• 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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...
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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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    Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of...
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    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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  • 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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