Congrats to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning this month's Titled Arena 🏆

GM Daniel Naroditsky finished 2nd and Magnus Carlsen finished 3rd after playing the second half of the tournament 🤯

Full standings: https://lichess.org/tournament/feb21lta

Everyone would benefit from a handmade winning sweater from their mother. ❤️

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)

Janusz Kudelka (Airbnb California, 2061) just played the best game of the event and probably the best game of his life against an IM Ali Muhammad Lutfi.

In this position he went for a kill: 21. Rxd6!! exd6 22. exf6 Rc7 23. Qxe6 Qd7 24. fxg7+ Kxg7 25. Qf6+ Kg8 26. Qf8#

Amazing!

How to play the Queen's Gambit: Peter Heine Nielsen vs Veselin Georgiev

Evil Trap in the Queen's Gambit Accepted #shorts

Nicolas Garcia would almost have been doing well if not for 23...e4! by the World Champion
There's one more round today when we're going to see the star names in action before most of their teams are knocked out!
#CorporateChess

15-year-old Praggnanandhaa, like Ian Nepomniachtchi, has a perfect 5/5! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-corporate-championship-2021-east-e/5/2/1
#c24live #WorldCorporate

Even small gestures can change lives.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"When I shared my experience with Covid last year, I was touched to receive so much support from my chess family! And I was really glad to share this victory with them, too." GM Irina Krush on Covid and winning her 8th title in this month's Chess Life magazine. ♛❤️

Florencio Campomanes welcoming Bobby Fischer as he landed in Manila in mid-October 1973 (AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

"To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

@UnityChessClub

Pictured at the opening ceremony of the FIDE_chess Women's Candidates' Semi-final, Vilnius, September 1980: Marta Litinskaya-Shul, Vladas Mikėnas (chief arbiter) & Nana Alexandria.
Alexandria won the match 7:5 (+5,-3,=4).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

The 5th game of the match in progress.

Color footage from the 44th USSR Chess Championship (Moscow, November/December 1976), with Petrosian, Balashov, Karpov, Sveshnikov and a few other Soviet heavyweights of the 70s. It was the first time Karpov had won it.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

On December 1, 1986, during the last round of the Dubai Olympiad, Włodzimierz Schmidt, playing against Garry Kasparov, showed us how to resign when playing the gods.

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)