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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.
Chess was staged in London's West End Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986, and ran for almost three years.
Together with Ulvaeus, Andersson was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in a category " Outstanding Music " ( for the musical Chess ), and for a Tony Award in a category " Best Orchestrations " ( for musical Mamma Mia !).
* B52 ( chess opening ), the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code for a chess opening based on the Sicilian Defence
* Turbo GameWorks ( Turbo Pascal Source and Executables for Bridge, Go-Moku, and Chess )
Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.
FIDE's most visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship ( overall and for women and juniors ), regional championships and the Chess Olympiad.
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.
The modern system for awarding FIDE titles evolved from the " Dorazil " proposals, presented to the 1970 Siegen Chess Olympiad FIDE Congress.
Krush currently plays for the New York Knights in the U. S. Chess League, and both she and her ex-husband Canadian Grandmaster Pascal Charbonneau have played in the United Kingdom league for Guildford-ADC.
* Internet Chess Club, a website for playing chess
" This put the Polgárs in conflict with the Hungarian Chess Federation of the day, whose policy was for women to play in women-only tournaments.
In October and November 2002, Polgár alternated with Péter Lékó between first and second board for Hungary in the 35th Chess Olympiad.
In September 2005, Polgár once again made history as she became the first woman to play for a World Championship, at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.
In October 2006, Polgár scored another excellent result: tied for first place in the Essent Chess Tournament, Hoogeveen, Holland.
In May – June 2007 she played in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.
In November 2007, she took part in Chess Champions League – Playing for a Better World in Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain a tournament to raise funds for equipment for a Hospital in Mbuji-Mayi, Congo.

Chess and Dummies
While initially the series focused on software and technology topics ( and still does ), it later branched out to more general-interest titles, with topics as diverse as Acne For Dummies, Chess For Dummies, Fishing For Dummies and many other topics, including recent legal topics with Success as a Mediator For Dummies in 2012.
A " Chess for Dummies " was made, a black-and-yellow chessboard with a picture of a piece, along with a summary of how the piece moves, printed its starting positions, although there is a book with the same name.
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Chess and James
In Boston, at a banquet attended by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis Agassiz, Boston mayor Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Harvard president James Walker, and other luminaries, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes toasted " Paul Morphy, the World Chess Champion ".
In 1771 and 1773 Philidor made brief stays in London to play at the Salopian coffee-house, Charing Cross and at the St James Chess Club.
James was recorded for the Chess subsidiary label Argo ( later Cadet ) and had her first hit singles under duets with Fuqua including " If I Can't Have You " and " Spoonful ".
Leonard Chess had envisioned James as a classic ballad stylist who had potential to cross over to the pop charts and soon surrounded the singer with violins and other string instruments.
Though James continued to record for Chess, she was devastated by the death of Chess founder Leonard Chess in 1969.
James continued to record for Chess releasing two more albums in 1978, Etta Is Betta Than Evah and Deep in the Night, which saw the singer incorporating more rock-based music in her repertoire.
In 2008, James was portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the film, Cadillac Records, loosely based on the rise and fall of James ' label of 18 years, Chess Records, and how label founder and producer Leonard Chess helped the career of James and other label mates, though it was noted that James was successful prior to her signing with Chess Records.
It also inaccurately portrayed James and Chess were 21 years apart in age as lovers.
After signing with Chess Records in 1960, James broke through as a traditional pop-styled singer, covering jazz and pop music standards on her debut album, At Last !.
In 1959 and 1960, Fuqua also recorded several duets for Chess with Etta James.
In July 1959, a group called ' The Ecuadors ' " who, according to Fuqua, really were the Moonglows ( which included Gaye and James )" reportedly recorded at Chess singing backgrounds for Chuck Berry.

Chess and commented
" He commented, " It may sound arrogant, but Chess is as good as anything I've ever done.

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He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System ( My System ), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems ( The Practice of My System ), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade ( The Blockade ), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System.
Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature — with historical notes on other table-games.
* Basic Chess Endings, a chess book on chess endgames by Reuben Fine
Chess included Diddley's recording of " Sixteen Tons " on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960.
The Diddley-penned, " Wyatt Earp " was a single released on Okeh Records, since the Chess brothers did not want to release the record.
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.
Along with information on official chess tournaments, the rules are described in the FIDE Handbook, Laws of Chess section.
Chess is played on a square board of eight rows ( called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8 ) and eight columns ( called files and denoted with letters a to h ) of squares.
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE, or World Chess Federation ) was formed in Paris in 1924, but at that time did not formulate criteria on who should earn the title.
She played first board on the U. S. Women's team in the 38th Chess Olympiad, when the U. S. team scored a bronze medal.
In the 2008 U. S. Women's Chess Championship, she lost by one second on time controls in a playoff with IM and WGM Anna Zatonskih.
Polgár authored a children's book on chess, Chess Playground.
* Focus on Chess variants from Alfonso's codex
** Chess Module-The Odyssey2 didn't have enough memory and computing power for a decent implementation of chess on its own, so the C7010 chess module contained a secondary CPU with its own extra memory to run the chess program.
Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).
At Chess Records in the spring of 1955, Bo Diddley's debut record " Bo Diddley "/" I'm A Man " climbed to # 2 on the R & B charts and popularized Bo Diddley's own original rhythm and blues clave-based vamp that would become a mainstay in rock and roll.
Egyptian History of chess | Chess Players ( 1865 ), oil on wood, 39. 8 x 55. 8 cm.
< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.
* Colossus Chess, A game from the 1980s on the Commodore 64 / Amiga
While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.
* Luk Tsut K ' i (" Six Man Chess ") in Canton and Tapatan in the Philippines are equivalent to Three Men's Morris played on a board with diagonals.
The pawns, on the other hand, move just like the Rook moves in Chess, unable to move diagonally.
As an assessment of the king's capability as an offensive piece in the endgame, it is often considered to be slightly stronger than a bishop or knight – Emanuel Lasker gave it the value of a knight plus a pawn ( i. e. four points on the scale of Chess piece relative value ).

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