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  International Grandmaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
International Grandmaster titles are also awarded to composers and solvers of chess problems, and to correspondence chess players (by the International Correspondence Chess Federation).
The title "Grandmaster" was first formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who in 1914 awarded it to five players (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall), who were finalists of a tournament in Saint Petersburg which he had partially funded.
A Grandmaster is typically in the top 0.02% percent at the time he or she earns the title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Grandmaster   (737 words)

  
 Meng’s Martial Arts Makes History Again
Grandmaster’s Ip Chun and Ip Ching pledged their full support to the Ving Tsun Chi Tong by promising to collect many artifacts belonging to their late father, great grandmaster Ip Man, and bringing them personally to the museum during next year’s grand opening.
Grandmaster Moy Yat, and renowned artist and sculptor, told the audience why great grandmaster Ip Man commissioned him to make the Ving Tsun chops and why Ip Man supervised their completion over the course of five years.
Grandmaster Ip Ching: Because, during the exchange of battle using the kwon, the attacking point on the pole (the weapon surface) is very small.
www.mengsofaz.com /articles/vtchallenge.htm   (3388 words)

  
 Shaolin Grandmasters
With this knowledge and skill he was appointed Grandmaster of the temple and held that position until the temple was finally destroyed by the emperor's army led by a renegade monk.
Learning of the eminent destruction of the temple, Grandmaster Su and his disciples abandoned the temple and retreated into the mountains to further their training and preserve the art for Shao-Lin.
One evening as Grandmaster Ie was taking a shortcut through what he believed to be an abandoned military encampment he was surprised be a sentry.
www.shaolinlasvegas.com /grandmasters.htm   (646 words)

  
 Kung Fu New Orleans - Shaolin-Do New Orleans, Kung Fu & Tai Chi
The first of the three Grandmasters was born in Fukien in 1849.
Grandmaster Ie tied Master Sin's wrists to his feet in an arched position similar to the I Chin Ching #35 posture.
Grandmaster Thé continued his education and was on the verge of completing his Master's Degree when Ie Chang Ming died at the age of 96.
www.nolashaolin.com /grand.html   (1692 words)

  
 Khaleej Times Online
DUBAI - Seeded Grandmasters were toppled in crucial matches held in the 14th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
It was a rare occasion as grandmasters took risks and went all out for victory since for Bocharov Dmitry and Vladimirov Evgeny a casual draw would plunge them to lower rankings and out of contention of the championship title.
Both grandmasters were rewarded for their enterprising approach.
www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?section=sports&xfile=data/sports/2004/August/sports_August319.xml   (491 words)

  
 DJ Muggs vs. GZA - Grandmasters - Stylus Magazine
Like all of GZA’s works, Grandmasters is lyrically driven, and its content implicitly draws parallels—just as the title does—between the related skills required to conquer the games of chess and hip-hop.
Grandmasters contains plenty of the usual Genius tracks where it’s explicitly laid out that GZA and the Clan are unstoppable forces of nature, and given how good GZA is at performing this type of song, it’s hard to imagine that they’ll ever grow stale.
Grandmasters is a heady title for an album, but these two are as qualified for it as anyone else outside of Kasparov.
www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=3509   (597 words)

  
 Grandmasters of the Knights Templar
So this Grandmaster List is a fake...by what process was that determined...I noticed that you said that "most" scholars feel that they are fakes...so obviously, as in the case of Henry's Voyage, there is doubt...
According to most scholars who have commented on the prose style used, it is quite obviously the product of a seventeenth or eighteenth century mind, well steeped in the masonic lore of that time and bears no relationship whatsoever to the phraseology current in the early years of the fourteenth century.
Some absolute howlers are made in their alleged titles which quite obviously indicate that no-one from that social class had anything to do with the document whatsoever much less became a Grandmaster repsonsible for it..
sinclair.quarterman.org /templars/grandmasters.html   (1535 words)

  
 BBC News | SCI/TECH | Chess brains take it easy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
They found that highly skilled chess grandmasters made more use of expert memory, apparently calling up chunks of remembered games, while amateurs made more use of an area called the medial temporal lobe, trying to analyse moves they had not seen before.
Only the grandmasters were able to beat or even draw with the machine.
Magnetic analysis of the players' brain activity showed that the amateur players' brains were working hard at encoding and analysing new information, taking it in and considering scenarios they had not encountered before.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/1480365.stm   (410 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - the "Jedi Grandmasters" project - Volunteers wanted!
The only way for a Jedi Master to become Grandmaster is to receive a sign of enlightenment from the Force itself during sleep or meditation, usually in the form of a dream of vision.
The Grandmaster rank is wonderful and I like them not using sabers...or maybe having a special Force power that taps into and harnesses the pure energy of the saber.
The Grandmaster then rips the lightsaber out of the Sith's hand using the Force, then with the saber handle hovering in mid-air, the Grandmaster explodes it into a thousand pieces.
boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=16546641   (1819 words)

