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Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (Алекса́ндр И́горевич Грищу́к; born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Alexander Moiseenko
Alexander Moiseenko (Олександр Моісеєнко, Oleksandr Moiseyenko; born 17 May 1980) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster and the 2013 European champion.
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Alexander Onischuk
Alexander Onischuk (born September 3, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster.
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Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010.
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Ali Nihat Yazıcı
Ali Nihat Yazıcı (born 1964) is the head of Turkish Chess Federation.
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Alina l'Ami
Alina l'Ami (née Moţoc; born 1 June 1985 in Iași) is a Romanian chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Almira Skripchenko
Almira Skripchenko (born 17 February 1976) is a Moldovan-French chess player who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
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Andrei Volokitin
Andrei Volokitin (Андрій Волокітін, Andriy Volokitin; born 18 June 1986 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Anish Giri
Anish Kumar Giri (अनिश कुमार गिरी; born June 28, 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch Grandmaster and former chess prodigy.
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Anna Hairapetian
Anna Hairapetian (Աննա Հայրապետյան; born 1989) is an Armenian chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM) and a former Armenian women's champion.
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Anna Ushenina
Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina (Анна Юріївна Ушеніна; born 30 August 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013.
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Anna Zatonskih
Anna Zatonskih (Ганна Затонських; born Mariupol, July 17, 1978) is a Ukrainian (until 2004) and American (since 2004) chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Armenia
Armenia (translit), officially the Republic of Armenia (translit), is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.
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Atousa Pourkashiyan
Atousa Pourkashiyan (آتوسا پورکاشیان.; born 16 May 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and six-time Iranian women's champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014).
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Đào Thiên Hải
Đào Thiên Hải (born 10 May 1978 in Sa Đéc) is a Vietnamese chess player and trainer.
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Bela Khotenashvili
Bela Khotenashvili (ბელა ხოტენაშვილი; born 1 June 1988) is a Georgian chess grandmaster.
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Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi (born December 10, 1985) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and Chinese champion in 2004.
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Budva
Budva (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Будва, or; Italian and Albanian: Budua) is a Montenegrin town on the Adriatic Sea, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.
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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 Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete.
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ChessBase
ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates servers for online chess.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Constantin Lupulescu
Constantin Lupulescu (born 25 March 1984 in Buftea) is a Romanian chess grandmaster and a five-time Romanian Chess Champion.
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Cristina Adela Foișor
Cristina Adela Foișor (née Bădulescu; 7 June 1967 – 22 January 2017) was a Romanian chess player.
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Csaba Balogh
Csaba Balogh (born 10 March 1987 in Budapest) is in a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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Daniël Stellwagen
Daniël Stellwagen (born 1 March 1987) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
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David Navara
David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess grandmaster, the highest-ranked player of his country.
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Ding Liren
Ding Liren (born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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Ding Yixin
Ding Yixin (born April 26, 1991) is a Chinese chess player.
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Dmitry Jakovenko
Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Draw by agreement
In chess, a draw by (mutual) agreement is the outcome of a game due to the agreement of both players to a draw.
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Dresden
Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.
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Eesha Karavade
Eesha Karavade (born 21 November 1987) is a chess player from Pune, India.
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Elena-Luminița Cosma
Elena-Luminița Cosma (née Radu, also Radu-Cosma; born 22 January 1972) is a Romanian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1994).
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Elina Danielian
Elina Danielian (Էլինա Դանիելյան; born 16 August 1978 in Baku) is an Armenian chess grandmaster and six-time Armenian women's champion (1993, 1994. 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004).
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Eltaj Safarli
Eltaj Safarli (Eltac Səfərli; born 18 May 1992 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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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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Evgeny Tomashevsky
Evgeny Yuryevich Tomashevsky (Евгений Юрьевич Томашевский; born 1 July 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Ferenc Berkes
Ferenc Berkes (born 8 August 1985) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.
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FIDE
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gabriel Sargissian
Gabriel Eduardi Sargissian (Գաբրիել Էդուարդի Սարգսյան, Gabriel Eduardi Sargsyan; born 3 September 1983) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.
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Gadir Guseinov
Gadir Guseinov (Qədir Hüseynov; born 21 May 1986) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.
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Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky (Ğata Kamski; Гата Камский; Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is an American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia (tr) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Glossary of chess
This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.
