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	Nigel Short - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Short won the British Chess Championship in 1984, 1987, and 1998 and the English Championship in 1991.
		In April 2003 he won the Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament held in Budapest ahead of Boris Gelfand, Judit Polgar and Péter Lékó among others (Polgar and Lékó were in the world's top ten at the time).
		In 2004 he won the Commonwealth Chess Championship and the Gibraltar Chess Congress as well as a tournament in Taiyuan, China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nigel_Short (350 words)

	Chess Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first known photograph of chess players was taken by Fox Talbot, father of the calotype process, in 1843.
		She was the woman's world chess championship challenger in 1927 and 1933.
		The first composed chess problem was by the caliph Mutasim Billah of Baghdad around 840 A.D. The earliest known European collections of chess problems were copied ath the English monasteries of Abbotsbury and Cerne Abbey in Dorset around 1250.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/p.html (2382 words)

	No entry for Indians in British chess championship
		Indian chess players will not be participating in the British chess championship, one of the biggest prize-money tournaments in the world, from next year after the organisers caved in to pressure and decided to restrict participation to English and Irish players.
		The British championship carries a first prize of 10,000 pounds and there were lot of murmurs about participating countries after Indian International Master R B Ramesh won it last year. Many domestic players had then shown their dissent and most of them gave the championship a miss this time.
		The British Chess Federation, however, has not said anything about the appearance money part in the accord it has reached on restricted participation and it remains to be seen whether from next year the likes of Nigel Short, Jonathan Speelman and many other top British Grandmasters turn up for the event.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/jul/28chess.htm (336 words)

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		However, chess, unlike the Japanese game of GO, does not really lend itself to handicapping (other than time) and the practice of material handicaps seemed to die out towards the end of the 19th century, although I am unclear exactly how and when this came about.
		The conditions were that the match would be won by the first player to score five wins, but in the case of many draws (as proved to be the case), after the first five draws (not counted) subsequent remises were scored as half a point to each player.
		Neither have the internal dissensions, which, unhappily, have been fermenting in the Metropolitan Chess world, been the cause of dissolution; though how they might have affected the prosperity of the Magazine, if it had continued to appear, would have remained to be seen.
	www.chesscafe.com /text/kibitz49.txt (4995 words)

	Chess Trivia
		Bill Hartston won the British men's chess championship while his wife, Jana Malypetrova Hartston (1947-), won the British women's championship in 1974.
		He wrote a chess column for 62 years, from 1893 to 1955 in the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle." He published "The American Chess Bulletin" from 1904 to 1963, a period of 59 years.
		He was the winner of the 1991 British Championship as well.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/h.html (1048 words)

	British Chess Problem Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The British Chess Problem Society, founded in 1918, is the world's oldest chess problem society.
		It exists to promote the knowledge and enjoyment of chess compositions, and membership is open to chess enthusiasts in all countries.
		British Chess Problemists An introduction to eminent names from British chess problem history.
	www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk (550 words)

	19th Century British Chess Pieces Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chess may not immediately spring to mind as the most exciting collectable market, but its capacity to turn a board game into headlines should not be underestimated.
		Chess (from the Persian word Shah) is a board game and mental sport for two players.
		Chess." The game in Europe since that time has been almost the same as is played today.
	www.chess-set-net.com /directory/19th-century-british-chess-pieces.html (830 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edinburgh: Indian players will not be participating in the British Chess Championship, one of the biggest prize money tournaments of the world, from next year after the organisers caved in to pressure and decided to restrict participation to English and Irish players.
		The British championship carries a first prize of £10,000 and there were lot of murmurs about participating countries after Indian International Master R.B. Ramesh won last year.
		However, the British Chess Federation has not said anything about the appearance money part in the accord it has reached on restricted participation.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030729/asp/sports/story_2211480.asp (290 words)

	Encyclopedia: Roger Penrose
		Roger Penrose is the son of scientist Lionel S. Penrose and Margaret Leathes, and the brother of mathematician Oliver Penrose and chess grandmaster Jonathan Penrose.
		Jonathan Penrose (born 1933) is an English chess grandmaster who won the British Chess Championship ten times from 1958 to 1969.
		In 1989 he was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize of the British Institute of Physics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Roger-Penrose (3311 words)

	CHESS PROBLEM NEWS, by John Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the first time since 1974 that the British Delegate has been President of the Commission, and Great Britain is the only country to have provided more than one President (the late Comins Mansfield was the previous British holder of the post).
		The British team won the match by the convincing margin of 37 points (147:110), largely because British entries gained the first five places in the section for direct-mate 2- and 3-movers.
		British composers continue to gain awards for their problems in composing tourneys with international participation.
	www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk /reports.html (954 words)

