Chess Olympiad - Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been organized by FIDE every second year since 1927. Men's olympiads 1924: 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad, Paris, France -- Czechoslovakia. 1927: 1st Chess Olympiad, London, United Kingdom, -- Hungary. 1928: 2nd Chess Olympiad, The Hague, Netherlands, -- Hungary. 1930: 3rd Chess Olympiad, Hamburg, Germany, -- Poland. 1931: 4th Chess Olympiad, Prague, Czechoslovakia, -- USA. 1931: 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad, Budapest, Hungary, -- Hungary. 1933: 5th Chess Olympiad, Folkestone, England, -- USA. 1935: 6th Chess Olympiad, Warsaw, Poland, -- USA. 1936: 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad, Munich, Germany, -- Hungary. 1937: 7th Chess Olympiad, Stockholm, Sweden, -- USA. 1939: 8th Chess Olympiad, Buenos Aires, Argentina, -- Czechoslovakia. 1950: 9th Chess Olympiad, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, -- Yugoslavia. 1952: 10th.
7th Computer Olympiad - 7th Computer Olympiad The 7th Computer Olympiad were held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Date: July 5-July 11 2002 Number of countries with entrants: 13 + Number of participants: 68 Homepage: http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2002/ The chess event played here was adopted by the ICCA as the 10th World Computer Chess Championship. Medals Awarded Amazons (6 participants) Amazong (J. Lieberum) (GER) 8QP (J. de Koning) (NET) Invader (Avetisyan) (USA) Backgammon (2 participants) BGB litz (F. Berger) (GER) G nubg (A. Müller) (GER) Bridge (2 participants) Wbridge5 (Costel) (FRA) Jack (H. Kuijff) (NET) Chess (19 participants) Junior (A. Ban) (Israel) Shredder (S. Meyer-Kahlen) (GER) Brutus (A. Kure) (GER) Chinese Chess (4 participants) ELP (J-C. Chen) (taiwan) Shiga 8.1 (S-J. Yen) (taiwan) Xie Xie (P. Tang) (FRA) Dots and Boxes (3 participants) Control Freak.
8th Computer Olympiad - 8th Computer Olympiad The 8th Computer Olympiad were held in Graz, Austria. Date: November 23-November 27 2003 Homepage: http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/ The Computer Olympiad was held in conjunction with the ICGA 11th World Computer Chess Championship 2003 and the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference..
Computer Olympiad - Computer Olympiad The Computer Olympiads are a multi-games event taking place every year in which computer programs compete against each other. The majority of the games are board games but other games such as Bridge take place as well. The Olympiad is normally held in either Maastricht or London. For many board games the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to take the "worlds best computer player" title. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Games 3 Olympiads History The Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London. The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, after when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new.
Veselin Topalov - (born March 15, 1975) is a Bulgarian chess player. In the October 2003 FIDE rating list, he was number six in the world with an Elo rating of 2735. He was born in Ruse, Bulgaria. He was taught the rules of chess when he was eight years old by his father. In 1989 he won the World Under-14 Championship in Aguadilja, Puerto Rico, and in 1990 won the silver medal at the World Under-16 Championship in Singapore. He became a Grandmaster in 1992. Topalov has been leader of the Bulgarian national team since 1994. At the Chess Olympiad in 1994 in Moscow he beat Gary Kasparov, and led the Bulgarians to a fourth-place finish. He has won a number of tournaments, and at the FIDE World Championship in New Delhi in.
Viktor Korchnoi - 23 1931) is sometimes reckoned to be the strongest chess player never to have been world champion. He was born in Leningrad in the USSR. Korchnoi is currently the oldest active grandmaster on the world tournament circuit. Rising into prominence within the Russian chess school system he was competing with the stars such as Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky , following in the path laid out by Mikhail Botvinnik. As a result, Korchnoi never reached the same heights as his compatriots. When the Spassky beat Petrosian to claim the World Title in 1969, the Russian chess federation started pursuing a youth policy which largely classed Korchnoi and Smyslov as the old vanguard and as a consequence they were overlooked when it came to distributing of opportunities to play in.
