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First International Chess Tournament [1] was a chess competition held in San Antonio, Texas, from November 19 to December 11, 1972. Sponsored by fast food franchise Church's Chicken as a marketing strategy to promote the company and an attempt to capitalize on the rise of the game's popularity in the U.S, the tournament was regarded at the time ...
In January 2023, Woodward was named to the age 11 section of the All-America Chess Team. [6] He has been part of the All-America Chess Team since 2020. In April 2023, Woodward earned his second GM norm at the Vezerkepzo GM April tournament with a score of 7.0/9, defeating GM Kaido Külaots and GM Valeriy Neverov .
Claude Shannon. The Shannon number, named after the American mathematician Claude Shannon, is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10 120, based on an average of about 10 3 possibilities for a pair of moves consisting of a move for White followed by a move for Black, and a typical game lasting about 40 such pairs of moves.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
On December 08, 2020, Murzin won the 2020 Russian Championship (Juniors). This was his first National Championship title. [4]In the Chess World Cup 2021, where he was seeded 151st, he reached the second round shortly before his 15th birthday, [1] [5] losing to 23rd-seeded Vladislav Artemiev by one point in a tiebreaker. [6]
He finishes ahead of Hort (10½/15) and Ivkov (10/15). [6] Korchnoi wins the 38th Soviet Championship with 16/21, ahead of Tukmakov (14½/21) and Leonid Stein (14/21). Solid progress continues to be made by last year's World Junior Champion, Anatoly Karpov, as he scores 12/21. Larsen wins the US Open Chess Championship in Boston. Over three ...
The national chess championship of Mexico has been organized annually since 1973 by FENAMAC (Spanish: Federación Nacional de Ajedrez de Mexico A.C.), the Mexican chess federation. Known since 1997 as the National Absolute Championship ( Campeonato Nacional Absoluto ) and previously as the National Closed Championship ( Campeonato Nacional ...
Players' new ratings centre on the average rating of entrants to their competition: then if having achieved better than a net draw set of result, minus the number of percentage points it is over 50% (e.g. a 12–4 or 24–8 wins-to-losses result is, as ever, noted as a 75% tournament outcome) – if having achieved worse than this then the ...