	British Chess Magazine: The Chess Shop and the Bridge Shop
		One thought - the last time the British Chess Federation held its annual congress in London was in 1948 - coincidentally, this was also the last time the Olympics were held in England's capital.
		Even if it is not the end, future human chess superstars will have to think carefully before accepting sackfuls of cash for playing against a computer, because there is a high price to pay in terms of the loss of their professional prestige.
		Chess was banned in Iran between 1979 and 1988 but it has since returned to the game with enthusiasm and success (viz.
	www.bcmchess.co.uk (8215 words)

	British Federation for Correspondence Chess: British Correspondence Chess Championship
		The British Correspondence Chess Championship has been in existence for more than 80 years and is an annual tournament to decide the British Champion.
		At the BFCC Executive Committee meeting it was decided that starting from the 15th October 2003, the BCCC will revert to a one year cycle.
		Applications for entry to these tournaments, together with the appropriate fee, should be sent to the Tournament Director.
	www.bfcc-online.org.uk /british.htm (124 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Indian wins chess championship
		The contest, organised by the International Chess Federation, or FIDE, is a rival to the title recently won in London by Vladimir Kramnik, when he beat the former undisputed champion, Garry Kasparov.
		He burst on to the international chess scene as a teenager in 1987, when he captured the Juniors Crown in the Philippines.
		It was the first world chess championship played in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, after which the game was briefly banned.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1086000/1086214.stm (392 words)

	British Chess Magazine: New Chess Books, Chess CDs and Chess Bargains
		Coverage includes all facets of chess play, records of matches, tournaments and the games of individual players, works on, and collections of, chess problems, historical works, periodicals and other serial publications, works on the games derived from chess and literary works in which reference to chess is made.
		The chess world was watching closely, but it was the actions of bystander William Greenwood Walker, who carefully recorded each move of the 85 games, that would have the greatest impact on the future of chess.
		From the most unfortunate players in chess history to the longest queen moves, and from the longest tournaments to the record time for thinking about the next move, everything is included here - this amusing, entertaining, and often astounding guide is a must for all chess players.
	www.bcmchess.co.uk /chessbooks/bcmnew.html (5841 words)

	Smith & Williamson British Bus Chess Championship
		The Smith and Williamson British Bus Chess Championship took place Sunday 1 August in Scarborough as one of the curtain-raisers for the Smith and Williamson British Chess Championships.
		I guess you have all heard of extreme ironing, boxing chess and other such daring activities, well, to herald the start of the 91st British Championships there was an enterprising contest to find out who would be the British Bus Champion....
		However it must be said that all the players were impressive throughout, keeping the board and pieces steady, re-constructing positions and having to play chess whilst on a moving bus requires mental and physical endurance and dexterity.
	www.bcf.org.uk /events/bcf2004/bus.htm (546 words)

	Khan
		Born in a part of British Chess Championship in 1929, 1932 and 1933 and played...
		Muhammad Yakub Khan Muhammad Yakub Khan (British occupation during his reign.
		Born Mohammad Zahir Shah and the elder brothe...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/khan.html (1439 words)

	Alexander_Hugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hardy knew that, but for the time he devoted to chess, he would have easily made his mark as a research mathematician.
		He was captain for the British Chess Federation and played in Olympiad competitions abroad, except when the competitions were in Eastern Europe.
		It is interesting to note that, although he was born in Ireland, he played chess for England, something which was certainly noted when he played in the Dublin Zonal in 1957.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Alexander_Hugh.html (1233 words)

	A moment to cherish for Ramesh
		Belittled in the Indian chess circles for being grossly overrated, Humpy, for once, showed her capabilities and proved equal to higher-rated players such as top seed Sasikiran, Hari and Sandipan Chanda.
		She still holds the record for the youngest ever women's champion in the annual championship which started nearly nine decades ago.
		Overall, this year's British championship will be remembered as the one dominated by the Indians.
	www.hinduonnet.com /tss/tss2535/25350650.htm (1051 words)

	rediff.com sports: R B Ramesh talks about his triumph in the British Open chess championship
		So, it came as a shock to everyone when an unknown Indian, named R B Ramesh, who was only seeded 26th in the championship, played some spectacular chess to emerge triumphant.
		The effect was visible at the British Open chess championship.
		For Indian chess, it was a great championship, with Ramesh winning the title and world junior champion Koneru Humpy regaining the ladies crown, which she won in 2000.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2002/aug/19ramesh.htm (1985 words)

	The AICCF Bulletin Chap08
		During his short stay in England, Sultan Khan won the British Chess Championship and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads at Prague (1931) and Folkestone (1933).
		It is often said that Sultan Khan was a beginner at chess and that he learned the rules only shortly before being brought from India but he was a master at the Indian version of chess.
		In the 1950s, there was an article in a British Chess Magazine which said that Sultan Khan had been found to be an opera singer in Durban, South Africa.
	www.geocities.com /aiccf/may03/chap08.htm (1077 words)

