds.