• Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...
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  • The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
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  • Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records. The film stars Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Jeffrey...
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  • the co-founder of Chess Records. He was influential in the development of electric blues, Chicago blues, and rock and roll. Chess was born to Polish-Jewish...
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    from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar...
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    The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...
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    A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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    Marshall Chess (born March 13, 1942) is an American record producer, the son of Leonard Chess who co-founded Chess Records. Marshall worked for sixteen...
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    notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
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    A History of Chess recorded another type of unseen chess: two Central Asian horsemen riding side by side playing chess by calling chess moves to each...
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  • producer and company executive, the co-founder with his brother of Chess Records. Chess was born to a Polish-Jewish family in the village of Motal, then...
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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
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  • contract with Decca Records expired. The label was initially headed by Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. It was first distributed...
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  • Argo Records was a record label in Chicago that was established in 1955 as a division of Chess Records. Originally the label was called Marterry, but...
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    A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...
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  • Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
    Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...
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  • Checker Records is an inactive record label that was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois. The label was founded by the...
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    The World Chess Championship 2024 will be a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine...
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    Minnie Riperton (category Capitol Records artists)
    Chicago-based girl group the Gems. Her early affiliation with the Chicago-based Chess Records afforded her the opportunity to sing backing vocals for various established...
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    the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each square...
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    Tunde Onakoya (category Nigerian chess players)
    1994) is a Nigerian chess player and coach, who holds the Guinness World Records for the longest marathon chess game. and founder of Chess in Slums Africa...
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  • This is the list of top-ranked chess grandmasters, ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above...
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  • Cadet Records was an American record label that began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to...
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  • Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others...
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    The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player...
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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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    work was released mostly by London Records until 1960, then Pye Records until 1965, before being issued directly by Chess or Mercury. This resulted in a number...
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  • Look up chess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chess is a two-player board game. Chess or CHESS may also refer to: Chess (One Piece), a fictional character...
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    Muddy Waters (category Chess Records artists)
    he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. In the...
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