	British Rapidplay 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1986 however, following initiatives from local chess "activists" Nick Nixon and Neil Bramson, in association with well-known BCF national chess organiser Stuart Reuben, a generous sponsorship deal was secured with Tetley's brewery to stage a national chess event in Leeds.
		And so the British Rapidplay Chess Championships were born.
		The early runnings of the championships were staged in the palatial splendour of the Queens Hotel in the centre of Leeds.
	www.british-rapidplay.org.uk /history.htm (363 words)

	British Federation for Correspondence Chess: Home page
		Michael Micklethwaite is the new British Correspondence Chess Champion.
		Championship: Lightowlers v Micklethwaite and Candidates B: Nicholls v Clifford
		Chess Today features excellent tournament news and games, the latest issue analyses Adams v Kramnik.
	www.bfcc-online.org.uk (940 words)

	Malcolm Pein on the British Championships Round 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chess Club (to read the columns you need to register which is free).
		Grandmaster Aaron Summerscale and International Master Adam Hunt are the only players on maximum points after three rounds of the Smith and Williamson British Chess Championship at Edinburgh.
		The Biel Chess Festival is under way in Switzerland with a category sixteen all play all the star attraction.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/event/chgbr03/rd3.html (414 words)

	British Chess Federation - Smith & Williamson British Chess Championships 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		British Chess Federation - Smith and Williamson British Chess Championships 2004
		The 91st Annual Championships of the British Chess Federation
		British Bus Chess Championship - touring the Yorkshire coastline while playing chess!
	www.bcf.org.uk /events/bcf2004 (105 words)

	tribuneindia... Sports
		BEIJING, Aug 12 — The World Athletics Championships are set to become a new battle ground between supercoach Ma Junren and the Chinese sports establishment, even though his runners will not be there.
		But it was Guerrouj, plagued by haemorrhoids since he broke the mile world record in Rome last month, who took the eye and stormed clear of Ngeny, who tried and failed to break several records including El Guerrouj’s 1500m mark, and came home in the best time of the year 3min 28.57 sec.
		The selected players will represent Ludhiana in the Punjab State Junior Badminton Championship scheduled to be held at Sangrur from August 29 to 31 and in the Punjab State Senior Badminton Championship slated to be held at Patiala from September 16 to 18.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99aug13/sports.htm (5424 words)

	News - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The alarmed 15-year old knew just enough German to grasp that the words the airman was blurting out meant he was giving himself up, and triumphantly he conducted him back to where the police were still around their phone box.
		A colleague who once said that chess was only a board game earned the brisk retort that, no, chess was an art form.
		When he was 13 he took part in a simultaneous display at Leeds Chess Club by the world champion Dr Alexander Alekhine, holding the chess Master in a game for four hours before losing.
	www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=887848 (598 words)

	English Chess Federation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The sudden and unexpected death of Steve Boniface, aged 54, the westcountry's best-known chess organiser, was announced this week...
		I played in, and won, this Championship 5 years in a row and cannot play due to new job commitments, but it would be excellent experience.
		Birmingham Royal Ballet present de Valois' Checkmate and the Company is offering all members of the British Chess Federation an exclusive discount on performances in Birmingham, London, Plymouth and Edinburgh...
	www.bcf.org.uk (462 words)

	Smith & Williamson British Chess Championships 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte annexed the Smith and Williamson British Chess Championship after settling for a draw with GM Joe Gallagher of Switzerland in the 11th and final round game here.
		Kunte, who was in sole lead before the commencement of the final game, tallied 8.5 points in all to finish half a point ahead of compatriot GM P Harikrishna, GM Paul Motwani of Scotland and top seeded GM Vassilios Kotronias of Cyprus, who all tied for second.
		It was the second successive time that an Indian won the British Championship after International Master R B Ramesh won it in 2002.
	www.chathurangam.com /abroad2k3/british/index.asp (611 words)

	Ampleforth College - Ampleforth Junior Masters
		THE BIGGEST PRIZE in British chess was won at Ampleforth College yesterday (Sunday, October 27, 2002) by a 15-year-old boy from Surrey.
		A record entry of 90 of the UK’s best young chess players of both sexes were drawn to North Yorkshire for the Ampleforth Junior Masters, proving in its third year to have become established as the effective British junior championship.
		Runner up was Chris Dorrington, 15, whose many chess achievements include a third in the UK Chess Challenge this year and winning the British Under 12 Championship in 1999.
	www.ampleforthcollege.york.sch.uk /news/2002/pr021103.htm (496 words)

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