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Magnus Carlsen

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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. [1]

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Aerosvit chess tournament

The Aerosvit chess tournament (Міжнародний шаховий турнір "Аеросвіт") is an annual chess tournament played in Foros, Ukraine, and sponsored by Aerosvit Airlines.

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Aftenposten Gold Medal

The Aftenposten Gold Medal is one of the highest awards that are awarded within Norwegian sport.

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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 Morozevich

Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (Александр Серге́евич Морозе́вич; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

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Alexander Motylev

Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev (Александр Анатольевич Мотылёв; born 17 June 1979) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Alexander Onischuk

Alexander Onischuk (born September 3, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster.

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Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs;; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster.

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Amber chess tournament

The Amber chess tournament (officially the Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, previously Melody Amber) was an annual invitation-only event for some of the world's best players, from 1992 to 2011.

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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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Anders Brandt

Anders Brandt, (born 24. December 1960 in Oslo) is a serial entrepreneur.

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Anderssen's Opening

Anderssen's Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move: Anderssen's Opening is named after unofficial World Chess Champion Adolf Anderssen, who played it three times in his 1858 match against Paul Morphy.

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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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Applications of VR

Applications of VR (also known as virtual reality) can be found in fields as diverse as entertainment, marketing, education, medicine, and many others.

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Arkadij Naiditsch

Arkadij Naiditsch (Arkadiy Naydiç; born 25 October 1985) is an Azerbaijani (since 2015) chess grandmaster that previously represented Latvia (until 2005) and Germany (2005–2015).

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Aryan Tari

Aryan Tari (آریـن طاری; born 4 June 1999) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.

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Association of Chess Professionals

The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) is a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the rights of professional chess players, address their concerns and to promote chess worldwide through the organisation of high-level chess tournaments and maintaining a ranking system of the top professionals.

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Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot (born 22 January 1983 in Lille) is a French chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy.

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Øyvind Asbjørnsen

Øyvind VonDoren Asbjørnsen (born 28 November 1963) is a Norwegian film producer, director entrepreneur and watch creator.

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Baadur Jobava

Baadur Jobava (ბაადურ ჯობავა; born 26 November 1983) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and three-time Georgian champion (2003, 2007, 2012).

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Bærum

Bærum is a municipality in Akershus County, Norway.

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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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Biel Chess Festival

The Biel International Chess Festival is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

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Bilbao Chess Masters Final

The Bilbao Chess Masters Final (previously called the Grand Slam Chess Final) is an annual chess tournament which between 2008-12 brought together the strongest players from the previous year's "Grand Slam" events.

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Blunder (chess)

In chess, a blunder is a very bad move.

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Boris Gelfand

Boris Abramovich Gelfand (Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, Barys Abramavich Hel'fand; Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; born 24 June 1968) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.

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Borki Predojević

Borki Predojević (Борки Предојевић; born 6 April 1987 in Teslić) is a Bosnian Serb chess grandmaster, the youngest ever from his country.

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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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Bughouse chess

Bughouse chess (also known as Exchange chess, Siamese chess, Tandem chess, Transfer chess, Double bughouse, Cross chess, Swap chess or simply bughouse or bug) is a popular chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two.

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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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Candidates Tournament 2016

The Candidates Tournament 2016 was an eight-player double round-robin chess tournament, held in Moscow, Russia, from 11–30 March 2016.

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Candidates Tournament 2018

The Candidates Tournament 2018 was an eight-player double round-robin chess tournament, which was held in Berlin, Germany, between 10–28 March 2018.

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Carlsen (disambiguation)

Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.

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Carlsen (name)

Carlsen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Carl".

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Catalan Opening

The Catalan is a chess opening where White adopts a combination of the Queen's Gambit and Réti Opening: White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2.

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Checkmate pattern

In chess, several checkmate patterns occur frequently, or are otherwise of such interest to scholars, so as to have acquired specific names in chess commentary.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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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 Bundesliga

The term Chess Bundesliga (Schach-Bundesliga) normally refers to the premier league of team chess in Germany established in 1980.

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Chess in Armenia

Chess has been played in Armenia since the early Middle Ages; however, it was institutionalized during the early Soviet period.

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Chess in Azerbaijan

Chess is one of the most popular sports in Azerbaijan, where it is governed by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF).

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Chess prodigy

Chess prodigies are children who can beat experienced adult players and even Masters at chess.

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Chess World Cup

The Chess World Cup refers to three different events over the years.

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Chess World Cup 2005

The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

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Chess World Cup 2007

The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010.

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Chess World Cup 2009

The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

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Chess World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament.

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Chess World Cup 2013

The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway.

