America's Foundation for Chess (AF4C) is a nonprofit chess foundation based in Bellevue, Washington, United States, a suburb of Seattle. It was founded...
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was sponsored and organized by the Seattle Chess Foundation (later renamed America's Foundation for Chess) and featured a larger body of competitors,...
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1986. It currently reaches more than 30,000 students annually. America's Foundation for Chess has initiated programs in partnership with local school districts...
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Chess America's Foundation for Chess United States Chess Federation New York State Chess Association Pennsylvania State Chess Federation World Chess Hall...
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Mark Dalton (businessman) (category American chief executives of financial services companies)
board member of America's Foundation for Chess. Additionally, together with his wife, he has donated more than US$20,000 to the American Hospital of Paris...
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canon. The musician and critic Cub Koda described Chess as "America's greatest blues label". Chess was based at several locations on the south side of...
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Alexandra Botez (category 21st-century American chess players)
(/ˈboʊtɛz/ BOH-tez; born 1995) is an American-born Canadian chess player, poker player, online streamer and YouTuber. In chess, she holds the FIDE title of Woman...
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Sunil Weeramantry (category American chess players)
Sunil developed chess programs for White Plains Public Schools beginning in 1984. He founded the National Scholastic Chess Foundation in 1990 and rolled...
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Joel Benjamin (category American chess players)
chess players "USCF bio of Joel Benjamin". Retrieved January 30, 2010. "First Move for the Championship: 2005 US Chess Championship" (PDF). America's...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
(March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record...
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Susan Polgar (redirect from Susan Polgar Institute of Chess Excellence)
often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating...
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such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...
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Garry Kasparov (category Chess coaches)
1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...
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Maurice Ashley (category African-American chess players)
and American chess player, author, and commentator. In 1999, he earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile...
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on...
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FIDE (redirect from Confederation of Chess for America)
European Chess Union (ECU) – 1985 Asian Chess Federation (ACF) African Chess Confederation (ACC) Confederation of Chess for Americas (CCA) Oceania Chess Confederation...
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Bruce Pandolfini (category American chess players)
1947) is an American chess author, teacher, and coach. A USCF national master, he is considered to be one of America's most experienced chess teachers....
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...
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Tanitoluwa Adewumi (category American chess players)
Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of FIDE Master (FM). A chess prodigy, he won the 2019 K-3 New York State chess championship...
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Arnold Denker (category American chess writers)
important chess organizer, serving on the boards of the American Chess Foundation, the United States Chess Federation (USCF), and the U.S. Chess Trust –...
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Andrea Botez (category American chess players)
Susan Polgar Foundation Girls' Invitational. Botez attained her highest FIDE classical rating of 1906 in 2024 and her highest US Chess rating of 1933...
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The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...
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Scott Oki (category National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America members)
Foundation, Co-Founder of Sounders For Kids, Co-Founder of America's Foundation for Chess, Co-Founder of SeeYourImpact.org and Co-Founder of Social Venture...
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Foundation is an American science fiction television series created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman for Apple TV+, loosely based on the Foundation...
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definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as its foundation the collective opinion of chess experts and journalists over the strongest tournaments...
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Sonja Graf (category American female chess players)
Susanna "Sonja" Graf (December 16, 1908 – March 6, 1965) was a German and American chess player. She was a women's world championship runner-up and a two-time...
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2025 Esports World Cup (category Online chess tournaments)
Chess.com, adding online chess as part of the EWC lineup. Players will qualify through the Champions Chess Tour 2025 and two online Tour events for a...
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László Polgár (redirect from László Polgár (chess player))
World Chess Champion. He has written well-known chess books such as Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and Reform Chess, a survey of chess variants...
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history of chess began nearly 1500 years ago. The introduction of chess engines around 1960 and permanent improvement over time has made chess engines become...
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Alfred Harold Chesser (February 26, 1914 – September 25, 2016) was an American labor union leader. Born on a farm near Sedalia, Missouri, Chesser grew up in...
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