A second draw in the finals of the FIDE Grand Prix means the winner of the event will be decided in Thursday’s tiebreaks.

Game 2 featured Nakamura grabbing what Aronian considered to be a poisoned pawn on b2!

2022 FIDE Grand Prix Berlin Final: Nakamura Wins First Leg After 2-0 Tiebreak Sweep

"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz

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Prizewinners at the European Junior Championship, Groningen, Netherlands, 1972/73.
Left to right: Aurel Urzică (Romania; 3rd), Oleg Romanishin (USSR; 1st), Tony Miles (England; 2nd).

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Mom with legendary Judit and Susan Polgar in the 90’s!

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"Bobby Fischer in a doorway in Iceland, 1972".

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Miracle Chess Tactics 1! 📖

White to play and draw
Taimanov - Geller, Moscow 1951
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/67531

Solution explained by Daniel King
Chess puzzle of the week - White to play shorts

Lev Psakhis (centre) kindly presented me with a lilac coloured book, in Russian, on Rashid Nezhmetdinov - a brilliant but obscure figure whose foreign excursions were limited to Bucharest and Ulaanbaatar. He has subsequently become famous thanks to the streaming generation.

🔗 Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess)

A portrait of the Dutch grandmaster and former World #3 Jan Timman (b. 1951), taken in early 2021.

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“A craze for playing chess – yes, chess – is sweeping through the England camp and there is an unexpected candidate for the grandmaster.”
Read more ⬇️

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/03/england-grandmaster-manu-tuilagi-looking-to-checkmate-wales