Big congrats to Luke McShane (2674) on winning the Manx Liberty Masters. He finished clear 1st with 6.5/9 points!

TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament
Round 5
J Van Foreest – Etienne Bacrot
Jonas B Bjerre – Nils Grandelius
Gawain Jones – Nigel Short
Vincent Keymer – Nihal Sarin
Live games and comments by GM Brynell & GM Sokolov:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-2021/5/1/1

Jorden van Foreest is back in the 2700 club after today's win over Etienne Bacrot! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-2021/5/1/1

🔴 Vincent Keymer 🆚 Nihal Sarin

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tepe-sigeman-chess-tournament-2021/5/1/4

Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals

Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura have won in rapid chess, but the remaining 3 ties go to blitz tiebreaks, starting in 10 minutes!

"Without error there can be no brilliancy."

🔸 Emanuel Lasker

@UnityChessClub

Frank Marshall during a simultaneous exhibition in Helsinki in late January 1912 (Helsinki City Museum).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Capablanca vs Lasker, St. Petersburg 1914. The famous game where Capablanca got two pieces for a rook, but Lasker defended well, and the game ended in a draw.

🔗 Chess History (@MrMarksTV)

Various Russian regional museums hold copies of all sort of little-known photographs: here's an undated photograph showing Evgeny Dragomaretsky and Mikhail Tal in a Moscow tournament. http://mignsk.ru

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

100 Years - 100 Brilliancies!

Boris Spassky during a 30-board simul at the Framingham State College, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1984 (AP Archive).

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)