Judit Polgar
@GMJuditPolgar
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The greatest female chess player of all time, Ambassador of Chess in Education, European Chess Legend, member of the WCHF. #ChessConnectsUs 📷FIDE/Stev Bonhage
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Arrived to Chennai for the
#ChessOlympiad2022
❤😊
#ChessConnectsUs
#OlympiadFlame
#ChessOympiad
#India4ChessOlympiad
#India
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And the answer is: GUKESH!
His concentration and focus are outstanding! His dedication, good nerves, calmness. He is also very strong in being in his presence.
Superb performance!
Congrats to Gukesh for winning
#FIDECandidates
2024!💪✨👍
#ChessConnectsUs
@wwwchesscom
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It was an honor to make the first move for
@GMHikaru
in R13 at
#FIDECandidates
2022!❤🙂
#ChessConnectsUs
#chess24
#Madrid
#firstmove
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Congratulations to India and
#Chennai
for organizing probably the best
#ChessOlympiad
in recent decades!
It is better to summarize my thoughts in speaking: easy to share, no character limit.😂
Thanks
@ChessBaseIndia
❤️👇
#ChessOlympiad2022
#ChessConnectsUs
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It's Bobby Fischer's birthday. He left an indelible mark on the history of chess. He was a human - with his virtues and faults. I remember him.
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I don't know exactly what year this photo was taken - maybe it's not that important. The attention, honesty, and respect for each other that this picture tells us about have always been there between us. And it remains.
Happy birthday,
@vishy64theking
!🙏🤗
#ChessConnectsUs
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My Mom taught me The GAME of chess when I was 5. I wish that all kids have this opportunity as it can give a positive experience for a lifetime. I do a step every day to pass on my love and passion to the next generations. 🤗♕♔🌎
Happy
#InternationalChessDay
!
@ChessConnectsUs
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A wonderful personality, former 5-time world champ, friend, colleague, and now he is passing on his enormous experience and wisdom to the next generation in India!
Happy birthday my friend, Vishy Anand! ❤️☺️
👇
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What a fun chat we had with Anya Taylor-Joy about the Queen's Gambit miniseries and how her dancing also connect to chess:)
Anya Taylor-Joy got to live out her The Queen’s Gambit fantasy and talk all things chess with Judit Polgár, a world-renowned champion who is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time 👑
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We used to be rivals, now we are friends. We both believe in the power and the need of chess in education. Happy Birthday, Garry Kasparov! 🙂🎂🥂
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Sitting cross-legged in Istanbul (2000). At the 1988 Thessaloniki Chess Olympiad (gold medal!) and in chess tournaments afterwards, I always put my legs under me while playing. It helped my concentration, I felt like I was in a cocoon. My look says it all… 😂💪
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Speaking up for hostages is not political. It is humanitarian. The world of sports is asking all athletes to heed the call to protect the safety and security of all hostages.
Please, share.
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Today I became an honorary doctor of the Budapest University of Physical Education. While the title is an honor, it is also another proof that chess is a sport. I have never thought otherwise.
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I was just 13 when I played my first game with Viktor Korchnoi. It was a draw. What a legendary fighter he was!
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Who is this young man in the pic?
1. He started to play chess at 6.
2. He became GM at age 17.
3. We were rivals.
4. Harry S. Truman is his "namesake".
5. He is a former World Chess Champion.
6. Peak rating: 2851
7. His
#birthday
is today!
HB, my friend!🥂
📷RCOD
#ChessConnectsUs
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With the winner🏆 of the
@NorwayChess
2023.🙂
@GMHikaru
is a mystery to me: how can someone be the No.1 streamer, commentator during the games, and world No.2 on the ranking list❓
Impressive! Bravo!👏
#ChessConnectsUs
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Giving Florentino Pérez a hint that chess has value and a place at
@realmadrid
too.🤗
I was honored to be the guest of "Los Blancos" and meet the president and legendary players eg. Roberto Carlos.✌♟⚽️
#chessconnectsus
#realmadrid
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The 78th Golden Globe Awards is on the horizon... My full support to Anya and The Queen's Gambit!
