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José Raúl Capablanca

Index José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. [1]

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  1. 183 relations: Abraham Kupchik, Acetylcholine, Akiba Rubinstein, Alexander Alekhine, Amos Burn, Anatoly Karpov, Andor Lilienthal, Arnold Aurbach, Arnold Denker, Aron Nimzowitsch, Arpad Elo, AVRO, AVRO 1938 chess tournament, Bad Kissingen, Barcelona, Baseball, Benjamin Anderson, Bishop (chess), Bobby Fischer, Boris Kostić, Boris Spassky, Botvinnik versus Capablanca, AVRO 1938, Brain herniation, British Chess Magazine, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, Capablanca Memorial, Captaincy General of Cuba, Carl Schlechter, Castillo del Príncipe (Havana), Catalonia, Cerebrospinal fluid, Charles Jaffe, Checkmate, Chess endgame, Chess Fever, Chess Olympiad, Chess opening, Chess prodigy, ChessBase, Chessgames.com, Chessmetrics, Cisterna magna, Cleveland, Colon Cemetery, Havana, Columbia College, Columbia University, Contraindication, Crafty, Database, ... Expand index (133 more) »

  2. Chess variant inventors
  3. Chess writers
  4. Cuban diplomats
  5. World chess champions

Abraham Kupchik

Abraham Kupchik (25 March 1892 – 26 November 1970) was an American chess master. José Raúl Capablanca and Abraham Kupchik are 20th-century chess players.

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Acetylcholine

Acetylcholine (ACh) is an organic compound that functions in the brain and body of many types of animals (including humans) as a neurotransmitter.

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Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Akiba Rubinstein are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine are 20th-century chess players and world chess champions.

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Amos Burn

Amos Burn (31 December 1848 – 25 November 1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Amos Burn are chess theoreticians.

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Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов,; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. José Raúl Capablanca and Anatoly Karpov are world chess champions.

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Andor Lilienthal

Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich LilienthalReuben Fine, The World's Great Chess Games, Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216.

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Arnold Aurbach

Arnold Aurbach (c. 1888, in Warsaw – 31 December 1952) was a Polish–French chess master.

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Arnold Denker

Arnold Sheldon Denker (February 21, 1914 – January 2, 2005) was an American chess player and author. José Raúl Capablanca and Arnold Denker are 20th-century chess players.

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Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch (Ārons Nimcovičs; Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Aron Nimzowitsch are chess theoreticians.

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Arpad Elo

Arpad Emmerich Elo (August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. José Raúl Capablanca and Arpad Elo are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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AVRO

AVRO, short for Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep ("General Association of Radio Broadcasting"), was a Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system.

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AVRO 1938 chess tournament

The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO.

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Bad Kissingen

Bad Kissingen is a German spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and seat of the district Bad Kissingen.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Benjamin Anderson

Benjamin McAlester Anderson Jr. (May 1, 1886 – January 19, 1949) was an American economist of the Austrian School.

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Bishop (chess)

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. José Raúl Capablanca and Bobby Fischer are 20th-century chess players, chess variant inventors and world chess champions.

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Boris Kostić

Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Serbian chess grandmaster and a popularizer of the game.

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Boris Spassky

Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. José Raúl Capablanca and Boris Spassky are chess theoreticians and world chess champions.

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Botvinnik versus Capablanca, AVRO 1938

On 22 November 1938, Mikhail Botvinnik (playing white) defeated José Raúl Capablanca (playing black) in one of the most famous games in chess history.

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Brain herniation

Brain herniation is a potentially deadly side effect of very high pressure within the skull that occurs when a part of the brain is squeezed across structures within the skull.

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British Chess Magazine

British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess journal in continuous publication.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania

Cambridge Springs is a borough with home rule status in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Capablanca Memorial

The Capablanca Memorial is a chess tournament that has been held annually in Cuba since 1962 in honor of José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera.

