♟Sundays with Unity♟
May 17th, 2020

⚪️GM Matthias Bluebaum 0
⚫️GM Gata Kamsky 1

Two rare colour images from one of the strongest Soviet Championships of them all - the 41st (Moscow, 1973).
Taken during the 13th round (played 20th October) - Karpov v. Polugaevsky & Sveshnikov v. Petrosian.

"پیتر هین نیلسن" 47 ساله شد!

Happy 47th birthday to Peter Heine Nielsen! 🎊🎈🎉🎁🎂

Nielsen is a 5-time Danish champion and won individual gold at the 1994 Moscow Olympiad. He was the second of Vishy Anand between 2002 and 2012 before he started working with Magnus Carlsen. His wife Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen is also a GM.

Here's a fantastic game, Nielsen-Georgiev from the 2008 Olympiad:

Here are 28 mates and chess combinations from the games of DEN GM Peter Heine Nielsen (47th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/niel.html . Find the winning moves. #puzzles

Between 1927 and 2007 Russian and Soviet players held the World Chess Championship title for all but 5 years, but the history of chess in Russia stretches back much longer than that! Andrey Terekhov provides a whistle-stop tour: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/a-history-of-chess-in-russia
#c24live

⚔️ SEMIFINAL MATCH of the Best Chess Game of All Time Tournament! ⚔️

♖ Vote using the poll in the next tweet and tell us which of these games you think is better.

♖ Follow the tournament here: http://Chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-game-of-all-time-tournament