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2012 – Greensboro, NC, August 30 - September 3. Under the efforts and patronage of the Carolinas Chess Initiative, High Point University, and organizers Dr. Walter High and Gary Newsom, the event moved to the Embassy Suites Airport Hotel in Greensboro, NC over Labor Day Weekend, alongside the North Carolina Open. It was a 9-round, 5-day event ...
The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
The Spanish chess magazine Jaque publishes its final issue in July. 40th Chess Olympiad is held in Istanbul from 27 August to 10 September. In the open event, Armenia wins the gold, with Russia and Ukraine earning silver and bronze. The women's event is won by Russia, followed by China and Ukraine.
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Interzonal of the World Chess Championship (most years, 1948–1993) USSR Chess Championship (most years) Linares International Chess Tournament (1981–2010) Reggio Emilia chess tournament; World Chess Championship 2007; Pearl Spring chess tournament (Nanjing, 2008) M-Tel Masters (Sofia) Tal Memorial (Moscow, 2009–2013) Bilbao Chess Masters ...
The gambit is accordingly considered unsound, and is almost never seen in high-level play. It is often referred to as the Chicago Gambit, [2] perhaps because Harold Meyer Phillips, remarkably, used it in an 1899 game in a simultaneous exhibition in Chicago to beat Harry Nelson Pillsbury, one of the strongest players in the world at the time. [3]
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Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess player and chess author who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). [1] He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to