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88 relations: Andrew Soltis, Biography, Birmingham, Bobby Fischer, Brislington, Bristol, British Chess Magazine, Census in the United Kingdom, Chess, Chess endgame, Chess middlegame, Chess notation, Chess opening, Chess piece, Chess Player's Chronicle, Chess title, Chess tournament, Church of England, Correspondence chess, Curt von Bardeleben, Danish Gambit, David Vincent Hooper, Edward Freeborough, Edward Winter (chess historian), Emil Schallopp, English Chess Federation, English language, Evans Gambit, Four Knights Game, Frank Brady (writer), George Alcock MacDonnell, George H. D. Gossip, George Henry Mackenzie, Giuoco Piano, Glasgow, Grandmaster (chess), Great Britain, Handicap (chess), Harry Golombek, Helensburgh, Henry Bird (chess player), Hereford, Howard Staunton, Isidor Gunsberg, James Mason (chess player), Jeremy Gaige, Johannes Zukertort, John Owen (chess player), Joseph Henry Blackburne, Julius du Mont, ..., Ken Whyld, King's Gambit, Rice Gambit, London 1851 chess tournament, Lord Randolph Churchill, Maharaja, Malvern, Worcestershire, Modern Chess Openings, My 60 Memorable Games, Nick de Firmian, Nikolay Minev, Oxford University Chess Club, Paul Morphy, Pendleton, Greater Manchester, Philip Walsingham Sergeant, Pound sterling, Queen (chess), Reuben Fine, Robert Byrne (chess player), Sacrifice (chess), Samuel Boden, Sandford-on-Thames, Savielly Tartakower, Scotch Game, The New York Times, Treatise, University of Oxford, Victorian era, Vizianagaram, Wadham College, Oxford, White and Black in chess, Wilhelm Steinitz, William Ewart Napier, William H. K. Pollock, William Wayte, Winston Churchill, World Chess Championship, Yasser Seirawan, York. Expand index (38 more) »
Andrew Soltis
Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist.
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Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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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.
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Brislington
Brislington is an area in the south east of the city of Bristol, England.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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British Chess Magazine
British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess journal in continuous publication.
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Census in the United Kingdom
Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 (during the Second World War) and Ireland in 1921.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Chess endgame
In chess and chess-like games, the endgame (or end game or ending) is the stage of the game when few pieces are left on the board.
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Chess middlegame
The middlegame in chess refers to the portion of the game in between the opening and the endgame.
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Chess notation
Chess notations are various systems that have developed to record either the moves made in a game of chess or the position of pieces on a chessboard.
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Chess opening
A chess opening or simply an opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.
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Chess piece
A chess piece, or chessman, is any of the six different movable objects used on a chessboard to play the game of chess.
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Chess Player's Chronicle
The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess.
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Chess title
A chess title is a title created by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank.
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Chess tournament
A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.
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Correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess or variant chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, often through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, email, or the postal system.
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Curt von Bardeleben
Curt von Bardeleben (4 March 1861 in Berlin – in Berlin) was a German chess master, journalist, and member of the German nobility.
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Danish Gambit
The Danish Gambit, known as the Nordisches Gambit (Nordic Gambit) in German, and the Noors Gambiet (Norwegian Gambit) in Dutch, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White will sacrifice one or two pawns for the sake of rapid and the attack.
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David Vincent Hooper
David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer.
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Edward Freeborough
Edward Freeborough (18 August 1830 – 14 September 1896) was the co-author, with Charles Ranken, of Chess Openings Ancient and Modern (1889), one of the first important opening treatises in the English language and a precursor of Modern Chess Openings.
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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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Emil Schallopp
Emil Schallopp (1 August 1843, Friesack, Germany – 9 April 1919, Berlin) was a German chess player and author.
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English Chess Federation
The English Chess Federation (ECF) is the governing chess organisation in England and is affiliated to FIDE.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Evans Gambit
The Evans Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Evans Gambit is an aggressive line of the Giuoco Piano, which normally continues with the positional moves 4.c3 or 4.d3.
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Four Knights Game
The Four Knights Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves: This is the most common sequence, but the knights may in any order to reach the same position.
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Frank Brady (writer)
Frank Brady (born March 15, 1934, Brooklyn, New York), is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator.
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George Alcock MacDonnell
George Alcock MacDonnell (16 August 1830 in Dublin – 3 June 1899 in London) was an Anglican clergyman as well as a chess master and writer.
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George H. D. Gossip
George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip (December 6, 1841 – May 11, 1907) was a minor American-English chess master and writer.
