Happy 31st Birthday to Sergey Karjakin! 🎉

In 2002, he became the world's youngest Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 7 months & went on to develop into the world championship challenger (2016), losing to Carlsen only on tiebreak.

#OnThisDay #HBD #chess

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

#Sergey Karjakin - Best Chess Tactics

Blackburne's Best Chess Tactics

Puzzle of the Day!
IM Zatonskih, Anna (2431) - GM Muzychuk, Anna (2555)
Olympiad Women 2018 Batumi GEO, 2018.10.05

Solve this puzzle on interactive board: chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/138162

♟ | Super talent Alireza Firouzja is coming back to Wijk aan Zee for “the Wimbledon of Chess”. In 2020 Firouzja finished 9th, what are your expectations for him during the #TataSteelChess Tournament 2021?

🔗 Tata Steel Chess (@tatasteelchess)

2018 US Chess Champion Sam Shankland tests how fast he can spot checkmating patterns!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pZDKVdPOx7s

10 Best Chess Movies♟🎥🏆🤴🏻👸🏻

https://screenrant.com/best-chess-movies-imdb/

11th Margaryan Memorial
Round 4

Unity

♟Sundays with Unity♟
January 17th, 2021
U2200 Championship
🔴14:00 GMT🔴

💎6th Unity Chess International U2200 Championship

💵$400 Guaranteed Prizes

🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body. 

💥Special Discount: 20% discount for members of Unity Chess main channel in Telegram:
https://t.me/UnityChessInternational

🔴 We will use Lichess peak blitz rating minus 100 points for “Unrated” players. For example if one unrated player has a peak blitz rating of 2150, we will deduct 100 points and the player will compete for the prizes in 2000-2099 section.

🔹All players are required to join the Unity Team, which has been formed on Lichess for this tournament.

🔹All players must take part in the tournament with their official Lichess ID otherwise won’t be able to win the prizes.

🔹Winners of class prizes can only receive prizes related to their rating level.

🔹For Rating Category prizes, we will be considering the Maximum current FIDE rating of all three formats.

⏹Regulations:
1️⃣Type: U2200
2️⃣Date: December 20th, 2020 at 14:00 (GMT)
3️⃣Time Control: 3+0
4️⃣Website: Lichess.org
5️⃣Total time: 120 minutes
6️⃣Entry Fee: $5 for Europe & North America. The rest are $2 via representatives.
7️⃣The Berserk option is available.
8️⃣All players are required to have played at least 30 rated blitz games with their Lichess account.
9️⃣No more registration will get accepted one hour prior to the tournament!

✍️ Registration:
1️⃣ North America, Europe, countries with no representatives:
🌐www.unitychess.com
📧sundayswithunity@gmail.com

2️⃣ Asia, Africa, Latin America:
Via Representatives

Open:
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20

Seniors 50+:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

2100-2199:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

2000-2099:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

1900-1999:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

1800-1899:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

1700-1799:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

1600-1699:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

1500-1599:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

U1500:
1️⃣$10
2️⃣$6
3️⃣$4

Best Women and Africans for each rating category:
1️⃣$5


🎁Unity Lucky Awards:
The 50th, 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, 300th, 350th, 400th, 450th, 500th, places that will be announced at the end of the tournament by Lichess. Each of these players will be paid $5.
Minimum 4 games are required to get eligible to win the Lucky Prizes.

Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-u2200-championship-jan-17

Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/h3xhtHyu

🌐The goal of this tournament is to provide a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!

German chess player Louis Paulsen, one of the strongest masters of the 1860s and 1870s, was born #OnThisDay in 1833.

One of the first "purely defensive players" (Nimzowitsch), he suggested that strong defense can give a rebuff to any brilliant attack of the romantic era.

Although he highly valued defense, Louis Paulsen was a strong attacker himself.

White to move and win from Paulsen-Owen, London 1862. #YourMove

Louis Paulsen was famous for his blindfold performances. His first effort of that kind stunned the public in New York in 1857, when he took on then-unprecedented five games simultaneously. A year later he extended the record to 14 games. #ChessHistory

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

Kupreichik (USSR) v. Nasir Ali (India), from the opening round of the New Delhi International, December 1982.
The event was won by Dorfman (USSR); Kupreichik was 2nd; 3rd-5th were Taimanov (USSR), Dibyendu Barua & Thipsay (India).
(Photo via https://sputnik.by.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

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