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Captaincy General of Cuba

The Captaincy General of Cuba (Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions.

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Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. José Raúl Capablanca and Carl Schlechter are chess theoreticians.

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Castillo del Príncipe (Havana)

The Castillo del Príncipe (Castle of the Prince) is a military fort located in the Loma de Aróstegui, in Havana, Cuba.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Cerebrospinal fluid

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colorless body fluid found within the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord of all vertebrates.

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Charles Jaffe

Charles Jaffé (Jaffe) (Dubroŭna, Russian Empire – 12 July 1941, Brooklyn, USA) was a chess master and chess author born in the Russian Empire.

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Checkmate

Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with) and there is no possible escape.

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Chess endgame

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame.

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Chess Fever

Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky.

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Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete.

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Chess opening

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game.

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Chess prodigy

A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age.

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ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

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Chessgames.com

Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.

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Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas.

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Cisterna magna

The cisterna magna (posterior cerebellomedullary cistern, or cerebellomedullary cistern) is the largest of the subarachnoid cisterns.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Colon Cemetery, Havana

El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, also called La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba to replace the Espada Cemetery in the Barrio de San Lázaro.

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Columbia College, Columbia University

Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college of Columbia University, a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Contraindication

In medicine, a contraindication is a condition (a situation or factor) that serves as a reason not to take a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient.

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Crafty

Crafty is a chess program written by UAB professor Dr.

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Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.

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David Vincent Hooper

David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. José Raúl Capablanca and David Vincent Hooper are 20th-century chess players.

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Dawid Janowski

Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled David) was a Polish chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Dawid Janowski are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Diastole

Diastole is the relaxed phase of the cardiac cycle when the chambers of the heart are refilling with blood.

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Draw (chess)

In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.

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Edward Lasker

Edward Lasker (born Eduard Lasker) (December 3, 1885 – March 25, 1981) was a German-American chess and Go player.

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Edward Winter (chess historian)

Edward Winter (born 1955) is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author.

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Efim Bogoljubow

Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster. José Raúl Capablanca and Efim Bogoljubow are chess theoreticians.

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Eli Moschcowitz

Eli Moschcowitz (2 August 1879 – 23 February 1964) was an American doctor best known for his role in discovering thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), which was originally called "Moschcowitz syndrome".

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Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. José Raúl Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker are 20th-century chess players, chess theoreticians and world chess champions.

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Empress (chess)

The empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight.

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Erich Eliskases

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. José Raúl Capablanca and Erich Eliskases are 20th-century chess players.

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Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (Yevgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky; 16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess player, music and drama critic, teacher and author.

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Everyman Chess

Everyman Chess, formerly known as Cadogan Chess, is a major publisher of books and CDs about chess.

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Fast chess

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow.

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Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky

Fedor (Fyodor) Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky (sometimes transliterated Dus-Chotimirski, Khotymirsky etc.; Ukrainian: Фе́дір Іва́нович Дуз-Хотимирський; Фёдор Дуз-Хотимирский; 25 September 1881, Chernihiv or Moscow – 5 November 1965, Moscow) was a Russian Empire and Soviet Ukrainian chess master.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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Frank Marshall (chess player)

Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. José Raúl Capablanca and Frank Marshall (chess player) are chess theoreticians.

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Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld (January 27, 1910 – May 29, 1964) was an American writer on chess and many other subjects. José Raúl Capablanca and Fred Reinfeld are 20th-century chess players.

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Fred Yates (chess player)

Fred Dewhirst Yates (16 January 1884, Birstall – 11 November 1932, London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions.

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Freshman

A freshman, fresher, first year, or colloquially frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.

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Gambit

A gambit (from Italian gambetto, the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage.

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Gambit Publications

Gambit Publications is a major publisher of chess books.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Garry Kasparov are world chess champions.

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Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy (3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. José Raúl Capablanca and Géza Maróczy are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Gideon Ståhlberg

Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (26 January 1908 – 26 May 1967) was a Swedish chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Gideon Ståhlberg are 20th-century chess players.

