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  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Chigorin
    gunpowder works. Chigorin's parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly...
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  • The Chigorin Defense is a chess opening named for 19th-century Russian master Mikhail Chigorin. An uncommonly played defense to the Queen's Gambit, it...
    5 KB (467 words) - 18:14, 3 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for World Chess Championship
    world title against Mikhail Chigorin in 1889, Isidor Gunsberg in 1891, and Chigorin again in 1892. In 1887, the American Chess Congress started work on drawing...
    105 KB (10,366 words) - 22:43, 5 May 2025
  • title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...
    29 KB (3,260 words) - 17:21, 6 May 2025
  • Chigorin can refer to: Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), Russian chess player Chigorin Defense, a chess opening Chigorin Memorial, a chess tournament 7268...
    271 bytes (57 words) - 07:49, 20 May 2019
  • Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...
    37 KB (3,378 words) - 20:02, 14 May 2025
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    result of the Hastings 1895 chess tournament: From this table, it can be seen that tournament winner Pillsbury lost to Chigorin, Lasker and Schlechter; drew...
    50 KB (4,806 words) - 05:07, 11 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for World Chess Championship 1892
    describe chess moves. With the match tied at 8–8 after 21 games, Steinitz won the match after blunders by Chigorin in the next two games. Steinitz–Chigorin, game...
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  • Thumbnail for Bobby Fischer
    1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...
    213 KB (24,396 words) - 20:39, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Emanuel Lasker
    1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years...
    113 KB (10,626 words) - 08:34, 26 May 2025
  • Chigorin where White has played 10.d3 (or in the case of the Chigorin, 11.d3 with 10.Bc2 c5 included) instead of 10.d4 (in the case of the Chigorin,...
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    as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine...
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    Wilhelm Steinitz (category American chess players)
    source] In 1891 the Saint Petersburg Chess Society and the Havana Chess Club offered to organize another Steinitz–Chigorin match for the world championship...
    90 KB (8,397 words) - 08:35, 26 May 2025
  • The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
    510 KB (4,747 words) - 05:11, 14 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of World Chess Championships
    World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...
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  • Bardwick, Chess Tactics and Combinations Workbook, The Chess Detective, 2019, pp. 30. Complete game scores of the examples: Mikhail Chigorin vs. Wilhelm...
    33 KB (3,791 words) - 05:37, 15 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Empress (chess)
    by Ralph Betza BuyPoint Chess by Ralph Betza; contains a list of pieces with approximate values Chigorin Chess at The Chess Variant Pages (Betza comments...
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  • Thumbnail for Rook (chess)
    The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...
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  • World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Chess piece
    A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...
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