  
 Grandmasters’ open letter to FIDE
We, leading Grandmasters of the world, realize the undeniable significance and importance of a possible reunification of the chess world.
We understand that the situation is complicated, but at the same time, we are sure that there are better ways of reunification than the one which has been considered in Prague.
We also express our concern about the fact that the Grandmasters' Committee has not been established yet, though such a body could become the media of expression for chessplayers in issues that are directly related to their professional interests.
www.chesscenter.com /twic/pragueletter.html   (318 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess prodigies and mini-grandmasters
We mentioned that Parimarjan Negi "is now clearly set to become the world's youngest grandmaster." This does not imply that he is already a grandmaster (as some interpreted it).
More serious than the above was that we copied a list of youngest grandmasters from an old report that is very often used (not just by us) when people talk about chess prodigies and young grandmasters.
Magnus Carlsen became the second-youngest grandmaster in history at 13, and broke Fischer's record by becoming a world championship candidate at 15 years and one month.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2858   (1104 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF HIGHER MARTIAL ARTS EDUCATION
Most of the Grandmasters have devoted their entire lives to the Martial Arts, but were never recognized as legitimate professionals.
Grandmaster Reagan I is the Founder of Jiyu-Bushi Karate and the President of the
In 1986 Grandmaster Yang was the General secretary for Europe of the Korean Hap-Ki-Do Federation.
www.angelfire.com /ks/wmal/page15.html   (3156 words)

  
 7 Grandmasters (1978)
Extras: A two-page insert with informative liner notes by Linn Haynes and trailers for 7 Grandmasters, Zatoichi 26, Sure Death, Samurai Fiction, Kunoichi, Red Shadow, and Legend of the Wolf (as New Big Boss).
Jack Lung in one of his finest roles plays Shang Kuan-cheng, an aging grandmaster of Pai Mei kung fu who is joined by his daughter (Nancy Yen) and his three students as they travel across China challenging the top seven grandmasters.
7 Grandmasters is probably the best example of this apart from Ninja in the Dragon's Den which featured more ambitious and unusual action sequences, but lacked the previous film's tight focus on unrelenting kung fu.
www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/sevengrandmasters.htm   (1000 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Are chess computers improving faster than grandmasters?
The surprising conclusion was this: top grandmasters and top chess computers are dead-even, and they have been stuck that way for some time.
In chess terms, if a top grandmaster had played 100 games against a top computer, the grandmaster would have won the match by a score of about 85-15 (roughly speaking).
The remaining top-200 grandmasters, as a group, are slightly weaker than the top computers.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1244   (1150 words)

  
 Soke Council Head of Family Sokeship Grandmasters Council The goal of the World Soke Council being an international sokeship organization, is to bring together headfounders, founders, fathers, grandmasters, head of family and inheritors of martial arts styles and systems from across the globe.
There are some that say a Grandmaster must be in his 60's or it goes against tradition.
All of the worlds greatest and best known martial arts systems were founded while their masters were in their 20's and 30's; Tae Kwon Do, Ju Jitsu, Shotokan, Jeet Kune Do and others.
www.soke.org   (490 words)

  
 ACCS/ About ACCS: FAQ/ Few Grandmasters
In the Chinese a grandmaster is like the grandfather of the family.
As head of my system, my rank of grandmaster was simply earned through the course of time.
Remember, there is no one special who waves his magic wand and makes you a master or grandmaster, it is yourself that makes you what you are, by your actions, efforts and determination to succeed at whatever you do.
www.kungfu.org /faqfewgrands.shtml   (823 words)

  
 Grandmasters
You earn rating points after achieving good results in official chess tournaments recognised by the world chess federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs, referred to as FIDE from its French acronym).
Currently there are 565 men with the title of grandmaster in addition to 102 women grandmasters.
The honorary grandmaster title has also been awarded to 5 men and 1 woman.
www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk /studentwebs/session4/18/grandmasters.htm   (84 words)

  
 What Deep Blue Learned From Grandmasters
Joel Benjamin, a grandmaster, joined the team full-time in August, in the latter stages of the chip design.
It is the kind of chess that grandmasters generally say they play better than machines, because the power of individual moves is subtle, deeply resonant, rather than calculable.
He once asked grandmaster Walter Browne about a particular position in which each side had the same number of pawns and pieces and the same number of controlled squares.
partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/051897weber.html   (1706 words)

  
 Grandmasters
Some of the arms, particularly of the early masters, one or two possibly attributed anachronistically, gave rise to various interpretations and these are also reproduced where available.
The two Caracciolo grandmasters are also included, although the first, Riccardo, an anti-grandmaster, is the less eligible since he was a non-elected appointee of Pope Urban VI.
The engravings of the Great Siege of Malta, 1565 as well as the second set of Grandmasters' portraits up to La Valette are by Antonio F. Lucini, reproduced from the frescos of Matteo Perez d'Aleccio in the Palace of the Grandmasters,Valletta.
www.aragon10.free-online.co.uk /grandmasters.html   (744 words)

