Ju Wenjun in Women's World Chess Championships since 2018 ????
2018 – Challenger vs. Tan – Won 4.5-5.5 ✅
2018 – Knockout – Won 64 player event ✅
2020 – vs. Goryachkina – Won TBs ✅
2023 – vs. Lei – Won 6.5-5.5 ✅
2025 – vs. Tan – Won 6.5-2.5 ✅Dominant. ???? Anna Shtourman pic.twitter.com/X7RBh1d9uA
— Chess.com (@chesscom) April 22, 2025
???????? I'm absolutely delighted to announce that Magnus Carlsen's perfect 9/9 in Grenke is the HIGHEST performance rating in history, surpassing Fischer's incredible 11/11 run in the 1964 US Championship by just a few rating points ???????? ???? pic.twitter.com/0ZtsKBROt2
— Mehmet Ismail???? (@drmehmetismail) April 21, 2025
Ju Wenjun in Women’s World Chess Championships since 2018 ????
2018 – Challenger vs. Tan – Won 4.5-5.5 ✅
2018 – Knockout – Won 64 player event ✅
2020 – vs. Goryachkina – Won TBs ✅
2023 – vs. Lei – Won 6.5-5.5 ✅
2025 – vs. Tan – Won 6.5-2.5 ✅Dominant. ???? Anna Shtourman pic.twitter.com/X7RBh1d9uA
— Chess.com (@chesscom) April 22, 2025
Last time someone won 4 games in a row in a World Championship Match was in 1886. First ever Official World Chess Championship Match between Zukertort and Steinitz. In Lasker vs Steinitz 1894, Lasker won 5 in a row! pic.twitter.com/W5hsZHFX1g
— agadmator (@agadmator) April 14, 2025
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Miguel Najdorf and his wife Adela. Amsterdam, 1950. Photo: National Archives of the Netherlands. Chess #chess #chessgame #ajedrez #schach #scacchi #echecs #xadrez pic.twitter.com/tz3WpH5rxu
— JustChessMiniatures (@JustChessMini) April 15, 2023
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Miguel Najdorf during a simultaneous exhibition in Tel Aviv in the early 1960s. pic.twitter.com/kFfWmZAelV
— Olimpiu Di Luppi (@olimpiuurcan) April 14, 2022
Oscar Panno and Miguel Najdorf, Thessaloniki Chess Olympiad 1988. pic.twitter.com/d9ol4ZT6R3
— David Llada ♞ (@davidllada) January 14, 2023
me: we should now do Kasparov's Immortal and launch on International Day of Kasparov
Sophia from @chessable_DE: and Sophiap.s. Happy birthday, Sophia!! ???? pic.twitter.com/qmj5mTREOL
— Chessable (@chessable) April 13, 2025
One of the pages from the young Garry Kasparov's notebooks from his time at the Botvinnik school. All done by hand, including pieces stamped on the diagram in ink.
The analysis is of the game Keres-Bondarevsky, (USSR Absolute Championship, Leningrad/Moscow 1941). pic.twitter.com/W6bQIxeHbN— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) November 22, 2023
Botvinnik-Kasparov school, year 1987-88.
Very young Kramnik and … who else do you recognize? pic.twitter.com/D90VfERXUB
— Emilchess (@EmilSutovsky) November 14, 2023
16-year-old Garry Kasparov, pictured in play for the Azerbaijan SSR in the 7th USSR People's Spartakiad, Moscow, July 1979.
(????: Yu. Somov.) #chess pic.twitter.com/gWy8SoYgvr— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) October 13, 2021
Seasons Greeting from Chess Life Magazine 1981 reflecting on the year in chess with Gary Kasparov appearing in the Youth section with his mum & peers. What are your highlights from 2024? From @ecfchess Library@librarydmu @garylanechess @chesstutor #chesshistory #chessliterature pic.twitter.com/tkeUQdFTUL
— DMUArchives&RareBooks (@DMUSpecialColls) December 10, 2024
Fridrik Olafsson, Pioneering Icelandic Chess Grandmaster, passed away..
Fridrik Olafsson, the first Icelandic chess grandmaster who paved the way for chess in his native country and served as FIDE President from 1978 to 1982, passed away on April 4, 2025, just months after his… pic.twitter.com/7WAR5ID66z
— European Chess Union (@ECUonline) April 7, 2025
