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In that same year, he finished fourth in the WSOP $2,500 pot limit Omaha hold 'em event. [3] Ciaffone was the president of the Michigan Chess Association in 2003, is the author of four books on poker and two books on chess, and has been awarded the Life Master title by both the United States Chess Federation and the American Contract Bridge League.
In May 2018, he provided training for the Bahamas Chess Federation's members for the 43rd Chess Olympiad. [8] He served as the captain of the Bahamas Chess Federation's open section team for the 44th Chess Olympiad in 2022. [9] [10] In October 2022, he won the Michigan Chess Association men's championships. [11] [12]
The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [ 1 ] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [ 2 ]
Leon Stolzenberg (18 October 1895 – 25 October 1974) was an American chess player. Stolzenberg had been a medic in the hospital at Tarnopol in World War I.Entering the United States after the war, he became one of the leading national and international correspondence chess players.
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 ...
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He attended Bates Academy, a Detroit primary school for gifted students, where he joined the school's chess team and trained under Harold Steen. [3] He became a USCF Master at age 17 and has won a number of chess championships in Michigan, also qualifying for the Denker Tournament of High School Champions twice. [4]
Tansel Turgut (born 1966) is a Turkish-American cardiologist and chess player. He was born in Turkey, and moved to the US in 1992. [1] He practices medicine at the Beacon Medical Group's Advanced Cardiology Specialists division in South Bend, Indiana. [2] Turgut was the 1997 state chess champion of Louisiana, and the 1998 state champion of ...