• Frank Ross Anderson (1928–1980) was a Canadian chess master and writer. He twice won the gold medal at Chess Olympiads for the best score on Board 2. He...
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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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    Chess. 2003. Olaf Ulvestad: An American Original. Thinkers Press, 2002. Imre Konig. The Chess Player, 2005. The Life and Games of Frank Ross Anderson...
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    José Raúl Capablanca (category 20th-century chess players)
    November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his...
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    American chess master, author, and teacher. Collins was born in Newburgh, New York. "His father, John Thomas Collins, was a flutist and piccolo player who...
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    Anderson in Immortal Game, John Brunner in The Squares of the City). Some authors invented new chess variants in their works, such as stealth chess in...
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  • 1988 "Benny Anderson". GRAMMY.com. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2020. Rich, Frank (29 April 1988). "In Trevor Nunn's Musical 'Chess,' East Faces...
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    Akiba Rubinstein (category 20th-century Polish chess players)
    March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was...
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    drama miniseries Godless, created by Scott Frank. Brodie-Sangster began the 2020s with a role as chess player Benny Watts in the Netflix miniseries The...
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  • Neve Church, traffic collision. Orestes Rodríguez Vargas, 81, Peruvian chess grandmaster. Viktor Samsonov, 83, Russian military officer, chief of the...
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    Fedir Bohatyrchuk (category Chess players from Kyiv)
    Ukrainian–Canadian chess player, doctor of medicine (radiologist), political activist, and writer. As a youth, Bohatyrchuk sometimes traveled to chess tournaments...
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  • Filipino celebrity Gerald Frank Anderson (1898–1983), British Empire military aviator and designer of chess problems Gerry Anderson, British television producer...
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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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  • Major League Baseball players List of second-generation National Basketball Association players List of boxing families List of chess families List of International...
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  • Norman T. Whitaker (category American chess players)
    the world's top players in future World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capablanca, from Cuba (who won the event), American champion Frank Marshall, and former...
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  • 1947), American chess Grandmaster Bob Soltis (1936–2009), American football player Douglas E. Soltis (born 1953), American botanist Frank Soltis (born 1940)...
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  • ICCF England (category Chess in England)
    formation of the British Postal Chess Federation (BPCF). The name was changed to the British Federation of Correspondence Chess (BFCC) in 1999, and then again...
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  • 1949 – Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster 1950 – Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer...
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  • Elmore James (category Chess Records artists)
    Flair Records, Meteor Records, and Modern Records; he also recorded for Chess Records and Mel London's Chief Records. He played lead guitar on Big Joe...
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  • Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer, a non-fiction book by Frank Brady on chess champion Bobby Fischer End Games, a 2007 crime novel by Michael Dibdin...
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    actress and dancer 1960 – Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player 1960 – Ozell Jones, American basketball player (d. 2006) 1961 – Pierre Hermé, French pastry...
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    Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman – economist Isaac Newton Seligman – banker and social reformist Julius Seligson (1909–1987) – tennis player Ally Sheedy...
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    Joseph Henry Blackburne (category English chess players)
    Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the...
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  • American football player (Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers), complications from dementia. Pedro Lamas Baliero, 82, Uruguayan chess player. (death announced...
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  • American basketball player (d. 1993) 1966 – Troy Aikman, American football player and sportscaster 1966 – Evgeny Bareev, Russian chess player and coach 1966...
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  • The 13th Chess Olympiad (German: Die 13. Schacholympiade), organized by FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed...
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  • Israeli chess master. Maciej Gliwicz, 85, Polish biologist. Michael J. Karels, 67, American software engineer. Duane Klueh, 98, American basketball player (Denver...
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  • designer, musician and internet personality. Juzefs Petkēvičs, 83, Latvian chess grandmaster. Victoria Prego, 75, Spanish journalist (TVE) and television...
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  • (1970–1975), lung and kidney disease. Kari Juhani Sorri, 82, Finnish chess player. Richard Stone, 86, British anti-racism activist and medical doctor....
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