Leinier Dominguez wins an important game with Black against Pentala Harikrishna, closing in on pool D leader Wesley So, who drew against Shirov; he is now only half a point behind.

Pool C already has a winner, Levon Aronian, while Americans Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So are also strong favourites to win pools A & D respectively; but pool B remains wide open before the last round!

⬇️ Standings ⬇️

"My Toughest Opponent Is Myself", — Richard Rapport after Round 5 of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool A

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool B

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool C

FIDE Grand Prix 1 Pool D

"I Once Beat Hikaru Nakamura On His B-day, Do Not Tell Him"— GM Wesley So | R5 FIDE Grand Prix 2022

Qualification or Valentine’s Day: Win-Win | Leinier Dominguez | R5 FIDE Grand Prix 2022

A smiling Ulf Andersson, pictured after his triumph at the international tournament in Gothenburg, July 1971. The 20-year-old Swede shared 1st-2nd place with Vlastimil Hort, ahead of World Champion Boris Spassky, thereby scoring a GM norm.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

At the Havana olympiad 1966 Fischer had a winning position against Spassky, but the game ended in a draw. The story goes that after the game Fischer pointed out an "improvement", but Spassky quickly refuted it. After that Fischer was so upset that he said: He got embarrassed.

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On Feb 10, 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

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Player of the Day! David Bronstein ✨

Kramnik and Kasparov.

🔗 Olimpiu Di Luppi (@olimpiuurcan)

Daily chess puzzle from an old correspondence game
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/474935

"Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind."

🔸 Bobby Fischer

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