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...
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footballer Yasser Abd Rabbo (born 1944), Palestinian politician Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (born 1971), Iranian politician Yasser Seirawan (born 1960)...
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Neo-Indian Attack (redirect from Seirawan attack)
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...
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Minority attack (section Seirawan vs Tal, 1983)
decisive advantage for Petrosian. Seirawan vs Tal, 1983 In this position, Syrian-American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan has just played 13. b4 against the...
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grandmasters such as Eric Hansen (founder), Robin van Kampen, and Yasser Seirawan. Hambleton was born in 1992 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and learned to...
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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...
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Capablanca chess (redirect from Seirawan chess)
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...
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confusion over who was World Champion. In May 2002, American grandmaster Yasser Seirawan led the organisation of the so-called "Prague Agreement" to reunite...
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Jansa, Ján Plachetka, Jan Ambrož United States 35½ Walter Browne, Yasser Seirawan, Lev Alburt, Lubomir Kavalek, James Tarjan, Larry Christiansen 1984...
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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...
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players by grandmasters such as Lajos Portisch, David Bronstein and Yasser Seirawan. Horton, Byrne Joseph (1972). Dictionary of modern chess. New York...
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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...
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Israeli politician and minister Rafik Schami - Syrian-German author Yasser Seirawan - chess player Zakaria Tamer - writer Soraya Tarzi - Queen of Afghanistan...
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Yasser Seirawan (2) 33 1987 Joel Benjamin Nick de Firmian|| 34 1988 Michael Wilder 35 1989 Roman Dzindzichashvili (2) Stuart Rachels Yasser Seirawan (3)...
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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...
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included: Anatoly Karpov (URS), 2715 Rafael Vaganian (URS), 2625 Yasser Seirawan (USA), 2595 Jaan Ehlvest (URS), 2585 Bent Larsen (DEN), 2570 Vladimir...
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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...
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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...
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Zvjaginsev (RUS), 2635 Predrag Nikolić (BIH), 2630 Jeroen Piket (NED), 2630 Yasser Seirawan (USA), 2630 Giorgy Giorgadze (GEO), 2625 Julio Granda (PER), 2625...
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the website and also on YouTube with commentary by players such as Yasser Seirawan, Peter Leko, and Tania Sachdev. They also hosted and sponsored their...
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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...
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was included in the so-called "Prague Agreement", masterminded by Yasser Seirawan and intended to reunite the two world championships. Kasparov was to...
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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...
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Salgado López won the Ciutat de Barcelona round-robin tournament edging Yasser Seirawan on tiebreak score. He played for the Spanish national team which finished...
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World Champion!". 1 December 2016. "Yasser Seirawan: "A Radical Solution - Redux"". 3 December 2016. "Yasser Seirawan - A Radical Solution Final Thoughts"...
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1989–90 U.S. Championship with grandmasters Roman Dzindzichashvili and Yasser Seirawan. This qualified him to play in the 1990 Manila Interzonal, where he...
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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...
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by GM Florin Gheorghiu, IM Bernard Zuckerman, GM Heikki Westerinen, Yasser Seirawan, Javier Lozano Sanz, Inguar Asmundsson, and Jean Hebert. Boris Baczynskyi...
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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...
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(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)...
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