• 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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  • Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...
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    A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...
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    Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of...
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    Marshall Chess (born March 13, 1942) is an American record producer, the son of Leonard Chess who co-founded Chess Records. Marshall worked for sixteen...
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    FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest...
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    Muddy Waters (category Chess Records artists)
    newly formed label run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band—Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on...
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    Howlin' Wolf (category Chess Records artists)
    Folk Blues (Chess) 1956–1965 recordings 1967: More Real Folk Blues (Chess) 1953–1956 recordings 1968: The Super Super Blues Band (Chess) with Muddy Waters...
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    1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...
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    recorded for Leonard Chess and Aristocrat issued Waters's first single in 1947. In 1950, Chess bought out his label partners and formed Chess Records. From 1950...
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  • a recording session in early 1969 at Chess Records in Chicago with Fleetwood Mac, then a young British blues band, and a number of famous Chicago blues...
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    The Howlin' Wolf Album (category Albums produced by Marshall Chess)
    release was the self-titled debut album of the psychedelic band Rotary Connection, whose members Chess described as "the hottest, most avant garde rock guys...
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    a commentator for Chess.com, covering events such as the World Chess Championship and Candidates Tournament. He also streams chess content on his Twitch...
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    Rotary Connection (category Chess Records artists)
    The band's members included Minnie Riperton, who would later emerge as a solo artist. The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess, son...
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  • Waters' "Country Boy" (Chess 1952), recorded on July 11, 1951. For years after his departure from Waters' band in 1952, Chess continued to hire him to...
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  • The Singapore Chess Federation (Abbreviation: SCF) is the principal authority over all chess events in Singapore. SCF was founded in 1949 by Lim Kok Ann...
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    known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma...
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  • Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are a...
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    divorced, and the band broke up shortly after the divorce. After ABBA went on hiatus in 1982, Ulvaeus and Andersson created the musicals Chess, a collaboration...
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    Jimmy Rogers (category Chess Records artists)
    released by Chess Records, but he stayed in Waters's band until 1954. In the mid-1950s he had several successful records released by Chess, most of them...
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    spirit.' Jungle released their single "The Heat" on 21 October 2013 through Chess Club Records. In December 2013, Jungle were nominated for BBC's Sound of...
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  • singer; member of boy band Monsta X "I.M" (song), a song by Israeli singer Michael Ben David Iron Maiden, a British heavy metal band Iron Man, a comic book...
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  • Electric Mud (category Albums produced by Marshall Chess)
    Connection playing as his backing band. Released in 1968, it presents Muddy Waters as a psychedelic musician. Producer Marshall Chess suggested that Muddy Waters...
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  • Higher and Higher" – Jackie Wilson (Brunswick) "Bad Girl" – The Miracles (Chess) "Band of Gold" – Freda Payne (Invictus) "Crumbs off the Table" – Glass House...
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    Big" and their song "Generation Cancellation"". ChessBase 17. Retrieved 10 March 2023. "Russian Pop Band Little Big Drops New Single Generation Cancellation...
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  • The Chess Hotel is the third full-length album from American rock band The Elms. The album was released May 2, 2006, on Universal South Records. The album...
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    Skellefteå (section Bands)
    floorball club The Skellefteå Kraft Grandmaster Chess Cup 1999, one of the strongest all Swedish chess tournaments was won by IGM Ulf Andersson. The event...
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  • Blitz (redirect from Blitz (band))
    football game series Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted from three to five minutes (as noted chess.com) but loosely defined as...
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    Garry Kasparov (category Chess coaches)
    1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...
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  • play in the Ramsey Lewis Trio, White went on to start the band Earth, Wind & Fire. While at Chess Records, Satterfield was also teacher to up and coming...
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