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John David Bartholomew [1] (born September 5, 1986) is an American chess player, International Master, YouTuber, and entrepreneur. [2] He is from Eagan, Minnesota . Chess career
Stuart Rachels says that when he was twelve he saw Ben Finegold and his father Ron hustling in a chess club in Manhattan, offering 8:1 money bets on one-minute-per-player bullet games. [3] Finegold graduated high school in June 1986 at the age of 16. Afterward, he moved to Columbus, Ohio, to pursue chess. [4]
Ronald Watson Henley (born December 5, 1956, in Houston, Texas) is an American chess grandmaster, [1] writer, narrator and producer of chess videos, [2] as well as financial funding trader. For highschool, he went to Lamar High in Arlington Texas. He now works at Miami Country Day School and manages a chess club there.
Investing Carlsen's own money and that of US and Norwegian investors, [2] Play Magnus AS then began developing Play Magnus, a mobile computer chess app. The app released in 2014, and allowed users to play against a chess engine modeled after a database of thousands of positions from recorded games Carlsen played from the age of five and up.
Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. [3] One of the largest chess platforms in the world, [4] the site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available for accounts with subscriptions.
The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool of US$ 1 million. . The tour consisted of four super-tournaments (elite competitions), with the winners then playing in a Grand Final in August 2
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 is a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com.The tour started on 26 January 2024 and will end on 21 December 2024. It involves four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,00
Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position of the pieces on the back rank. It was introduced by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1996 to reduce the emphasis on opening preparation and to encourage creativity in play.