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The first organization to adopt a numerical rating system was the Correspondence Chess League of America in 1933. The first USCF rating list appeared in the November 20, 1950 issue of Chess Life. Ken Harkness rated 2,306 players from e...
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German national team chess tournament, which began in 1975. Chess Bundesliga (Schach Bundesliga) is the strongest and longest running league chess championship in the world. Grandmasters from around the world are recruited to play in t...
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Jaan Ehlvest, born Oct 14, 1962, is an Estonian Grandmaster (1987). In 1981, he took 2nd in the World Junior Chess Championship. He won the European Junior Championship in 1982/83. He won the New York Open in 1994 and the W...
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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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Florencio Basa Campomanes, born Feb 22, 1927, was the first non-European elected FIDE President (1982-1995). In 1956, he was the first National Master of the Philippines Chess Federation. He played Board 2 for the Philippines in the 19...
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Simon Webb (1949-2005) was an International Master (1977) and Correspondence Grandmaster (1983). In 1966 he won the British Under-18 championship. In 1969 he tied for 1st place (with Richard Eales) in the British Universities’ Ch...
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Borislav Ivkov, born Nov 12, 1933, is a Yugoslav (Serbia and Montenegro) Grandmaster (1955). He was the winner of the first World Junior Championship, held in England, in 1951. In 1965 he lost to Bent Larsen in the Candidates match quarterfi...
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Alexei (Alexey) Sergeevich Dreev is a Russian Grandmaster (1990) who was World Under-16 champion (1983-84). He began to play and study chess at age 6. In 1986, he won the USSR Junior Championship. He was European Junior Champion ...
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Peter Acs (pronounced “oks”), was born on May 10, 1981, in Eser, Hungary.
He became an International Master in 1997, and a Grandmaster in 1998.
He was the 2001 World Junior Chess Champion, held in Athens.
He was the European Under-12...
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Vassily Ivanchuk, born March 18, 1969 in Berejiany, Ukraine, is a Grandmaster (1988). In tournaments he was the winner of the 1988 New York Open, Wijk Aan Zee (Corus) 1996, Linares in 1989, 1991 and 1995. He played in the finals...
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