* Boris Gulko ( born 1947 ), International Grandmaster and former winner of the U. S. Chess Championship.

Several prominent figures have criticized FIDE over this matter, with both Grandmaster Boris Gulko, a Jew with joint American and Israeli citizenship, and Beatriz Marinello, president of the United States Chess Federation writing open letters to FIDE criticizing their handling of the issue.

Boris Alterman ( born May 4, 1970, in Kharkiv, Ukraine ) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer ( 2010 ), advisor of the Junior chess program.

There, he gained the Grandmaster title by tying for second through fourth places, with Bruno Parma and Arthur Bisguier, behind reigning world champion Boris Spassky.

Boris Franzevich Gulko (; born February 9, 1947 in Erfurt, East Germany ) is a Russian-American International Grandmaster in chess.

* Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess Grandmaster

Shamkovich became a Grandmaster in 1965 and won several tournaments, with his best victory coming at Sochi in 1967, where he tied for first place with Nikolai Krogius, Vladimir Simagin, Boris Spassky and Alexander Zaitsev.

Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; ; born 24 June 1968 ) is a Belarusian-born Israeli chess Grandmaster.

Grandmaster Ng taught this particular snake style to water snake, shadow snake, king cobra, and Golden snake.

Beginning with the advent of beat match DJ ' ing, in which Bronx DJs ( Disc Jockeys ) including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc extended the breaks of funk records, a major new musical genre emerged that sought to isolate the percussion breaks of hit funk, disco and soul songs.

In the 1980s Kangol berets entered a new phase of fashion history with their adoption by members of the hip-hop community, such as Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Kangol Kid of UTFO, and The Notorious B. I. G ..

DJ Disco Wiz, along with Casanova Fly ( Grandmaster Caz ), formed the pioneering Mighty Force Crew from 183rd Street and Valentine Avenue in the mid-1970s.

Old school rappers like Afrika Bambaataa and Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tended to dress in the flashy attire that was commonly attributed to rock and disco acts of the era: tight leather, chest-baring shirts, gloves and hats with rhinestones and spikes, leather boots, etc.

After a scaled down version of Deep Blue, Deep Blue Jr., played Grandmaster Joel Benjamin, Hsu and Campbell decided that Benjamin was the expert they were looking for to develop Deep Blue's opening book, and Benjamin was signed by IBM Research to assist with the preparations for Deep Blue's matches against Garry Kasparov.

By 1975, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa had taken up Kool Herc's breakbeat style of DJing, each with their own accompanying rappers.

In his first major post-stroke play, he drew a six-game rapid match with Hungarian Grandmaster Lajos Portisch in April 2007.

The membership is free for players with a Grandmaster or International Master title.

Hip hop DJs and producers had been mining electronic sounds to create beats since Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash pioneered the use of drum machines and synthesizers in the early 1980s, and the hip hop genre shared with other forms of electronic music an emphasis on sampling.

The 6 track EP contained edited versions of tracks off of Buhloone Mindstate but also featured the tracks " Sh. Fe. MC's " ( Shocking Female MC's ) which was a collaboration with A Tribe Called Quest, and Stix & Stonz which featured old-school hip hop artists Grandmaster Caz, Tito of Fearless Four, Whipper Whip, LA Sunshine and Superstar.

In 1780 the first Freemasonry lodge " Libanons " was set up in the port of Liepāja by Provincial Grandmaster Ivan Yelagin on behalf of the Provincial Lodge of Russia and was registered with a number 524 in the Grand Lodge of England.

The song was remixed with " Technologic " by Daft Punk and with " Here Comes My DJ " by Grandmaster Flash which is featured as a playable track in DJ Hero.

Keres, in his autobiographical games collection, refers to this major event as a ' Candidates ' Tournament ', and claimed that he was recognized as a Grandmaster after winning it, although its parallel connection with later FIDE-organized Candidates ' tournaments ( from 1950 onwards ) is not exact, and the Grandmaster title was not formalized by FIDE until 1950.

He wrote a number of chess books, including a well-regarded, deeply annotated collection of his best games, Grandmaster of Chess ISBN 0-668-02645-6, The Art of the Middle Game ( with Alexander Kotov ) ISBN 0-486-26154-9, and Practical Chess Endings ISBN 0-7134-4210-7.

Larsen became an International Grandmaster in 1956 with his gold-medal performance on board one at the Moscow Olympiad, where he drew World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

In 1988 he lost a game to Deep Thought in the Software Toolworks Championship, becoming the first Grandmaster and the player with the highest Elo rating ( by then 2560 ) to be defeated by a computer in tournament play.

