• 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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  • (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer Lora Yakovleva (born 1932), Russian chess grandmaster Maksim Sergeyevich Yakovlev (born 1991), Russian footballer...
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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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  • 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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    Hermanis Matisons (category Chess players from Riga)
    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Eliot S. Hearst (category Chess players from New York City)
    1932 – January 20, 2018) was an American psychologist and professional chess player known for his writings on blindfold chess. Hearst was born in New...
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    Reuben Fine (category American chess writers)
    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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  • (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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  • Chess-Nuts is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film part of the Talkartoons series starring Betty Boop, and featuring Bimbo and Koko the Clown....
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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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  • 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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    Herman Steiner (category 20th-century Hungarian chess players)
    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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    Romuald Grabczewski (category Chess Olympiad competitors)
    Romuald Grabczewski (7 February 1932 – 20 August 2005) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1968. He received the FIDE title...
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  • Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood (category Scottish chess players)
    Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Kirkwood was patron of Edinburgh Chess Club and Chess Scotland. List of Senators of the College of Justice "Birthday's...
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  • Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (category Irish chess players)
    mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, in 1928, graduating with a first in 1931. He represented Cambridge in chess. From 1932, Alexander taught mathematics at...
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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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