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Eugenio "Eugene" Torre, traditionally considered the strongest chess grandmaster the Philippines ever produced, was born in Iloilo City, Philippines on November 4, 1951. In 1974, the young Torre became Asia’s first grandmaste...
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The longest chess game is 269 moves (Ivan Nikolic - Goran Arsovic, Belgrade 1989) which ended in a draw after over 20 hours of play. Two other games have gone to 200 or more moves. In 1988 at the Saloniki Olympiad, Seirawan and Xu Jun ...
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Boris Gelfand is a Grandmaster (1989) from Belorussia who moved to Israel. In 1988 he tied for first in the World Junior Championship. In 1995 he lost to Karpov in the Candidates final match. He has won two Interzonals (1990 at M...
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Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand, born on Dec 11, 1969, is India's first Grandmaster (1988, at the age of 18) who won the World Junior Championship in 1987. In 1983, he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a perfec...
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Chess has been played in Canada since at least 1759. General Sir John Hale and General Wolfe played chess during the taking of Quebec in 1759. The Montreal Chess Club was founded in 1844. The Canadian Chess Association (CCA) was ...
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, born May 23, 1951, in Zlatoust, Russia, was the 12th World Chess Champion (1975-1985).
Karpov was the first world champion to win the title without playing a chess match. He was awarded the title in 1975 when Bobby ...
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The only type of chess set allowed in FIDE events. In the 1978 World Championship match in Baguio, none of the chess sets shown to Karpov and Korchnoi just before the match were of the Staunton pattern. Someone had to drive to Manila t...
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The first national chess championship of the Philippines was held in 1947 and won by Horacio Tagle. The Philippine Chess Federation has a dress code for chessplayers. They have outlawed slippers, T-shirts, and vests in their chess events.&nb...
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Ulf Andersson, born June 27, 1951, is a Swedish Grandmaster (1972) who is the all-time drawing master. Against top-level opposition, he has drawn 74% of his games, winning 10%, and losing 16%. In 1969, he was the Swedish Champion. ...
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Strongest chess tournament ever held. This was a category 21 event with an average rating of 2756. The event included the top 6 players in the world: Garry Kasparov (2785), Anatoly Karpov (2775), Vladimir Kramnik (2765), Veselin Topalov (2...
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