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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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Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906) was one of the top four chess players in the world from 1895 to 1903. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and learned chess in 1888, at the age of 15. In 1895 he played in his first major tournam...
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Herman Pilnik (1914-1981) was an Argentine Grandmaster (1952). He was born in Germany. He won the Argentinian championship in 1942, 1945, and 1958. In 1950 he played one of the longest chess games on record. He played a 191...
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A pin is a chess fundamental, where a piece is immobolized because it stands between its king (or a more valuable piece) and an attacking enemy piece.
Pins often put the immobolized piece in danger of capture.
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The Pirc Defence, sometimes known as the Ufimtsev Defence or Yugoslav Defence, is a chess opening characterised by Black responding to 1. e4 with 1. ...d6 and 2. ...Nf6, followed by ...g6 and ...Bg7, while allowing White to establish an impressiv...
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Joseph Platz was born in Cologne, Germany on April 11, 1905. He was a USCF Master Emeritus and a medical doctor. In 1926, he won the championship of Cologne. In 1928, he won the championship f the Rhine. In 1931, he w...
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Group of seven Berlin chess players who met between 1837 and 1839 to further advance chess. The seven players were Paul Rudolph von Bilguer, Dr. Ludwig E. Bledow (the leader), Wilhelm Hanstein, Bernhard Horwitz, Tassilo von Heydebrand und de...
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Natalia Pogonina (born on March 9, 1985) is one of the best female chess players in the world.
Woman Grandmaster (WGM), three-times European champion (U16, twice U18), bronze prize winner at the World Championship (U18) and European Women Champi...
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In 1574, Giulio Cesare Polerio (1548-1608) recorded the important opening variations of his time. He was the first to mention the King’s Gambit, the Sicilian, the Two Knights Defense, and the Dutch. In 1584 he wrote about th...
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Susan Polgar, born Zsuzsanna Polgar in Budapest, Hungary, was the oldest of three sisters, Judit and Sophia Polgar. She discovered the game purely by accident when she was not quite four years old. She had been rummaging around in a closet looking...
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