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	Chess Set Tournament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Linares chess tournament - The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the JaÃ©n province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held.
		Hastings 1895 chess tournament - The chess tournament that was conducted at Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2 1895 has been called by many commentators as the greatest of all time, and a milestone in the history of chess, for several reasons.
		Candidates Tournament - The Candidates Tournament was a triannual chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.
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	Harry Nelson Pillsbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brooklyn chess club sponsored his journey to Europe to play in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, in which all the greatest players of the time participated.
		The 22-year-old Pillsbury became a celebrity in the United States and abroad by winning the tournament, finishing ahead of reigning world champion Lasker and former world champion Steinitz and his recent challenger Mikhail Chigorin who was second.
		Pillsbury was a very strong blindfold chess player, and could play checkers and [[chess] simultaneously while playing a hand of whist, and reciting a list of long words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Nelson_Pillsbury (629 words)

	Harry Nelson Pillsbury - Chesspedia, The Free Chess Encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org
		The Brooklyn chess club sponsored his journey to Europe to play in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, in which all the greatest players of the time participated.
		The 22-year-old Pillsbury became a celebrity in the United States and abroad by winning the tournament, finishing ahead of reigning world champion Lasker and former world champion Steinitz and his recent challenger Mikhail Chigorin who was second.
		Pillsbury was a very strong blindfold chess player, and could play checkers and chess simultaneously while playing a hand of whist, and reciting a list of long words.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Harry_Nelson_Pillsbury.htm (633 words)

	Emanuel Lasker
		He was taught Chess at the age of 11 by his elder brother, Berthold Lasker.
		The tournament was to take place in Hastings in 1895.
		At the London tournament of 1899, Lasker finished 4 points ahead of the rest of the field with 18 wins, 7 draws, and only 1 loss to Blackburne.
	www.chess-poster.com /great_players/lasker.htm (1109 words)

	Chess World Champions - Emanuel Lasker
		Later in the year the top five winners of the Hastings tournament, Pillsbury, Tchigorin, Lasker, Tarrasch and Steinitz were invited to play in a tournament in St. Petersburg to resolve the matter.
		However, the chess world would not allow this to happen and in 1921 the match went ahead.
		Chess was never Lasker's main career and throughout his world champion reign he actively pursued his other interests in mathematics and philosophy.
	www.chesscorner.com /worldchamps/lasker/lasker.htm (780 words)

	Hastings & St Leonard's Chess Club
		For chess players the world over, it is the place where many other famous battles have been fought - over the chessboard.
		One of the first of these was J. Blackburne, who had come to Hastings to recuperate from a serious illness in 1884 and subsequently taken up residence in the town.
		The stage was set for 1895 ad what is still regarded as probably the greatest international chess tournament ever held.
	www.hastingschessclub.co.uk /index2.html (406 words)

	Chess Trivia
		A player at a Hastings tournament was clenching his teeth with concentration that he broke his false teeth.
		The first national tournament held in the U.S. was the American Chess Congress, held in New York in 1857 and won by Paul Morphy.
		Chess master who was killed after being stabbed nine times in the back by a fellow employee, Theodore Smith, at CHESS REVIEW.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/t.html (1210 words)

	Hastings 1895 Chess Tournament Book
		The greatest chess tournament of all time was held in the summer of 1895, at the ancient Saxon stronghold of Hastings.
		The Hastings 1895 tournament kept growing in importance year after year, teaching and delighting generations of chess players.
		A valuable chess course in itself, the Hastings 1895 Tournament Book is the cornerstone of any chess library.
	www.chesscentral.com /pickard/Hastings_1895.htm (211 words)

	Wilhelm Steinitz
		Although the next years were unfortunate for him, neither in the tournament of Paris, 1867 nor in Baden-Baden, 1870, he was able to obtain first prize.
		Steinitz was the first one that understood that Chess has important constrains to creativity, it has a rigid internal logic, and only by understanding this logic is possible to win a game against strong players.
		The publication of Steinitz's "Modern Chess instructor", where several tactically doubtful opening lines were recommended because of their apparent strategic logic, led to a cable match against Tchigorin, that Steinitz lost.
	www.chess-poster.com /great_players/steinitz.htm (963 words)

	Amazon.com: Hastings 1895: The Centennial Edition: Books: Sid Pickard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The greatest chess tournament off all time was held in the summer of 1895, at the ancient Saxon stronghold of Hastings.
		Hastings 1895 is a rightly celebrated chess tournament as it brought together the strongest players of that time, and many for the first time.
		Hastings 1895 is one of the most famous chess tournaments.
	www.amazon.com /Hastings-1895-Centennial-Sid-Pickard/dp/1886846014 (1406 words)

