Thompson's fame grew and he competed in a number of tournaments.
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The forerunner to the Blind Chess Olympiads was a blind chess tournament held in Rheinbreitbach, Germany in 1958.
He is known to have played in only two significant chess tournaments: the Second and Third American Chess Congresses in 1871 and 1874.
Pocket Fritz 4 (which uses the HIARCS chess engine) won the Copa Mercosur (a category 6 tournament) in Buenos Aires, Argentina with 9 wins and 1 draw on August 4–14, 2009, achieving a performance rating of 2898 while running on the HTC Touch HD mobile phone.
The exhibition also included an international chess tournament, the London 1862 chess tournament.
Kovchan competed in Grandmaster Group C of the 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament from 11–27 January 2013 in Wijk aan Zee where he finished 5th place by scoring 7½/13 (+3 =9 -1).
The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.
Making his international chess tournament debut at Ostend in 1906, where he won the brilliancy prize for his game against Amos Burn, Znosko-Borovsky's playing career was frequently interrupted by other events in his life.
The first time that game clocks were used in a chess tournament was in the London 1883 tournament.
The first modern chess tournament was not held until London 1851, and few tournaments were held in the 1870s, Hosmer's heyday.
The first Konex Master Chess Tournament organized by the founder and president of the Konex Foundation, Luis Ovsejevich, started off in Buenos Aires in 1977.
Since 2005, the company also organizes the strong annual M-Tel Masters chess tournament, which is attended by six of the world's best International Grandmasters.
Mtel Masters is an annual super-GM chess tournament held since 2005 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, sponsored and organized by the leading Bulgarian mobile network operator, M-Tel.
The first International Prague Chess Tournament was held in honour of the sixtieth anniversary of Franz Joseph I of Austria's elevation as monarch to the Austria-Hungary Empire.
In 1574–75 he lost the first known international Chess Tournament, which was held, at the invitation of King Philip II of Spain, at the Royal Court of Spain in El Escorial, close to Madrid, to Leonardo di Bona, a Calabrian lawyer, and to Paolo Boi, but placing ahead of 4th (and last) place finisher Alfonso Ceron .
World Open chess tournament, an annual open chess tournament played in the United States