❤️♟🎬
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✈You've just arrived in Madrid and what happens?!😀❤
#ChessConnectsUs
#ILoveChess
#ChessIsFun
#ChessSummit
The King
@MagnusCarlsen
meets the Queen
@GMJuditPolgar
. And it ended with a win for Judit!
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I remember vividly how impressive was for me when I met Anatoly Karpov for the first time as a teenager. Since then we had countless encounters, training sessions and private talks. I wish Happy 70th Birthday to a truly amazing world champion who wrote history in many ways! 🙂🥂
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Many years have flown by (since this pic was taken). Not like a second, although sometimes it seems like it.😉I wish you the best for the next 33, and the more to come! ☘
Happy (33rd) birthday,
@MagnusCarlsen
!🥂
#ChessConnectsUs
📷Ray Morris-Hill (2012 London Chess Classic)
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I remember how much meant to me when many years ago
@vishy64theking
was asked and he said about me: She is one of us.❤
#ChessConnectsUs
#ChessHasNoGender
Viswanathan Anand
@vishy64theking
says he never gave importance to the gender of his opponents.
At an event hosted by
@ChesskidIndia
&
@ChessKidcom
@GMJuditPolgar
@SusanPolgar
@FIDE_chess
@aicfchess
#ChessOlympiad
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Look at her eyes.
Vera Menchik became the first Women's Chess World Champion in 1927. She defended her title six times and lost only one game over the course of these seven tournaments.
She has gone many years ago but not forgotten - remember her on her birthday.❤
16/02/1906
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I was fortunate to meet Miguel Najdorf in Buenos Aires when I was 16. He had a great sense of humor, loved playing blitz any time, took us to great steak houses even though I was vegetarian at the time.😀 My favorite Sicilian variation was named after him. I remember him. ♕❤️
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He was the best prepared as a whole person for this immense challenge of
#FIDECandidates
. The calmness he radiates is the most impressive. Congrats to
@DGukesh
!🇮🇳
I am looking forward to following his further rise.
📷FIDE/Maria Emelianova
#ChessConnectsUs
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What a memorable final!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sport, tension, nerves... Congrats for the victory of Argentina!⚽️🥇🏆
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Today I have joined the Play Magnus Group as an Educational Ambassador. To be continued...
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It was easy for me to remember the date: the first game of our double match held in Budapest (1993) was on 31st January. Almost on his birthday. So, happy birthday to the oldest world champion of chess, the great storyteller Boris Spassky! 😉🥂
#chessconnectsus
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The one and only
@agadmator
will face me on the 9th influencer's board at
#JPvsWorld
(20th March)!❤
Join the World Board!👇
Would you just watch the show?👇
#chessconnectsus
#Expo2020Hungary
#HungaryPavilion
#Expo2020
#Dubai
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I was appointed as Honorary FIDE Vice-President!
I will focus my efforts on chess development all over the world, including promoting chess in schools, popularization of the game and improving the level of tournament organization.
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Thanks for reminding me,
@TarjeiJS
😉❤
Amazing how Judit Polgar, after 35 years, still holds the record as the highest ever rated 12-year-old.
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Chess enthusiast
@ReheSamay
+his community will be my challengers on the 5th influencer's board at The First Global Interactive Community Chess Simul (20th March)!❤
Join us!👇
#JPvsWorld
#chessconnectsus
#Expo2020Hungary
#HungaryPavilion
#Expo2020
#Dubai
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So I supported GM
@anishgiri
's preparations for the
#ChessOlympiad2022
.🙃😅👇
#ChessConnectsUs
#RetiroPark
#parkchess
#ChessOlympiad
#chesstraining
#ChessIsFun
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He was not only the world’s oldest chess grandmaster: he was a trainer, international arbiter, chess study composer, endgame theoretician, writer, and historian. A beautiful mind. I was growing up on his endgame books.
And he is forever young now.
