82 relations: Alexander Beliavsky, Anagram, Anatoly Karpov, Anodyne, Arrest, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, Basel, Bath, Somerset, BBC, Birmingham, Boris Spassky, British Chess Championship, Canadian Open Chess Championship, Candidates Tournament, Cappelle-la-Grande Open, Chess, Chess Olympiad, Chess opening, Contract bridge, Cuba, Diabetes mellitus, Downing Street, Draw (chess), Edgbaston, Elo rating system, English Chess Federation, Eric Schiller, European Team Chess Championship, FIDE titles, Garry Kasparov, Grandmaster (chess), Harborne, Interzonal, Jacques Mieses, Jana Bellin, Jim Slater (accountant), José Raúl Capablanca, King Edward's School, Birmingham, León, Spain, List of chess openings named after people, Lodge Hill Cemetery, Loek van Wely, Los Angeles, Luton, Manila, Margaret Thatcher, Martha Fierro, Master of Arts, Mental breakdown, Michael Adams (chess player), ..., Michael Basman, Michael Stean, Mikhail Tal, Nigel Short, Prime minister, Queen's Indian Defense, Raymond Keene, Robert Hübner, Roetgen, Sackville, New Brunswick, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Selly Oak, Skara, St. George Defence, Stewart Reuben, Suat Atalık, Teesside, The Master Game, Tilburg chess tournament, Torquay, Tunis, United States, University of Sheffield, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vladimir Kramnik, William Hartston, World Chess Championship, World Junior Chess Championship, 26th Chess Olympiad, 27th Chess Olympiad, 4NCL. Expand index (32 more) »
Alexander Beliavsky
Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky (also Romanized Belyavsky; born December 17, 1953) is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess grandmaster.
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Anagram
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.
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Anodyne
An anodyne is a drug used to lessen pain through reducing the sensitivity of the brain or nervous system.
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Arrest
An arrest is the act of apprehending a person and taking them into custody, usually because they have been suspected of committing or planning a crime.
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Ľubomír Ftáčnik
Ľubomír Ftáčnik (born October 30, 1957 in Bratislava) is a Slovak chess player and a former European Junior Champion.
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Basel
Basel (also Basle; Basel; Bâle; Basilea) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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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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Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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British Chess Championship
The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation.
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Canadian Open Chess Championship
The Canadian Open Chess Championship is Canada's Open chess championship, first held in 1956, and held annually since 1973, usually in mid-summer.
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Candidates Tournament
The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess' international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.
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Cappelle-la-Grande Open
The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.
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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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Chess opening
A chess opening or simply an opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.
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Contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Downing Street
Downing Street is a street in London, United Kingdom, known for housing the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Draw (chess)
In chess, a draw is the result of a game ending in a tie.
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Edgbaston
Edgbaston is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, curved around the southwest of the city centre.
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Elo rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess.
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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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Eric Schiller
Eric Schiller (born March 20, 1955 in New York City) is an American chess player, trainer, arbiter and one of the most prolific authors of books on chess in the 20th century.
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European Team Chess Championship
The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ETC) is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9.
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FIDE titles
The World Chess Federation, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), awards several performance-based titles to chess players, up to and including the highly prized Grandmaster title.
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров,; Armenian: Գարրի Կիմովիչ Կասպարով; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, who many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.
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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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Harborne
Harborne is an area of south-west Birmingham, England three miles (5 km) southwest from Birmingham city centre.
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Interzonal
Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Jacques Mieses
Jacques Mieses (born Jakob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German-born chess Grandmaster and writer.
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Jana Bellin
Jana Bellin (née Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player.
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Jim Slater (accountant)
James Derrick Slater (13 March 1929 – 18 November 2015) was a British accountant, investor and business writer.
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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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King Edward's School, Birmingham
King Edward's School (KES) is an independent day school for boys in Edgbaston, an area of Birmingham, England.
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León, Spain
León is the capital of the province of León, located in the northwest of Spain.
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List of chess openings named after people
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants.
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Lodge Hill Cemetery
Lodge Hill Cemetery is a municipal cemetery and crematorium in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England.
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Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Luton
Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.
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Manila
Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
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Martha Fierro
Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero (born September 6, 1977) is an Ecuadorian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and International Organizer.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.
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Mental breakdown
A mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is an acute, time-limited mental disorder that manifests primarily as severe stress-induced depression, anxiety, Paranoia, or dissociation in a previously functional individual, to the extent that they are no longer able to function on a day-to-day basis until the disorder is resolved.
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Michael Adams (chess player)
Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster.
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Michael Basman
Michael John Basman (born 16 March 1946 in St Pancras, London) is an English chess player, chess author and International Master.
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Michael Stean
Michael Francis Stean (born 4 September 1953) is an English chess grandmaster, an author of chess books and a tax accountant.
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Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal,; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
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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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Prime minister
A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.
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Queen's Indian Defense
The Queen's Indian Defense (QID) is a chess opening defined by the moves: The opening is a solid defense to the Queen's Pawn Game.
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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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Robert Hübner
Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948) is a German chess Grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist.
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Roetgen
Roetgen is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is a town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.
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Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England.
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Selly Oak
Selly Oak is an industrial and residential area in south west Birmingham, England.
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Skara
Skara is a locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013.
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St. George Defence
The St.
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Stewart Reuben
Stewart Reuben is a British chess player, organiser, arbiter and author.
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Suat Atalık
Suat Atalık (born October 10, 1964) is a Grandmaster of chess.
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Teesside
Teesside is the conurbation in the north east of England around the urban centre of Middlesbrough that is primarily made up of the towns Billingham, Redcar, Stockton-on-Tees, Thornaby and surrounding settlements near the River Tees.
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The Master Game
The Master Game was a BBC production of televised chess tournaments that ran for seven series on BBC2 from 1976 to 1983.
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Tilburg chess tournament
The Tilburg chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in Tilburg, Netherlands.
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Torquay
Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.
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Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia.
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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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University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Vasily Smyslov
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Василий Васильевич Смыслов; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
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Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (p; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (until 1976) and Swiss (since 1994) chess grandmaster and writer.
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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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William Hartston
William Roland Hartston (born 12 August 1947) is an English journalist who writes the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express and a chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 with a highest Elo rating of 2485.
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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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World Junior Chess Championship
The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
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26th Chess Olympiad
The 26th 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 November 18 and December 5, 1984, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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27th Chess Olympiad
The 27th 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 November 14 and December 2, 1986, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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4NCL
The 4NCL, or Four Nations Chess League, is a chess league in the United Kingdom and named after its four nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Miles