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Boris Gelfand was born 1968 in Minsk, Belarus (formerly part of the USSR), and emigrated to Israel in 1998 where he currently resides. He was awarded the GM title in 1989, and was one of the few players in the world to do so without first acquirin... | Read More
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Go all in in these small puzzles and solve the mate in 2. A little secret... GM Walter Browne didn't find the Momento de la Verdad and actually made a mate in 3 of it. Probably in serious time trouble. One of his trademarks.
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Amos Burn (1848 - 1925) was born in Hull, England. He learned how to play chess at age sixteen but did not play seriously until his mid-thirties. His best result was at Cologne 1898: 1st ahead of Rudolf Rezso Charousek, Wilhelm Steinitz, Mikhail C... | Read More
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Emanuel Lasker was the second "official" World Chess Champion, reigning for a record 27 years after he defeated the first World Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, in 1894. He was born in what was then Berlinchen in Preussia, now in Poland.
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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander was born 1909 in Cork, Republic of Ireland. Awarded the IM title in 1950 and the IMC title in 1970 he was British Champion in 1938 and 1956. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park with Harry Golombek d... | Read More
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Vassily Ivanchuk, (born 1969) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Ivanchuk has been a leading player in the world since 1988, ranking as high as No. 2 on the official FIDE Elo rating list (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007) and No. 1 briefly on th... | Read More
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Judit Polgar (born 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgar achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that... | Read More
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Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born 1992) is Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.
On 15 July 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days – the youngest Grandmaster in the h... | Read More
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Johannes Hermann Zukertort (1842–1888) was a leading chess master of German-Polish-Jewish origin. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which i... | Read More
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David Ionovich Bronstein, born February 19, 1924 in Belaya Tserkov was one of the strongest and most imaginative players to emerge from the talent-rich Soviet Union. In 1950 he won the Budapest Candidates to earn a match for the World Chess Champi... | Read More