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Glenn Flear

Glenn Curtis Flear (born 12 February 1959 in Leicester, England) is a British chess grandmaster now living in Montpellier, France.

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Grand Chess

Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greek gift sacrifice

In chess, the Greek gift sacrifice, also known as the classical bishop sacrifice, is a typical sacrifice of a bishop by White playing Bxh7+ or Black playing Bxh2+ at some point after the opponent has castled, with the goal generally being to attack and checkmate the opponent's king, or to regain.

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Gyrus

In neuroanatomy, a gyrus (gyri) is a ridge on the cerebral cortex.

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Han Hollander

Hartog "Han" Hollander (5 October 1886 – 9 July 1943) was the first Dutch radio sports journalist.

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Hans Kmoch

Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch (July 25, 1894 – February 13, 1973) was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master (1950), International Arbiter (1951), and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known.

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Harold C. Schonberg

Harold Charles Schonberg (29 November 1915 – 26 July 2003) was an American music critic and author.

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Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. José Raúl Capablanca and Harry Golombek are 20th-century chess players.

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Hastings International Chess Congress

The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Hematoma

A hematoma, also spelled haematoma, or blood suffusion is a localized bleeding outside of blood vessels, due to either disease or trauma including injury or surgery and may involve blood continuing to seep from broken capillaries.

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Henry Bird (chess player)

Henry Edward Bird (14 July 1829 – 11 April 1908) was an English chess player, author and accountant. José Raúl Capablanca and Henry Bird (chess player) are chess theoreticians.

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Hypertension

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

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Hypertensive crisis

Severely elevated blood pressure (equal to or greater than 180 mmHg systolic or 120 mmHg diastolic) is referred to as a hypertensive crisis (sometimes termed malignant or accelerated hypertension), due to the high risk of complications.

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ICGA Journal

The ICGA Journal is a quarterly academic journal published by the International Computer Games Association.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both.

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Irving Chernev

Irving Chernev (January 29, 1900 – September 29, 1981) was a chess player and prolific Ukrainian-born American chess author. José Raúl Capablanca and Irving Chernev are 20th-century chess players.

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Isaac Kashdan

Isaac Kashdan (November 19, 1905, in New York City – February 20, 1985, in Los Angeles) was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Isaac Kashdan are 20th-century chess players.

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Jacques Mieses

Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German-born British chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Jacques Mieses are chess theoreticians.

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Jeff Sonas

Jeff Sonas is a statistical chess analyst who invented the Chessmetrics system for rating chess players, which is intended as an improvement on the Elo rating system.

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John L. Watson

John Leonard Watson (born 1951) is an American chess player and author who was awarded the title of International Master in 1979.

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Juan Corzo

Juan Corzo y Príncipe (June 24, 1873 – September 27, 1941) was a Spanish–Cuban chess master and five-time chess champion of Cuba. José Raúl Capablanca and Juan Corzo are Cuban chess players.

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Julius du Mont

Julius du Mont (15 December 1881, in Paris, France – 7 April 1956, in Hastings, England) was a pianist, piano teacher, chess player, journalist, editor and writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Julius du Mont are chess theoreticians.

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Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, formerly also spelled Carlsbad in English) is a spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Ken Whyld

Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of The Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference work in English. José Raúl Capablanca and Ken Whyld are 20th-century chess players.

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Knight (chess)

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.

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Lake Hopatcong

Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, United States, about in area.

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Larry Kaufman

Lawrence Charles Kaufman (born November 15, 1947) is an American chess player.

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List of covers of Time magazine (1920s)

This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1920s.

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Luděk Pachman

Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 – March 6, 2003) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. José Raúl Capablanca and Luděk Pachman are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Lumbar puncture

Lumbar puncture (LP), also known as a spinal tap, is a medical procedure in which a needle is inserted into the spinal canal, most commonly to collect cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for diagnostic testing.

