• The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine...
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    A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 by convincingly winning the First American Chess Congress, winning each match by a large margin...
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    Chess Championship US Open Chess Championship US Women's Open Chess Championship American Chess Congress "FISCHER, SMYSLOV PLAY IN DEADLOOK; American...
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    started the American Chess Magazine in 1846, which together with The Chess Palladium and Mathematical Sphinx were the first American chess magazines. However...
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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
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    Book of the First American Chess Congress, published by Daniel Willard Fiske in 1857. The account, "The Automaton Chess-Player in America", was written by...
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    Congress (founded in 1927). A chess congress is a chess tournament, in one city, where a large number of contestants gather to play competitive chess...
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    tournament Zurich 1934 chess tournament Zurich 1953 chess tournament Aerosvit chess tournament American Chess Congress Berlin City Chess Championship Biel...
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  • a cameo appearance along with Capablanca. In 1920, he won the American Chess Congress. In 1922, Marshall played 155 games simultaneously at the National...
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  • see the famous game Louis Paulsen–Paul Morphy from the First American Chess Congress (1857). In recent years, Black has tried 4...Bd6!? with varying...
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  • games lost in a single tournament: he lost 31 games at the Sixth American Chess Congress at New York 1889, while winning six and drawing one. MacLeod was...
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  • the tournament became the American Chess Federation congress. In 1939, that organization merged into the United States Chess Federation (USCF) and the...
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    James Mason (19 November 1849 – 12 January 1905) was a British-American chess player, journalist and writer who became one of the world's best half-dozen...
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    Perrin, the Secretary of the New York Chess Club, informed those assembled at the First American Chess Congress that he had received a letter from Johann...
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  • Preston Ware (category American chess players)
    competed in the first, second, fourth and fifth American Chess Congresses. At the Fifth American Chess Congress in 1880, Ware accused James Grundy of reneging...
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  • First American Chess Congress, won by 20-year-old  Paul Morphy (USA), causes a chess epidemic across the U.S. 1857 – The United Kingdom Chess Association...
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    Wilhelm Steinitz (category American chess players)
    and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician...
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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 tournament. One of the earliest evidences is with the Fifth American Chess Congress in 1880, when Preston Ware accused James Grundy of reneging on...
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  • such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...
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  • American Chess Monthly, founded in January 1857 by Willard Fiske, who had helped organize the First American Chess Congress. Fiske edited American Chess...
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  • The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day Fédération Internationale...
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    Louis Paulsen (category German chess players)
    major errors. Paulsen played in the final match of the 1857 First American Chess Congress, losing to Paul Morphy five games to one with two draws. In 1862...
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  • William Schlumberger (category French chess players)
    of the first American chess congress and, in particular, the section dedicated to “The history of the Automaton Chess-Player in America”. The brief biography...
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  • occur until 1933, when the prolific American chess authors Fred Reinfeld and Irving Chernev used it in their book Chess Strategy and Tactics. This article...
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    The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...
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    controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a particular variation...
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    Dawid Janowski (category Jewish chess players)
    José Raúl Capablanca. He won at Atlantic City 1921 (the eighth American Chess Congress) and took third place at Lake Hopatcong 1923 (the ninth ACC). He...
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  • The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to...
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  • However, his result in that tournament was outstanding. In the Fifth American Chess Congress, held in New York City in January 1880, Grundy tied for first with...
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