• The below is a list of events in chess in 1943. 9 March 1943 – Robert James Fischer born at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His mother...
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    Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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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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  • of unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces. The columns...
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  • Smyslov (1881–1943), Russian chess master and the father of Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (1921–2010), Soviet Russian chess grandmaster...
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  • General Government chess championships (Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements) were Nazi tournaments held during World War II in occupied central...
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    were considered too trivial for inclusion in the catalogue. The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules...
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    was another to be labelled a prodigy by chess writers. He played his first international tournament (Madrid 1943) at the age of 11 and went on to become...
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    chess (also called Schultz's chess, one-way chess, and meso chess) is a chess variant invented by Karl Schultz in 1943, employing the two fairy chess...
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  • until 1943 all chess championships were organized by the Großdeutscher Schachbund. After the end of World War II, separate championships were played in the...
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    The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...
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    James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first...
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  • 1943 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1943. 1943 (MCMXLIII)...
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  • John Healy (author) (category English chess players)
    John Healy (born 1943) is an Irish writer and former tournament chess player. He was born in London in 1943 to Irish immigrant parents in London's Kentish...
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    uses algebraic notation. Wolf chess (German: Wolf-Schach) is a chess variant invented by Dr. Arno von Wilpert in 1943. It is played on an 8×10 chessboard...
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  • Rabinovich (1878–1943), Russian chess player Adolphe Rabinovitch (1918–1944), American Special Operations Executive agent executed by the Germans in World War...
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  • The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...
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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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    The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...
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  • 1968), rock video director and son of Martin Malkiel Peretz (born 1943), Israeli chess master Martin Peretz (born 1938), Harvard University lecturer and...
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  • Uruguayan Immortal (category 1943 in chess)
    The Uruguayan Immortal is a game of chess played in the 1943 Uruguayan Chess Championship between B. Molinari and Luis Roux Cabral. The game is famous...
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    how the game should be played in each of these phases, especially the opening and endgame. Those who write about chess theory, who are often also eminent...
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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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  • This is a list of chess historians. Yuri Averbakh Henry Bird Ricardo Calvo (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) Hiram Cox G. H. Diggle David Vincent...
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  • This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this...
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  • Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include: Abram Szpiro (1912-1943), Polish chess master Dawid Szpiro (1922-1944), Hashomer Hatzair resistance member...
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    Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This...
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  • of notable chess games sorted chronologically. 1475: Francesc de Castellví vs. Narcís de Vinyoles, Valencia 1475. The first documented chess game played...
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  • least 1686), German composer of Bohemian birth Helmut Pfleger (born 1943), German chess Grandmaster and author Michael Pfleger (born 1949), U.S. Roman Catholic...
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    Gennadi Sosonko (category Soviet chess players)
    Борисович Сосонко, Gennady Borisovich Sosonko; born 18 May 1943) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He has been awarded the title Grandmaster...
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