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Manhattan Chess Club

The Manhattan Chess Club in Manhattan was the second-oldest chess club in the United States (next to the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco) before it closed.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.

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Margate

Margate is a seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England.

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Max Euwe

Machgielis "Max" Euwe (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. José Raúl Capablanca and max Euwe are 20th-century chess players, chess theoreticians and world chess champions.

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Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (– May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. José Raúl Capablanca and Mikhail Botvinnik are 20th-century chess players, chess theoreticians and world chess champions.

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Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Milan Vidmar are chess writers.

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Milton Hanauer

Milton Loeb Hanauer (5 August 1908 – 16 April 1988) was a public school principal, chess master and Marshall Chess Club official. José Raúl Capablanca and Milton Hanauer are 20th-century chess players.

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Moscow 1925 chess tournament

This international super-tournament, organised by Nikolai Krylenko, was held at Moscow in the Soviet Union, from 10 November to 8 December 1925.

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Moscow 1935 chess tournament

Moscow 1935 was the second international chess tournament held in Moscow, taking place from 15 February to 15 March 1935.

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Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States.

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My Great Predecessors

My Great Predecessors is a series of chess books written by former World Champion Garry Kasparov et al.

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Nathan Divinsky

Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York 1924 chess tournament

New York 1924 was an elite chess tournament held in the Alamac Hotel in New York City from March 16 to April 18, 1924.

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New York 1927 chess tournament

The New York 1927 chess tournament was an elite chess tournament held in New York City from February 19 to March 24, 1927.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nick de Firmian

Nicholas Ernest de Firmian (born July 26, 1957) is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1985. José Raúl Capablanca and Nick de Firmian are chess theoreticians.

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Nicolas Rossolimo

Nicolas Rossolimo (translit; February 28, 1910 – July 24, 1975) was a Russian Empire-born chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Nicolas Rossolimo are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Norepinephrine

Norepinephrine (NE), also called noradrenaline (NA) or noradrenalin, is an organic chemical in the catecholamine family that functions in the brain and body as a hormone, neurotransmitter and neuromodulator.

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Nottingham

Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.

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Oldřich Duras

Oldřich Duras (also Důras; 30 October 1882, Pchery, Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 January 1957, Prague, then Czechoslovakia) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century. José Raúl Capablanca and Oldřich Duras are 20th-century chess players.

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Oscar Chajes

Oscar Chajes (pronounced "HA-yes") (December 14, 1873 – February 28, 1928)* was an American chess player.

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Ossip Bernstein

Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a French chess player and businessman. José Raúl Capablanca and Ossip Bernstein are 20th-century chess players.

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Outpost (chess)

An outpost is a square on the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh which is protected by a pawn and which cannot be attacked by an opponent's pawn.

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Paul Keres

Paul Keres (7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Paul Keres are 20th-century chess players, chess theoreticians and chess writers.

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Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837July 10, 1884) was an American chess player.

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Pietro Carrera

Pietro Carrera (July 12, 1573 – September 18, 1647) was an Italian chess player, historian, priest and author. José Raúl Capablanca and Pietro Carrera are chess theoreticians.

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Princess (chess)

The princess is a fairy chess piece that can move like a bishop or a knight.

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Queen's Gambit Declined

The Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit: This is known as the Orthodox Line of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

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Ramsgate

Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.

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Raymond Keene

Raymond Dennis Keene (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author.

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Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)

The Republic of Cuba, covering the historical period in Cuban history between 1902 and 1959, was an island country comprised the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud (since 1925) and several minor archipelagos.

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Reuben Fine

Reuben C. Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology. José Raúl Capablanca and Reuben Fine are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Richard Réti

Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. José Raúl Capablanca and Richard Réti are 20th-century chess players, chess theoreticians and chess writers.

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Richard Teichmann

Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer. José Raúl Capablanca and Richard Teichmann are 20th-century chess players.

