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unusual facts about chess master



Dunst Opening

National Master Hugh Myers called it "Millard's Opening" after Henry Millard (1824–91), a blind correspondence chess player who drew with the opening in a simultaneous exhibition against Joseph Henry Blackburne.

Italian Game, Blackburne Shilling Gambit

This trap is what gives the line its name; the great English master Joseph Henry Blackburne reputedly used it to win shillings from amateurs.

Jordy Mont-Reynaud

Jordy Mont-Reynaud (born August 16, 1983) became the youngest ever chess master in the United States when he became a master at the age of 10 years 209 days in 1994 (a record surpassed by Vinay Bhat, and presently held by Samuel Sevian).

Rudolph Reti

He was the older brother of the great chess master Richard Réti (but, unlike his brother, he did not write his surname with an acute accent on the 'e').

Vector-06C

The package was used to port several ZX Spectrum titles, namely Chess Master, West Bank, Jumping Jack


see also

Abram Khavin

Abram Leonidovich Khavin (1914 – January 19, 1974, Kiev) was a Ukrainian chess master.

Ado Kraemer

Adolf (Ado) Kraemer (Krämer) (23 March 1898, Büdingen – 25 June 1972, Berlin) was a German chess master and problemist.

Adolf Schwarz

Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Galszecs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austria-Hungarian chess master.

Arlauskas

Romanas Arlauskas (born 1917, Kaunas, Lithuania), a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master

Błędów

Ludwig Bledow (27 July 1795, Berlin – 6 August 1846), was a German chess master and chess organizer (co-founder of the Berlin Pleiades)

Brian Reilly

Brian Patrick Reilly (12 December 1901, Menton, France – 29 December 1991, Hastings, England) was an Irish chess Master, writer and magazine editor.

Clarice Benini

Clarice Benini (8 January 1905, Florence - 8 September 1976, Poggio a Vico, Rufina) was an Italian chess master.

Constant Ferdinand Burille

Constant Ferdinand Burille (born 30 August 1866 – died October 1914, Boston) was an American chess master.

Edward Chamier

Edward Chamier (3 September 1840, Weymouth – 12 August 1892, Paris) was a French chess master.

Edward Lowe

Edward Löwe (1794–1880), also Loewe or Lowe, English chess master

Eric Sams

Their elder son, Richard, is a Japanese scholar and chess master working in Tokyo; their younger son Jeremy Sams is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and theatre director.

Ferenc Chalupetzky

Ferenc Chalupetzky (6 April 1886, Magyaróvár – 19 August 1951, Győr) was a Hungarian chess master and author.

Frederick Yates

:This article is about the chess master; for the English painters see Frederic Yates (1854–1919), or Fred Yates (1922–2008).

Hans Fahrni

Hans Fahrni (1 October 1874, Prague – 28 May 1939, Ostermundigen) was a Swiss chess master.

Józef Dominik

Józef Dominik (10 March 1894, Dobczyce - 10 September 1920, Krasne) was a Polish chess master.

Kleinstein

Zelman Kleinstein (1910 – after 1939), Palestine/Israeli chess master

Kmoch

Hans Kmoch (1894–1973), Jewish Austrian-American chess master and -journalist

László Tapasztó

László Tapasztó Binet (born January 1930, Orosháza, Hungary) a Hungarian–Venezuelan chess master.

Max Judd

Max Judd (Maximilian Judkiewicz) (27 December 1851, Tenczynek near Kraków, Poland – 7 May 1906, St. Louis, USA) was an American chess master.

Menčík

Olga Menchik (1908, Moscow – 1944, Kent), a British female chess master

Meredith Belbin

Having an interest in group as well as individual behaviour, but with no particular theories about teams, Belbin enlisted the aid of three other scholars: Bill Hartston, mathematician and international chess master; Jeanne Fisher, an anthropologist who had studied Kenyan tribes; and Roger Mottram, an occupational psychologist.

Nicholas MacLeod

Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod (8 February 1870, Quebec – 27 September 1965, Spokane, Washington) was a Scottish–Canadian chess master.

Ruy López

Ruy López de Segura, 16th-century Spanish priest and early chess master

Solomon Rubinstein

Solomon Rubinstein (1868, Poland - 27 November 1931, Los Angeles, USA) was a Polish–American chess master.

Taupe

These boards were used by chess master George Koltanowski in his chess tournaments in which he played blindfolded against dozens of people at a time.

Vladimir Arlazarov

In 1965 at Alexander Kronrod’s laboratory at the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Vladimir Arlazarov co-developed the ITEP Chess Program, together with Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Anatoly Uskov and Alexander Zhivotovsky, advised by Russian chess master Alexander Bitman and three-time world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.