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12th Chess Olympiad

Index 12th Chess Olympiad

The 12th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 31 and September 25, 1956, in Moscow, Soviet Union. [1]

66 relations: Alan Phillips (chess player), Aleksandar Matanović, Alexander Tsvetkov, Andreas Dückstein, Axel Nielsen, Bent Larsen, Bernardo Wexler, Božidar Đurašević, Borislav Ivkov, Borislav Milić, Chess, Chess Olympiad, Christian Poulsen (chess player), David Bronstein, Dieter Keller, Edwin Bhend, Efim Geller, FIDE, Gedeon Barcza, Georgi Tringov, Gerhard Pfeiffer, Hans Johner, Harry Golombek, Hermann Pilnik, Hungary, Izak Aloni, Jens Enevoldsen, Jonathan Penrose, Josef Rejfíř, Julio Bolbochán, Klaus Darga, Lajos Portisch, László Szabó (chess player), Lothar Schmid, Luděk Pachman, Mark Taimanov, Max Blau, Menachem Oren, Miguel Najdorf, Mihai Rădulescu, Mikhail Botvinnik, Miroslav Filip, Moscow, Moshe Czerniak, Nikola Padevsky, Nikolay Minev, Oscar Panno, Pal Benko, Paul Keres, Raúl Sanguineti, ..., Robert Wade (chess player), Round-robin tournament, Rudolf Teschner, Saar Protectorate, Shlomo Smiltiner, Soviet Union, Stuart Milner-Barry, Svetozar Gligorić, Theodor Ghițescu, Vasily Smyslov, Victor Ciocâltea, Walter Niephaus, Wolfgang Unzicker, Yosef Dobkin, Yosef Porat, Zdravko Milev. Expand index (16 more) »

Alan Phillips (chess player)

Alan Phillips (October 28, 1923June 24, 2009) was a chess master who won the British Chess Championship in 1954, along with Leonard Barden.

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Aleksandar Matanović

Aleksandar Matanović (born May 23, 1930) is a Serbian chess Grandmaster.

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Alexander Tsvetkov

Alexander (Alexandar) Kristov Tsvetkov (Cwetkow) (Александър Христов Цветков) (7 October 1914 in Topolovgrad, Bulgaria – 29 May 1990) was a Bulgarian chess master.

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Andreas Dückstein

Andreas Dückstein (born 2 August 1927, Budapest) is an Austrian chess master.

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Axel Nielsen

Axel Vilfred Nielsen (13 December 1902 – 24 February 1970) was a Danish astronomer at the Ole Rømer Observatory in Aarhus from 1927 until his death in 1970.

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Bent Larsen

Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 19359 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author.

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Bernardo Wexler

Bernardo Wexler (Bucharest, 1 April 1925 – Buenos Aires, 30 June 1988) was an Argentine chess master.

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Božidar Đurašević

Božidar Đurašević (born 26 April 1933 in Belgrade) is a Serbian chess player.

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Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov (born November 12, 1933 in Belgrade) is a Serbian chess Grandmaster.

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Borislav Milić

Borislav Milić (Cyrillic Борислав Милић) (20 October 1925 – 28 May 1986) was a Yugoslav Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer, organizer, promoter, and administrator.

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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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Christian Poulsen (chess player)

Christian Poulsen (Rind, 16 August 1912 – 19 April 1981) was a Danish chess master.

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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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Dieter Keller

Dieter René Keller (born 19 July 1936) is a Swiss chess master.

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Edwin Bhend

Edwin Bhend (born 9 September 1931) is a Swiss chess player and author.

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Efim Geller

Efim Petrovich Geller (Ефим Петрович Геллер, Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak.

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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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Gedeon Barcza

Gedeon (Gideon) Barcza (August 21, 1911 in Kisújszállás – February 27, 1986 in Budapest) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

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Georgi Tringov

Georgi Petrov Tringov (Георги Пеев Трингов) (7 March 1937 – 2 July 2000) was a Grandmaster of chess from Bulgaria.

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Gerhard Pfeiffer

Gerhard Pfeiffer (June 14, 1923 – June 27, 2000) was a German chess master and chess problemist.

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Hans Johner

Hans Johner (7 January 1889 in Basle, Switzerland – 2 December 1975 in Thalwil, Switzerland) was a Swiss chess player.