RIP, Yuri Averbakh... 😔🖤
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My Mother comes from the Carpathia of Ukraine, I have many friends there. It is heartbreaking to follow what is happening.😥
#PeaceNoWar
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Dutch mathematician, chess player and author, the fifth World Chess Champion, later president of FIDE and professor of computer science Max Euwe was born 120 years ago on this day. A brilliant mind.
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The one was yesterday.🙏
The other one seems like yesterday.😉
Friendship has no age. 🔗
#ChessConnectsUs
#ChessOlympiad
#torchrelay
#FIDE
#ChessBaseIndia
@Vishy64theking
📷Aditya Sur Roy
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The current cover of the Hungarian weekly women's magazine - Nők Lapja. ❤️
#chessconnectsus
#n
őklapja
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The World Championship had its kick-off today in Dubai! Interesting game but with not a surprising result (draw) as the players are very careful at the beginning of the match.
I am expecting a fantastic fight here!
See you tomorrow! ❤️🙂
#CarlsenNepo
#FIDEmatch2021
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What a fight at the end of the year! Congrats to
@Vachier_Lagrave
the 2021 World Blitz Champion! ✨👍🏆
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👀 A glimpse behind the scenes with
@TaniaSachdev
... What an amazing playing hall for the
#FIDEMatch2021
!
We start tomorrow, follow us on
#c24live
! ❤️☺️
#CarlsenNepo
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We had many battles and meaningful conversations. Wishing happy birthday to Boris Spassky, one of the most interesting characters in chess and former world champion!
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🎤Start a day with Press Conference!😃
#ChessConnectsUs
#ChessOlympiad
#ChessOlympiad2022
#Chennai
#FIDEchess
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Congratulations to a wonderful legend, the world's oldest GM Yuri Averbakh who celebrates his 100th birthday today! 🎂 He had a great influence on my career as I learned so much from his books.📚
God bless him!😀🎈
#chessconnectsus
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Unstoppable! Congratulations to
@MagnusCarlsen
who defended both his Rapid and Blitz world titles!🥇Impressive that winning the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2023, he gained his 17th world title!🙂
📸FIDE/Anastasia Korolkova
#ChessConnectsUs
#FIDEChess
#blitzchess
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Game 11
As the lover of this beautiful game, I am saying "Go, Ian, go!"
Don't hide your skills anymore!
Let's have a great and exciting game of chess! ❤
Join us on
@chess24com
coverage 👇
#CarlsenNepo
#FIDEMatch2021
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Netflix invited me to create an article together. We have discussed what it takes to be a champion, why chess can save us, and how The Queen’s Gambit got it right. ♟🏅
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That smile and posture are so talkative... Congrats to
@MagnusCarlsen
on winning the World Blitz Championship!🥇 Right now he is crowned with Classical, Rapid, and Blitz world titles!🙂
📸FIDE/Lennart Ootes
#ChessConnectsUs
#FIDEChess
#blitzchess
#chess
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Chess has its power to connect young and old, poor and rich, eliminate politics or gender issues. I truly believe in the power of
#ChessConnectsUs
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It was a great honor to receiving the “European Chess Legend” at the Golden Pawn Award ceremony. Together with Garry.
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Game 6
What an amazing fight it was!
7 hours and 40 minutes. Huhhh... It was the longest game of world championship match history with its 136 moves.😉
#FIDEMatch2021
#CarlsenNepo
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Congrats to 17-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov on winning the 2021 World Rapid Championship! Superb performance!✨👍🏆
(Photo: Lennart Ootes, FIDE)
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I’m so happy! Congratulations to the creators of the series and Anya!!
#AnyaTaylorJoy
#thequeensgambit
#chessconnectsus
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It is a great honor to receive the new FIDE Icon Award.
"If we do not limit girls, if we encourage and inspire them to persevere and build their confidence, they will succeed in any field of life."
This is my message.❤
#WomenInChess
#ChessOlympiad2022
#FIDEIcon
#ChessConnectsUs
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I travelled all over the world. When people got to know I was from Hungary they replied: oh, Puskas... Then one day I got to meet the LEGEND. Today is Ferenc Puskas’ birthday.