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Greece
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Harika Dronavalli
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess grandmaster She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017.
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Hikaru Nakamura
is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.
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Hou Yifan
Hou Yifan (born 27 February 1994), China Chess League is a Chinese chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Chess Champion.
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Huang Qian
Huang Qian (born July 18, 1986) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Hungary
Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.
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Inna Gaponenko
Inna Gaponenko (also known as Inna Yanovska; born 22 June 1976) is a Ukrainian chess player holding the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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International Arbiter
In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches.
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International Braille Chess Association
The International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) is organization for blind and visually impaired chess players.
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Irina Bulmaga
Irina Bulmaga (born 11 November 1993) is a Moldovan-born Romanian chess player, who has achieved the FIDE titles of Woman Grand Master (2012) and International Master (2013).
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Irina Krush
Irina Krush (Ірина Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess International Grandmaster (GM) who has won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship seven times.
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Istanbul
Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.
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Ivan Sokolov (chess player)
Ivan Sokolov (Bosnian and Bulgarian: Иван Соколов) (born 13 June 1968) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
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Jan Smeets
Jan Smeets (born 5 April 1985) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
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Ju Wenjun
Ju Wenjun (born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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Kateryna Lagno
Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno (Катерина Олександрівна Лагно; Екатерина Александровна Лагно; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian), Ukrayinska Pravda Sport (12 July 2014) chess grandmaster.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.
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Lê Quang Liêm
Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster and the 2013 World Blitz Chess Champion.
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Lela Javakhishvili
Lela Javakhishvili (born 23 April 1984) is a Georgian chess player who holds the titles of International master and Woman Grandmaster.
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Levon Aronian
Levon Grigori Aronian (Լևոն Գրիգորի Արոնյան Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
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Li Chao (chess player)
Li Chao (born 21 April 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and Asian champion in 2013.
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Lilit Galojan
Lilit Galojan (Լիլիթ Գալոյան; born 17 June 1983) is an Armenian Woman Grand Master since 2009 and International Master since 2010.
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Lilit Mkrtchian
Lilit Mkrtchian (Լիլիթ Մկրտչյան; born 9 August 1982 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and four-time Armenian women's chess champion.
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Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
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Maria Kursova
Maria Kursova (Мария Курсова, Մարիա Կուրսովա; born 3 January 1986 in Severodvinsk) is a Russian-Armenian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster.
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Mariya Muzychuk
Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk (Марія Олегівна Музичук; born 21 September 1992) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from April 2015 to March 2016.
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Mary Ann Gomes
Mary Ann Gomes (born 19 September 1989 in Kolkata) is an Indian chess player holding the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Mihaela Sandu
Mihaela Sandu (born 19 February 1977) is a Romanian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2008).
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Mihail Marin
Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster.
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Mircea Pârligras
Mircea-Emilian Pârligras (born December 28, 1980) is a Romanian chess grandmaster and a two-time Romanian Chess Champion.
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Mitra Hejazipour
Mitra Hejazipour (born 19 February 1993 in Mashhad) is an Iranian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
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Nadezhda Kosintseva
Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born 14 January 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Nana Dzagnidze
Nana Dzagnidze (ნანა ძაგნიძე; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and the current world blitz champion.
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Natalia Pogonina
Natalia Andreevna Pogonina (Наталья Андреевна Погонина; born 9 March 1985) is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Natalia Zhukova
Natalia Oleksandrivna Zhukova (Наталія Олександрівна Жукова; born 5 June 1979) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and two-time European women's champion.
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Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn (born 23 February 1990) is a Vietnamese chess player.
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Nino Batsiashvili
Nino Batsiashvili (ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster.
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Nino Khurtsidze
Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018) was a Georgian chess player who held the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Nino Maisuradze
Nino Maisuradze (Georgian: ნინო მაისურაძე), is a Woman Grandmaster chess player and two-time French Women's Chess Champion.
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Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili (ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion (1962–1978), and first female Grandmaster.
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Pavel Eljanov
Pavel Eljanov (translit; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Peter Leko
Peter Leko ('Lékó Péter'; Петер Леко; born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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Rauf Mamedov
Rauf Mamedov (Rauf Məmmədov; born 26 April 1988) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.
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Ray Robson
Ray Robson (born October 25, 1994) is an American chess Grandmaster.
