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For the first time since the 2010 World Championship match between GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Veselin Topalov in 2010 — and the first time ever in a Women's World Championship — a tie was broken in the final classical game. 

GM Ju Wenjun successfully defended her title for the third consecutive match, beating GM Lei Tingjie 6½ - 5½ in a match she never led before this round. 

In a narrative that will be familiar to many chess players across all levels, the story of the match began as one about opening preparation but ended up being more about stamina and mental resolve. Lei and Ju both had top grandmasters working as their seconds, but Azerbaijani GM Teimour Radjabov seemed to have Lei prepared a few moves further in almost every opening she played than Ju and Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna were expecting. 

Nevertheless, Lei landed only one decisive blow in the first half of the match. With a two-day break and a change of scenery, Ju emerged with a new game plan. As Black, she started hopping around in openings, and as White, she stopped trying to fight for theoretical lines in the Queen's Gambit altogether. This latter strategy proved particularly successful, scoring two decisive results in her final three games with the white pieces. 

Round twelve was a perfect encapsulation of the dynamics of this match. Once the position left theoretical waters, Ju's plan was clearly to just "get a game" as she successfully managed in her eighth-round victory. As Ju grew more patient and comfortable in the position, Lei had the opposite reaction, grasping for the most concrete variations at multiple points in the game when flexibility would have bee

Editor’s note: When Abhinav Suresh reached out to me in June before his trip to Madrid for the Candidates, I was more than happy to connect him to match organizers and have him on-site on behalf of US Chess. I know what a thoughtful and intelligent writer Suresh can be, and I also know his deep love for, and growing strength, in our beloved game.

Over the span of more than a week, “our man in Madrid” witnessed some dramatic chess, talked to players, reporters, and fans, and fed information back to us here in the States for our coverage. He also wrote this wrap-up of his time in Madrid. Consider it your weekend read, and your inspiration to get out and see the world.

For more on what happened at the next stop in Suresh’s European adventure, check out his “My Best Move” contribution to our September issue of Chess Life.

Earlier this month, I left my job in the New York financial world to pursue a new opportunity. While I was apprehensive about moving on, the prospect of a new challenge — a new start, a “day one” — was too much to turn down. 
 

Arriving in Madrid, where I was visiting before beginning my new job, “day one” was really “day three.” After a delayed plane and a mishap with a SIM card, I picked up my credentials at the Palacio de Santona. As it happened, I only managed to catch the tail-end of the most exciting game of the day, Firouzja versus Nakamura. 

It didn’t matter that I had come in late. The energy, despite the hour, was palpable. I checked out the main Spanish commentary booth, coordinated by GMs Jose Rafael Gascón Del Nogal and Miguel Santos. The antechamber was filled with press and spectators, eagerly analyzing the earlier games of the round and energetically kibitzing despite having done so all day. On the other half of the room, Chessable and Chess.com representatives were joining in on the fun, calling out moves and

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr. born Michael King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.

King participated in and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC. As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with great success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and, in 1964, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.

On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalis