Nescio Nomen, a Latin phrase meaning name unknown. It has been customary to use N.N. for the given name of an unknown person. Read more »
Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997) was a Polish-born player who stayed in Argentina after the outbreak of World War II and became a naturalized citizen of Argentina five years later. Najdorf escaped the Holocaust, but he lost his wife, child, parent... Read more »
William Napier (1881-1952) was English-born chessplayer. He family moved to Brooklyn, New York when he was 5. In 1896, at the age of 15, he won the Brooklyn Chess Club Championship. He won the first British Chess Federation chess... Read more »
President Gerald Ford set October 9th, 1976 aside as a day "To give special recognition to a game that generates challenge, intellectual stimulation, and enjoyment for citizens of all ages."
October 9th is National Chess day. Read more »
In 1863, the first New Zealand chess club, the Dunedin Chess Club, was formed. In 1879, the first New Zealand Chess Championship was held. The winner was 55-year old Henry Hookham (1824-1898) of Christchurch. The next ... Read more »
George Newnes (1851-1910) was a newspaper and magazine publisher (Tit-Bits, Review of Reviews, and Country Life). In 1892 he published The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. He helped finance the early days of m... Read more »
The oldest newspaper chess column still in existence runs in The Illustrated London News, which first appeared in 1842. The first newspaper chess column appeared in the Liverpool Mercury in 1813 and continued until 1819. Read more »
Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-1974) was the first USSR master in chess and checkers. In 1949 he won the Russian chess championship and immediately after, took 2nd in the Russian checkers championship. He wrote the first chess book in the T... Read more »
Meindert Niemeijer (1902-1987) was a Dutch lawyer, banker, managing director of an insurance company, chess historian and International Master for Chess Composition. He collected over 7,000 chess books for the Royal Hague Library for over 40... Read more »
Aron Nimzovich (1886-1935) was the founder of the hypermodern movement in chess and author of My System. He would stand on his head during chess events and did exercises in the tournament room. After losing a game against Saemisch in B... Read more »