The Sunday Academy side won their division of the Chess Valley League ; even their Tea Lady won an award for the Best Teas in Middlesex.

In video games, she provided voices in several adventure games such as King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow as the Oracle, Red Chess Queen, Mother Ghost and Queen Allaria, Thayer's Quest as Lady In The Woodlands and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers as Grandma Knight / Tetelo.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

* 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

* January 8 – 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.

* Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time by David Edmonds and John Eidinow ; Ecco, 2004.

Chess960 ( or Fischer Random Chess ) is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer.

Fischer Random Chess is a variant of Shuffle chess defined by former World Champion Bobby Fischer and introduced formally to the chess public on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A perpetual check saved a draw for Mikhail Tal against Bobby Fischer in this 1960 game, played in the 14th Chess Olympiad, while Tal was the World Champion.

The script for this film was based on a 1988 book by Joshua's father, Fred Waitzkin: Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess.

* Fred Waitzkin, Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess ( 1988 ), Random House hardcover: ISBN 0-394-54455-2, Penguin paperback: ISBN 978-0-14-023038-3

Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess.

Bobby Fischer's Chess Games.

At the time Bobby Fischer become a teenage sensation in the 50's and 60's, he notably lived in New York City where he joined the Manhattan Chess Club, the strongest in the country.

He learned to play chess at age eight, and began tournament-level chess at the famous Marshall Chess Club in New York City, stomping grounds for many famous grandmasters, such as Bobby Fischer later on.

* Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World's Chess Championship: The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match, by Reuben Fine, 1973.

More popular, though, proved to be his 1972 humorous songs: Mishka Shifman ( satirizing the leaving-for-Israel routine ), Victim of Television ( ridiculing the concept of " political consciousness " as such ) and grotesquely funny The Honor of the Chess Crown about an ever-fearless " simple Soviet man " challenging the much feared American champion Bobby Fisher to a match, as well as the new " war " songs: We Spin the Earth and Black Pea-Coats.

In 1966, the Dells returned to Chess under the label's Cadet subsidiary working with Bobby Miller and future Earth, Wind & Fire arranger Charles Stepney.

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the World Chess Championship.

Byrne placed shared 4 – 7th at the 1957 U. S. Open Chess Championship in Cleveland with 9 / 12, a point behind joint winners Bobby Fischer and Arthur Bisguier.

Byrne did not play in his first U. S. Chess Championship until age 30 in 1958 – 59, placing tied 9 – 10th with 4 / 11 ; the winner was Bobby Fischer.

* Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

" – Bobby Fischer, Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess ( 1959 )

In September 2000, she shared first place in the Najdorf Chess Festival with Viktor Bologan, ahead of Nigel Short and Anatoly Karpov.

It was completed by B. Goulding Brown and Harry Golombek and published in 1963 as A Short History of Chess.

* A Short History of Chess ( 1963, published after his death ).

In response, Short and Kasparov promptly formed a rival organisation, the Professional Chess Association.

Short won the British Chess Championship in 1984, 1987, and 1998, and the English Championship in 1991.

He began a new column " Short Stories " for New in Chess magazine in January 2011.

Following the death of Tony Miles in 2001, Short wrote an obituary in the Sunday Telegraph in which he claimed that during the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai he had slept with Miles's then-girlfriend.

He followed this with a share of second place at the 4th EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool, joining Viktor Laznicka and Nigel Short on 7½ / 10 ( after winner Jan Werle, 8 / 10 ).

In Henry A. Davidson's 1945 publication A Short History of Chess, significant weight is given to Poe's essay which erroneously suggested that the player sat inside the Turk figure, rather than on a moving seat inside the cabinet.

::-Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short break from FIDE to play their world championship match, forming the Professional Chess Association.

* " Issues on the Chess Table: Short Draws ", by Mark Weeks

In December 2010 Nakamura finished fourth in the London Chess Classic, among a field including Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, David Howell, and Luke McShane.

; The Bright Side of Chess ; The Fireside Book of Chess ( with Fred Reinfeld ); The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played ; 1000 Best Short Games of Chess ; Practical Chess Endings ; Combinations: The Heart of Chess ; and Capablanca's Best Chess Endings.

* 1000 Best Short Games of Chess ; Simon & Schuster 1955

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.

In 1993, Nigel Short won the Candidates Tournament and so qualified as challenger to Garry Kasparov for the World Chess 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 ).

At the EU Individual Open Chess Championship held at Liverpool in 2006, he led the tournament after eight rounds and finished a very creditable ( joint ) second, a half point behind winner Nigel Short and level with Luke McShane among others.