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    The IBM international chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in the Amsterdam, Netherlands from 1961 to 1981, and was sponsored...
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    Government chess tournament Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress IBM international chess tournament Keres Memorial Konex chess tournament...
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    Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to...
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    1944, 1945 and 1948, he travelled to Europe to further his chess career. International chess was starting up again after a six-year hiatus caused by World...
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    The major chess events of 1981 were the final match of the Candidates Tournament (between Viktor Korchnoi and Robert Hübner) and the second Karpov–Korchnoi...
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    Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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  • by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA, until 2002 ICCA). It is often held in conjunction with the World Computer Speed Chess Championship...
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    many international chess tournament awards, including first or shared first place in Starý Smokovec (1976), IBM international chess tournament - B (1976)...
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  • promising newcomer Mark Dvoretsky (11/13) at Viljandi. The IBM international chess tournament, held in Amsterdam is won by Lev Polugaevsky on 12/15, ahead...
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  • the progress of significant human–computer chess matches. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous...
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    Garry Kasparov (category Chess coaches)
    also holds records for the most consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11). Kasparov became the youngest-ever undisputed...
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    Eddie Scholl (category Dutch chess players)
    in the round-robin IBM international chess tournament–B in Amsterdam. He soon rose to the top of Dutch chess players. In Dutch Chess Championships he won...
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    the establishment of the World Chess Federation. In 1997, an IBM supercomputer beat Garry Kasparov, the then world chess champion, in the famous Deep Blue...
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    Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
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    Hiong Liong Tan (category Chess International Masters)
    co-winner of the traditional IBM international chess tournament at Amsterdam, alongside Moshe Czerniak. He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in...
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  • of concept for chess computing. Finally, in 1957 an IBM engineer named Alex Bernstein created the world's first fully automated chess engine. The engine...
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    Johan Barendregt (category Chess International Masters)
    the title of FIDE International Master (IM) in 1962. In 1966, he defeated Mikhail Botvinnik at the IBM international chess tournament. He is mentioned...
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    Gyula Sax (category Chess players from Budapest)
    Palmas Invitation (together with Vladimir Tukmakov) 1978, IBM international chess tournament 1979 (together with Vlastimil Hort), and Wijk aan Zee 1989...
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  • International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting...
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  • form of consultation. Freestyle chess was introduced by Ingo Althoefer and Timo Klaustermeyer with a Blitz tournament in August 2004. The concept was...
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  • The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the International Chess Federation. The...
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    Jozef Boey (category Chess International Masters)
    several successes in international chess tournaments, include shared 2nd place in Amsterdam (1974, IBM international chess tournament B) and shared 2nd place...
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  • Candidates Tournament in Groningen. Garry Kasparov loses to chess supercomputer Deeper Blue in a controversial rematch (2½-3½). Afterwards, IBM announce...
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    1945) is an International Master of chess who plays for Scotland, and a businessman. He is noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial...
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    Robert Hartoch (category Chess International Masters)
    the IBM international chess tournament. In 1971, he shared 2nd-3rd place with András Adorján in the B tournament of the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Festival...
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    Jan Timman (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s...
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    Mikhail Botvinnik (category Chess players from Saint Petersburg)
    of Labour. To test the strength of Soviet chess masters, Krylenko organized the Moscow 1925 chess tournament. On a rest day during the event, world champion...
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  • share success at a double round tournament in Tilburg, each scoring 8½/14. Kasparov wins the Linares chess tournament with 8/11. Gelfand takes second...
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    Christian Langeweg (category Chess International Masters)
    Amsterdam Christian Langeweg won the IBM international chess tournament. In 1974, he won the International Chess Tournament in Plovdiv. In 1976, in Zürich he...
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    and Deep Blue (grandmaster-level chess-playing computer). There are a number of computer scientists "who made IBM Research famous." These include Frances...
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