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Chess World Cup 2017

The Chess World Cup 2017 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2 to 27 September 2017.

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Chess960

Chess960, also called Fischer Random Chess (originally Fischerandom), is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, announced publicly on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Child prodigy

In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.

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Comparison of top chess players throughout history

This article presents a number of methodologies that have been suggested for the task of comparing the greatest chess players in history.

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Corus 2008 chess tournament

The 2008 Corus chess tournament was a Grandmaster level chess tournament held in the de Moriaan Community Centre, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands from 12 January to 28 January 2008.

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Daniel Rensch

Daniel Rensch is an International chess master, event organizer, lecturer, commentator, and chess personality from the United States.

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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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Development of the World Chess Championship

The concept of a world chess champion started to emerge in the first half of the 19th century, and the phrase "world champion" appeared in 1845.

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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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Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.

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Dubai Chess and Culture Club

Dubai Chess and Culture Club was established in 1979 as a part of the UAE Chess Federation, the governing body of chess in the UAE, and was officially recognized as an independent entity on May 16, 1981.

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Dubai Open Chess Tournament

The Dubai Open Chess Tournament, also known as the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Cup, is an annual open chess tournament in Dubai, UAE that is usually held in April.

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Dutch Defence

The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black's 1...f5 stakes a serious claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the middlegame on White's; however, it also weakens Black's kingside some (especially the e8–h5 diagonal) and contributes nothing to Black's development.

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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 Opening

The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, anywhere from one of the two most successful to the fourth most successful of White's twenty possible first moves.

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Ernesto Inarkiev

Ernesto Inarkiev (Эрнесто Инаркиев; born 9 December 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster, the first ever from Kalmykia.

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Erwin l'Ami

Erwin l'Ami (born 5 April 1985 in Woerden) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

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Espen Agdestein

Espen Agdestein (born February 7, 1965) is the manager of current Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

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Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian-American chess grandmaster.

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Farrukh Amonatov

Farrukh Amonatov (Фаррух Амонатов; born 13 April 1978 in Dushanbe) is the only chess grandmaster of Tajikistan.

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Fast chess

Fast chess (also known as speed chess) is a variation of chess in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under normal tournament time controls.

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FIDE Grand Prix

FIDE Grand Prix is a biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon.

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FIDE Grand Prix 2008–10

The FIDE Grand Prix 2008–10 was a series of six chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship 2012.

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FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13

The FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 was a series of six chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2014.

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FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15

The FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 was a series of four chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2016.

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FIDE Grand Prix 2017

The FIDE Grand Prix 2017 was a series of four chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2018.

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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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FIDE World Chess Championship 2004

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13.

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FIDE world rankings

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) is the organization that governs international chess competition.

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Frode Urkedal

Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal (born 14 May 1993) is a Norwegian chess player.

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G-Star Raw

G-Star RAW (commonly called G-Star) is a Dutch designer clothing company, founded by Jos van Tilburg in Amsterdam in 1989, which produces urban clothing.

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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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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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Giuoco Piano

The Giuoco Piano (Italian: "Quiet Game"), also called the Italian Opening,Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 183.

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Grand Chess Tour

The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) is a circuit of chess tournaments where players compete for multiple prize pools.

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Grand Slam Chess Association

The Grand Slam Chess Association was a series of annual chess tournaments since 2007 till 2012.

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Grünfeld Defence

The Grünfeld Defence (ECO codes D70–D99) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black offers White the possibility of cxd5, when after Nxd5 White further gets the opportunity to kick the Black Knight around with e4, leading to an imposing central pawn duo for White.

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Grenke Chess Classic

Grenke Chess Classic is an elite chess tournament held in the German cities of Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and sponsored by Grenke Leasing.

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Heike Brandt

Heike Brandt (born 1947) is a German writer and translator of books for children, who has translated over 70 books from English to German.

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Hikaru Nakamura

is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.

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History of chess

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1500 years, although the earliest origins are uncertain.

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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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Ian Nepomniachtchi

Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Ivan Šarić (chess player)

Ivan Šarić (born 17 August 1990) is a Croatian chess grandmaster.

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Jan Gustafsson

Jan Gustafsson (born 25 June 1979) is a German chess grandmaster.

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Jan Smeets

Jan Smeets (born 5 April 1985) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

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Jón Loftur Árnason

Jón Loftur Árnason (born 13 November 1960) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster.

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John Nunn

John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician.

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Jon Ludvig Hammer

Jon Ludvig Nilssen Hammer (born 2 June 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.

