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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    basketball player Naser Al Shami – boxer Feras Saied – bodybuilder Yasser Seirawan – chess grandmaster and four-time US-champion Ghada Shouaa – heptathlete...
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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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    Achievements Preceded by Yasser Seirawan United States Chess Champion 1987 (with Nick de Firmian) Succeeded by Michael Wilder Preceded by Alex Yermolinsky...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • States Junior Open (est. 1946) include Arthur Bisguier, Bobby Fischer, Yasser Seirawan, Greg Shahade, Shearwood McClelland III, Jennifer Shahade, and Asuka...
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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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    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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  • Publications, 1978) ISBN 978-0-679-50814-4 "Chess Strategy Online: Forks" Yasser Seirawan (2005), Winning Chess Tactics, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-385-3...
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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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