• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • (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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  • The Luxembourg Chess Championship has been held since 1932 by the Luxembourg Chess Federation [Wikidata] (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise des Échecs...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer Lora Yakovleva (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster Maksim Sergeyevich Yakovlev (born 1991), Russian footballer...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Notable people with those names include: Noteboom Daniël Noteboom (1910–1932), Dutch chess player Erin Noteboom (born 1972), American-born Canadian author with...
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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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  • 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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  • general Joel Brunker (born 1986), Australian boxer Hazel Brunker (born 1932), Welsh chess master Michael Brunker, American journalist Richard Brunker, English...
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  • of Youghal in 1569, 1576 and 1581, Youghal garrison commander and a spy for Francis Drake Philip Baker (1880–1932), Irish chess champion in 1924, 1927...
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    and chess master. He thrice represented The Netherlands in Chess Olympiads, including the 2nd Chess Olympiad at The Hague in 1928, the 3rd Chess Olympiad...
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