  
 GZA & DJ Muggs - Grandmasters - Hip-Hop Album Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The rest of “Grandmasters” is just solid, outside the box beats and rhymes.
One problem with “Grandmasters” is GZA’s delivery believe it or not.
There’s some redundancy (after all he did produce the entire record), but it avoids monotony because the beats are very good.
www.nobodysmiling.com /hiphop/album_review/85385.php   (1100 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Grandmasters Display Skills in 'Chessathon'
Despite the windy weather, city councillors Jonathan Myers and Francis H. Duehay '55 and many schoolchildren were on hand to play against the grandmasters.
Weisberg, who was a spectator at the matches, was impressed not only by the grandmaster's skills, but also by their attitudes toward the exhibition.
The proceeds, collected from entry fees to the games and contributions made by dozen of local businesses, are estimated at between $1000 and $2000 and will go to an emergency homeless shelter fund operated by the PBHA, the campus' largest community service organization.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=240747   (227 words)

  
 rediff.com sports: Sasikiran wins Grandmasters' tournament
National champion and Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran won the inaugural international Grandmasters' chess tournament, held at Sibbal Palace in Raipur, on Friday.
Grandmasters Andrey Shariayazdanov of Russia and Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran finished second and third respectively, with eight points to their credit.
He started this year by winning an international Grandmasters' tournament in Hastings, England, and won three international tournaments in India.
www.rediff.com /sports/2002/mar/15sasi.htm   (243 words)

  
 Who are the "real" grandmasters?? - Kung Fu Magazine Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I'm a grandmaster of Van kuen gung fu.
The fact that "grandmaster" is just a word and does not have much backing has been pointed out many times.
It would be so much better if we didn't use the terms "master" or "grandmaster", or if we recongnized that these are honorary terms and have nothing to do with skill.
ezine.kungfumagazine.com /forum/showthread.php?t=34933   (1154 words)

  
 AllHipHop.com : Reviews
Grandmasters stays almost entirely within the subject-matter of Hip-Hop and its progression.
Unlike similar efforts by KRS-One or K-Os, this album's music and lyrics dare to be dark, and almost painful in the pursuit.
An MC known for playing games with his words, and a producer revered for his eccentric instrumentation, Grandmasters grows predictably from its Soul Assassins roots.
www.allhiphop.com /reviews?ID=678   (527 words)

  
 Grandmasters by Genius / Genius/GZA CD
GRANDMASTERS pairs premiere Wu-Tang MC Genius/GZA with Cypress Hill beatminder DJ Muggs.
The result was one of the freshest discs to come out of the Wu bullpen since the group's early, groundbreaking heyday.
This is the kind of album that leaves you wanting more remember that feeling, unlike some of the pretentious mediocre rap albums that are poisoning the young listeners ears these days.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6974522/a/Grandmasters.htm   (511 words)

  
 In Chess, Masters Again Fight Machines - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The possibility, even probability, of losing - and perhaps losing badly - to a machine could have particularly discouraged grandmasters, who are known to have egos that match their abilities and who sometimes have difficulty accepting defeat.
More grandmasters are taking up the challenge posed by computers.
Today, at the ABC studios in Times Square, Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan, who is reigning champion of the World Chess Federation and ranked 32nd in the world, will play a one-game match against a chess program developed by Accoona Corporation.
www.nytimes.com /2005/06/21/arts/21mast.html?ex=1277006400&en=e3e4a28869315738&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (911 words)

  
 BallerStatus.net News: DJ Muggs, Gza Get Their Chess Game Up With Grandmasters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The highest level of the DJ or the emcee is the Grandmaster -- it's synonymous with both," Muggs explained.
Grandmasters showcases Gza's power wit the pen, as he writes intricate rhymes on a variety of topics from the past and present.
DJ Muggs vs. Gza: Grandmasters is slated to drop October 25 on Angeles Records.
www.ballerstatus.net /news/read/id/56977762   (713 words)

  
 Grandmasters
elcome to Grandmasters section, where you can find games analyzed by strong grandmasters, find out more about them or get a training from them.
Jaan Ehlvest - Exclusively for Grandmaster Corner Jaan commented four of his games from 1999 FIDE World Championships in Las Vegas.
You should know that in 80's Jaan was the 3rd player in the world, after Karpov and Kasparov and he played many games with them.
www.grandmastercorner.com /GC/gc.htm   (204 words)

  
 European Grandmasters trek to Africa
In a recent entry at ChessBase.com, the English Grandmaster wrote an interesting photo essay about his trip which, among other things, expressed his desire to vie for the President of the Commonwealth Chess Association.
Having made a name for himself as both a chess Grandmaster and a soccer player on the Norwegian national team, a knee injury ended his soccer career.
Unfortunately, none of the South African International Masters were on hand to challenge the Grandmaster.
www.thechessdrum.net /newsbriefs/2005/NB_Africa.html   (212 words)

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