• Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story involves...
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  • Look up chess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chess is a two-player board game. Chess or CHESS may also refer to: Chess (One Piece), a fictional character...
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  • One Night in Bangkok (category Songs from Chess (musical))
    "One Night in Bangkok" is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, and Björn Ulvaeus. English actor and singer...
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  • Sung-through (category Sung-through musicals)
    April 2022. "Chess the Musical – The Production Company". www.australianstage.com.au. "Chess: A Musical". www.metafilter.com. Chess (musical)#Miscellaneous...
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  • I Know Him So Well (category Songs from Chess (musical))
    "I Know Him So Well" is a duet from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. It was originally sung...
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  • Wolf, who stayed with the label until his death in 1976. Musical figures created for Chess by Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy...
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  • Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969), was a Polish-American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records...
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    Adam Pascal (category American male musical theatre actors)
    the Emcee in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, for playing Freddie Trumper in Chess at the New Amsterdam Theatre and Royal Albert Hall, and for playing Huey...
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    Howlin' Wolf (category Chess Records artists)
    His first record "Moanin' at Midnight" (1951) led to a record deal with Chess Records in Chicago. Between 1951 and 1969, six of his songs reached the...
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  • Chess Moves is a 1985 music video compilation for the musical Chess directed by David G. Hillier. Chess Moves features five music videos of songs from...
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  • Cadillac Records (category 2000s musical drama films)
    the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and...
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  • 1991, Battle Chess Enhanced was released by Interplay for IBM PC compatibles and Macintosh with improved VGA graphics and a symphonic musical score played...
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    Judy Kuhn (category American musical theatre actresses)
    production of the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Subsequent Broadway roles include Cosette in Les Misérables (1987), Florence Vassy in Chess (1988), and...
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    François-André Danican Philidor (category French chess players)
    French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He is widely regarded as the best chess player of his age;...
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    Benny Andersson (category Swedish musical theatre composers)
    best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of...
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  • The Queen's Gambit (miniseries) (category 2020 in chess)
    same name by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created...
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    hosted the premiere of the original Russian production of the legendary musical Chess. The show played 600 performances and was seen by more than 700 000...
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    1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...
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    Ramin Karimloo (category Canadian male musical theatre actors)
    is also known for his many portrayals of Anatoly Sergievsky in the musical Chess. He first played the role at the Kennedy Center in 2018, followed by...
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    Björn Ulvaeus (category Swedish musical theatre composers)
    and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA. He is also the co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! He...
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  • We Are the Tigers is a pop rock musical with book, lyrics, and music by Preston Max Allen. The musical follows a cheerleading captain and her team trying...
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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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  • recordings for Chess Records. The first appearance on record of Little Walter's amplified harmonica was on Waters' "Country Boy" (Chess 1952), recorded...
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    web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Invalidname. "Chess (musical)". en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2019-06-18. Media related to Skellefteå...
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    group creation of Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Rotary Connection consisted of Riperton, Chess, Judy Hauff, Sidney Barnes...
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    World Chess Champion. He has written well-known chess books such as Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and Reform Chess, a survey of chess variants...
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    Glass Bead Game Multiplayer games – e.g. Risk, Monopoly, or Four-player chess Musical games – e.g. Spontuneous Negotiation games – e.g. Diplomacy Paper-and-pencil...
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  • David Carroll (actor) (category American male musical theatre actors)
    Gaigern in Grand Hotel: The Musical. He also played the role of Anatoly Sergievsky in the original Broadway cast of Chess. Both roles earned him Tony...
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  • player (especially in chess) is forced to make a disadvantageous move because it is their turn. The work is dedicated to the chess grandmaster Lothar Schmid...
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    Murray Head (category English male musical theatre actors)
    Christ Superstar) and "One Night in Bangkok" (the 1984 single from the musical Chess, which topped the charts in various countries). He has been involved...
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