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The Lucena position is an endgame position named after Luis Ramirez de Lucena.
In this position, obvious white attempts fail. For example 1. Rd2+ Ke7 2. Kc7 Rc1+ 3. Kb6 Rb1+ 4. Kc6 Rc1+ and white can't make any progress. If white moes his king...
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Players who lost to Vera Menchik. Before the start of the Carlsbad International Tournament in 1929, Albert Becker said if man should lose to this woman, he would be a member of the Vera Menchik Club. His was the first member. Ot...
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John Owen was born in Staffordshire on July 1, 1827. In 1851, he was ordained and became a vicar of Hooten, Chesire from 1862 to 1900. He was a member of George’s Chess Club and was recognized as one of London’s strongest a...
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Svetozar Gligoric. born Feb 2, 1923, is a Serbian (Yugoslav) Grandmaster (1951). He learned the game of chess at age 11, taught by a boarder taken in by his mother. In 1938, at the age of 15, he won the Belgrade Chess Club c...
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Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) was the second world chess champion, from 1894 to 1921, who played in 8 world championship matches. Emanuel Lasker took first place at Breslau in 1889 by accident. Another competitor, needing a draw or win fo...
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First country in South America to have a chess magazine. In 1881, the Revista de ajedrez was published in Uruguay. Uruguay became a member of FIDE in 1937.
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Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky (1894-1941) was the Russian master who had to learn the game twice. He was gassed, then shell-shocked in World War I, which took away his memory. Irving Chernev wrote that a bullet entered Ilyin-Genevsky&r...
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George Newnes (1851-1910) was a newspaper and magazine publisher (Tit-Bits, Review of Reviews, and Country Life). In 1892 he published The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. He helped finance the early days of m...
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Ron Henley is an American Grandmaster (1982) from Houston, Texas. He is the only American selected as a second to a Soviet player. He served as second to Anatoly Karpov in the 1990 World Championship match. He was Karpov’s ...
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William John Donaldson, born in 1958, is an International Master (1983). In 1983 he was the captain of the US team at the Greece Olympiad when he eloped with one of the top Russian lady players, Elena Akhmilovskaya. H...
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