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    The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted at the Brassey Institute in Hastings, England from 5 August to 2 September...
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    Harry Nelson Pillsbury (category American chess players)
    was a leading American chess player. At the age of 22, he won the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, one of the strongest tournaments of the time, but his...
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    chess tournament Hastings 1895 chess tournament Kemeri 1937 chess tournament London 1851 chess tournament London 1862 chess tournament London 1883 chess tournament...
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  • The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year. The main...
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    A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...
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  • half began on January 4, 1896. The top five finishers at the Hastings 1895 chess tournament were invited: Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Mikhail Chigorin, Emanuel...
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  • tournament each cell contains two entries, as each pair of players plays two games alternating White and Black.) For examples see Hastings 1895 chess...
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    Isidor Gunsberg (category 19th-century chess players)
    Gunsberg's position among the foremost chess masters would slip. In the famous Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Gunsberg finished with a −3 score of 9/21...
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    (19-XI-1849, 15-I-1909)". British Chess News. Retrieved 1 June 2020. Garry Kasparov calls Hastings 1895 "the most important tournament of the nineteenth century"...
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  • become the second official world champion. 1895Hastings 1895 chess tournament at Hastings, England. 1899 – Chess clocks now have timeout flags to indicate...
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    Wilhelm Steinitz (category American chess players)
    were still alive at the time of his death. The book of the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, written collectively by the players, described Steinitz as...
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    Mikhail Chigorin (category Chess players from the Russian Empire)
    best. In all likelihood, his best performance occurred at the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, where he placed second, ahead of reigning world champion Emanuel...
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  • (most years) Biel Chess Festival (most years) Norway Chess Shamkir Chess Capablanca Memorial (most years) London (1862) Hastings (1895) Nuremberg (1896)...
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    Kaiserhof's annual Winter tournament 1888/89 and the Hauptturnier A ("second division" tournament) at the sixth DSB Congress (German Chess Federation's congress)...
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  • subject of scrutiny. 1895: Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Isidor Gunsberg, Hastings. In the final round of this prestigious tournament, Pillsbury secures overall...
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    International Composers Festival split between Hastings and Bexhill during August and the Hastings International Chess Congress. There is also a small Wildman...
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  • Norman van Lennep (category Dutch chess players)
    (Rudolf Loman won). In August 1895 Van Lennep went to England as a reserve entrant in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, but was not allowed to play,...
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    British Chess Championships are organised by the English Chess Federation. The main tournament incorporates the British Championship, the English Chess Championships...
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    Curt von Bardeleben (category Chess players from Berlin)
    describe chess moves. Bardeleben is perhaps best known for the game he lost to the former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz at Hastings 1895, especially...
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    Emanuel Schiffers (category Chess players from the Russian Empire)
    tournaments from Frankfurt 1887 to Cologne 1898. His best tournament result was at Hastings 1895 where he finished sixth with 12/21 (Harry Pillsbury won)...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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    11 December 1951, Kingston-upon-Thames) was an English chess master. Blake won many tournaments played in England toward the end of the 19th century and...
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    Jacques Mieses (category Jewish chess players)
    Janowski. His participation in the great Hastings tournament that year was important to his growth as a mature chess master despite a 20th-place finish. Mieses...
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  • Leonard Barden (category English chess players)
    Horace F. Cheshire (editor), The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895, Dover, 1962, pp. 323–24. Bird–Mieses, Hastings 1895. ChessGames.com. Retrieved on 7 October...
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    Brassey Institute (category Buildings and structures in Hastings)
    the Venetian Gothic style, it served as the location of the Hastings 1895 chess tournament. 22 Masters were invited to the competition, one of which was...
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    last-place finisher in major tournaments. Later that year, Pollock represented Canada at the famous Hastings 1895 chess tournament, won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury...
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  • Samuel Tinsley (1847–1903), English player and chess columnist for The Times, competed at Hastings 1895, dies in London. June 1 – Josef Noa (1856–1903)...
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  • Henry Ernest Atkins (category English chess players)
    losing just 3 out of 70 games. These included the minor tournament at the great Hastings 1895 tournament, where he finished equal second, behind Géza Maróczy...
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    Adolf Albin (category 19th-century chess players)
    He played in the very strong tournaments at Hastings 1895 (scoring 8½/21) and Nuremberg 1896 (scoring 7/18). His tournament results on the whole were spotty...
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    Joseph Henry Blackburne (category English chess players)
    Blackburne's worst results were 10th place at Hastings 1895 and 11th at Nuremberg 1896; but both of these tournaments included Lasker and most of the other top...
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