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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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Hermann Pilnik

Hermann Pilnik (8 January 1914, Stuttgart, Germany – 12 November 1981, Caracas, Venezuela) was a German Argentine chess Grandmaster.

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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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Izak Aloni

Izak (Izhak, Itzchak) Aloni (Schächter) (יצחק אלוני; born 5 April 1905 – died 2 June 1985) was an Israeli chess master.

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Jens Enevoldsen

Jens Evald Enevoldsen-Elsing (23 September 1907 – 23 May 1980) was a Danish chess master born in Copenhagen.

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Jonathan Penrose

Jonathan Penrose, OBE (born 7 October 1933, in Colchester) is an English chess Grandmaster and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983) who won the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969.

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Josef Rejfíř

Josef Rejfiř (22 September 1909 – 4 May 1962) was one of Czechoslovakia's strongest chess players before World War II.

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Julio Bolbochán

Julio Bolbochán (Buenos Aires, 20 March 1920 – Caracas, 28 June 1996) was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.

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Klaus Darga

Klaus Viktor Darga (born 24 February 1934) is a German chess grandmaster.

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Lajos Portisch

Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".

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László Szabó (chess player)

László Szabó (March 19, 1917 – August 8, 1998) was a Hungarian grandmaster of chess.

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Lothar Schmid

Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (10 May 1928 – 18 May 2013) was a German chess grandmaster.

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Luděk Pachman

Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 in Bělá pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic – March 6, 2003 in Passau, Germany) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.

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Mark Taimanov

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971.

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Max Blau

Max Blau (19 December 1918, Munich – 1984, Bern) was a Swiss chess master.

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Menachem Oren

Mieczysław (Mendel) Chwojnik, later known as Dr.

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Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster.

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Mihai Rădulescu

Mihai Rădulescu (May 15, 1936 in Bucharest – January 20, 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian novelist, poet, historian and art critic.

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Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник,; – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.

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Miroslav Filip

Miroslav Filip (27 October 1928 – 27 April 2009) was a Czech chess grandmaster.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Moshe Czerniak

Moshe Czerniak (משה צ'רניאק; 3 February 1910 – 31 August 1984) was a Polish-Israeli International Chess Master.

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Nikola Padevsky

Nikola Bochev Padevsky (Никола Пъдевски; born May 29, 1933) is a Bulgarian chess Grandmaster.

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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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Oscar Panno

Oscar R. Panno (born 17 March 1935 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.

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Pal Benko

Pal Benko (Benkő Pál; born July 14, 1928) is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.

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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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Raúl Sanguineti

Raúl Carlos Sanguineti (Paraná, 2 February 1933 – Buenos Aires, 6 August 2000) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.

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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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Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament (or all-play-all tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn.

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Rudolf Teschner

Rudolf Teschner (16 February 1922, Potsdam – 23 July 2006, Berlin-Steglitz) was a German chess master and writer.

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Saar Protectorate

The Saar Protectorate (Saarprotektorat; Protectorat de Sarre) was a short-lived protectorate (1947–1956) partitioned from Germany after its defeat in World War II; it was administered by the French Fourth Republic.

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Shlomo Smiltiner

Shlomo Smiltiner (27 November 191513 August 2015) was an Israeli chess master.

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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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Stuart Milner-Barry

Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry (20 September 1906 – 25 March 1995) was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant.

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Svetozar Gligorić

Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић, 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster.

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Theodor Ghițescu

Theodor Ghițescu (24 January 1934 - 22 November 2008) was a Romanian chess player.

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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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Victor Ciocâltea

Victor Ciocâltea (January 16, 1932 – September 10, 1983) was a Romanian chess master.

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Walter Niephaus

Walter Niephaus (March 30, 1923 – November 2, 1992, Andernach) was a German chess master.

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Wolfgang Unzicker

Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970.

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Yosef Dobkin

Yosef (Joseph) Dobkin (13 August 1909 – 9 April 1977) was an Israeli chess master.

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Yosef Porat

Yosef Porat (יוסף פורת; 7 June 1909, Breslau, Germany – 18 May 1996, Ramot HaShavim, Israel) was a German-Israeli chess player.

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Zdravko Milev

Zdravko A Milev (Здравко Милев) (October 25, 1929 in Targovishte Bulgaria – January 1, 1984 in Sofia Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian chess International Master.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Chess_Olympiad

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