Finek Vaclav (🇨🇿 2220) is the highest-rated 10-year-old chess player. These days he is playing in the @PragueChessFestival Futures tournament. ⠀ Here is the finale of his game against Jan Klimkowski from round 5. Nice tactics finished Black off. White to…

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…

Friday is the endgame study day. 🧩♟️ This one was composed by the 2nd world champion Emanuel Lasker and is very instructive. It could appear in a real game, right? White to move and win. Solution tomorrow. #StayHome #StaySafe #StaySharp #yourmove #endgame

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…

White to move and win. 🧩♟️ As usual on Fridays, we offer you an endgame study to solve. This one is composed by Paul Heuäcker (Germany, 1899-1969) and is arguably one of the most beautiful chess compositions. #chess #yourmove #study #chessmoves #puzzle

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…

Replay the chess24 Banter Series Final Round 4 game played on 29/09/2020 with computer analysis