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97 relations: Albert Becker (chess player), Alessandro Salvio, Alexander Cunningham (jurist), Alexei Fedorov, American Chess Quarterly, Aron Nimzowitsch, Austria-Hungary, Austrian Empire, Batsford, Best response, Bishop's Opening, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Castling, Checkmate, Chess endgame, Chess Life, Chess opening, Chess piece, Chess theory, Chess title, ChessBase, Chessgames.com, Compensation (chess), Croatia, David Bronstein, Deutsche Schachzeitung, Draw (chess), Edward Winter (chess historian), Emil Schallopp, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Ernst Falkbeer, Estonia, Fork (chess), François-André Danican Philidor, Frank Marshall (chess player), Gambit, Ghulam Kassim, Giambattista Lolli, Gioachino Greco, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Graham Burgess, Grandmaster (chess), Gyula Breyer, Half-open file, Hikaru Nakamura, Immortal Game, Initiative (chess), James Mason (chess player), Johann Baptist Allgaier, ..., John K. Shaw, José Raúl Capablanca, Joseph Bertin, Joseph Gallagher, King (chess), King's Gambit, Fischer Defense, King's Gambit, McDonnell Gambit, Knight (chess), Konstantin Sakaev, Larry Evans (chess grandmaster), Lionel Kieseritzky, Louis Eisenberg, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mafia, Mar del Plata chess tournament, Mark Bluvshtein, Mikhail Chigorin, Montreal, Nigel Short, Nordwalde, Opatija, Open Game, Paul Keres, Pawn (chess), Pärnu, Philipp Stamma, Raymond Keene, Richard Réti, Robert Wade (chess player), Rook (chess), Rybka, Sacrifice (chess), Sanoma, Savielly Tartakower, Scandinavia, Siegbert Tarrasch, Soviet Union, Susan Polgar, Tempo (chess), Tony Miles, Transposition (chess), Vasik Rajlich, Vienna Game, Vincenz Hruby, Vinkovci, Wilhelm Steinitz, World Chess Championship. Expand index (47 more) »
Albert Becker (chess player)
Albert Becker (5 September 1896 in Vienna – 7 May 1984 in Vicente López), also known as Alberto Becker, was an Austrian–Argentine chess master.
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Alessandro Salvio
Alessandro Salvio (c. 1570 – c. 1640) was an Italian chess player who is considered to be the unofficial world champion around the year 1600.
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Alexander Cunningham (jurist)
Alexander Cunningham of Block (1655–1730) was a Scottish jurist, classical critic and opponent of Richard Bentley.
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Alexei Fedorov
Alexei Fedorov (Алексей Фёдоров, Aleksey Fyodorov, Аляксей Фёдараў, Aliaksey Fyodarau; born 27 September 1972) is a chess grandmaster.
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American Chess Quarterly
The American Chess Quarterly was a chess magazine that was published in the United States from Fall 1961 to 1965 by Nature Food Centres.
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Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch (Ārons Nimcovičs, Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; born Aron Niemzowitsch; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer.
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or Transleithania) that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867.
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Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire (Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling Kaisertum Österreich) was a Central European multinational great power from 1804 to 1919, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
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Batsford
Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England.
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Best response
In game theory, the best response is the strategy (or strategies) which produces the most favorable outcome for a player, taking other players' strategies as given. The concept of a best response is central to John Nash's best-known contribution, the Nash equilibrium, the point at which each player in a game has selected the best response (or one of the best responses) to the other players' strategies.
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Bishop's Opening
The Bishop's Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White attacks Black's f7-square and prevents Black from advancing his d-pawn to d5.
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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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Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Castling
Castling is a move in the game of chess involving a player's king and either of the player's original rooks.
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Checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with) and there is no way to remove the threat.
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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 Life
The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess).
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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 theory
The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame.
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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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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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Chessgames.com
Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.
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Compensation (chess)
In chess, compensation is the typically short-term positional advantages a player has in exchange for typically material disadvantage.
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Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.
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David Bronstein
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951.
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Deutsche Schachzeitung
Deutsche Schachzeitung (English: "German Chess Paper") was the first German chess magazine.
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Draw (chess)
In chess, a draw is the result of a game ending in a tie.
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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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Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings is a classification system for the opening moves in chess.
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Ernst Falkbeer
Ernst Karl Falkbeer (June 27, 1819 – December 14, 1885) was an Austrian chess master and journalist.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Fork (chess)
In chess, a fork is a tactic whereby a single piece makes two or more direct attacks simultaneously.
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François-André Danican Philidor
François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.
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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.
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Gambit
A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more often White, sacrifices, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.
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Ghulam Kassim
Ghulam Kassim (birth date unknown, died Madras 1844) was an Indian chess player and author of the early 19th century, best known today for a variation of the King's Gambit that bears his name.
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Giambattista Lolli
Giambattista Lolli (1698 in Nonantola, Italy – 4 June 1769) was an Italian chess player.
