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An opening name derived from an 1824 correspondence game between the English in London and the Scots in Edinburgh, Scotland. However, it was the English who played the Scotch opening.
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Nickname of the first automaton. Made by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1789. Operators included Allgaier in 1809, Weyle in 1818, Boncourt in 1818, William Lewis in 1818 to 1819, Mouret in 1820, and Schlumberger (1826 to 1838). It was ...
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Amon Simutowe, born in 1982, is a chess player from Zambia who made his 3rd Grandmaster norm at Arnheim, Netherlands in August, 2007. He is the first sub-Saharan African to become a Grandmaster. His current Elo rating is 2421.&nbs...
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The Taimanov Variation of the Sicilian Defence arises after the moves 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 d4 cd4 4 Nd4 Nc6. An equivalent move order is 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cd4 4 Nd4 e6. The move order with 2...e6 is regarded as the standard move ord...
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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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Renier Gonzales, born in 1972, is a chess player from Miami (originally from Cuba) who has made his 3rd and final Grandmaster norm in Spain (his first GM norm was at Foxwoods Open 2004; his 2nd GM norm was at Lindsborg 2004). He st...
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Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess in which one player's king is in check and there is no way to remove that threat; it is a check from which there is no legal move to remove check through either capturing the pie...
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, born October 21, 1990, is a French Grandmaster. In 2002, he was 2nd in the World Under-14 Championship. In 2005, he became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 4 months, the 7th youngest GM in history and the 2nd young...
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In 1960 Bobby Fischer gave a simultaneous exhibition at Rikers Island prison. He defeated all 20 prisoners while 2,400 inmates watched the exhibition and the prison band played. In 1971 a prisoner failed to return to Western Penitentia...
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A gambit in the King’s Gambit where the knight is sacrificed. The moves are 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.O-O. The opening received the name Muzio Gambit from a book by Jacob Sarratt, who blundered in the translation of t...
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