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Speedy Vishy at age 18, sharper talent than anybody I knew, a role model for the upcoming generation in India and around the world. Thx for the fighting games! Happy 50th Birthday to a unique personality and World Champion Vishy Anand! photo: Rosa de las Nieves
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This photo was taken🔟years ago at the London Chess Classic. A lot has happened to both of us since then, but many things remain the same, such as the respect and appreciation we have for each other.
Happy (32nd) birthday,
@MagnusCarlsen
!✨🤗
#ChessConnectsUs
📷Ray Morris-Hill
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A true legend of chess, also was serious about martial arts but now for years already an exceptionally popular commentator, author, and amazing storyteller. Happy birthday my friend, Yasser Seirawan! :)
#chessconnectsus
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Congrats to Magnus for his 5th World Championship title! He has countless traits why he can do it again and again. For me, the most impressive was his patience and giving opportunities for Ian to make wrong.
Congrats to Team Magnus!🏆
#CarlsenNepo
#FIDEMatch2021
#Chess24Live
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Variations to prepare. Find the difference between these two (historical) photos! 😄👀💾✒️
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21‼️ On this day in 2000 I started to learn a “New opening” 🔐 and married 💍to my wonderful husband Gusztav 👫 who always supported me, my career and all my creative ideas.🖇❤️
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These pictures 🐬were taken 📷at Hawaii just a few hours after I wrote (a piece of) chess history by finishing in a tie for first place 🏆with Boris Gulko and becoming the first woman to win the US Open.🇺🇸✌That was exactly 23 years ago to this day. ❤☺️
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What a final! Congrats to all medalists, especially Magnus Carlsen for winning his first-ever
#FIDEWorldCup
!🏆 With this title he has won every major individual classical tournament.👍
🥇
@MagnusCarlsen
🇳🇴
🥈
@rpragchess
🇮🇳
🥉
@FabianoCaruana
🇺🇸
📷Stev Bonhage/FIDE
#ChessConnectsUs
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I always admired Ennio Morricone’s work and passion. I was fortunate to meet him, he challenged me in 2 rapid games in 2004 at the Hungarian Academy of Rome. I will always remember him and continue listening to his compositions as his artwork and compositions were one of kind.
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Smart, brave, and goal-oriented. 8-years-old chess champ Charvi from India.❤🤗
#ChessConnectsUs
#India
#ChessHasNoGender
Judit Polgar to a young Indian Under-8 girl champion: "I hope to see you in one of the upcoming Olympiads, and I want to see you in the open section. Promise?"
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Both WIM Julia Lebel-Arias (Monaco - on the left) and Randa Seder (Palestine) won at least one game at the
#ChessOlympiad2022
so far. The age gap is 68 years.
Age is simply a fact.
What matters: play!❤
#ChessConnectsUs
#Chennai
Photo: David Llada & FIDE/Stev Bonhage
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He is special. Happy birthday to a real gentleman, the former World Chess Champion Boris Spassky!🎉❤😀
#ChessConnectsUs
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📢 What an honour! I've become a Simpsons' character!😃
(It was in the seven-hundred and tenth episode, originally aired on October 17, 2021.)
#ChessConnectsUs
and Lisa 🤩
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Happy New Year to all of you!✨🎉
See you in 2024, my friends!🙂
And remember:
#ChessConnectsUs
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Who is this gentleman in the pic?
1. Started to play chess at 12.
2. His record in simul blindfold chess stood for more than 60 years.
3. My favorite Sicilian variation is named after him.
4. He settled in Argentina.
5. Today is the anniversary of his birth.❤
#ChessConnectsUs
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20 years ago I made the best move of my life, got married to Gusztav who supported me during my carrier and whatever I do these days
#20thAnniversory
#Happiness
#balance
#respect
#family
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I am so happy with my new book which is out now in Hungarian. It is for kids who would like to know more then just the rules of this amazing game. It includes Tips, combinations, strategy and tactics, short stories, puzzles and more.
