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billwall on Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:02pm.
Georg Marco was born in what is today Cernauti, Ukraine in 1863, and was raised in Romania. He was a medical student before he gave that up to become a journalist and professional chess player. He moved to Vienna from Romanai in the 18... Read more »
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billwall on Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:53pm.
Edmar (Edmars) John Mednis was born on March 22, 1937 in Riga, Latvia. He and his family escaped from Latvia in 1944. They lived in several displaced camps in Germany before coming to the United States in 1950. In 1949, at ... Read more »
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WTHarvey on Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:44am.
Anna Muzychuk was born 28 February 1990 in Lviv, Ukraine. She is an International Master and a Woman Grandmaster with FIDE rating 2486. In 2004 she became a citizen of Slovenia, where she is the strongest female chess player. On t... Read more »
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NM GreenLaser on Fri Apr 4, 2008 6:35pm.
Rusudan Goletiani was born in Georgia in 1980 and came to the United States in 2000. Rusa won the Soviet Junior Chess Championship for Girls Under 12 in 1990 at the age of nine. She then went on to win the World Chess Championship for Girls t... Read more »
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FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:47pm.
Nicky Nip of San Francisco is America's youngest master ever, still just 9 years old (the picture is from 2006). He earned the title in torunaments and matches such as the one in December where he beat me 4-2. He has a FIDE rating over 2... Read more »
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Submitted by
TomMac19 on Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:54am.
Magnus Carlsen is a 17 Year old (D.O.B 20/11/1990) from Norway who is a chess Genius and definetly the one to watch out for! Carlsen became Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days-the third youngest in the history of the gam... Read more »
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Submitted by
billwall on Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:31pm.
Bobby Fischer played in his first rated tournament in May, 1955. He was 12 years old at the time (born in March, 1943). Carmine Nigro, President of the Brooklyn Chess Club took Bobby up to the 5th Amateur U.S. Championship (the last Am... Read more »
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Judgment on Wed Mar 5, 2008 6:10pm.
I started playing chess since i was 6 years old. I played until I was 12 mostly with relatives and ocasionally with the few friends I have who play the game. Anyway, I entered a chess tournament my high school organized and ended up in third... Read more »
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rjsolcruz on Sat Mar 1, 2008 10:51pm.
International Master Rodolfo Tan Cardoso of the Philippines was its first International Master. He was the only Filipino to win over the late former World Champion Robert Fischer; in their 1957 match in New York. He has retired in the 1970&#... Read more »
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Longboylegend on Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:31am.
Steinitz was born in the Jewish ghetto of Prague (today Czech Republic, then Austrian Empire), the last in a family of thirteen sons. His father was a hardware retailer. He learned to play chess at age 12. Leaving Prague to study mathematics in Vi... Read more »
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Submitted by
nerdie on Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:27am.
This article was taken from http://pinoychess.informe.com/ with the permission from the author. Comments are accepted. Tug-of-war over Fischer's fortune by Frank “Boy” Pestaño AFTER disappearing mysteriously for about ... Read more »
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Submitted by
RayDuqueIII on Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:33pm.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/01/18/2008-01-18_bobby_fischer_chess_genius_and_cold_war_.html Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player in the world. He is the King of chess. He will be remembered in the chess community arou... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM cldng on Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:14pm.
The Legacy of Bobby Fischer &... Read more »
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Submitted by
harleypiper on Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:46pm.
If one could count the number of minutes he stared at a chess board it probably would somewhere in the neighborhood of a million. If someone hasnt done it yet ,a book of victims that Bobby brought down should be written God... Read more »
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NM cldng on Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:58am.
Bobby Fischer Dead at 64 ... Read more »
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Submitted by
aMI on Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:01pm.
Veselin Topalov (IPA: [vÉ?.sÉ?'lin to'pÉ?.lof]; Bulgarian: Ð?еÑ?елин Топалов... Read more »
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aMI on Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:57pm.
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Ð?ладиÌ?миÑ? Ð?оÑ?иÌ?Ñ?овиÑ? Ð?&Nt... Read more »
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Submitted by
RobertABrown on Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:24pm.
Today Chess is not accorded much respect and little coverage in Canada. In the fifties and sixties things were even worse. Every Canadian newspaper had a daily bridge column, yet chess columns were as scarce as hens’ molars. Television was... Read more »
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maricheri on Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:43am.
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maricheri on Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:37am.
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Submitted by
maricheri on Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:54am.
1971 Taimanov candidates quarter final match held in Vancouver Taimanov had been Soviet champion in 1949 and 1956 and had played in the World Championship candidates tournament in 1953. With a great dea... Read more »
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Submitted by
maricheri on Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:51am.
Poster of the long awaited match There was great interest in the staging of this match. Belgrade put up the highest bid of 152,000 dollars. Buenos Aires followed with 150,000 dollars, and Reykjavik offered 125,000 dollars. After consid... Read more »
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Submitted by
maricheri on Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:34am.
FISCHER VS. FIDE Many readers still wonder why Bobby Fischer wouldn't defend his title against Anatoly Karpov in 1975 despite a $5 million purse offered in the Philippines. Some fans blame Fischer's refusal to compromise; ... Read more »
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Submitted by
maricheri on Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:20am.
Bobby Fischer - Statement of Facts On July 13th 2004 at about 5:25 p.m. Robert James Fischer (�Bobby� Fischer) entered the Japanese immigration dept. on his way to Japan Airlines flight JL 745 departing from Tokyo/Nari... Read more »
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Submitted by
maricheri on Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:23am.
Thursday, July 29, 2004 TOKYO — "The battle to block the deportation of chess champion Bobby Fischer is entering a new stage," says John Bosnitch, the Tokyo-based communications consultant and jour... Read more »
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