• international super-tournament, organised by Nikolai Krylenko, was held at Moscow in the Soviet Union, from 10 November to 8 December 1925. It was the world's...
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    Ostrava 1923 chess tournament Moscow 1925 chess tournament Munich 1941 chess tournament New York 1924 chess tournament New York 1927 chess tournament New York...
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  • Moscow 1935 was the second international chess tournament held in Moscow, taking place from 15 February to 15 March 1935. Salo Flohr and future world champion...
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    Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky [ru]. Chess Fever is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming...
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    annually since 1987 in his native city. Torre vs. Lasker, Moscow 1925 In the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, Torre defeated former world champion Emanuel Lasker...
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    in 1925 (1½ points behind Efim Bogoljubow, ½ point ahead of Capablanca), he effectively retired from serious chess. During the Moscow 1925 chess tournament...
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    José Raúl Capablanca (category 20th-century chess players)
    competition in eight years. He made another bad start at the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, and could only fight back to third place, two points behind...
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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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  • All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) 10 November – 8 December – Moscow 1925 chess tournament 2 January – Irina Arkhipova, singer 11 January – Viktor Avdyushko...
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  • a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
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    with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin tournament with the exception...
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  • Bled 1931 chess tournament was a major chess tournament proposed by Milan Vidmar and held in 1931 in Bled and Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom...
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    Alexander Alekhine (category Chess players from Moscow)
    over-the-board tournament, the Moscow chess club's Spring Tournament. Later that year, he tied for 11th–13th in the club's Autumn Tournament; his elder brother...
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    Pyotr Romanovsky (category Chess players from Saint Petersburg)
    the 1925 Leningrad City Chess Championship. In December 1925, he tied for seventh/eighth in the Moscow 1925 chess tournament. In 1927, he won in Leningrad...
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    chess tournament held in the Sanremo Casino. Sixteen chess masters including the world champion Alexander Alekhine, played a round-robin tournament from...
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    Efim Geller (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Петрович Геллер; Ukrainian: Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won...
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  • of notable chess games sorted chronologically. 1475: Francesc de Castellví vs. Narcís de Vinyoles, Valencia 1475. The first documented chess game played...
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  • international tournament in which one third to one half of players were from the host country was first used at Moscow 1925, and later at Moscow 1935 and Kemeri...
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  • Polugaevsky Chess Tournament, Bueno Aires 1994. New in Chess. p. 65. ISBN 90-71689-99-9. Griffith, R.C.; J. H. White (1925). Modern Chess Openings. Leeds:...
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    Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky (category Ukrainian chess players)
    Chernihiv or Moscow – 5 November 1965, Moscow) was a Russian Empire and Soviet Ukrainian chess master. He was one of the organizers of the Kyiv Chess Club. He...
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    Vera Menchik (category Chess players from Moscow)
    school, the students started a chess club in her last year in Moscow. Menchik joined the club and played her first tournament there at age 14 with other students...
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    seniors, and the disabled. Another flagship event is the Chess Olympiad, a biennial chess tournament organized since 1924, in which national teams compete...
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    Boris Verlinsky (category Chess International Masters)
    10-11th in Moscow (3rd USSR Chess Championship). The event was won by Efim Bogoljubov. In 1924, he took 2nd, behind Grigoriev, in Moscow (5th Moscow Championship)...
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  • Nina Hrušková-Bělská (category Czechoslovak female chess players)
    World Chess Championship in Moscow where shared 12th-14th place. In 1952, she participated at Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in Moscow...
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    Solomon Gotthilf (category Chess players from Saint Petersburg)
    Romanovsky and Bogoljubov won), and tied for 18-19th in the Moscow 1925 chess tournament (Bogoljubow won). He retired in Leningrad City-ch in 1926, took...
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    Tigran Petrosian (category World chess champions)
    The World Champions I Knew. New In Chess. p. 235. ISBN 9789056914844. "ПЕТРОСЯН Рона Яковлевна (1925–2003)". moscow-tombs.ru (in Russian). Archived from...
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  • Nikolai Zubarev (category Chess players from the Russian Empire)
    was a Russian chess player. He won the championship of Moscow twice. During World War I, Zubarev won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915 and tied...
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    Abram Rabinovich (category Chess players from the Russian Empire)
    January 1878 – 7 November 1943) was a Lithuanian–Russian chess player. He was champion of Moscow in 1926. Rabinovich was born in Vilna, Lithuania (then...
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  • Henry Ernest Atkins (category English chess players)
    won every year from 1905 to 1911, and again in 1924 and 1925. A schoolmaster, Atkins treated chess as a hobby, devoting relatively little time to it and...
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    Ilya Rabinovich (category Jewish chess players)
    the Petrograd chess championship, and came fourth in Moscow in the All-Russian Chess Olympiad (later recognized as the first Soviet chess championship)...
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