Meet Jessica Lauser, the reigning three-time U.S. Blind chess champion. You can call her Chessica — the nickname her math teacher gave her in eighth grade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/well/live/jessica-lauser-chess-blind-champion.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Nakamura, Aronian, Dubov, Radjabov and So form a 5-player leading pack after Day 1 of the #AirthingsMasters!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/champions-chess-tour-airthings-masters-2020-prelims/4/1/6

#c24live #ChessChamps

A solid start for Magnus Carlsen which would have looked a lot better if he'd spotted a 1-move tactic against Levon Aronian in the first round!

Here is a famous Pal Benko's holiday puzzle that was first published by Chessbase in 2010. Do you think the placement of pieces resembles more of a candle 🕯 or a tree 🎄? White to move and mate in two!

Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988. Sofia Polgar, Ildiko Madl, Susan Polgar, Klara Polgar, and Kasparov. Photo: Lars Grahn

@UnityChessClub

Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1970. Mark Taimanov (USSR) is pictured in play v. Pal Benko (USA) in the 9th round of the traditional Hoogovens event. The opening was a Benko Gambit; Taimanov won in 58 moves.
(Photo credit: E. Koch / ANEFO, via http://gahetna.nl.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Bobby Fischer [in late September 1972, upon his return to New York]: "I never thought I see the day when chess would be all over the front pages here but confined only to one paragraph in 'Pravda.' I guess that's my fault."

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Move of the Day!
Happy new year 🙂

WOW.

🔗 Emilchess (@EmilSutovsky)

Vassily Ivanchuk - Best Chess Tactics

The 52 best chess puzzles of the year 2020!

All based on tournament games played in 2020.
Includes puzzles with Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, MVL, Shirov, Svidler, Ding Liren, Nepomniachtchi, Dubov, Firouzja, and many more.

Solve them here: https://chesspuzzle.net/List/2130

Congratulations to GM Hikaru Nakamura on reaching 750,000 followers on Twitch to round out 2020!

🙌🙌🙌

Here's to 1,000,000 and many, many more in 2021! 🎆

Congrats to the 2020 http://Chess.com Award Winners!

🏆 Game: Dubov vs. Karjakin
🏆 Player: Magnus Carlsen
🏆 Creator: Hikaru Nakamura
🏆 Move: 19.Qxg6!! by Dubov
🏆 Engine Game: Leela Chess Zero
🏆 Book: Bobby Fischer and His World

All the details ➡️ https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-2020-chess-com-awards

🏆 Game of the Year: Dubov vs. Karjakin, Russian Superfinal

Move of the Year: 19.Qxg6!! from Dubov vs. Karjakin

BIG NEWS!!

🌟 India gets its 67th Grandmaster as 14 year old Leon Luke Mendonca makes his final GM norm at the 5th International Chess Festival Vergani Cup!

🌟 1st norm: Rigo Chess Round Robin (Oct), 2nd: 1st Saturday Budapest (Nov), 3rd: Vergani Cup Italy (Dec).

https://chessbase.in/news/Leon-Mendonca-becomes-67th-grandmaster-of-India

Happy New Year! 🥳🎆

Let your ideas be bright and your moves be strong in 2021!

#HappyNewYear #chess