Isaac Kashdan (November 19, 1905, in New York City – February 20, 1985, in Los Angeles) was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was twice...

Kashdan is a surname. People with that name include: George Kashdan (1928-2006), American comic book writer and editor Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985), American...

Nagy, Endre Steiner, Árpád Vajda, Kornél Havasi  United States 39½ Isaac Kashdan, Herman Steiner, Samuel Factor, Erling Tholfsen, Milton Hanauer  Poland...

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first tie-break rule for individual tournaments in ICCF. Invented by Isaac Kashdan, this system awards four points for a win, two points for a draw, one...

Chess Championship 1845–1996 (2nd ed.). McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0248-2. Isaac Kashdan (1933). History of the United States Chess Championship. Chess Review...

second. His competitors included rising stars such as Max Euwe and Isaac Kashdan, as well as players who had been established in the 1920s, but Capablanca...

USSR Chess Championship. Salo Flohr Nana Alexandria Peter Romanovsky Isaac Kashdan Daniel Yanofsky Robert Wade Vasja Pirc Milunka Lazarević Requirements...

emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1930s. He tied for 3rd-4th at Győr 1930 (Isaac Kashdan won), lost a match to Savielly Tartakower (1 : 3) at Paris 1935, tied...

Hamilton 1941, with 8/10, a point ahead of Reshevsky, Arnold Denker and Isaac Kashdan. Fine won the 1941 Marshall Club Championship with 14/15, ahead of Frank...

Hastings 1931–32; fourth at Bern 1932 (+10−3=2); and a tie for third with Isaac Kashdan at London 1932, behind World Champion Alexander Alekhine and Salo Flohr...

a monthly. Isaac Kashdan was the editor for the first year, with Al Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld associate editors. After one year, Kashdan left and Horowitz...

a US Championship playoff match by (+3−0=13). In 1942, he defeated Isaac Kashdan by (+6−2=3). In 1952, he defeated Svetozar Gligorić by (+2−1=7). In...

played 26 simultaneous blindfold games against very strong opponents (Isaac Kashdan and Hermann Steiner among them), with the score of 16 wins, 5 losses...

Flohr 12½ / 16 = 78.1% Board 2: Reuben Fine 11½ / 15 = 76.7% Board 3: Isaac Kashdan 14 / 16 = 87.5% Board 4: Gösta Danielsson 14 / 18 = 77.8% Reserve: Al...

1931 chess tournament José Raúl Capablanca (Cuba) won with 10 points from 11 games, 1½ points ahead of Isaac Kashdan (United States). chessgames.com...

Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia), scoring 14.5/17 (85.3%); Bronze medal won Isaac Kashdan (USA), scoring 14/17 (82.4%). Although commonly referred to as the men's...

champion Mona May Karff (1908–1998), Moldovan-born US woman master Isaac Kashdan (1905–1985), US grandmaster Alexander Khalifman (born 1966), Russian...

writing about chess in late 1932. His first book, co-authored with Isaac Kashdan, was an account of the Bled 1931 master tournament. He became a charter...

Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 82–86. Plisetsky & Voronkov 2005, p. 134. Isaac Kashdan (1977) [1968]. Second Piatigorsky Cup: International Grandmaster Tournament...

strongest recurring Swiss tournaments in the U.S. in the 1980s. Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan served as the tournament director. The first Louis D. Statham tournament...

United States Chess Championship at South Fallsburg, New York, ahead of Isaac Kashdan. Steiner was a member of the United States Chess Federation's teams...

Horowitz 38 1937 Chicago David Polland 39 1938 Boston Israel A. Horowitz, Isaac Kashdan 40 1939 New York City Reuben Fine 41 1940 Dallas Reuben Fine 42 1941...

Championship is inaugurated in Varna. Chess Review is established by Isaac Kashdan. The leading American chess magazine for most of its run, the Chess...

type of contest." Notes by Chernev and Reinfeld, Wellmuth, and Napier. Isaac Kashdan vs. Buster Horneman, Manhattan Chess Club 1930 (remove White's queen...

Tournament Held in Santa Monica, California August 1966, 1968, edited by Isaac Kashdan, ISBN 4-87187-844-9 See also the list of references at Rothschild banking...

Inductee Induction year 1 Reuben Fine 1986 2 Robert Fischer 1986 3 Isaac Kashdan 1986 4 George Koltanowski 1986 5 Frank Marshall 1986 6 Paul Morphy 1986...

color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black." — Isaac Kashdan "When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because...

invented by Hansen for the line 5.Ne2 Ne4, as it was pioneered by GM Isaac Kashdan and then developed by GM Bisguier, Anthony Santasiere and currently...

Anastasiya Karlovich (Ukraine, born 1982) Anatoly Karpov (Russia, born 1951) Isaac Kashdan (US, 1905–1985) Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan, born 1979) Garry Kasparov...