* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

Bronstein was bitten on his bare foot, as the keeper had told him to take off his white shoes and socks, which the keeper stated could potentially excite the Komodo dragon as they were the same color as the white rats the zoo fed the dragon.

Before her birth, her father Sidney had legally shortened the surname from Bronstein to Bron as an effort to enhance his newly-founded commercial enterprise, Bron's Orchestral Service.

Bronstein became the eventual Candidates ' winner over Boleslavsky in a ( Moscow ) 1950 playoff match, following two overtime match games, after the two had tied in Budapest, and then again remained level over the 12 scheduled match games.

Bronstein had to qualify for the 1958 Interzonal, and did so by placing third at the USSR Championship, Riga 1958.

At the 1958 Interzonal in Portorož, Bronstein, who had been picked as clear pre-event favorite by Bobby Fischer, missed moving on to the 1959 Candidates ' by half a point, dropping a last-round game to the much weaker Filipino Rodolfo Tan Cardoso, when the electrical power failed due to a thunderstorm during the game, and he was unable to regain concentration.

Bronstein wrote that Keres was ordered to draw his second cycle game with Smyslov, to conserve Smyslov's fading physical strength ; Keres, who still had his own hopes of winning the event, tried as White to win an attacking game, but instead lost because of Smyslov's excellent play.

When Reshevsky maintained his strong contention late into the two-month event, Bronstein claims that the Soviets prearranged several results in games amongst themselves to successfully prevent Reshevsky's overall victory, while also ensuring that Reshevsky faced the maximum test in his own games against the Soviet players ; Bronstein had earlier ( 1995 ) written that he was ordered by the Soviet delegation leader to win as Black against Reshevsky in the second cycle at Zurich, and managed to do so after a very hard struggle.

After unsuccessful attempts to qualify from the Interzonals of Sousse 1967 and Palma de Mallorca 1970, he had his first major triumph in 1973, when he won at the Petrópolis Interzonal ( ahead of a very strong field that included such chess luminaries as Paul Keres, David Bronstein, et al .).

By 1971 the Russian and Moscow 5-minute championships had been going several years with Tal, Bronstein and Petrosian all having success.

He also had success against other world-class grandmasters such as Bronstein, Polugaevsky, and Geller.

Boleslavsky and Bronstein had become friends in the late 1930s, and remained so throughout their lives.

" The show had three judges: Seanbaby, Joy Giovanni, and Jake Bronstein.

Two short draws in the final rounds, vs Bronstein and Tringov, and Balinas had accomplished his miracle.

In his final book, however, published in 2007, shortly after his death, Bronstein more strongly implied that Smyslov was favored for Zurich 1953 by the Soviet Chess Federation, and that other Soviet representatives were pressured to make this happen.

Bronstein was also a six-time winner of the Moscow Championships, and represented the USSR at the Olympiads of 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958, winning board prizes at each of them, and losing just one of his 49 games in those events.

With the tide turning towards an eventual Soviet war victory over the Nazi invaders, Bronstein was able to once again play some competitive chess, and he defeated Soviet champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the 1944 USSR Championship, which was his own first appearance at the Soviet top-standard event.

In 1970, comedians John Morgan and Martin Bronstein, who were looking for non-actors who could write and perform their own material, convinced Abbott to join the cast of the improvisational theatre revue called The Jest Society ( a pun on then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's famous goal of making Canada a " Just Society ").

Bronstein, in his last book, Secret Notes, published in 2007 just after his death the previous year, confirmed long-standing rumours by writing that the nine Soviet grandmasters ( out of a field of 15 players ) at Zurich were under orders from both their chess leadership and the KGB to not let Reshevsky win the tournament under any circumstances, with Smyslov being the preferred victor.

* 1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player ( d. 2006 )

In June 2001, a Komodo dragon seriously injured Phil Bronstein, the then husband of actress Sharon Stone, when he entered its enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo after being invited in by its keeper.

Although he escaped, Bronstein needed to have several tendons in his foot reattached surgically.

There are five main types of Time Controls: ( 1 ) Fischer ( invented by Bobby Fischer ), ( 2 ) Bronstein ( invented by David Bronstein ), ( 3 ) Simple Delay, ( 4 ) Game Word and ( 5 ) Hour Glass.

* Bronstein delay — with the Bronstein timing method, the increment is always added after the move.

This time control is similar to a Bronstein with time added before the move.

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Spassky tied for first place at Moscow 1959 on 7 / 11, with Smyslov and David Bronstein.

Spassky travelled to Argentina, where he shared first place with Bobby Fischer, two points ahead of Bronstein, at Mar del Plata 1960 on 13½ / 15, defeating Fischer in their first career meeting.

Indeed, his record of sixteen wins ( including victories against Fischer, Bronstein, and Karpov ), no losses, and a few draws with the King's Gambit is unmatched.

The chess game between " Kronsteen " and " McAdams " in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky (" Kronsteen ") was victorious.

* 1963, Grandmaster David Bronstein defeats an M-20 running an early chess program.

Some of his late successes included victories at Lone Pine 1976 and in the 1979 Paul Keres Memorial tournament in Tallinn ( 12 / 16 without a loss, ahead of Tal, Bronstein and others ), shared first place ( with Portisch and Hübner ) in the Rio de Janeiro Interzonal the same year, and second place in Tilburg in 1981, half a point behind the winner Beliavsky.

* February 14-Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.

No less than 82 per cent of the Bolshevik Commissars were known to be Jews, the fierce and implacable ' Trotsky ,' who shared office with Lenin, being a Yiddisher whose real name was Bronstein.

Shortlisted for the prize were Blood ‘ n ’ Feathers ( Jo Robertson & Lucy Stein, Pablo Bronstein, Stefan Brüggemann, Richard Hughes, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Seb Patane, Olivia Plender, Simon Popper, Jamie Shovlin, Daniel Sinsel, Matt Stokes, Sue Tompkins, Bedwyr Williams.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

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