Vladimir Kramnik - (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess player. In 2000, he beat Garry Kasparov in a 16 game match played in London. In the eyes of the participants and many observers, this was a match for the world championship, and made Kramnik the chess world champion, although the International Chess Federation (FIDE) did not recognise the match as such. Kramnik was born in the town of Tuapse, on the shores of the Black Sea. As a child, he studied in the chess school established by Mikhail Botvinnik. His first notable result in a major tournament was his gold medal win as first reserve for the Russian team in the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila. His selection for the team caused some controversy in Russia at the time, as he was.
Fédération Internationale des Échecs - The Fédération Internationale des Échecs, or the World Chess Federation, was founded in Paris, France on July 24, 1924. It is an international organization that exists to connect the various national chess federations around the world. It is usually referred to as FIDE, its French acronym. Its motto is Gens una sumus, meaning "We are one people". Its current president (as of 2003) is Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who also is president of Kalmykia, a small republic within Russia. As well as organising the World Chess Championship, FIDE calculates the Elo rating of players, defines the rules of chess, periodically publishes albums of the best chess problems, and appoints International Masters, Grandmasters and Arbiters. As well as the men's world championship, FIDE organises championships for women and juniors, regional championships, and the Chess.
Computer Go - plays Go, an ancient board game. After the remarkable success of Deep Blue in the field of computer chess and its victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov, the move to challenge other difficult board games is natural. Recently Go has attracted A.I. experts from over the world because of the difficulty of making a strong Go-playing program. There are few remarkable achievements as of yet. The task is complicated due to the deceptively simple rules of the game. This makes the game mathematically easy to represent, but also allows for a huge number of legal moves. Quite a number of research efforts have been made for a dozen years; the number is comparable to that of other board games such as chess. Researchers have not found a single effective method..
Xie Jun - (born October 30, 1970) is a Chinese chess player. She was women's world chess champion between 1991 and 1996, and again in 1999 and 2000. Xie Jun was born in Beijing, and became junior Xiangqi (Chinese chess) champion of the city at the age of six. She was later persuaded to take up chess. In 1991, Xie Jun won the women's world championship for the first time, winning a match against Maya Chiburdanidze, who had held the title since 1978, by a score of 8.5 - 6.5. In 1993 she successfully defended her title against Nana Ioseliani (winning their match 8.5 - 2.5) before losing in 1996 to Zsuzsa Polgar 8.5 - 4.5. In 1999 she won the title back, defeating Alisa Galliamova 8.5 - 6.5. In 2000, FIDE changed the.
Zhang Zhong - born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese chess player. Among Zhang's more notable results are the silver medal in the 1998 World Junior Chess Championship (behind Darmen Sadvakasov), first in the 2001 Chinese Championship, 8.5/12 at the 2002 Chess Olympiad in Bled, and first with 11/13 at the Corus B tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2003, three points ahead of his nearest rival (a result which qualified him for the prestigious main Wijk aan Zee tournament in 2004). As of 2003, Zhang is almost always opening with 1. e4 when he has white, playing the Ruy Lopez after 1... e5 and usually avoiding the main lines of the Sicilian Defence (1... c5) by playing 2. Nf3 and 3. Bb5 (or 3. d3 after 2... e6). With black, he usually plays.
Ruslan Ponomariov - (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player. Ponomariov was born in Gorlovka in Ukraine. In 1994 he came third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten, and the following year won it at the age of eleven. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just twelve, and the following year won the World Under-18 Championship. In 1998, at the age of fourteen, he was awarded the Grandmaster title, making him the youngest ever player at that time to hold the title. Among Ponomariov's notable later results are first at the Donetsk Zonal in 1998, 5/7 in the European Club Cup 2000 (including a victory over then-FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman), joint first with 7.5/9 at Torshavn 2000, 8.5/11 for Ukraine in.
Milan Vukcevich - 1937 - May 10, 2003) was a scientist and chess problem composer. Vukcevich was born in Belgrade. In 1955 he won the Yugoslav Junior Championship, drawing a six game match with Bent Larsen in the same year. He became a chess International Master in 1958, and in 1960 played for Yugoslavia at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig and had the second best overall score at the Student Chess Olympiad in Leningrad. In 1963 he moved to the United States, settling in Ohio. Vukcevich decided on a career in science rather than chess, and in the year he moved to the United States he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to teach at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio for six years before leaving to work for General.