	Hastings 1895
		Hastings 1895 is one strong contender for the strongest tournament of all time.
		I mean to win this tournament." Lasker, who according to Hooper/Whyld was ill, was unable to assert the superiority that his title implied yet, but in any case he had managed to finish ahead of Tarrasch and Steinitz, two of his main rivals.
		Pollock was one of the earliest players to experiment with the modern Benoni defence here in his games against Burn and Bardeleben, but his lack of success probably deterred would be imitators for quite some time.
	www3.sympatico.ca /g.giffen/hastings1895.htm (203 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - The truly universal simultaneous master
		At the age of 16 he started playing chess, and two years later was beating the best players in the city.
		In 1895 the Brooklyn chess club sponsored his trip to play in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, which he sensationally won, in spite of the fact that all the greatest players of the time were participating (they included reigning world champion Lasker, former world champion Steinitz and challenger Mikhail Chigorin).
		He could play checkers and chess and a hand of whist simultaneously, while reciting a list of long words that had been shown to him for just a few seconds.
	chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=3665 (341 words)

	chessterms
		In this situation the enemy pawn is allowed by chess rules to capture the en passant pawn as if it had only advanced one square, but this may only occur on the opponent's next move.
		In tournaments with a large number of rounds, two or more of the highest and lowest scores may be thrown out.
		Chess games stored in a cross-platform software format (.pgn) which may be read by all major chess database programs.
	www.angelfire.com /games5/chessodyssey/chessterms.htm (12983 words)

	Biography of Mikhail Chigorin
		He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess," which dominated the chess world in the latter part of the 20th century.
		Chigorin started serious chess rather late in life, and his first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was 3rd=.
		He also beat Lasker +2-1=3 in a sponsored Rice Gambit tournament in Brighton, where he took fl in every game; neither player took the result as reflecting chess strength as opposed to the weakness of the gambit.
	www.supreme-chess.com /famous-chess-players/mikhail-chigorin.html (340 words)

	Chessville - The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
		He complained that the tournament had been played under very noisy conditions, where the hubbub from the audience could be clearly heard by the players.
		Tournament Victories: In the early 1930's Alexander Alekhine recorded 2 of the biggest victories seen in major international tournament history.
		Chess Fighters: The 1916 match between David Janowski and Charles Jaffe was notable for the hard fought nature of the games, with each game having an average length of 65 moves.
	www.chessville.com /misc/History/Mad_Aussie_Trivia_Archive_Nine.htm (1635 words)

	Atticus Chess Club
		There were an increasing number of strong chess players and it was felt that the world champion should not be able to evade challenges to his title, as had been done in the past.
		He was a member of the Liverpool Chess club from 1867 until his death, serving as its president for many years.
		Earlier in the same year he had competed in his last major international tournament in St Petersburg, where he beat the up-and-coming Aaron Nimzowitsch, but by now he was concentrating on writing his chess column for The Field, a position he held up until his death in 1924 at the age of 82.
	www.atticuschess.org.uk /famous_players.htm (7573 words)

	GameKnot: play online chess
		It was however a truly great Tournament, made even better for me by the inclusion of two of my all time favourites players, both of whom had an insatiable appetite for whisky and were also two of the finest blindfold chess players that ever lived, namely Blackburne and Pillsbury.
		Shortly after the war (wwii) they held a tournament in hastings and in the photograph all the competitors are wearing heavy overcoats.
		The 1857 NY tournament was similar in nature---Morphy was said to be almost in tears while waiting for Paulsen to move.
	gameknot.com /fmsg/chess/2491.shtml (2070 words)

	Chess World Champions - William Steinitz
		It was at this time that the great chess player, Morphy's exploits hit the headlines and there was a great revival in people's interest in the game.
		During this time in the history of chess, games were notable for their brilliant sacrifices and winning attacks.
		Steinitz was the first chess player to gain money from his tournament and match victories but he did not make enough to retire comfortably.
	www.chesscorner.com /worldchamps/steinitz/steinitz.htm (775 words)

	Who is Hastings? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Welcome to the Battle of Hastings This is the story of the struggle between Harold the Second of England and Duke William of Normandy.
		A. Hastings is a family owned and operated business that has been providing office and school supplies to the local community and nearby collegiate market since 1914.
		Hastings is the name of several towns and cities.
	www.whoishastings.com (392 words)

