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Nona Terentievna Gaprindashvili, born May 3, 1941, was the first woman to achieve the men's International Grandmaster title, in 1978. She became the first woman to win a "men's" chess tournament when she tied for first plac...
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Guillermo Garcia Gonzales (1953-1990) was a Cuban Grandmaster (1976) and three-time Cuban champion (1974, 1976, 1983) who took 2nd place in the 1988 New York Open. His $10,000 prize was confiscated by the Department of Treasury, invoking the Tradi...
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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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Efim Petrovich Geller (1925-1998) was one of the top 10 players in the world for over 20 years. He won the Ukrainian Championship in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959. He was a six-time Candidate between 1953 and 1971 (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965,...
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Stephan Gerzadowicz is a correspondence chess master. He played in five USCF Absolute Championships and one U.S. Correspondence Chess Championship. He has been president of both the Massachusetts Chess Association (1972-1974) and the N...
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Florin Gheorghiu, born April 6, 1944, was the first Romanian Grandmaster (1965). He was world junior champion in 1963. He was won the Romanian championship 9 times (1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1977, and 1984). ...
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Aivars Gipslis (1937-2000) was a Latvian grandmaster (1967). He won the Latvian championship 8 times (1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1966). He took 3rd place in the USSR chess championship in 1966/67. At the Sousse Int...
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First known chess opening, according to the Gottingen manuscript (1490). The opening is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5, and was given its name by Lolli. The opening name is derived from Italian, meaning quiet game, in contrast to gambit openings....
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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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