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Rook (chess)

The rook (♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess.

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Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.

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Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess master of the romantic school, and chess writer.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. José Raúl Capablanca and Salo Flohr are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.

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Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. José Raúl Capablanca and Samuel Reshevsky are 20th-century chess players.

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San Sebastián

San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián, is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.

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San Sebastián chess tournament

There were two important chess tournaments held in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1911 and 1912.

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Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower (also known as Xavier or Ksawery Tartakower, less often Tartacover or Tartakover; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Savielly Tartakower are chess theoreticians.

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Semmering Pass

Semmering is a mountain pass in the Eastern Northern Limestone Alps connecting Lower Austria and Styria, between which it forms a natural border.

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Semmering, Austria

Semmering is a town in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions.

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Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. José Raúl Capablanca and Siegbert Tarrasch are chess theoreticians.

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Simultaneous exhibition

A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition (commonly chess or Go) in which one player (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) plays multiple games at a time with a number of other players.

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Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet

Sir George Alan Thomas, 7th Baronet (14 June 1881 – 23 July 1972) was a British badminton, tennis and chess player.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spaniards

Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.

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St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament

The St.

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Stroke

Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.

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Sulcus (neuroanatomy)

In neuroanatomy, a sulcus (Latin: "furrow";: sulci) is a depression or groove in the cerebral cortex.

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Systole

Systole is the part of the cardiac cycle during which some chambers of the heart contract after refilling with blood.

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Thalamus

The thalamus (thalami; from Greek θάλαμος, "chamber") is a large mass of gray matter on the lateral walls of the third ventricle forming the dorsal part of the diencephalon (a division of the forebrain).

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).

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The Fox and the Grapes

The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time trouble

In chess played with a time control, time trouble, time pressure, or its German translation Zeitnot, is the situation where a player has little time to complete the required moves.

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US Chess Championship

The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion.

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Vasoactivity

A vasoactive substance is an endogenous agent or pharmaceutical drug that has the effect of either increasing or decreasing blood pressure and/or heart rate through its vasoactivity, that is, vascular activity (effect on blood vessels).

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Ventricular system

In neuroanatomy, the ventricular system is a set of four interconnected cavities known as cerebral ventricles in the brain.

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Vera Menchik

Vera Francevna Mencikova (Вера Францевна Менчик, Vera Frantsevna Menchik; Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. José Raúl Capablanca and Vera Menchik are 20th-century chess players.

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Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. José Raúl Capablanca and Vladimir Kramnik are world chess champions.

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Vladimirs Petrovs

Vladimirs Petrovs (translit; 27 September 1908 – 26 August 1943) was a Latvian Russian chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Vladimirs Petrovs are 20th-century chess players.

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Wilhelm Steinitz

William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian and, later, American chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and Wilhelm Steinitz are chess theoreticians, chess writers and world chess champions.

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William Winter (chess player)

William Winter (11 September 1897 – 18 December 1955) was a British chess player. José Raúl Capablanca and William Winter (chess player) are 20th-century chess players.

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World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.

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World Chess Championship 1907

The 1907 World Chess Championship was a chess match contested between reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker of Germany, and challenger Frank J. Marshall of the United States, for the world chess championship.

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World Chess Championship 1927

The 1927 World Chess Championship was played between José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, in Buenos Aires from September 16 to November 29, 1927.

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World Chess Championship 1984–1985

The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow from 10 September 1984 to 15 February 1985 for the World Chess Championship title.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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8th Chess Olympiad

The 8th Chess Olympiad (La 8a Olimpíada de ajedrez), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), comprised an open tournament, as well as a Women's World Championship contest.

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See also

Chess variant inventors

Chess writers

Cuban diplomats

World chess champions

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Raúl_Capablanca

Also known as Capablanca, J. R. Capablanca, José Capablanca, Jose Casablanca, José R. Capablanca, José Raoúl Capablanca, José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera, Raúl Capablanca.

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