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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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Levon Aronian, born Oct 6, 1982, is a Grandmaster (2001) from Armenia. He learned chess at the age of 9. In 1994, he won the World Under-12 Chess Championship with an 8 out 9 score. He won the 2002 World Junior Chess Champi...
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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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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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Correspondence Chess League of America (although there is a Correspondence Chess League of Australia). It is the oldest and largest postal chess organization in America and second oldest in the world. In 1909, the Correspondence ...
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Vladimir Akopian, born Dec 7, 1971 in Baku, is an Armenian grandmaster (1991) who won the World Under-16 Championship in 1986 at the age of 14 won the World Under-18 Championship at 16 and was World Junior Champion in 1991. He tied for 1st a...
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Georgy Tadzhikanovich Agzamov (1954-1986) was the first Uzbekistan Grandmaster (thus, the first Asian grandmaster). Uzbekistan was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the 19th century and in 1924 became a republic of the Soviet Union, know...
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Jack Straley Battell (1909-1985) was a former USCF Correspondence Chess Director (1969-1978). In 1935, he joined the Correspondence Chess League of America (CCLA). In the 1937-38 Marshall Chess Club Championship, he scored no wins and ...
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Harold Meyer Phillips (1874-1967) was a lawyer and President of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) from 1950-54, President of the Manhattan Chess Club, former New York State Champion and Manhattan Chess Club Champion (1902). He was the or...
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Frank Niro was born in Milford, Massachusetts on September 28, 1948. In 1973, he won the American Postal Chess Tournament (APCT) League championship and became a correspondence master in that organization in 1975. From 1984 to 1986, he...
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