The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) is a nonprofit collecting institution in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States....
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Skating Hall of Fame ACBL Hall of Fame (bridge) World Chess Hall of Fame Poker Hall of Fame America's Cup Hall of Fame (sailing) Billiard Congress of America...
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Jennifer Shahade (redirect from Chess Bitch)
United States Chess Federation. She is also a MindSports Ambassador for PokerStars and a board member of the World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis...
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Arpad Elo (category 20th-century chess players)
into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Elo died of a heart attack at his home in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on November 5, 1992. Elo is known for his chess player...
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Olga Rubtsova (category Women's world chess champions)
1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Rubtsova won the...
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World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...
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street from the World Chess Hall of Fame. The club hosts the annual Sinquefield Cup tournament, the only U.S. stop on the Grand Chess Tour. Founded at the...
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The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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Eugene Torre (category Philippine Sports Hall of Fame inductees)
Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. In a tournament in Manila in 1976,...
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Nona Gaprindashvili (category Women's world chess champions)
awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster. She was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Presidential Order of Excellence in 2015. Gaprindashvili...
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Alla Kushnir (category Chess Woman Grandmasters)
into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Alla Kushnir immigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel in 1974. Kushnir was thrice Women's World Chess Championship...
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Join World Chess Hall of Fame". US Chess Federation. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2022. "World Chess Hall of Fame". World Chess Hall of Fame. Retrieved...
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Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers...
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Xie Jun (category Women's world chess champions)
was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Although born in Baoding, Hebei in 1970 and raised in Beijing, the ancestral home of Xie and her parents...
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Sonja Graf (category Chess Woman International Masters)
Association and Passengers of the Piriápolis "Sonja Graf-Stevenson". World Chess Hall of Fame. March 23, 2017. "Childhood of Sonja (Susanna) Graf - the...
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number of draws may be omitted, or mentioned separately. For instance, the World Chess Championship 1978 was won by Anatoly Karpov by a score of 6 wins...
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The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
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The World Chess Championship 1886 was the first official World Chess Championship match contested by Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. The match...
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Maia Chiburdanidze (category Women's world chess champions)
"Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO Individual Calculations Chess Ratings FIDE". "Maya Chiburdanidze". World Chess Hall of Fame. 23 March 2017. "Glory to the Queen". Austrian...
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scenes. The production was sponsored by the Saint Louis Chess Club and the World Chess Hall of Fame, both located close to the theatre. Anatoly: David Burt...
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A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. They can come in various sizes and shapes, and are usually...
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A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...
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the late 1980s. Their most famous success was the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, but there was some controversy...
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Maurice Ashley (category African-American chess players)
high-profile chess events. He also spent many years teaching chess. On April 13, 2016, Ashley was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame. Ashley was born...
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Check: Chess and the American Presidency". World Chess Hall of Fame. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2023-11-23. Hồ, Chí Minh (1971). The Prison Diary of Ho Chi...
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Elisaveta Bykova (category Women's world chess champions)
the World Chess Hall of Fame. Bykova was born to a peasant family. When she was twelve, her family moved to Moscow, where she began to play chess with...
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Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...
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A chess database is a database of chess games. Chess Assistant Chess Informant Expert Chess opening book (computers) Chess.com Chess24.com ChessBase Lichess...
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Réti Opening (redirect from A09 (chess opening))
the opening most famously to defeat José Raúl Capablanca, the reigning World Chess Champion, in a game at the 1924 New York tournament. Alexander Alekhine...
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"ultimate computer chess challenge" organized by FIDE, defeating Deep Fritz 4–2. These programs opted out of the World Computer Chess Championship, which...
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