The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) is a nonprofit collecting institution in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States....
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Hall of Fame and Museum World Curling Federation Hall of Fame World Figure Skating Hall of Fame ACBL Hall of Fame (bridge) World Chess Hall of Fame Poker...
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World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...
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Join World Chess Hall of Fame". US Chess Federation. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2022. "World Chess Hall of Fame". World Chess Hall of Fame. Retrieved...
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part of his effort to improve U.S. chess and turn St. Louis into an international chess center, an effort that also moved the World Chess Hall of Fame into...
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Jennifer Shahade (redirect from Chess Bitch)
United States Chess Federation. She is also a MindSports Ambassador for PokerStars and a board member of the World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis...
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Nona Gaprindashvili (category Women's world chess champions)
awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster. She was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Presidential Order of Excellence in 2015. Gaprindashvili...
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Elisaveta Bykova (category Women's world chess champions)
the World Chess Hall of Fame. Bykova was born to a peasant family. When she was twelve, her family moved to Moscow, where she began to play chess with...
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Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers...
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The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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Maia Chiburdanidze (category Women's world chess champions)
"Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO Individual Calculations Chess Ratings FIDE". "Maya Chiburdanidze". World Chess Hall of Fame. 23 March 2017. "Glory to the Queen". Austrian...
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Arpad Elo (category 20th-century Hungarian chess players)
inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. He also served as the president of American Chess Federation (predecessor of United States Chess Federation) for...
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Olga Rubtsova (category Women's world chess champions)
1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Rubtsova won the...
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Judit Polgár (category World Youth Chess Champions)
decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary. In 2021, Polgár was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. In September 2024, Judit...
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The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
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Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum is a team hall of fame located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, representing the history, players and personnel of the professional...
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scenes. The production was sponsored by the Saint Louis Chess Club and the World Chess Hall of Fame, both located close to the theatre. In December 2024...
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Sonja Graf (category Chess Woman International Masters)
Association and Passengers of the Piriápolis "Sonja Graf-Stevenson". World Chess Hall of Fame. March 23, 2017. "Childhood of Sonja (Susanna) Graf - the...
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Xie Jun (category Women's world chess champions)
was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Although born in Baoding, Hebei in 1970 and raised in Beijing, the ancestral home of Xie and her parents...
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There are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...
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Durkin Opening (category Chess openings)
rarely-played chess opening that consists of the following move: 1. Na3 The Durkin Opening is named for Robert T. Durkin (1923–2014) of New Jersey. The...
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Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site operates on a freemium model...
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Eugene Torre (category Philippine Sports Hall of Fame inductees)
Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. In a tournament in Manila in 1976,...
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Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...
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archive of past games. Apple Chess Battle Chess Battle vs. Chess Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess Chess Champion 2175 Chess Mates Chess Player 2150 Chess Simulator...
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Benko Gambit (redirect from A57 (chess opening))
The Benko Gambit (or Volga Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5...
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Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force...
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Albin Countergambit (category Chess openings)
The Albin Countergambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 and the usual continuation is: 3. dxe5 d4 The opening is a gambit...
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Amar Opening (category Chess openings)
Opening (also known as the Paris Opening, or the Drunken Knight Opening) is a chess opening defined by the move: 1. Nh3 Analogous to calling the Durkin Opening...
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Réti Opening (redirect from A09 (chess opening))
the opening most famously to defeat José Raúl Capablanca, the reigning World Chess Champion, in a game at the 1924 New York tournament. Alexander Alekhine...
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