Events in chess in 1932: Canadian Chess Federation (later renamed Chess Federation of Canada) replaces the Canadian Chess Association, and for the first...
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founded in 1872, was replaced in 1932 by the Canadian Chess Federation (CCF), which for the first time included representation from all major cities in Canada...
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to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess...
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Buchholz system (redirect from Buchholz (chess rating))
spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system in chess developed by Bruno Buchholz (died c. 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments (Hooper & Whyld...
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took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three times in four attempts...
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of the winners of the Catalan Chess Championship. Note: In 1992, two championships were held. "Absolut". Catalan Chess Federation. Retrieved 3 December...
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The Luxembourg Chess Championship has been held since 1932 by the Luxembourg Chess Federation [Wikidata] (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise des Échecs...
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(March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957. He won...
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In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...
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November 1932, London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions. He started a career in accountancy, but in 1909...
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Betty Boop (category Film series introduced in 1932)
compromise her virginity were reflected in Chess-Nuts (1932) and most importantly in Boop-Oop-a-Doop (1932). In Chess-Nuts, the Black King goes into the house...
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Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...
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Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer Lora Yakovleva (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster Maksim Sergeyevich Yakovlev (born 1991), Russian footballer...
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Chess-Nuts is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Bimbo and Koko the Clown. A live action chess game becomes...
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This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
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politician and banker C.W. Lemoine, US author Claude Lemoine (born 1932), French chess master and journalist Cyril Lemoine (born 1983), French cyclist Émile...
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(in Russian the consonant h is replaced with the consonant g). Notable people with the Kagan surname include: Bernhard Kagan (1866–1932), German chess...
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Philip Baker may refer to: Philip Baker (chess player) (1880–1932), Irish chess player Philip Baker (provost) (born 1523), provost of King's College, Cambridge...
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Edgard Colle (category Belgian chess players)
Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first...
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Hermanis Matisons (category Chess players from Riga)
Herman Mattison; 1894, Riga – 1932) was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a...
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Opera Game (redirect from Opera game (chess))
The Opera Game was an 1858 chess game, played at an opera house in Paris. The American master Paul Morphy played against two strong amateurs: the German...
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which she sold to the Queen Mother. She founded the Mary Chess Company in 1932. While in London Chess sent her daughter Carley to study with Nadia Boulanger...
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Reuben Fine (category American chess players)
1951. Fine won five medals (four gold) in three Chess Olympiads. He won the US Open all seven times he entered (1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941)...
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Claude Lemoine (category French chess players)
1932), is a French chess player and journalist, French Chess Championship winner (1958). In 1950s Claude Lemoine was one of the leading French chess players...
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István Bilek (category Chess players from Budapest)
István Bilek (11 August 1932 – 20 March 2010) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He was a three-time Hungarian Chess Champion. Bilek was a three-time Hungarian...
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mathematician, originator of Riemannian geometry Fritz Riemann (1859–1932), German chess master Fritz Riemann (psychologist) (1902–1979), German psychoanalyst...
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Daniël Noteboom (category Dutch chess players)
Daniël Noteboom (26 February 1910 – 12 January 1932) was a Dutch chess player. He gained notice at the 1930 Chess Olympiad at Hamburg, scoring 11½/15, including...
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Robert Forbes Combe (category Chess Olympiad competitors)
Combe played in the British Chess Federation Congress in London in 1932, finishing in a tie for fourth place with a score of 7½/11 in the First Class...
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The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
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describe chess moves. In 1946, W.F. Streeter examined the results of 5,598 games played in 45 international chess tournaments between 1851 and 1932. Streeter...
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