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Gioachino Greco
Gioacchino Greco (c. 1600 – c. 1634) was an Italian chess player and writer.
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Giulio Cesare Polerio
Giulio Cesare Polerio (c. 1550, Lanciano – c. 1610, Rome; reconstruction of places and dates by Adriano Chicco) was an Italian chess theoretician and player.
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Graham Burgess
Graham K. Burgess (born 24 Feb 1968 in Liverpool, England) is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer.
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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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Gyula Breyer
Gyula "Julius" Breyer (30 April 1893 Budapest – 9 November 1921) was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion.
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Half-open file
In chess, a half-open file (or semi-open file) is a with only pawns of one color.
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Hikaru Nakamura
is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.
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Immortal Game
The Immortal Game was a chess game played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky on 21 June 1851 in London, during a break of the first international tournament.
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Initiative (chess)
Initiative in a chess position belongs to the player who can make threats that cannot be ignored.
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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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Johann Baptist Allgaier
Johann Baptist Allgaier (June 19, 1763, Schussenried – January 3, 1823, Vienna) was a German-Austrian chess master and theoretician.
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John K. Shaw
John K. Shaw (born 16 October 1968) is a Scottish chess player.
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José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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Joseph Bertin
Captain Joseph Bertin (1690s – c. 1736) was one of the first authors to write about the game of chess.
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Joseph Gallagher
Joseph Gerald Gallagher (born 4 May 1964) is a British-born Swiss chess grandmaster and former British Champion, as well as a chess author.
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King (chess)
In chess, the king (♔,♚) is the most important piece.
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King's Gambit, Fischer Defense
The Fischer Defense to the King's Gambit is a chess opening variation that begins with the moves: Although 3...d6 was previously known, it did not become a major variation until Fischer advocated it in a famous 1961 article in the first issue of the American Chess Quarterly.
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King's Gambit, McDonnell Gambit
The McDonnell Gambit is a chess opening gambit in the King's Gambit, Classical Variation that begins with the moves:Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 241.
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Knight (chess)
The knight (♘ ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight (armored cavalry).
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Konstantin Sakaev
Konstantin Rufovich Sakaev (Константи́н Ру́фович Сака́ев; born 13 April 1974 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1993), chess author and Russian champion in 1999.
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Larry Evans (chess grandmaster)
Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist.
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Lionel Kieseritzky
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (in Tartu – in Paris) was a Baltic German chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance was named "The Immortal Game".
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Louis Eisenberg
Louis R. Eisenberg (born 1876 – died ?) was a Ukrainian-American chess master.
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Luis Ramírez de Lucena
Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first still-existing chess book.
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Mafia
A mafia is a type of organized crime syndicate whose primary activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.
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Mar del Plata chess tournament
Mar del Plata has a rich history of chess tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament.
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Mark Bluvshtein
Mark Bluvshtein (born 20 April 1988) is a Soviet-born Canadian chess player and a Grandmaster.
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Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; –) was a leading Russian chess player.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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Nigel Short
Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator.
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Nordwalde
Nordwalde (literally: north woods) is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Opatija
Opatija (Abbazia, German: Sankt Jakobi) is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia.
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Open Game
An Open Game (or Double King's Pawn Opening) is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: White has moved the king's pawn two squares and Black has replied in kind.
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Paul Keres
Paul Keres (January 7, 1916June 5, 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer.
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙,♟) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest.
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Pärnu
Pärnu (Pernau) is the fourth-largest city in Estonia.
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Philipp Stamma
Philipp Stamma (c. 1705 – c. 1755), a native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess.
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Raymond Keene
Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (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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Richard Réti
Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889, Bösing, now Pezinok – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies.
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Robert Wade (chess player)
Robert Graham Wade OBE (10 April 1921 Dunedin, New Zealand – 29 November 2008, London), was a New Zealand and British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter.
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Rook (chess)
A rook (♖,♜) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess.
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Rybka
Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich.
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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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Sanoma
Sanoma Corporation (Finnish: Sanoma Oyj, formerly SanomaWSOY) is a leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in over 10 European countries, based in Helsinki.
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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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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
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Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-born American chess Grandmaster.
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Tempo (chess)
In chess and other chess-like games, tempo is a "turn" or single move.
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Tony Miles
Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess grandmaster, the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title in over-the-board play.
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Transposition (chess)
A transposition in chess and other chess-like games is a sequence of moves that results in a position which may also be reached by another, more common sequence of moves.
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Vasik Rajlich
Vasik Rajlich (born 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an International Master in chess and the author of Rybka, previously one of the strongest chess playing programs in the world.
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Vienna Game
The Vienna Game is an opening in chess that begins with the moves: White's second move is less common than 2.Nf3, and is also more recent.
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Vincenz Hruby
Vincenc Hrubý (9 September 1856 – 16 July 1917, Trieste) was a Czech chess master.
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Vinkovci
Vinkovci is a city in Slavonia, in the Vukovar-Srijem County in eastern Croatia.
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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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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Gambit
