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“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)
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
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The hardest game to win is a won a game | Samriddhaa vs Aatreya
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Time to attack | Arjun Erigaisi vs Daniel Dardha | Tata Steel Chess 2022
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
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)
Crazy complicated position in the puzzle of the week!
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/443421
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Solution explained by Daniel King
Find the checkmate! Chess puzzle of the week - White to play and win shorts
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Queen vs Pawn endgame with only 13 seconds to survive