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1971 in chess

Index 1971 in chess

Events in chess in 1971;. [1]

95 relations: Alekhine Memorial, Aleksander Delchev, Alexander Zaitsev (chess player), Anatoly Karpov, András Adorján, Bent Larsen, Blackpool, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Borislav Ivkov, British Chess Championship, Buenos Aires, Candidates Tournament, Capablanca Memorial, Chess, Chess magazine, Christopher Lutz, Computer science, David Bronstein, Denver, Efim Geller, Elo rating system, European Junior Chess Championship, Evgeni Vasiukov, FIDE, Florin Gheorghiu, Friðrik Ólafsson, Georgi Tringov, German Chess Championship, Gothenburg, Grandmaster (chess), Groningen, Gyula Sax, Hans Müller (chess player), Hastings International Chess Congress, Havana, Henrique Mecking, Interzonal, Iosif Pogrebyssky, Jan Smejkal, José Joaquín Araiza, Kaissa, Ken Thompson, Konstantin Lerner, Lajos Portisch, Larry Evans (chess grandmaster), Las Palmas, László Szabó (chess player), Leonid Stein, Lev Polugaevsky, ..., List of world records in chess, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Lone Pine International, Luhačovice, Luis Argentino Palau, Mark Taimanov, Martin Mrva, Michael Adams (chess player), Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Olaf Barda, Oscar Panno, Palma de Mallorca, Paul Keres, Raymond Keene, Robert Byrne (chess player), Robert Hübner, Samuel Reshevsky, Seville, Svetozar Gligorić, Tallinn, Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Tigran Petrosian, Ulf Andersson, USSR Chess Championship, Vancouver, Varna, Vasik Rajlich, Vasil Spasov, Vasily Smyslov, Ventura, California, Victor Bologan, Victor Kahn, Viktor Korchnoi, Vitali Golod, Vladimir Akopian, Vladimir Liberzon, Vladimir Savon, Vladimir Tukmakov, Vlastimil Hort, Walter Browne, Wilhelm Steinitz, Wolfgang Uhlmann, World Chess Championship, Zoltán Ribli. Expand index (45 more) »

Alekhine Memorial

The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.

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Aleksander Delchev

Aleksander Delchev (Александър Делчев; born 15 July 1971) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and chess author.

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Alexander Zaitsev (chess player)

Alexander Nikolayevich Zaitsev (June 15, 1935 – October 31, 1971) was a leading Soviet chess grandmaster.

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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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András Adorján

András Adorján (born András Jocha, 31 March 1950, Budapest) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster (1973) and author.

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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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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort on the Lancashire coast in North West England.

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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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Borislav Ivkov

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

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British Chess Championship

The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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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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Capablanca Memorial

The Capablanca Memorial is a chess tournament that has been held annually in Cuba since 1962.

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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 magazine

CHESS Magazine, also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly, is a chess magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by Chess and Bridge Limited.

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Christopher Lutz

Christopher Lutz (born February 24, 1971) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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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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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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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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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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European Junior Chess Championship

The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20.

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Evgeni Vasiukov

Evgeni Andreyevich Vasiukov (Евгений Андреевич Васюко́в, March 5, 1933 – May 10, 2018) was a Russian chess grandmaster, one of the strongest players in the world during 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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Florin Gheorghiu

Florin Gheorghiu (born 6 April 1944) is a Romanian chess player and university lecturer in foreign languages.

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Friðrik Ólafsson

Friðrik Ólafsson (born 26 January 1935) is an Icelandic 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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German Chess Championship

The German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries.

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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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Groningen

Groningen (Gronings: Grunnen) is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands.

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Gyula Sax

Gyula Sax (18 June 1951 – 25 January 2014) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995).

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Hans Müller (chess player)

Hans Müller (1 December 1896, Vienna – 28 February 1971, Vienna) was an Austrian chess player, theoretician and author of books.

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Hastings International Chess Congress

The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year.

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Havana

Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.

