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The Najdorf Variation belongs to the Sicilian Defence family of openings and is the sharpest and most analysed opening of chess. Many famous World Champions have extensively used this opening, including Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov.
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Garry Kasparov, originally named Weinstein, was born on April 13, 1963. In 1976, he was the strongest player in the world under age 13. He became a grandmaster at 17, the youngest Soviet champion at 18 and the youngest world champion&n...
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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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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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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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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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Josif Davidovich Dorfman, born May 1, 1953, is a Ukrainian trainer and Grandmaster (1978) who was Kasparov’s second for four World Championships. He tied for 1st place (with Gulko) in the USSR championship in 1977. He later moved...
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Grandmasters Association, founded in 1987 by Garry Kasparov and Bessel Kok to give a voice to grandmasters that were dissatisfied with FIDE. The GMA was succeeded in 1993 by the Professional Chessplayers Association (PCA). ...
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Jon Loftur Arnason, born Nov 13, 1960, is an Icelandic grandmaster (1986). He was winner of the first World Championship for juniors under 17, in 1977 (ahead of Jay Whitehead and Kasparov). He won the championship of Iceland in 1977, a...
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In 1960, Janos Flesch (1933-1983) played 52 games simultaneously blindfolded in Budapest – a world record. He won 31 games, lost 18 games, and drew 3 games in 12 hours of play. During the simul, he was allowed to have the mo...
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