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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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Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

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Kate A. Murphy

Kate Murphy (born May 7, 1985) is a co-founder and CEO of Play Magnus, a company majority owned by the World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen and working to take chess to more people around the world with a focus on youth.

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Keith Arkell

Keith Charles Arkell (born 8 January 1961 in Birmingham) is an English chess Grandmaster.

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Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.

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Kjetil Aleksander Lie

Kjetil Aleksander Lie (born November 18, 1980 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian chess player, and Norway's eighth International Grandmaster (GM).

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Klay Thompson

Klay Alexander Thompson (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Kurt Hugo Schneider

Kurt Hugo Schneider (born September 7, 1988) sometimes using his initials KHS is an American video editor, producer, musician, singer and songwriter, whose primary medium is YouTube music videos.

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Laurent Fressinet

Laurent Fressinet (born 30 November 1981 in Dax) is a French chess grandmaster.

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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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Leinier Domínguez

Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983) is a Cuban chess grandmaster.

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Leontxo García

Leontxo García Olasagasti (born February 12, 1956 in Irún, Guipúzcoa) is a Spanish lecturer, presenter, commentator and journalist specialized in chess.

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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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Lichess

Lichess is an Internet chess server.

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Linares International Chess Tournament

The Linares International Chess Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares) was an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, which takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held.

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List of chess players

This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.

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List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

This is the list of top ranked chess grandmasters, ordered by their peak Elo rating.

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List of child prodigies

In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.

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List of female chess players

This article lists female chess players that received official FIDE titles or are otherwise renowned.

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List of FIDE chess world number ones

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971.

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List of mini chess tournaments

This article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history.

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List of Norwegians

This is a list of notable people from Norway.

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List of sex symbols

A sex symbol is a celebrity of either sex, typically an actor or actress, musician, supermodel, teen idol, sports star, or even a politician, noted for being widely regarded as sexually attractive.

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List of strong chess tournaments

This article depicts many of the strongest international chess tournaments in history.

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List of The Colbert Report episodes (2012)

This is a list of episodes for The Colbert Report in 2012.

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List of vegetarians

This is a list of notable people who have adhered to a vegetarian diet at some point during their life.

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List of world championships in mind sports

This page gives a list of world championships in mind sports which usually represent the most prestigious competition for a specific board game, card game or mind sport.

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List of World Chess Championships

The following is a list of World Chess Championships including the hosting cities.

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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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Lommedalen

Lommedalen is a rural community in a small valley in Bærum municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway.

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London Chess Classic

The London Chess Classic is a chess festival held at the Olympia Conference Centre, West Kensington, London.

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Lu Shanglei

Lu Shanglei (born 10 July 1995) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and 2014 World Junior Chess Champion.

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Luke McShane

Luke James McShane (born 7 January 1984) is an English chess player.

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M-Tel Masters

Mtel Masters was an annual super-GM chess tournament held between 2005 and 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria, sponsored and organized by the Bulgarian mobile network operator, M-Tel.

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Magnus

Magnus, meaning "great" in Latin, was sometimes used as a first name among Romans but was not particularly common among them.

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Magnus Carlsson (disambiguation)

Magnus Carlsson may also refer to.

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Marjorie W. Sharmat

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (born November 12, 1928) is an American children's writer.

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Matthias Blübaum

Matthias Blübaum (born 18 April 1997) is a German chess grandmaster.

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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990) is a French chess grandmaster.

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Michał Krasenkow

Michał Krasenkow (born 14 November 1963) is a Polish chess grandmaster, a chess trainer and writer.

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Minichess

Minichess is a family of chess variants played with regular chess pieces and standard rules, but on a smaller board.

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Modern Defense, North Sea Variation

The North Sea Variation is an opening variation in the game of chess.

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Mohammad Ashraf (chess player)

Mohammad Ashraf (born 29 October 1995) is an international rated chess player from Odisha, India.

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Morphy number

The Morphy number is a measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy (1837–1884) by way of playing chess games.

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Name of the Year

Name of the Year (Årets navn) is a prize awarded by one of Norway's biggest newspapers, Verdens Gang (VG).

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New In Chess

New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.

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Nils Grandelius

Nils Grandelius (born 3 June 1993) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.

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Nimzowitsch Defence

The Nimzowitsch Defence is a somewhat unusual chess opening characterised by the moves: This opening is an example of a hypermodern opening where Black invites White to occupy the of the board at an early stage with pawns.

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Nino Batsiashvili

Nino Batsiashvili (ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norway Chess

Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year.

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Norwegian Chess Championship

The Norwegian Chess Championship (NM i sjakk) is an annual tournament held in Norway during the month of July, in order to determine the national chess champion.

