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Chess. (musical) Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War -era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls ...
László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively.
Andrea Botez. Andrea Botez (born April 6, 2002) is a Canadian chess player, commentator, and internet personality. [ 4] She is mostly known as part of the BotezLive Twitch channel with her sister Alexandra Botez. She is also credited as one of the creators who popularized chess on Twitch. [ 5]
20 May 1993 (age 31) Harlem, New York. Title. International Master (2014) FIDE rating. 2428 (May 2024) Peak rating. 2468 (May 2019) Kassa Korley (born 20 May 1993) is an American-born Danish chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM).
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players).
Racknitz was wrong both about the position of the operator and the dimensions of the automaton. [ 1] The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player ( German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török ), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess -playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a ...
Chess rating system. A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
Russian chess player Amina Abakarova faces a possible lifetime ban after allegedly allegedly tried to poison her opponent Umaiganat Osmanova by smearing pieces with mercury at a tournament in ...