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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 ...
13 April Miguel Albareda Creus Spanish chess player, eight-time champion of Catalonia and 1958 Olympian for Spain, dies at age 93. 21 March Yuri Razuvaev Russian chess player and trainer, dies at age 66. 4 May Haukur Angantýsson Icelandic IM and winner of the 1976 Icelandic Chess Championship and 1979 World Open dies at age 63.
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]
Gareyev has participated in two Chess Olympiads: 2004 Calvià, Spain and 2006 Turin, Italy. Gareyev won the 20th Annual Chicago Open [3] and the 11th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational tournament. [4] Gareyev won the North American Open 2012 and tied for third in the U.S. Chess Championship 2013. He won the U.S. Open with an 8-1 clear-first ...
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Official Chess Handbook. David McKay. p. 287. LCCN 66013085. (History and winners list of the tournament through 1966.) "2016 US Chess Yearbook" (PDF). uschess.org. 2016 For years 1967–1971 and 1974–1978, U.S. Open prize lists from Chess Life were consulted. Root, Alexey (January 2010). "2009 U.S. Women's Open: Opening Up".
1992 – won US Open Chess Championship; 1993 – won World Team Chess Championship as a member of US team; 1998 – silver medal in 1998 Chess Olympiad as a member of US team; 2001 – won North American Open Chess Championship; 2002 – won Aeroflot Open (over 81 other grandmasters), [1] tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess ...