• Events in chess in 1932: Canadian Chess Federation (later renamed Chess Federation of Canada) replaces the Canadian Chess Association, and for the first...
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  • founded in 1872, was replaced in 1932 by the Canadian Chess Federation (CCF), which for the first time included representation from all major cities in Canada...
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  • took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three times in four attempts...
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  • is a ranking or scoring system developed by Bruno Buchholz (died 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments. It was originally developed as an auxiliary...
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  • (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957. He won...
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  • The Luxembourg Chess Championship has been held since 1932 by the Luxembourg Chess Federation [Wikidata] (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise des Échecs...
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  • November 1932, London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions. He started a career in accountancy, but in 1909...
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  • This is a list of chess books that are used as references in articles related to chess. The list is organized by alphabetical order of the author's surname...
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    The Opera Game was a chess game played in 1858 at an opera house in Paris. The American master Paul Morphy played against two amateurs: the German noble...
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  • Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer Lora Yakovleva (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster Maksim Sergeyevich Yakovlev (born 1991), Russian footballer...
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    In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...
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    Betty Boop (category Film series introduced in 1932)
    compromise her virginity were reflected in Chess-Nuts (1932) and most importantly in Boop-Oop-a-Doop (1932). In Chess-Nuts, the Black King goes into the house...
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  • (born 1993), Puerto Rican tennis player Pedro Puig Pulido (born 1932), Spanish chess master Pere Puig Subinyà (1914–1999), Spanish politician Ricardo...
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  • of Youghal in 1569, 1576 and 1581, Youghal garrison commander and a spy for Francis Drake Philip Baker (1880–1932), Irish chess champion in 1924, 1927...
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  • of the winners of the Catalan Chess Championship. Note: In 1992, two championships were held. "Absolut". Catalan Chess Federation. Retrieved 3 December...
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    December 1864 in Cork; died 8 March 1932 in London) was a British chess player. She became the first British Women's Chess Champion in 1904 and defended...
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  • Edgard Colle (category Chess theoreticians)
    Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first...
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  • Daniël Noteboom (category Chess theoreticians)
    Daniël Noteboom (26 February 1910 – 12 January 1932) was a Dutch chess player. He gained notice at the 1930 Chess Olympiad at Hamburg, scoring 11½/15, including...
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  • female chess master. Ghulam Fatima won the British Women's Chess Championship at Hastings in 1933. Her first formal competition was the 1932 British...
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    Herman Mattison; 1894, Riga – 1932) was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a...
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  • Chess-Nuts is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Bimbo and Koko the Clown. A live action chess game becomes...
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    1951. Fine won five medals (four gold) in three Chess Olympiads. He won the US Open all seven times he entered (1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941)...
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  • c. May 1932) was an Irish chess player. He won the Irish Chess Championship in 1924, 1927, 1928, and 1929. Baker was Jewish, born in 1880 in, Riga, Latvia...
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    1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy...
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  • (in Russian the consonant h is replaced with the consonant g). Notable people with the Kagan surname include: Bernhard Kagan (1866–1932), German chess...
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    York for the West, settling in Los Angeles in 1932. He became chess editor of the Los Angeles Times that year, writing a chess column until his death. He...
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  • Irish chess player, chess correspondent and the compiler of the daily chess puzzle in The Irish Times. Walsh started contributing a weekly chess column...
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  • politician and banker C.W. Lemoine, US author Claude Lemoine (born 1932), French chess master and journalist Cyril Lemoine (born 1983), French cyclist Émile...
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  • This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
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  • 1932 – March 8, 2013) was a Chilean–Canadian chess master. In 1953, he took 18th in Mar del Plata (Svetozar Gligorić won). In 1954, he took 22nd in Mar...
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