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The Scandinavian Defense (also known as the Center Counter) is the chess opening characterized by the first moves 1.e4 d5. At first characterized as a beginner's move, it has recently been revived, with several GM's trying it. Although the Scandi...
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A King's Gambit Accepted variation (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d5) (ECO classification - C36). The name comes from a tournament, Abbazia 1912, in which all the games had to be a King's Gambit Accepted. The event was won by Rudolf Spielmann, Ab...
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Pronounced "tsoog-tsvung", Zugzwang is a German word meaning "obligation to move". The term is used for a position in which whoever has the move would obtain a worse result than if it were the opponent’s turn to play. The term was first ...
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King's Indian Defense belongs to the Indian Defense family of openings and is characterised by the early fianchetoeing of the black dark-squared bishop on g7. It is a sharp opening and it has always been a very popular choice for black ever ...
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The Queen's Gambit is the starting position of many respectable chess opening such as the Queen's Gambit Accepted, the Queen's Gambit Declined and the Slav Defence. Black in most cases prefers not to capture the pawn as he cannot keep it without ...
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Hans Fahrni was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1874. In 1892 he was joint Swiss chess champion (with Corrodi). He was the first master to play 100 opponents simultaneously. It took place in 1911 at Munich. His score was ...
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Istvan Abonyi (1886-1942) was a Hungarian master. He was born and died in Budapest.
In 1912, he played the Abonyi Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4) for the first time.
In 1916, he played the Budapest Gambit (1.a3 Nf6 2.b3 e5) against the Dutch surge...
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Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929-1984) was a Soviet Grandmaster (1952) and 9th world chess champion (1963-1969). Between 1968 and 1975 he never lost more than a single game in any tournament. He drew more than half his total gam...
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Perhaps the most famous of coffee house where chess was played. This coffee house was opened up in Paris in1718. Chess players from Café Procope moved to the Café de la Regence. Around 1740 chess players gathered there to play chess. P...
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Karl Jaenisch (1813-1872) was a Russian chess player and analyst. In 1842 he gave the name to the French Defense (1.e4 e6) and the Center Game (1.e4 e5 2.d4) in his book Analyse Nouvelle des ouvertures du jeu des Echecs. He was a Major...
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