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George Henry Mackenzie
George Henry Mackenzie (24 March 1837, North Kessock, Scotland – 14 April 1891, New York City) was a Scottish-American chess master.
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Giuoco Piano
The Giuoco Piano (Italian: "Quiet Game"), also called the Italian Opening,Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 183.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Handicap (chess)
A handicap (or "odds") in chess is variant ways to enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one.
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Harry Golombek
Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995), was a British chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker.
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Helensburgh
Helensburgh (lit) is a town within the Helensburgh and Lomond Area of Argyll and Bute Council, Scotland.
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Henry Bird (chess player)
Henry Edward Bird (Portsea in Hampshire, 14 July 1830 – 11 April 1908) was an English chess player, and also an author and accountant.
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Hereford
Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.
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Howard Staunton
Howard Staunton (1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant.
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Isidor Gunsberg
Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (1 November 1854 – 2 May 1930) was a Hungarian chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz.
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James Mason (chess player)
James Mason (November 19, 1849 – January 12, 1905) was an Irish-born chess player, journalist and writer, who became one of the world's best half-dozen players in the 1880s.
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Jeremy Gaige
Jeremy Gaige (October 9, 1927, New York – February 19, 2011) was an American chess archivist and journalist.
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Johannes Zukertort
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (Polish: Jan Hermann Cukiertort; 7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a leading German-Polish chess master.
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John Owen (chess player)
John Owen (8 April 1827 in Marchington – 24 November 1901 in Twickenham) was an English vicar and strong amateur chess master.
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Joseph Henry Blackburne
Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924), nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.
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Julius du Mont
Julius du Mont (December 15, 1881, Paris – April 7, 1956, Hastings, England) was a pianist, piano teacher, chess player, journalist, editor and writer.
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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.
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King's Gambit, Rice Gambit
The Rice Gambit is a chess opening that arises from the King's Gambit Accepted.
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London 1851 chess tournament
London 1851 was the first international chess tournament.
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Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 184924 January 1895) was a British statesman.
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Maharaja
Mahārāja (महाराज, also spelled Maharajah, Moharaja) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or "high king".
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Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England.
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Modern Chess Openings
Modern Chess Openings (usually called) is an important reference book on chess openings, first published in 1911 by the British players Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955) and John Herbert White (1880–1920).
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My 60 Memorable Games
My 60 Memorable Games is a chess book by Bobby Fischer, first published in 1969.
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Nick de Firmian
Nicholas Ernest de Firmian (born July 26, 1957 in Fresno, California), is a chess grandmaster and three-time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987 (with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998.
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Nikolay Minev
Nikolay (or Nikolai) Nikolaev Minev (Николай Минев, 8 November 1931 – 10 March 2017) was a Bulgarian chess International Master (IM) and noted chess author.
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Oxford University Chess Club
The Oxford University Chess Club (OUCC) was founded at the University of Oxford in 1869, OlimpBase - Encyclopaedia of Team Chess, Susan Polgar Chess Blog, February 10, 2008 and is the oldest university chess club in the United Kingdom.
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Paul Morphy
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player.
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Pendleton, Greater Manchester
Pendleton is an inner city area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, about from Manchester city centre.
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Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872, Notting Hill, LondonBirths, Marriages and Deaths – 20 October 1952) was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Queen (chess)
The queen (♕,♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
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Reuben Fine
Reuben Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.
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Robert Byrne (chess player)
Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess grandmaster and chess author.
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Sacrifice (chess)
In chess, a sacrifice is a move giving up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms.
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Samuel Boden
Samuel Standidge Boden (1826–1882) was an English professional chess master.
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Sandford-on-Thames
Sandford-on-Thames is a village and Parish Council beside the River Thames in Oxfordshire just south of Oxford.
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Savielly Tartakower
Ksawery Tartakower (also known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster.
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Scotch Game
The Scotch Game, or Scotch Opening, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d’anonimo Autore Modenese ("On the game of Chess, practical Observations by an anonymous Modenese Author"), was the first author to mention what is now called the Scotch Game.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Treatise
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Vizianagaram
Vizianagaram is a city and district headquarters of Vizianagaram district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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White and Black in chess
In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black".
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Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894.
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William Ewart Napier
William Ewart Napier (17 January 1881 in East Dulwich, Surrey - 6 September 1952 in Washington, D.C.) was an American chess master of English birth.
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William H. K. Pollock
William Henry Krause Pollock (21 February 1859 in Cheltenham – 5 October 1896 in Clifton, England) was an English chess master, and a surgeon.
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William Wayte
William Wayte (4 September 1829 – 3 May 1898) was a Church of England cleric and a British chess master.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
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Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan (ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is an American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion.
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York
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.
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