#WednesdayPuzzle by person of the day Svetozar Gligorić, who was born On This Day in 1923.

White Mates in 3.

Game: Gligoric vs Miroslav Radojcic, Ljubljana, 1947

📷 Koch, Eric / Anefo

This is the Soviet team that won the 1956 World Student Team Championship in Uppsala, Sweden. How many of the players could you name?

(Three is pass, less than that we send you back to [chess] school!)

🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)

“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”

🔸 Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

@UnityChessClub

You certainly have heard about Lewis chessmen, a group of distinctive medieval chess pieces discovered in 1831 on the island of Lewis. But did you know that the possible creator of these pieces was a woman named Margret the Adroit?

📷: Andrew Dunn

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

Mikhail Botvinnik.

🔗 Olimpiu Di Luppi (@olimpiuurcan)

Player of the Day! Garry Kasparov ✨

Daily chess puzzle
Naegeli - Mayer, Zürich 1908
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/467705

Peter Leko in Dortmund, 1992
📸 Christian Lünig, Arbeitsblende

🔗 Jürgen Lutz (@zugzwang\_76)

The Candidates hopes of #FIDEGrandPrix top seed Ding Liren & Dmitry Andreikin look to be over after they were forced to pull out of the first event in Berlin. Radek Wojtaszek & Andrey Esipenko are the replacements, with Levon Aronian now the top seed!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fide-grand-prix-in-turmoil-as-players-forced-to-pull-out

The hardest game to win is a won a game | Samriddhaa vs Aatreya

Time to attack | Arjun Erigaisi vs Daniel Dardha | Tata Steel Chess 2022

Announcing 2022 North American Chess Cup For Children With Disabilities

https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessKid/announcing-2022-north-american-chess-cup-for-youth-with-disabilities

Nakamura Sweeps New Titled Tuesday

https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-sweeps-new-titled-tuesday

Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Tal at the chess olympiad in Havana, 1966

🔗 Jürgen Lutz (@zugzwang\_76)

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

🔸 Samuel Reshevsky

@UnityChessClub

Player of the Day! Alexander Alekhine ✨

19y.o. Kasparov shows his win against Petrosian to the fans right opposite to his (and curiously mine) house in Baku.

🔗 Emilchess (@EmilSutovsky)

Baku, 1986. Garry Kasparov (centre) is pictured with members of his team prior to his 3rd World Championship match v. Karpov - left to right - Iossif Dorfman, Evgeny Vladimirov, Aleksandr Shakarov & Gennady Timoshchenko.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Game of the Day! "The Immortal Draw"

Crazy complicated position in the puzzle of the week!
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/443421