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Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year

The Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year (Årets Idrettsnavn) is an annual award given by the Norwegian Association of Sports Journalists (Norske sportsjournalisters forbund).

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November 2016 in sports

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November 30

No description.

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Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Ole Einar Bjørndalen (born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon".

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Oluwafemi Balogun

Oluwafemi Balogun is a Nigerian chess player and FIDE Master.

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Open event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad

The open event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad was held from 2–13 September 2016.

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Outline of chess

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid).

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Paul Hoffman (science writer)

Paul Hoffman (born March 30, 1956) is the president and CEO of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Pavel Eljanov

Pavel Eljanov (translit; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

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Pearl Spring chess tournament

The Pearl Spring Chess Tournament was a double round robin chess tournament event featuring six super-GM players that took place in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

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Peer Gynt Prize

The Peer Gynt Prize or the Peer Gynt Award (Årets Peer Gynt or Per Gynt-prisen) is a private Norwegian prize presented annually by the private commercial company Peer Gynt AS during the Peer Gynt Festival, also organised by the same company.

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Peter Heine Nielsen

Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish 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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Peter Svidler

Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author.

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Play Magnus

Play Magnus is a commercial computer chess mobile app available for the iOS and Android mobile operating systems.

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Professional Rapid Online Chess League

The Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League and abbreviated PCL) is an online rapid chess league operated by chess.com.

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Qatar Masters Open

The Qatar Masters Open is an open chess tournament organized by the Qatar Chess Association in Doha, Qatar.

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Queen sacrifice

In chess, a queen sacrifice is a move giving up a queen in return for tactical or positional compensation.

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Queen's Gambit Declined, Cambridge Springs Defense

In chess, the Cambridge Springs Defense (or less commonly, the Pillsbury Variation) is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined that begins with the moves: Black breaks the pin on the h4–d8 diagonal and forms a pin of his own on the c3-knight (exploiting the absence of the White's queen bishop from the). If Black later plays dxc4, there may be threats against the g5-bishop.

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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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Radosław Wojtaszek

Radosław Wojtaszek (born 13 January 1987, in Elbląg, Poland) is a Polish chess grandmaster.

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Richárd Rapport

Richárd Rapport (born 25 March 1996) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

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Robert Mundell

Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (born October 24, 1932) is a Canadian economist.

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Rook and bishop versus rook endgame

The rook and bishop versus rook endgame is a chess endgame where one player has just a rook, bishop and king, and the other player has only a rook and king.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura.

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Sanan Sjugirov

Sanan Sjugirov (Санан Сюгиров; born 31 January 1993) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Scandinavian Defense

The Scandinavian Defense (or Center Counter Defense, or Center Counter Game) is a chess opening characterized by the moves.

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Scotch Game, Classical Variation

The Classical Variation of the Scotch Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White has several fifth move options, including 5.Be3, 5.Nxc6, 5.Nb3 and 5.Nf5.

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Sergei Shipov

Sergei Shipov (born April 17, 1966 in Murom) is a Russian chess grandmaster with a peak FIDE rating of 2662 (No. 23 in the world on the January 1999 list), chess journalist and chess writer.

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Sergey Dolmatov

Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion.

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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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Shamkir Chess

Shamkir Chess is a chess supertournament played in Shamkir, Azerbaijan in memory of Vugar Gashimov (1986–2014).

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Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack, 9.Bc4

In chess, the move 9.Bc4 is one of the main options in the chess opening called the Yugoslav Attack, which is an attack in the Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defence.

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Sicilian Defence, Katalymov Variation

In chess, the Katalymov Variation (also spelled Katalimov) is a less popular line of the Sicilian Defence that begins with the moves.

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Simen Agdestein

Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker with the Norway national football team.

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Sinquefield Cup

The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, invite-only chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, honoring Rex Sinquefield and his wife Jeanne, the founders of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

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Skavlan

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan.

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Sochi

Sochi (a) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia.

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Sohn Conference Foundation

The Sohn Conference Foundation was founded in 2006 to raise money to support medical research, the development of research equipment, and programs to help children with cancer and other childhood illnesses.

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Stalemate

Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move.

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Stockfish (chess)

Stockfish is a free and open-source UCI chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms.

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Sven

Sven (in Norwegian and Danish, also Svend and also in Norwegian most commonly Svein) is a Scandinavian first name which is also used in Estonia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, South Africa, Germany, and Austria.

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Swindle (chess)

In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss.

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Tal Memorial

The Tal Memorial is an annual chess tournament played in Moscow from 2006 to 2018 with the exception of 2015, to honour the memory of the former World Champion Mikhail Tal (1936–1992).