	Britbase: Hastings Premier PGN Game Downloads
		Note that this does not include the famous Hastings tournament of 1895 which is not considered to be part of this series, nor one or two other competitions which have been played in Hastings from time to time.
		There were 20 pre-war Hastings Congresses from 1920/1 to 1939/40 inclusive, and there have been 58 congresses from 1945/6 up to 2002/3, making 78 in all.
		Any chess writers or historians making use of this source are asked to show the courtesy of acknowledging Britbase as the source of their information and should if possible quote the web address.
	www.bcmchess.co.uk /britbase/hastings.htm (598 words)

	Hastings 1895 chess tournament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The chess tournament that was conducted at Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895 has been called by many commentators as the greatest of all time, and a milestone in the history of chess, for several reasons.
		Following the success of the event, the Hastings tournament would become an annual feature.
		The third unique aspect was the Book of the Tournament, in which the participants annotated their own games.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Hastings_1895_chess_tournament.htm (1140 words)

	Sid Pickard - Hastings 1895 - 260 pages, 173 diagrams, paperback, 1995.: 24,80 Euro - tournament books - Schach ...
		This "Grand International Chess Congress" attracted the strongest field of players ever assembled, with Steinitz, Lasker, Tchigorin, Tarrasch and Blackburne all present.
		A valuable chess course in itself, the Hastings 1895 tournament book became a cornerstone of chess libraries everywhere.
		"Hastings 1895, The Centennial Edition" brings the authorized account of this super-tournament into the 21st century, allowing players everywhere to experience again one of the great treasures of chess literature.
	www.niggemann.com /detail/buecher/2324.html (305 words)

	Chess Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The American chess team was the first American cultural team to visit Cuba since Castro took over in 1958.
		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.
		Nickname of Henry Pillsbury, who was the unexpected winner of the Hastings 1895 tournament.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/h.html (1047 words)

	C&O FCC Library & Ratings Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chess Advantage in Black and White, The: Opening Moves of the Grandmasters Kaufman, Larry Int-Adv 2004 499 pp.
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		Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, The Smullyan, Raymond 1979 171 pp.
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	Kenilworth Chess Club
		He was nicknamed the "chess psychologist" because he would have a tendency to steer the game into positions that would be difficult for his opponents, and would be able to play well in a variety of different positions.
		The book starts out by describing how chess began and how people strategized the modern version of the game during its primitive years (circa 1500-1700), and finishes up by showing a few games that were played in the early to mid-nineteen-seventies and predicts what is in store for the future of chess.
		This fascinating tournament book critiques all of the games that were played in the very exciting world championship candidates tournament in 1953.
	www.kenilworthchessclub.org /articles/books/minkov.html (3261 words)

	Chessplayer Shot Dead in Hastings
		During the famous Hastings international tournament of 1895 Mr Womersley was responsible for the arrangements for play, with excellent results.
		The brief obituary in the Chess Amateur, October 1911 (page 389) focussed on the singular circumstances of his death, but for the details of the affair it is to the local newspaper reports that we must now turn.
		He had a good deal to do with the great International Tournament held at Hastings some years ago, and was himself one of the leading local players, holding the captaincy of the club for some years.
	www.chesshistory.com /winter/extra/womersley.html (5740 words)

	Chess Archaeology
		Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
		Albin began participating in serious chess events relatively late in life, and in fact never recovered the ground his delayed start in the game cost him.
		Although he seldom finished a tournament in the top half of the cross table, in single encounters he was a dangerous and wily opponent for anyone, including the very best.
	www.chessarch.com /excavations/0015_albin/albin.shtml (1567 words)

	Chess tournaments, icc - Wayde Stallmann's Chess Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Many chess tournaments are organized so that both individual and team One of the nice things about chess tournaments is that everyone who goes is
		A chess tournament is a friendly competition among chess players to determine There are chess tournaments for all skill levels and divisions within each
		Chess tournaments for School-age players; the next is on Saturday 8 October.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: International Chess Tournament: Zurich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Zurich Tournament was undoubtedly one of the great tournaments in chess history and this book is a wonderful detailing of the games.
		Many chess authorities consider this the best tournament book of all and they may be right.
		Mentioning that his feelings toward the Zurich tournament were mostly negative, he gave the impression that his estimate of the merits of this book were not quite so high as that of the reviewers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486238008 (571 words)

	Greatest Tourn. in History of Chess 1851-1986 (CD) - Chess House
		Of course these major tournaments also took place in the great cities of the world.
		The sometimes extensive tournament reports, mostly written by Manual Fruth contain many interesting details, which at the same time give an insight into the history of chess.
		For example, tournament regulations frequently mention that draws may not be agreed before move 30.
	www.chesshouse.com /ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=A170 (319 words)

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