Fridrik Olafsson
Fridrik Olafsson was born in Reykjavik in 1935. In 1952, at the age of 17, he was Icelandic Champion. In 1953, he took 3rd place in the World Junior Championship. He was Iceland's first Grandmaster (1958) and the fourth FI...
A Fine Draw
Reuben Fine was born in New York City on October 11, 1914. He learned to play chess from his uncle in 1923 at the age of 8. He began tournament level chess at the Marshall Chess Club. He won the 15th Marshall Chess Club Ch...
Rudolf Spielmann - Master of the Sacrifice
Rudolf Spielmann was born in Vienna on May 5, 1883. He was a Viennese professional chess player who spent most of his adult life in Germany. He played over 100 tournaments and 55 matches in his career. He earned the nickna...
Lasker the Lesser - Edward Lasker
Edward (Eduard) Lasker was born in Kempen, Poland (near Breslau and part of the German Empire at the time) Germany on December 3, 1885. He learned chess at the age of 6 from his father. He earned degrees at the University of Berlin in mechanical...
Young Superstars: Ngoc Truongson Nguyen
Ngoc Truongson Nguyen ('Son', born Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, February 23, 1990) is the top Vietnamese chess player. Son started playing chess at the age of four, and he competed in the National Junior Chess Tournament before he w...
Oscar Pomar - Former Chess Prodigy
Arturo Pomar-Salamanca was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on September 1, 1931. He was a child prodigy, learning the game at age 4, and pupil of Alexander Alekhine during World War II (Franco’s regime in Spain paid Alekhine to...
Georg Marco - the strongest player in the world
Georg Marco was born in what is today Cernauti, Ukraine in 1863, and was raised in Romania. He was a medical student before he gave that up to become a journalist and professional chess player. He moved to Vienna from Romanai in the 18...
Edmar Mednis
Edmar (Edmars) John Mednis was born on March 22, 1937 in Riga, Latvia. He and his family escaped from Latvia in 1944. They lived in several displaced camps in Germany before coming to the United States in 1950. In 1949, at ...
Young Superstars: Anna Muzychuk
Anna Muzychuk was born 28 February 1990 in Lviv, Ukraine. She is an International Master and a Woman Grandmaster with FIDE rating 2486. In 2004 she became a citizen of Slovenia, where she is the strongest female chess player. On t...
Alexander Petrov: Immortal Game
Alexander Dimitrovich Petrov (1794-1867), the inventor of Petrov’s Defense, and author of one of the first Russian chess manuals (1824), was the outstanding Russian player of his day. He gained this supremacy in his teens, and h...
Rusudan Goletiani
Rusudan Goletiani was born in Georgia in 1980 and came to the United States in 2000. Rusa won the Soviet Junior Chess Championship for Girls Under 12 in 1990 at the age of nine. She then went on to win the World Chess Championship for Girls t...
Nicky Nip: Master at 9!
Nicky Nip of San Francisco is America's youngest master ever, still just 9 years old (the picture is from 2006). He earned the title in torunaments and matches such as the one in December where he beat me 4-2. He has a FIDE rating over 2...
Fischer's First Rated Tournament
Bobby Fischer played in his first rated tournament in May, 1955. He was 12 years old at the time (born in March, 1943). Carmine Nigro, President of the Brooklyn Chess Club took Bobby up to the 5th Amateur U.S. Championship (the last Am...
On Ademi
I started playing chess since i was 6 years old. I played until I was 12 mostly with relatives and ocasionally with the few friends I have who play the game. Anyway, I entered a chess tournament my high school organized and ended up in third...
IM Cardoso of RP
International Master Rodolfo Tan Cardoso of the Philippines was its first International Master. He was the only Filipino to win over the late former World Champion Robert Fischer; in their 1957 match in New York. He has retired in the 1970&#...
A Chess player is born
Steinitz was born in the Jewish ghetto of Prague (today Czech Republic, then Austrian Empire), the last in a family of thirteen sons. His father was a hardware retailer. He learned to play chess at age 12. Leaving Prague to study mathematics in Vi...
Tug-of-war over Fischer's fortune
This article was taken from http://pinoychess.informe.com/ with the permission from the author. Comments are accepted. Tug-of-war over Fischer's fortune by Frank “Boy” Pestaño AFTER disappearing mysteriously for about ...
ROBERT JAMES FISCHER
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/01/18/2008-01-18_bobby_fischer_chess_genius_and_cold_war_.html Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player in the world. He is the King of chess. He will be remembered in the chess community arou...
The Legacy of Bobby Fischer
The Legacy of Bobby Fischer &...
farewell Mr.Fischer
If one could count the number of minutes he stared at a chess board it probably would somewhere in the neighborhood of a million. If someone hasnt done it yet ,a book of victims that Bobby brought down should be written God...
Bobby is Dead!!
Bobby Fischer Dead at 64 ...
GM Vaselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov (IPA: [vÉ?.sÉ?'lin to'pÉ?.lof]; Bulgarian: Ð?еÑ?елин Топалов...
GM Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Ð?ладиÌ?миÑ? Ð?оÑ?иÌ?Ñ?овиÑ? Ð?&Nt...
Bobby's destroyed original U.S. passport #Z7792702.
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