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Tandem simultaneous exhibition

A tandem simultaneous exhibition or leapfrog simultaneous exhibition or partnership chess is a form of simultaneous exhibition in which more than one players (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) play multiple games at a time with a number of other players, making successive moves without consulting one another.

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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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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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Tønsberg

Tønsberg is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak.

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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 Cad and the Hat

"The Cad and the Hat" is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-eighth season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 611th episode of the series overall.

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The Simpsons (season 28)

The twenty-eighth season of the animated television series The Simpsons began airing on Fox in the United States on September 25, 2016, and ended on May 21, 2017.

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Timeline of chess

This is a timeline of chess.

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Tora Berger

Tora Berger (born 18 March 1981) is a retired Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion.

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Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen

Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen (born 1979) is a Norwegian chess player.

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Trompowsky Attack

The Trompowsky Attack is a chess opening that begins with the moves: With his second move, White intends to exchange his bishop for Black's knight, inflicting doubled pawns upon Black in the process.

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Universal Rating System

The Universal Rating System (URS) is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas, Mark Glickman, J. Isaac Miller and Maxime Rischard.

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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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Veselin Topalov

Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced; Весели́н Александров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion.

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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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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.

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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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Vladimir Malakhov (chess player)

Vladimir Malakhov (Владимир Малахов; born 27 November 1980) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Vugar Gashimov

Vugar Gashimov (Vüqar Həşimov; 24 July 1986 – 11 January 2014) was an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

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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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Ware Opening

The Ware Opening, also known as Meadow Hay Opening, is an uncommon chess opening for White beginning with the move: It is named after Preston Ware, a U.S. chess player who often played uncommon openings.

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Wei Yi

Wei Yi (born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and chess prodigy.

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Wesley So

Wesley Barbasa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino-American chess grandmaster.

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William Norwood Potter

William Norwood Potter (27 August 1840 – 13 March 1895) was an English chess master and writer.

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Wonder boy

Wonder boy or Wonderboy may refer to.

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World Blitz Chess Championship

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls.

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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 Chess Championship 2007

The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion in the board game chess.

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World Chess Championship 2008

The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

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World Chess Championship 2010

The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 2012

The World Chess Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending world champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the 2011 Candidates Tournament.

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World Chess Championship 2013

The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 2014

The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 2016

The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine the World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 2018

The World Chess Championship 2018 is an upcoming chess match between the reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and challenger Fabiano Caruana to determine the World Chess Champion.

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World Chess960 Championship

The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random chess), a popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints.

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World Rapid Chess Championship

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls.

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Xtracon Chess Open

The Xtracon Chess Open (formerly the Politiken Cup) is an international chess tournament and the main feature event of the annual Copenhagen Chess Festival.

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Yu Yangyi

Yu Yangyi (born 8 June 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.

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Zhao Zong-Yuan

Zhao Zong-Yuan (born 26 June 1986) is an Australian chess Grandmaster.

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Zurich Chess Challenge

The Zurich Chess Challenge (ZCC) is one of the major recurring international chess tournaments, combining rapid chess with classical or blitz chess.

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Zwischenzug

The zwischenzug (German: "intermediate move") is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a), first interposes another move posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, and only then plays the expected move.

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1990

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika.

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1990 in chess

Events in chess in 1990;.

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2007 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2007.

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2008 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2008.

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2009 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2009.

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2010 in Norway

Events in the year 2010 in Norway.

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2011 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2011.

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2012 in sports

Various sporting events were held in 2012, notably the Summer Olympics were held in London, United Kingdom.

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2013 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2013.

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2013 in Indian sports

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2013 in Norway

Events in the year 2013 in Norway.

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2013 in sports

2013 in sports is listing and describing the major sporting events from the current year: by month and by discipline.

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2014 in Norway

Events in the year 2014 in Norway.

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2015 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2015.

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2015 in sports

2015 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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2016 in chess

Major chess events that took place in 2016 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2016 between Mariya Muzychuk and Hou Yifan, won by Hou Yifan, and the Candidates Tournament, won by Sergey Karjakin, who challenged Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016.

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2016 in sports

2016 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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2017 in chess

Major chess events that took place in 2017 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup and the FIDE Grand Prix Series.

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2017 in sports

2017 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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2018 in chess

Major chess events taking place in 2018.

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39th Chess Olympiad

The 39th Chess Olympiad, organised 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 from September 19 to October 4, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

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41st Chess Olympiad

The 41st Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Tromsø, Norway, between 1–14 August 2014.

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42nd Chess Olympiad

The 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an Open and Women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 1–14 September 2016.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen

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