“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”
🔸 Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
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🔸 Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
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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)
📷: Andrew Dunn
🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)
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Player of the Day! Garry Kasparov ✨
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
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
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
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
https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-sweeps-new-titled-tuesday
No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
🔸 Samuel Reshevsky
@UnityChessClub
🔸 Samuel Reshevsky
@UnityChessClub
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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)
🔗 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)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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Game of the Day! "The Immortal Draw"
Crazy complicated position in the puzzle of the week!
Solve: https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/443421
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
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