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Alphabet Chess
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very cool. except for "x"- is there really no great master that starts with x?
Very cute.
Hmm. I have a few of edits if you don't mind.
A is for Alekhine
B is for batgirl of course
C is for Carlsen (or Chicken_Monster)
D is for Dvoretsky
K is for Kasparov (or Karpov, take your pick)
N is for Nunn
P is for Perelshteyn
S is for Smyslov
T is for Tal
V is for van der Sterren
W is for Winter (William Winter)
X is for X-Ray Attack
Y is for Yanofsky
I think a should be alekhine
Lev Alburt is also a good one.
batgirl wrote:
Do you know of one?
Xie Jun was one of the china's first grandmasters. In her footsteps; several strong female chess players have emerged.
and would you consider Polgar rather than pillsbury? I think being one of the only women grandmasters to defeat a sitting world champion is a historic accomplishment and places her impact on a chess above that of the old master.
batgirl wrote:
Great! X marks the spot.
I know you'd like that choice. :D
thankx for some fun creativity... and I thought I knew alot of the old names-but wow.
Perelshyten? Dadian? Showalter?
even Queen Victoria; I know of her general place in history- but what is here connection to chess?
May 6, 2015
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Queen Vickie was a chess player, some say a good one, some say a not-so-good one. Morphy had a private audience with her and they supposedly played chess, although that's never been proven.
The American Ches Bulletin, 1916 had this to say:
A Morphy Relic.
Eugene Morphy, a first cousin of the immortal Paul Morphy, who greatly resembles the portrait of his illustrious relative, had many interesting anecdotes to tell of the incomparable master.
Among the numerous and splendid trophies left by the master was a simple sheepskin, upon which was drawn a chessboard;' no gold lettering, no scroll work, no ornamentation of any kind, but in the lower right-hand corner the signature of Queen Victoria. It is Mr. Morphy's intention to present this relic to the British Museum.—"Globe-Democrat."
May 6, 2015
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Jackson Showalter was a US Champion. His wife Nellie was considered the US Ladies' Champion due to an aborted match around the turn of the century... see Nellie.
Prince Dadian was a character of a singular sort.
Whip_Kitten wrote:
This is great code!
Harrwitz Owen Lasker Yates Showalter Harrwitz Izbinsky Tarrasch
hey that's profanity. i just cracked it.
Furman for f. Who is Fischer?
no Tal 
K for Kasparov and A for Alekhine. How did you miss them?
a is for Anderssen
b is for Bronstein
c is for Capablanca
d is for Dadian
e is for Englisch
f is for Fischer
g is for Gunberg
h is for Harrwitz
i is for Izbinsky
j is for Janowsky
k is for Kieseritsky
l is for Lasker
m is for Morphy
n is for Nimzowitsch
o is for Owen
p is for Pillsbury
q is for Queen Victoria
r is for Reti
s is for Showalter
t is for Tarrasch
u is for Urosoff
v is for Vidmar
w is for Winawer
x is for Xbox video chess
y is for Yates
z is for Zukertort