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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 ...
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 ...
Woodward earned his first IM norm in the 2021 North American Junior Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. He earned four more IM norms in Novi Sad, Serbia. [2] [3]In October 2022, Woodward earned his first GM norm at the 1000GM Hollywood Masters with a score of 6.5/9, defeating grandmasters Illia Nyzhnyk and Gergely Kántor. [4]
Yugoslavia's bright new prospect Ljubomir Ljubojević, shares first place at Sarajevo with Bruno Parma (both 10/15), ahead of Vladimir Antoshin and Georgi Tringov (both 9½/15). Keres wins at Budapest with 10/15, ahead of László Szabó (9/15) and Borislav Ivkov (8½/15). Evgeny Vasiukov and Mark Taimanov share victory at Skopje with 11/15.
The Chess Room holds regular USCF and FIDE rated tournaments, including blitz and rapid events. On May 2, 2019, the Mechanics' Institute Club Rapid Championship brought 13 Grandmasters and 37 titled players in total, making it the strongest tournament ever held in the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 26 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 26 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (translation: "Book of the liberal invention and art of the game of chess") is one of the first books published about modern chess in Europe, after Pedro Damiano's 1512 book. It was written by Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura in 1561 and published in Alcalá de Henares.