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Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov (Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в, Ruslan Olehovych Ponomar'ov; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Russia
Russia (rɐˈsʲijə), officially the Russian Federation (p), is a country in Eurasia. At, Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people as of December 2017, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east. Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and an active global partner of ASEAN, as well as a member of the G20, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Rusudan Goletiani
Rusudan Goletiani (რუსუდან გოლეთიანი; born September 8, 1980 in Sukhumi) is a Georgian-American chess International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
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Sabina-Francesca Foisor
Sabina-Francesca Foişor (born August 30, 1989) is a Romanian and American chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (سارا سادات خادمالشریعه; born March 10, 1997 in Tehran) also known as Sara Khadem, is an Iranian chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Sergei Movsesian
Sergei Movsesian (Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born 3 November 1978 in Tbilisi) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster who played for the Czech Republic for most of his career.
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Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Каря́кин,; born 12 January 1990) is a Russian (formerly representing Ukraine) chess grandmaster.
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.
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Shayesteh Ghader Pour
Shayesteh Ghader Pour (born 1984) is an Iranian chess player who hold the title of International Women Master.
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Silvia Collas
Silvia Collas (née Aleksieva; born 4 May 1974) is a Bulgarian-French chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Sonneborn–Berger score
The Sonneborn–Berger score (or the Neustadtl score) is a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments.
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Sophie Milliet
Sophie Milliet (born 2 November 1983 in Marseille) is a French chess player and six times national women's champion (2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016 and 2017).
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Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan (born 21 March 1989) is a chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) from India.
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Swiss-system tournament
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format which features a set number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than in a round-robin tournament.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Tania Sachdev
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Tatev Abrahamyan
Tatev Abrahamyan (Տաթև Աբրահամյան; born January 13, 1988) is an Armenian-born American chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Tatiana Kosintseva
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986 in Arkhangelsk) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (GM).
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Teimour Radjabov
Teimour Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Teymur Rəcəbov; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.
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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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Tigran L. Petrosian
Tigran Levonovich Petrosian (Տիգրան Լևոնի Պետրոսյան; born September 17, 1984) is an Armenian chess player who holds the title of grandmaster (2004).
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Time control
A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed.
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Turkey
Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.
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Turkish Chess Federation
The Turkish Chess Federation (Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu, TSF) is the governing chess organization within Turkey.
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Ukraine
Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Valentina Gunina
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989 in Murmansk) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Varuzhan Akobian
Varuzhan Akobian (Վարուժան Հակոբյան, born November 19, 1983 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian-born American chess grandmaster.
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Vassily Ivanchuk
Vassily Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyliy or Vasyl (Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and a former World Rapid Chess Champion.
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Vladimir Akopian
Vladimir Akopian (Владимир Акопян, Վլադիմիր Հակոբյան; born December 7, 1971 in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
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Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Vladislav Nevednichy
Vladislav Nevednichy (born September 3, 1969) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster (1993) and Romanian champion in 2008.
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Vladislav Tkachiev
Vladislav Tkachiev (Владислав Ткачёв, born Moscow November 9, 1973) is a French-Russian-Kazakhstani chess player.
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Wang Hao (chess player)
Wang Hao (born August 4, 1989) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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Wang Yue
Wang Yue (born 31 March 1987) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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World Trade Center Istanbul
World Trade Center Istanbul (WTCI) (İstanbul Dünya Ticaret Merkezi, İDTM) is a service company established in 1982 and based in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, Turkey, which, to promote international commerce and world trade, provides commercial information and market research services, organizes trade delegation programs, operates fair areas and offers office, convention and meeting halls, runs hotels within its organization.
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Yeşilköy
Yeşilköy (prior to 1926, San Stefano or Santo Stefano from the Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος pronounced Ayos Stefanos, rendered in Turkish as Ayastefanos, Сан Стефано) is a neighbourhood (mahalle) in the district of Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey, on the Marmara Sea about west of Istanbul's historic city centre.
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Zhao Xue
Zhao Xue (born 6 April 1985) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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Zoltán Almási
Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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34th Chess Olympiad
The 34th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, took place between October 28 and November 12, 2000, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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37th Chess Olympiad
The 37th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy.
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38th Chess Olympiad
The 38th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between 12–25 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany.
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Redirects here:
2012 Chess Olympiad, Chess Olympiad 2012.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Chess_Olympiad