Wolfgang Heidenfeld - (May 29, 1911 - August 3, 1981) was a chess player. Heidenfeld was born in Berlin. He was forced to move from Germany to South Africa because he was a Jew. There, he was South African chess champion eight times, and he represented South Africa in the Chess Olympiad in 1958. Besides chess-playing he was also a writer, door to door salesman, journalist and designer of crossword puzzles. His hobbies were playing poker and collecting stamps as well as playing chess. During the war he helped decode German messages for the Allies. In 1955 he beat former world champion Max Euwe. He also won games against Miguel Najdorf, Durao and Ludek Pachman. He never became an International Master - he did eventually attain the required qualifications but declined to accept the.
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Varna - a museum ship torpedo boat Draski. In 1444, the Battle of Varna was fought here, with the Turks defeating a Crusader army led by Ladislaus III of Poland, who was killed, earning a nick-name Varnensis. There is a mausoleum of Ladislaus III in Varna. The current mayor of Varna is Kiril Yordanov. In 1962, the Chess Olympiad, also known as the World Team Championship, was held in Varna. In 1969, Varna was the host of the World Rhythmic gymnastics Championship. Varna's twin cities are: Aalborg, Denmark Dordrecht, Netherlands Kharkov, Ukraine Aqaba, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Odessa, Ukraine Malmoe, Sweden Turku, Finland Bradford, England Miami, the USA Rostock, Germany Novorosyisk, Russia Pireus, Greece See also: List of cities in Bulgaria and Port of Varna External Links http://www.varna.bg/eng/index.htm http://www.bulgaria.com/varna/.
Luke McShane - McShane (born January 7, 1984) is an English chess player. In the January 2004 FIDE rating list, McShane had an Elo rating of 2651, making him the third highest rated English player and number forty-three in the world. McShane was something of a prodigy, winning the World Under-10 Championship at the age of eight. Shortly afterwards he found a sponsor in the form of computer company Psion. At sixteen he became the youngest ever British grandmaster, gaining the three results required ("grandmaster norms") in tournaments in Germany, Iceland and the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark. Among McShane's more notable results are joint first in the 1998 Bunratty Masters in Ireland with John Nunn, winning five of his six games, and joint winner with Stuart Conquest and Bogdan Lalic of the Iona.
King (chess) - King (chess) The king is a piece in the game of chess. The king represents the prize the opposition seeks to win. If the king is threatened and cannot escape capture, the king is said to be in checkmate and the game is lost. Each player starts with his king in the middle of his first rank, between the queen and the king's bishop. In algebraic notation, the white king starts on e1 and the black king on e8. A king can move one square in any direction (horizontally, vertically, and diagonally as shown at left), except that it may not move onto a square that is under attack by an enemy piece. As with most pieces, it captures by moving onto a square occupied by an.
Knight (chess) - Knight (chess) The knight is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight (armoured soldier) and often depicted as a horse's head. Each player starts with two knights on his home rank. In algebraic notation the white knights start on b1 and g1, while the black knights start on b8 and g8. The knight move is unusual among chess pieces. It plays and captures alternately on White and Black squares; each move may be described as stepping one square horizontally or vertically and then one square diagonally away from the direction of the original square. The move is one of the longest surviving moves in chess having remained unchanged since before the seventh century AD. because of this it also occurs in most chess variants..
Immortal game (chess) - Immortal game (chess) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 Annotated moves of the game 3 References Introduction The immortal game is a famous chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzsky. It is one of the most famous chess games of all time. Adolf Anderssen was one of the strongest players of his time, and was considered by many to be the world champion after winning the 1851 London tournament. Lionel Kieseritzky lived in France much of his life, where he gave chess lessons or played games for 5 francs an hour at the Cafe de la Regence, Paris, France. Kieseritzky was well-known for being able to beat lesser players in spite of great odds. This was an informal game played between these two.
