Born 57 years ago today in Minsk: 6-time World Championship Candidate, & challenger for the World Championship in 2012 – Israeli GM Boris Gelfand.
Pictured here in early 1988, at the USSR Young Masters’ Championship in Vilnius.
(????: V. Levitin, Novosti Press.) #chess pic.twitter.com/UPvd3aMQos— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) June 24, 2025
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????Yasser explains the game-winning tactic found by @ninobatsiashvilli in Round 8! Do you have a favorite game played in the Cairns Cup tournament so far? #chess #CairnsCup pic.twitter.com/qSDsR9tIf1
— Saint Louis Chess Club (@STLChessClub) June 18, 2025
IM Renato Terry had checkmate in two against Magnus Carlsen but lost the game! Can you find it?https://t.co/DzV80BZMIJ#TitledTuesday pic.twitter.com/sdOLiDenMD
— chess24 (@chess24com) June 17, 2025
Ivan Sokolov (13 June 1968) is a Dutch-Bosnian chess Grandmaster. He won the Yugoslav and the Dutch Championships, the 2000 European Rapid Chess Championship, and was the coach of the gold-winning Uzbek chess team at the 2022 Olympiad. He beat Smyslov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen. pic.twitter.com/85lbMjPGDZ
— JustChessAndSports (@JustChessSports) June 13, 2025
Happy birthday to @GMSokolovIvan! Seen here on the way to defeating World Champion Garry Kasparov in the 9th round at Wijk aan Zee, 1999.
(????: https://t.co/djJ1Pugbjm.) #chess pic.twitter.com/iTbBiRQShv— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) June 13, 2025
GM Paweł Teclaf Mistrzem Polski 2025!
Gratulacje!???? pic.twitter.com/IU4hCf5KuP— Szachowe Co Nieco (@szachoweconieco) May 15, 2025
Quem perdeu o melhor momento do Campeonato Mundial Blitz da FIDE 2021?
???????? Pawel Teclaf v. Tigran Petrosian ????????#rapidblitz #xadrez #chess pic.twitter.com/Sf611AWxiU— Chess.com Português (@chesscom_pt) January 4, 2022
We had to try it ourselves after all the memes, you know#GukeshDommaraju #GukeshvsMagnus #magnuscarlsen #norwaychess pic.twitter.com/WXcZS42RjS
— ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) June 7, 2025
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GM Valery Salov turns 61 today. Born in Wrocław, Poland, he became World U16 Champion in 1980 and climbed the rankings to reach world number three in 1995—behind only Kasparov and Karpov, and ahead of Kramnik, Anand, and Ivanchuk.
In the late ’90s, he walked away from… pic.twitter.com/nRWxD7TrLe
— ICC chessclub.com (@chessclubICC) May 26, 2025
