Yasser Seirawan (Arabic: ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the...

footballer Yasser Abd Rabbo (born 1944), Palestinian politician Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (born 1971), Iranian politician Yasser Seirawan (born 1960)...

grandmasters such as Eric Hansen (founder), Robin van Kampen, and Yasser Seirawan. Hambleton was born in 1992 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and learned to...

c4 e6 3. Bg5 This opening is also known as the Seirawan Attack, after top 1980s player Yasser Seirawan. This article uses algebraic notation to describe...

decisive advantage for Petrosian. Seirawan vs Tal, 1983 In this position, Syrian-American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan has just played 13. b4 against the...

players by grandmasters such as Lajos Portisch, David Bronstein and Yasser Seirawan. Horton, Byrne Joseph (1972). Dictionary of modern chess. New York...

layout allows the rooks early mobility. Seirawan chess (or S-Chess) is a Capablanca chess variant by Yasser Seirawan and Bruce Harper that uses a standard...

Bxd7+ are other possibilities) 8...fxe6, which was thought bad, until Yasser Seirawan played the move against Gyula Sax in 1988 (8...Bxb5 is the alternative...

confusion over who was World Champion. In May 2002, American grandmaster Yasser Seirawan led the organisation of the so-called "Prague Agreement" to reunite...

Maybe his strength is 2600 or 2650. It wouldn't be close between us". Yasser Seirawan believed that the match proved that Fischer's playing strength was...

Yasser Seirawan (2) 33 1987 Joel Benjamin Nick de Firmian|| 34 1988 Michael Wilder 35 1989 Roman Dzindzichashvili (2) Stuart Rachels Yasser Seirawan (3)...

rook can castle into check. This is discussed by Levon Aronian and Yasser Seirawan in Round 3 of St Louis' 2022 Chess 9LX tournament for move 18 of Aronian's...

Israeli politician and minister Rafik Schami - Syrian-German author Yasser Seirawan - chess player Zakaria Tamer - writer Soraya Tarzi - Queen of Afghanistan...

World Champion!". 1 December 2016. "Yasser Seirawan: "A Radical Solution - Redux"". 3 December 2016. "Yasser Seirawan - A Radical Solution Final Thoughts"...

included:  Anatoly Karpov (URS), 2715  Rafael Vaganian (URS), 2625  Yasser Seirawan (USA), 2595  Jaan Ehlvest (URS), 2585  Bent Larsen (DEN), 2570  Vladimir...

winner of the last tournament in Zagreb, ahead of Jaan Ehlvest and Yasser Seirawan. In an extra playoff in Havana in November, Nikolić took the place...

Jansa, Ján Plachetka, Jan Ambrož  United States 35½ Walter Browne, Yasser Seirawan, Lev Alburt, Lubomir Kavalek, James Tarjan, Larry Christiansen 1984...

third time, Alburt defeated four-time U.S. champion Yasser Seirawan with the black pieces: Seirawan vs. Alburt 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.c3 d5 4.Bf4 e6 5.e3...

would have put him at No. 10 in the world on the January 1993 list. Yasser Seirawan believed that the match proved that Fischer's playing strength was...

its home square, and has not always been noticed by the opponent. Yasser Seirawan once even accidentally castled queenside as White with his queen's...

was included in the so-called "Prague Agreement", masterminded by Yasser Seirawan and intended to reunite the two world championships. Kasparov was to...

generate active counterplay. 7...c6, 7...b6 In this line, favoured by Yasser Seirawan, after the nearly universal 5...Ne4, White plays 6.Bh4 or 6.cxd5, with...

Publications, 1978) ISBN 978-0-679-50814-4 "Chess Strategy Online: Forks" Yasser Seirawan (2005), Winning Chess Tactics, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-385-3...

Bxb4 Nd5 22. Bd6 f5 Commenting during the game, Susan Polgar wrote, "Yasser Seirawan says: 'I'm not sure what Vladimir thought was "attractive" about this...

Zvjaginsev (RUS), 2635  Predrag Nikolić (BIH), 2630  Jeroen Piket (NED), 2630  Yasser Seirawan (USA), 2630  Giorgy Giorgadze (GEO), 2625  Julio Granda (PER), 2625...

1989–90 U.S. Championship with grandmasters Roman Dzindzichashvili and Yasser Seirawan. This qualified him to play in the 1990 Manila Interzonal, where he...

Achievements Preceded by Yasser Seirawan United States Chess Champion 1987 (with Nick de Firmian) Succeeded by Michael Wilder Preceded by Alex Yermolinsky...

the game. Seirawan Chess: A commercial variant. Uses a standard 8×8 board with elephant (empress) and hawk (princess). By GM Yasser Seirawan and Bruce...

basketball player Naser Al Shami – boxer Feras Saied – bodybuilder Yasser Seirawan – chess grandmaster and four-time US-champion Ghada Shouaa – heptathlete...

(Robinson Publishing, 2010). In his book Winning Chess Brilliancies, Yasser Seirawan called this game the best of the 1980s. John Nunn's Chess Course (2014)...