Tbilisi kicks off 2024/25 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix season ♟️
From August 14 to 25, the ???????? Georgian capital will host the first of six tournaments, in which 20 top women players from around the world will compete, shaping the future of women's chess!
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— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) August 13, 2024
@Kasparov63 today in #Poland #Warsaw #chess #mokate pic.twitter.com/4W5poCZNiK
— Keti Tsatsalashvili (@keti_chess) August 19, 2021
fot. Andrzej Filipowicz
Stephen Fry: „…Kasparov hunches himself over the game, in a brooding, minatory and virile manner that is worth at least three extra pawns.” https://t.co/zWV41CdoV8 pic.twitter.com/eWCvOjYlnB
— Olimpiu Di Luppi (@olimpiuurcan) May 3, 2024
Tilburg, 8th October 1981. 18-year-old Garry Kasparov is pictured in play v. Boris Spassky in the 5th round of the 'Interpolis' super-tournament. The ex-World Champion won an eventful game in 66 moves.
(????via https://t.co/L98GafClhu.) #chess pic.twitter.com/GgakjD5qcM— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) August 6, 2024
We always make our predictions and pick the players we think might win the event of #GrandChessTour ????????! Who do you think will win #STLRapidBlitz? pic.twitter.com/1vTWAT5H2K
— ????????Anastasiya Karlovych (@NastiaKarlovich) August 12, 2024
Chess isn't the Hunger Games. Chess champion Amina Abakarova was caught on video smearing mercury on rival Umayganat Osmanova's chess pieces, causing her to be hospitalized. She has been stripped of her title. pic.twitter.com/IqojTbEHMN
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 8, 2024
When a Chess win means so much! pic.twitter.com/I29hxZX4M3
— Chess.com – India (@chesscom_in) August 8, 2024
What a fantastic roster of players in the 2024 Saint Louis Blitz & Rapid! ????????????We can’t wait to see them in action starting August 12th!???? Who will you be rooting for?????
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♚#STLChessClub #GrandChessTour #chess #chessplayer #superstars pic.twitter.com/PFqcw7Op19— Saint Louis Chess Club (@STLChessClub) August 8, 2024
✅ Win #TitledTuesday with perfect 11/11 score, 1.5 points ahead of the field.
✅ Win Titled Tuesday two weeks in a row.
✅ Win World Blitz Team Chess Championship the same week.???? @MagnusCarlsen ???? pic.twitter.com/14VxfDhhxE
— chess24 (@chess24com) August 7, 2024
The Top 20 after the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship: Carlsen at one point was close to 2900, but after scoring 8/8, he "only" managed 1.5/3 in his last three games. (Nakamura has an inactive blitz rating of 2874)https://t.co/L95GsC6Fb1 pic.twitter.com/8OlblebaKs
— 2700chess (@2700chess) August 5, 2024
