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Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful chess player between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, reaching the 1971 Candidates Tournament. During his career, Uhlmann played many of the top players of the time and won the East Germany Chess Championships 11 times.
In October 2022, Niemann filed a lawsuit against Carlsen, his company Play Magnus Group, Chess.com, Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer Daniel Rensch, and the grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura for defamation and unlawful collusion. The complaint contained allegations that statements in the Chess.com report had falsely accused Niemann of a more extensive ...
chess24.com was an Internet chess server in English and ten other languages, established in 2014 [1] by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. [2] [3] Chess24 also provided live coverage of major international chess tournaments, and hosted their own online tournaments, including the Magnus Carlsen Invitational.
Games like chess and checkers have "zugzwang" (or "zugpflicht"): a player must always make a move on their turn even if this is to their disadvantage. Over time, the term became especially associated with chess. According to chess historian Edward Winter, the term had been in use in German chess circles in the 19th century. [8]
This article documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches.. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous success was the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, but there was some controversy over whether the match conditions favored the computer.
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After the 1972 World Chess Championship, Fischer did not play a competitive game in public for nearly 20 years. [387] In 1977 he published three games he played against the MIT Greenblatt computer program, winning them all. [388] [389] He moved to the Los Angeles area and associated with the Worldwide Church of God for a time. [390]
Pontiac opened with lopsided loss at Central Catholic. Gadbury said after the game the Saints were the best team in the conference. BCC ran its slate to finish 9-0 and ranked third in Class 2A.