He was a chess prodigy.

Scott was at first offended, thinking he was being made fun of, but he consented to play after being assured that his wishes had been scrupulously obeyed and that the boy was a " chess prodigy " who would tax his skill.

It was more difficult for players of the " pre-computer " chess era to become a true prodigy than it is today.

Topalov had a difficult childhood, but he quickly established himself as a chess prodigy.

* 16 March-Ivana Maria Furtado, chess prodigy

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen ( born 30 November 1990 ) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world.

Samuel " Sammy " Herman Reshevsky ( born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Łódź, ( then Russian Empire, today Poland ) – died April 4, 1992, New York City ) was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster.

Reshevsky learned to play chess at age four, and was soon acclaimed as a child prodigy.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a 1993 drama film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc.

In 2003, at age 15 years and 79 days, Nakamura solidified his reputation as a chess prodigy, becoming the youngest American to earn the grandmaster title, breaking the record of Bobby Fischer by three months.

Mirko Czentovic was a peasant prodigy possessing no obvious redeeming qualities besides his gift for chess.

* Josh Waitzkin * ( 1999 ), Child chess prodigy and author.

Around 1955, Schaap befriended Bobby Fischer, who was at the time a twelve-year-old chess prodigy, and would later became a world chess champion.

As a child, he was a chess prodigy.

He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for both the youngest International Master, eleven years and eleven months, and grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months.

He is the father of chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin.

Sofia Polgár ( born November 2, 1974 as Polgár Zsófia () is a former chess prodigy.

Bentley Wittman grew up possessing near-superhuman levels of genius and was a child prodigy and chess champion.

A mathematical genius and a chess prodigy, his abilities enable him to earn large sums of money on games of chance and probabilities, and he likes to show off by playing poker.

A chess prodigy, at age 13 Fischer won a " brilliancy " that became known as The Game of the Century.

He was a chess prodigy, achieving the grandmaster title at the age of 16 years and 9 months, which makes him the 20th youngest player to ever become a grandmaster.

* 1965 – Nigel Short, English chess player

" British GM Nigel Short called Judit " one of the three or four greatest chess prodigies in history.

In 1995, Nigel Short and Polgár were to play a game using the famous chess set, but British Museum refused.

In 1995, the Isle of Lewis chess club in Scotland attempted to arrange a game between Polgár and Nigel Short in which the famous Lewis chessmen would be used.

* January 11 – Nigel Short, 14, becomes the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.

* Short for checkmate, a winning / losing situation in chess

When Garry Kasparov broke with FIDE, the federation governing professional chess, to play the 1993 World Championship with Nigel Short, he created a rift in the chess world.

Ex-world championship finalist Nigel Short wrote each Sunday for The Daily Telegraph ( taken over by the daily chess columnist, Malcolm Pein ) but has switched to The Guardian.

Nigel David Short MBE ( born 1 June 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire ) is an English chess grandmaster earning the title at the age of 19.

As of September 2012, Short was the oldest player on the world top 50 live rating list and was working as a chess columnist, coach and commentator.

According to Short and Kasparov, the head of the chess world's governing body FIDE, Florencio Campomanes, decided on the venue of the match ( Manchester ) and the prize fund without consulting them, in breach of FIDE rules.

Short at the 2005 Corus chess tournament

Short has written chess columns and book reviews for the British newspapers The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Spectator.

Also in 2001, Short was in the news as the story broke that he had been secretly playing the reclusive former chess champion Bobby Fischer online in speed chess matches.

Miles also had his disagreements with chess authorities and with his fellow English players, particularly Keene and Short.

This was close to the peak of the English chess boom and there were two English players above him on the list ; Nigel Short ( world number three, 2650 ) and Jonathan Speelman ( world number five, 2640 ).

The move 2. Nc3 has been played at high-level grandmaster chess ( Gelfand and Short have played it ) but only rarely.

Waitzkin's book was praised by Grandmaster Nigel Short, as well as chess journalist Edward Winter, who called it " a delightful book " in which " the topics treated with an acuity and grace that offer the reviewer something quotable on almost every page.

The organisation has been compared by some to the Professional Chess Association, the body established by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short as an organisation under which to play their 1993 World Championship having broken away from FIDE, the official governing body of chess.

The PCA was created in 1993 by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short for the marketing and organization of their chess world championship.

Ever since 1993, when Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short broke away from chess governing body FIDE to play their world championship match under the auspices of the newly-formed Professional Chess Association, there had been two chess world championships: one organised by FIDE ( which used the knock-out format from 1998 to 2004 ) and one by a variety of other bodies ( in the form of a long match between champion and challenger ).