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    Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is widely considered to be the greatest...
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    Marion Tinsley Bennett (June 6, 1914 – September 6, 2000) served as a member of the United States Congress, as a judge of the United States Court of Claims...
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    Jonathan Schaeffer. Marion Tinsley, world champion from 1955–1962 and from 1975–1991, won a match against the machine in 1992. In 1994, Tinsley had to resign...
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  • basketball player Jeffrey Tinsley (born 1973), American businessman Marion Tinsley (1927–1995), American checkers player Michael Tinsley (born 1984), American...
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  • a British draughts champion from Devon. He was a rival of Marion Tinsley and, after Tinsley, "probably the second best player of all time." Oldbury was...
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    the right to play in the human World Championship by being second to Marion Tinsley in the US Nationals. At first the American Checkers Federation and English...
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    winner Ashley Scott, artist and writer Teddy Swims, singer, songwriter Marion Tinsley, checkers expert Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and...
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    National Christian Missionary Convention William Thomas Jr., actor Marion Tinsley, considered the all-time greatest human checkers player Jessie Trout...
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  • 1958 until 1975. Hellman lost only one World Title match, in 1955 to Marion Tinsley. Winning the 8 other occasions in 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1962, 1963...
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  • the right to play in the human World Championship by being second to Marion Tinsley in the US Nationals. At first, the American Checkers Federation and...
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    in Birmingham at the age of 15, he subsequently attended Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama for a year. He then pursued his undergraduate studies...
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  • Hellman  United States 1955–1958 Marion Tinsley  United States 1958–1975 Walter Hellman  United States 1975–1991 Marion Tinsley  United States 1991–1994 Derek...
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  • França Lubabalo Kondlo Lukas Valenta Marcel Deslauriers Future Is Near Marion Tinsley – He is considered the greatest American-checkers player ever. Marius...
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    James Ancil Shipton, senior US Army officer Kelli Sobonya, politician Marion Tinsley (1927-1995), mathematician and checkers player; widely considered the...
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  • The hall of fame, which had been home to a statue of checkers-great Marion Tinsley, contained a checkers book library and museum, as well as the two largest...
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  • – MLB relief pitcher and coach Craphonso Thorpe – NFL wide receiver Marion Tinsley – world checkers champion 1955–58, 1975–91 Charlie Ward – 1993 Heisman...
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    of the U.S. Navy Dallas Willard, Christian philosopher and author. Marion Tinsley Bennett, US Congressman, 1943-1949, Judge, Court of Appeals for the...
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  • twice in his career but never succeeded. In 1987 he failed to defeat Marion Tinsley, losing by a score of 2-0-36. In 1996 he tried again, this time against...
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  • long-term friend, admirer, and promoter of World Checkers champion Marion Tinsley, whom Walker described as "the greatest checkers player who ever lived...
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  • Allen – Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. "BENNETT, Marion Tinsley – Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Youngs, Florence...
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  • No-sik, 65, South Korean actor. Vera Szemere, 71, Hungarian actress. Marion Tinsley, 68, American mathematician and checkers player, pancreatic cancer....
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  • by Norman Woelfel (1962) American immigration policies, a history by Marion Tinsley Bennett (1962) National purpose; ideology and ambivalence in America...
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  • States) (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Bennett, Marion Tinsley (1976). The United States Court of Claims: A History; Part I: The Judges...
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  • Chinook played a match against World Champion Marion Tinsley and world number two Don Lafferty (after Tinsley's withdrawal due to illness), earning the title...
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  • which was against the Chinook computer. Before that he had mentored Marion Tinsley who would later defeat Long with consistency and be widely deemed the...
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  • San Diego". www.sdcourt.ca.gov. Retrieved April 19, 2024. Bennett, Marion Tinsley (1977). The United States Court of Claims: The judges, 1855–1976. Committee...
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    doctoral students include Richard A. Brualdi, Clement W. H. Lam, and Marion Tinsley. Ryser contributed to the theory of combinatorial designs, finite set...
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  • Fame & Museum: Anne Windfohr Marion Archived November 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Anne Windfohr Wed to John L. Marion, The New York Times, March 27...
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    Mason, Samuel Epes Turner, American Law School Review (1934), p. 86. Marion Tinsley Bennett, Wilson Cowen, Philip Nichols, The United States Court of Claims:...
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  • hired a private investigator named C.C. Tinsley from the nearby town of Gauley Bridge to look into the case. Tinsley informed the family that the insurance...
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