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Henrique Mecking

Henrique Costa Mecking (born 23 January 1952), also known as Mequinho, is a Brazilian chess grandmaster who reached his zenith in the 1970s and is still one of the strongest players in Brazil.

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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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Iosif Pogrebyssky

Iosif Benediktovich Pogrebyssky (Pogrebysski, Pogrebissky) (February 23, 1906, Uman - May 20, 1971, Leningrad) was a Ukrainian chess master.

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Jan Smejkal

Jan Smejkal (born March 22, 1946) is a Czech chess player and, since 1972, an International Grandmaster.

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José Joaquín Araiza

José Joaquín Araiza Muñoz (23 March 1900 – 27 September 1971) was a Mexican chess master.

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Kaissa

Kaissa (Каисса) was a chess program developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

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Ken Thompson

Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science.

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Konstantin Lerner

Konstantin Zaivelevich Lerner (Костянтин Зайвелевич Лернер; 28 February 1950, Odessa, Ukraine, former USSR – 24 September 2011, Herzlia, Israel) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM).

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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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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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Las Palmas

Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a city and capital of Gran Canaria island, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.

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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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Leonid Stein

Leonid Zakharovich Stein (Леонид Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine.

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Lev Polugaevsky

Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Лев Абрамович Полугаевский; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title.

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List of world records in chess

This is a list of world records in chess as achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play.

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Ljubomir Ljubojević

Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Serbian chess grandmaster.

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Lone Pine International

Lone Pine International was a series of chess tournaments held annually in March or April from 1971 through 1981 in Lone Pine, California.

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Luhačovice

Luhačovice (Luhatschowitz) is a spa town in the Zlín Region, Moravia, Czech Republic.

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Luis Argentino Palau

Luis Argentino Palau (Sept 11, 1896 – February 8, 1971) was an Argentine chess master.

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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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Martin Mrva

Martin Mrva (born 12 December 1971, Prešov) is a Slovakian chess grandmaster.

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Michael Adams (chess player)

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster.

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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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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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Olaf Barda

Olaf Barda (17 August 1909 – 2 May 1971 in Oslo), born Olaf M. Olsen, was a Norwegian chess player.

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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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Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca, frequently used name for the city of Palma, is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain.

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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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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 Byrne (chess player)

Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess grandmaster and chess 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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Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain.

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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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Tallinn

Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.

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Tata Steel Chess Tournament

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

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Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Тигра́н Варта́нович Петрося́н; Տիգրան Պետրոսյան; June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.

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Ulf Andersson

Ulf Andersson (born 27 June 1951) is a leading Swedish chess player.

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USSR Chess Championship

The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Varna

Varna (Варна, Varna) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

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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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Vasil Spasov

Vasil Spasov (sometimes spelled Spassov; Васил Спасов; born 17 February 1971 in Varna) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster.

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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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Ventura, California

Ventura, officially the City of San Buenaventura, is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States.

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Victor Bologan

Viktor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess grandmaster and chess author.

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Victor Kahn

Victor Kahn (Виктор Кан; 1889 in Moscow – 6 October 1971 in Nice) was a Russian–French chess master.

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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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Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod (born 23 June 1971) is a Soviet–Israeli chess grandmaster.

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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 Liberzon

Vladimir Mikhailovich Liberzon (ולדימיר מיכאילוביץ' ליברזון; Владимир Михайлович Либерзон; 23 March 1937, Moscow – 4 August 1996) was a Russian-born Israeli chess grandmaster.

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Vladimir Savon

Vladimir Andreyevich Savon (Влади́мир Андре́евич Саво́н, b. 26 September 1940, Chernihiv – d. 1 June 2005, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster.

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Vladimir Tukmakov

Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (born March 5, 1946 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

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Vlastimil Hort

Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster.

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Walter Browne

Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess Grandmaster and poker player.

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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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Wolfgang Uhlmann

Wolfgang Uhlmann (born 29 March 1935) is a prominent German International Grandmaster of chess.

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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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Zoltán Ribli

Zoltán Ribli (born September 6, 1951 in Mohács) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995).

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References

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