Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887 in Blainville, Cervon in Normandy. As early as 1902 Marcel Duchamp was painting in the garden of the family home. A pioneer of Dadaism and Surrealism, Duchamp was equally passionate about chess. In 1923 ...
World Chess Championship1972 Fischer - Spassky Title MatchHighlights For the first time since 1948, a chess player from outside the Soviet Union had achieved the right to play a match for the World Chess Championship title. The opening cerem...
Dr. Emanuel Lasker geboren:24.12.1868 &nb...
Sick Cop ... I told them I was hungry and especially thirsty, and that there was no running water in my cell. Ich erzählte ihnen, ich war hungrig und vor allem durstig, und dass es keine fließendem Wasser in meiner Zelle. Just to ...
I Was Tortured in der Pasadena Jailhouse! by Von Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer The World Chess Champion Die World Chess Champion Copyright (c) 1982 by Bobby Fischer Copyright (ã) 1982 von Bobby Fischer All rights reserved Alle...
“The world's greatest Chess player” Robert James Fischer was b...
Recent Photos of Bobby FischerRecent Photos of Bobby FischerWith his fiancée Miyoko Watai, who returned to Japan some days ago Recent Photos of Bobby FischerIn animated discussion with friends
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Anand is one of four players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list and he has been among the top three ranked ...
World Chess Champions The best players on the planet - past and present Unofficial Louis-Charles de La Bourdonnais France 1834 Howard Staunton ...
Robert James (Bobby) Fischer geboren:09.03.1943 ...
Als Robert James Fischer Ende Oktober 1971 das Herausfordererrecht gegen den zehnten Weltmeister Boris Spasski erkämpft hatte, nahm in seinem Heimatland der Absatz von Schachspielen sprungartig um 20 Prozent zu. Fast jede Tages- und Wochenzei...
1970 absolvierte Robert James Fischer das hektischste Jahr seiner Karriere. Doch der Erfolg gab ihm Recht. Aus 74 Turnierpartien holte er 59 Punkte. Knapp 80 Prozent lautete die stolze Bilanz. Nach einem gemächlichen Vierteljahrhundert Schach...
Richard Réti (28 May 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and chess problemist. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian ...
One of the greatbenefits of being a grandmaster is that it allows me to really appreciate how hard it is to be good at anything. The field may vary: sports, entertainment, law, medicine, farming, pottery. Whatever the endeavor, the top performers ...
Addition: 2/16/08 So, I've been teaching more females to play - including my mother-in-law, grandmother-in-law, and potential future sisters-in-law. This is especially useful in long visit with grandma - as she is not fluent ...
When I was in college the first time back in 1980, I was the president of Chess club at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario Oregon. That doesn't mean I was the best player by any means, just that I had a love for this wonderful game. ...
Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh) is a chess grandmaster from India. She was originally named Hampi but her father later changed it to Humpy, a more Russian-sounding name. She writes her family name (Koneru)...
George Henry Mackenzie was born on March 24, 1837 in North Kessock, Scotland. In 1856, at the age of 19, he purchased a commission in the 60th Rifles (the King’s Royal Rifle Corps). He served as a Lieutenant in the British army i...
Fred Reinfeld was born in New York City on January 27, 1910. Reinfeld wrote over 100 chess books in his lifetime, and perhaps over 260 books total. He also wrote about geology, history, numismatics, checkers, and astronomy. He was said to have...
Hou Yifan started playing chess at the age of 6. She was admitted to the National Chess Center in Beijing and has leading Chinese grandmaster Ye Jiangchuan as her trainer. She plays e4 as White and as Black, a variety of Sicilians (Dragon, N...
Italy and United States have their new chess prodigy. Fabiano Caruana, a young player with dual citizenships, won the First Saturday-GM group in Budapest, Hungary, with 7 points out of 9 and scored his third and last GM norm. Caruana is 14 ye...
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (SOOK-er-tort) was born in Lublin, Poland on September 7, 1842. Zukertort said that his mother was the Baroness Krzyzanovska. Zukertort studied chemistry at Heidelberg and physiology at Berlin. In 1861, he enrolled at ...
Siegbert Tarrasch was born on March 5, 1862 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). In his autobiography (Dreihundert Schachpartien), he wrote that he was born with a club foot Breslau was one of the largest Jewish communities in the world....
