We continue our chess brain gymnastics. Saturday is the day of tactics. ⠀ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is one of the strongest modern grandmasters and he leads FIDE Candidates after the first half. Our today's choice fell on one of his earlier games. ⠀ Here Maxime…

April 8 is the birthday of Oleg Pervakov, a four-time world champion in chess composition. He turns 60 today! ⠀ We wish him to never exhaust of ideas and treat us with new fantastic brain teasers for many years to come. ⠀ He is famous for his endgame studies…

For our Saturday's tactic rubric today we chose an example from the game of Viacheslav Dydyshko - grandmaster from Belarus, 11-time national champion and honored coach. This year he is one of the 17 recipients of FIDE's stipends for veterans. White is threatening…

Happy Birthday to former Women's World Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk @chessqueen! ⠀ 💡 The position is from the first game of her 2008 world championship final against Hou Yifan. This game decided the outcome of the match. Black to move. ⠀ 📷 by Lennart Ootes…