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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Carlos Torre Repetto (redirect from Carlos Torre (chess player))
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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Emanuel Lasker (redirect from Lasker's Chess Magazine)
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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Sicilian Defence (redirect from B52 (chess opening))
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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FIDE (redirect from World Chess Federation)
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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