#ChessInEducation
#ILoveChess
#ChessforKids
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If the coaches see a talented seven-year-old girl, please don't tell them that they can become the world champion between ladies. Tell them that they can be the best in the world.
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Spending a few days in India🇮🇳 recharged me and made me ready for new challenges.🤗🙏
#ChessConnectsUs
#life
#aims
#projects
#ChessPalace
#book
#JPCF
#recharging
#working
#creating
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„There is a parallel between the story of Beth Harmon and the real life of Judit Polgár. In a 1989 Playboy interview, then reigning world champion Garri Kasparov said that “there is real chess and women’s chess.”
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The power of India in chess is amazing, and it is set to grow. Pranav won the
#ChallengersChess
Tour 2022, and he will face in Dec with his countryman
@rpragchess
. Congratulations to Pranav, I am looking forward to this game!❤🤗
#ChessConnectsUs
#chess24
#chesstalents
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It's Christmas.
Quiet or noisy, glittery or modest, jolly or contemplative.
Peaceful.✨🙏🏻🎄
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🙏Yesterday I visited the "Shore Temple" to recharge myself for the 2nd etap of the
#ChessOlympiad2022
.
We are facing a superb day!😃
We start at 11:30 (CEST)👇
And do not forget❤
#BestChessOlympiad2022
#FIDEchess
#ChessConnectsUs
#chesscommentary
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Congrats to the winners of the Women section at the
#ChessOlympiad2022
!
UKRAINE🇺🇦🏆
GM Mariya Muzychuk🥇
GM Anna Muzychuk🥇
GM Anna Ushenina🥇
IM Nataliya Buksa🥇
IM Yuliia Osmak🥇
Captain: Michail Brodsky🥇
📷FIDE/Stev Bonhage, Lennart Ootes
#ChessConnectsUs
#Chennai
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I will follow Randa and looking forward to welcome her in the studio after one of her victories.❤🤗
#ChessOlympiad
#ChessConnectsUs
#FIDEChessOlympiad2022
The youngest participant of the 2022
#ChessOlympiad
, Randa Sedar, is just eight years old and is from Hebron, Palestine.
Her father started teaching her chess when she was five, and it soon became her life!
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Vassily Smyslov, World Champion, Teacher, Author and Singer would be 100 today. I learned from his books, and after we played he named me “The skirty Tal”.
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Alpha Zero like me? I am flattered by the lines written in „Game Changer” by Matthew Sadler. :-)
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Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren ended in a tie-break at the
#WorldChessChampionship
in Astana.
Congratulations to the new World Chess Champion Ding Liren!🥂🥇
#ChessConnectsUs
#NepoDing
#FIDEchess
📷FIDE/Anna Shtourman & Stev Bonhage
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I wish my Mom, sisters, and all ladies on the Globe a very Happy International Women's Day! Dare to dream big and fight for it!
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No words only memories - and the heritage he left behind.
09/03/1943
Photo: Harry Benson
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Magnus had a tough day vs Meier but won, Caruana started with a draw. Charvi the 8-year-old champion visited me in the studio and promised that she will compete later in the open section.❤️
Check it out from 03.09.27.👇
#ChessOlympiad2022
#ChessConnectsUs
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He is ranked 3rd in the world - and it's his birthday today. So, happy birthday, Fabiano Caruana! 🍰🙂♕🥂
@ChessConnectsUs
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Thank you
@ReheSamay
for being part of this celebration of chess! 😊❤
#chessconnectsus
Played my first ever kind of classical match (5 hours plus) against
@GMJuditPolgar
with
@sagarchess1
and our community! It was sooooo much fun! People were hooked throughout, and it ended with a beautiful checkmate on us! Thank you for the opportunity ❤️
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Historic moments reloaded. ✍️
17 June 1885: the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York harbour from France. 🚢
June 1992: my sister, Sofia, and I arrived where the Statue of Liberty arrived more than 100 years earlier. 🗽😃
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