Although it created a jarring difference in tempo in the center of the song, it allowed Hip-Hop DJs to extend the beat by switching between two copies of the record on two separate turntables at a danceable tempo while ignoring the rest of the song ( this technique was created by Kool Herc in 1974 and became a trend at large in 1977 with the efforts of Grandmaster Flash ).

His trilogy of books Think Like a Grandmaster, Play Like a Grandmaster, and Train Like a Grandmaster, are his best known, with Think Like a Grandmaster, which was translated from the Russian by Bernard Cafferty, and published by Batsford in 1971 being particularly famous.

Two books co-written with his father, Bill Adams, Development of a Grandmaster ( 1991 ) and Chess in the Fast Lane ( 1996 ), discuss his early chess career.

This hypermodern opening was developed by Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch who introduced it to master-level chess in the early 20th century.

Since its opening in 2000 the venue has played host to hundreds of acts, including The Magic Numbers, The Kooks, Duffy, The Charlatans, Scratch Perverts, Ash, Puddle of Mudd, The Subways, Mansun, Shed Seven, The Wonder Stuff, The Damned, Skindred, Supersuckers, Wheatus, Bloc Party, Hundred Reasons, Grandmaster Flash, Electric Six, Trashlight Vision, The Fall, Budgie, The Blackout, Kids in Glass Houses, Rooster, Elliot Minor, Blaze Bayley, Go: Audio, Kill Hannah and Robert Plant.

The opening only began gaining some popularity after World War II, and by the 1960s it was regarded as playable, owing in large part to the efforts of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles.

Nonetheless, International Master Michael Basman and Grandmaster Spyridon Skembris are advocates of the opening.

Grandmaster Tony Kosten treats the move with respect in his monograph on the opening.

The opening is named after the Polish-Argentine Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf.

However, Grandmaster Nick de Firmian, in the 15th edition of Modern Chess Openings ( MCO-15 ), concludes that the opening leads to equality with best play by both sides.

Grandmaster Nick de Firmian observes of Alekhine's in MCO-15 ( 2008 ), " The game immediately loses any sense of symmetry or balance, which makes the opening a good choice for aggressive fighting players.

The opening is named after Richard Réti ( 1889 – 1929 ), an untitled Grandmaster from Czechoslovakia.

World Champion Garry Kasparov and Grandmaster Raymond Keene wrote that it " has never been fully accepted as a dependable opening.

Below is a sample game that features the unusual feat of Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubov beating Diemer with his own favorite opening:

Beginning in the late 1960s, this opening idea was also promoted by Pal Benko, a Hungarian-American Grandmaster, who provided many new suggestions and published his book The Benko Gambit in 1974.

In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path, then running low on time quickly makes a poor move, often a blunder.

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.

In The Sellswords book series, Jarlaxle comments to his drow compatriots that a monk ( referring to Grandmaster Kane ) fights in the same manner as the kuo-toa, using their body as a weapon.

His latest book is American Grandmaster: Four Decades of Chess Adventures.

In 2000, Kasparov published a book about the match: Kasparov Against the World: The Story of the Greatest Online Challenge, co-written with Grandmaster Daniel J.

Grandmaster Larry Kaufman, in his book The Chess Advantage in Black and White, notes that the Hanham Variation aims to maintain Black's pawn on e5, analogously to closed lines of the Ruy Lopez, and opines that " it would be quite popular and on a par with the major defenses to 1. e4, except for the annoying detail that Black can't actually reach the Hanham position by force.

There is also the book entitled " The Korean Art of Self Defense " ( the 1999 edition, the latest used by ITF under Grandmaster Tran Trieu Quan and ITF under Grandmaster Choi, or the 2004 edition, the latest used by ITF under Chang Ung ), also known as the Condensed Encyclopedia, written by General Choi Hong Hi.

He has been included in many publications including " Wing Chun 50th Anniversary " by VTAA, " Ip Chun 80th birthday publication " by Ip Chun Academy, " Wing Chun Skill and Philosophy " by Master Ip Chun, " Grandmaster Yip Man Centenary Book " by The Ving Tsun Athletic Association and " Chinese WuShu Association Centenary book " by The Chinese WuShu Association.

Pandolfini lives in New York and has coached many talented chess players, the most famous being Fabiano Caruana, the youngest Grandmaster in American history, and Josh Waitzkin, subject of the book and movie mentioned above.

Shahade is a Woman Grandmaster of chess, two-time American Women's Champion, and author of the book Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport.

His book Grandmaster Preparation ( now out of print ) is a classic that contains notable insights into his own thinking as he crafted the variation in the Sicilian that bears his name.