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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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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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John Owen was born in Staffordshire on July 1, 1827. In 1851, he was ordained and became a vicar of Hooten, Chesire from 1862 to 1900. He was a member of George’s Chess Club and was recognized as one of London’s strongest a...
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Istvan Abonyi (1886-1942) was a Hungarian master. He was born and died in Budapest.
In 1912, he played the Abonyi Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4) for the first time.
In 1916, he played the Budapest Gambit (1.a3 Nf6 2.b3 e5) against the Dutch surge...
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First computer to play in a chess tournament. It played in all 5 rounds of the Massachusetts Amateur Championship in 1967. The chess program was written by Richard Greenblatt of MIT’s Project Mac for the Dec PDP-6 (1200 KHz) comp...
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Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929-1984) was a Soviet Grandmaster (1952) and 9th world chess champion (1963-1969). Between 1968 and 1975 he never lost more than a single game in any tournament. He drew more than half his total gam...
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In 1895, the first transatlantic cable match (moves transmitted by telegraph) was played between the British Chess Club and the Manhattan Chess Club. In 1897 a cable match between the British House of Commons and the U.S. House of Repr...
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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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Daniel Abraham Yanofsky (1925-2000) was a Polish born Canadian lawyer and Grandmaster (1964) who was the first Grandmaster in the British Commonwealth. He learned to play chess at 8 years old. He came to Canada in 1926. In 1939 h...
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The British Virgin Islands first joined FIDE in 1934. The US Virgin Islands joined FIDE in 1966. The Virgin Islanders made their first appearance in a chess Olympiad in 1968. As one team, they played in the 1968, 1970, and 1972 c...
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