In 1927, the Soviet Union's Chess Federation established the title of Grandmaster of the Soviet Union, for their own players, since at that time Soviets were not competing outside their own country.

Before age 13 she had broken into the top 100 players in the world and the British Chess Magazine declared, " Judit Polgár's recent results make the performances of Fischer and Kasparov at a similar age pale by comparison.

In April 1997, she played in the Dos Hermanas Chess tournament, a single-round robin category XIX event of 10 of the world's best players.

In November 2008, Polgár had a terrible result in The World Chess Blitz Championship in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, finished last of the 16 players with only 2½ points.

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In the case of Checkers and Chess, for example, players can only move their own pieces, not their opponents.

Members can watch live broadcasts of tournaments with grandmaster commentary on Chess. FM, watch games involving titled players being played on ICC and challenge grandmasters in simultaneous exhibitions.

* Chess game viewers allow players to view a pre-recorded game on a computer.

Although A History of Chess was recognised as the standard reference on the subject, its scholarly approach and great length ( 900 pages ) made it inaccessible to most chess players.

Near the Soy Street intersection during the evenings, there are often unlicensed food stands and professional Chinese Chess players plying their trades.

Due to his success in the American Chess Congress, many people in America felt confident they had a player strong enough to challenge the best players abroad and that he should be supported by the American Chess Association to make those challenges.

The Russian and Bulgarian Chess Federations supported their respective players.

Because these openings are not popular with chess players, the standard opening references ( see chess opening and Chess theory # Opening theory ) do not cover them in detail.

Chess Informant is a series which collects chess games annotated by top players and publishes them in a language independent format.

Aside from the many local leagues, the Four Nations Chess League ( 4NCL ) is effectively a prestigious tournament run on a league format, to which many of the British and world's elite players are attracted.

Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat experienced adult players and even Masters, often at a very young age.

Smyslov was one of the five players selected to compete for the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament to determine who should succeed the late Alexander Alekhine as champion.

In chess games played at the top level, a draw is the most common outcome of a game: of around 22, 000 games published in The Week in Chess played between 1999 and 2002 by players with a FIDE Elo rating of 2500 or above, 55 percent were draws.

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The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament ( players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition ) organized by the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ).

He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s ( 1963, 1965, and 1966 ), and was among the world's top ten players during that era.

These were the first large tournaments organised by the British Chess Association, international players were allowed to participate.

In Chess for Dummies, James Eade commented on the game, writing, " If even world champions break the rules, what hope do the rest of us have?

The pieces never move about ( as they do in Chess ), nor change state ( as they do in Reversi ).

In Alice Chess, pieces move the same as they do in standard chess, but a piece transfers at the completion of its move to the opposite board.

Chessmetrics ranks Pillsbury number 2 in the world at the time ; Chigorin had played matches for the World Chess Championship in 1889 and 1892, and Marshall and Janowski would go on to do so in 1907 and 1910, respectively.

* The students who wish to do certain games only for their fun in their leisure times and the students who wish to get these facilities only to make their strength are given a chance of using the power room, swimming, Weight lifting room, Common room 1 for Table Tennis, Carom & Chess and the Gymnasium to play Badminton.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

" When asked in 2002 if she still desired to win the world championship she said, " Chess is my profession and of course I hope to improve.

The same year, he won the World Junior Chess Championship held at Antwerp, Belgium, scoring 6 / 7 to qualify for the final, then 8 / 9 in the final to win by a full point over Edmar Mednis.

Lékó was chosen because of the many novelties he has introduced to known chess theories, as well as his previous tournament win ; in addition, Lékó has supposedly played Fischer Random Chess games with Fischer himself.

His first notable result in a major tournament was his gold medal win as first reserve for the Russian team in the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila.

Kramnik's victory helped him win the Chess Oscar for 2006, the second of his career.

The goal in both games is to lose all of your pieces, although in Losers Chess, you can also win by getting checkmated.

Tal first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20.

He won the 1958 Interzonal tournament at Portorož, then helped the Soviet Union win their fourth consecutive Chess Olympiad at Munich.

He first faced Marshall in the World Chess Championship 1907, when despite his aggressive style, Marshall could not win a single game, losing eight and drawing seven ( final score: 11½ − 3½ ).

Because of this new change in attitude, Freddie informs Anatoly of a significant flaw in Viigand's play that will help Anatoly win (" Talking Chess ").

Four winners-Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Viswanathan Anand-have gone on to win the World Chess Championship.

Chess historian Taylor Kingston investigated all the available evidence and arguments, and concluded that: Soviet chess officials gave Keres strong hints that he should not hinder Botvinnik's attempt to win the World Championship ; Botvinnik only discovered this about half-way though the tournament and protested so strongly that he angered Soviet officials ; Keres probably did not deliberately lose games to Botvinnik or anyone else in the tournament.

The Sämisch Variation was employed five times by Mikhail Botvinnik against Tal in the 1960 World Chess Championship, with five draws resulting, and once in the 1961 rematch, with a win for White.

Scoring 6½ / 7 in the first cycle, Topalov had virtually clinched the tournament at the halfway mark, before drawing every game in the second cycle to win by 1½ points to become FIDE World Chess Champion.

Poe's essay " Maelzel's Chess Player " was published in April 1836 and is the most famous essay on the Turk, even though many of Poe's hypotheses were incorrect ( such as that a chess-playing machine must always win ).

In spite of his ill health, Pillsbury beat American champion Jackson Showalter in 1897 to win the U. S. Chess Championship, a title he held until his death in 1906.

She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno However, her greatest success so far has been to win the Women's World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan, with a score of

He prefers instead to exploit all prospective winning chances, giving him a style of play described by the U. S. Chess Federation as marked by " astonishing creativity ... relentless determination ... making of unexpected moves and a will to win ".

In 2006, Nakamura helped the U. S. team win the bronze medal in the International Chess Olympiad at Turin, playing third board behind Gata Kamsky and 2006 U. S. Champion Alexander Onischuk.

In July 2009, Nakamura won the Donostia-San Sebastian Chess Festival, tying with former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov with 6½ / 9 before defeating Ponomariov in a blitz playoff to win the title over a field including former undisputed world champion Anatoly Karpov, former FIDE world champions Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Ponomariov, 2009 World Junior champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Peter Svidler among others.

Nakamura's impressive performance, including a convincing win over world No. 6 and recent Chess World Cup winner Boris Gelfand on the black side of a King's Indian Defense won him the individual gold medal for board one, and led the U. S. to a second place finish behind Russia.

He was a leading reformer of the mathematics syllabus at Newcastle where again he found time to win the County Chess Championship in 1950.

He represented England in the Chess Olympiads of 1952 ( playing fourth board, scoring 2 wins, 5 draws, and 4 losses ), 1954 ( playing first reserve, scoring 1 win, 2 draws, and 4 losses ), 1960 ( first reserve ; 4 wins, 4 draws, 2 losses ) and 1962 ( first reserve ; 7 wins, 2 draws, 3 losses ).