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	Chessville - The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
		When the great Russian player Mikhail Chigorin declined to participate in one of these "collaborations", Dadian stopped Chigorin from competing in the 1903 Monaco tournament, as he was the tournament organizer.
		The idea of a "flag" to see if a player had run out of time was first discussed at the end of the 1890's, but it took a few years until flags were fitted to all clocks.
		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)

	John Owen (chess player) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1858 he won a game against (additional info and facts about Paul Morphy) Paul Morphy, which led to a match between the two.
		Despite being given odds of pawn and the move (meaning he started the game with an extra pawn and always moved first), Owen lost the match 6-1, never winning a game.
		Owen is the eponym of Owen's Defence, a (additional info and facts about chess opening) chess opening he often played (including in his victory over Morphy) characterised by the moves 1.e4 b6 (in (additional info and facts about algebraic notation) algebraic notation).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/John_Owen_(chess_player).htm (107 words)

	John Owen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Owen (politician), Democratic governor of North Carolina from 1828 to 1830, lived from 1787 to 1841.
		John Owen (chess player) lived from 1827 to 1901.
		John Owen (bishop), Bishop of St David's; Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, lived from 1854 to 1926.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Owen (145 words)

	Player
		Ivan Calderon (baseball player) Not to be confused with Ivan Calderon, the boxer.
		John Littlewood (chess player) John Littlewood was born in 1931 and was a very strong chess player.
		Player character A player character is a character in a avatar.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/player.html (2058 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Locke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Locke (August 29, 1632 â“ October 28, 1704) was a 17th-century English philosopher concerned primarily with society and epistemology.
		John Locke was born in Wrington, Somerset, about 10 miles from Bristol, England, in 1632.
		The dean of the college at the time was John Owen, vice-chancellor of the university and also a Puritan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Locke (6582 words)

	Wilhelm Steinitz
		On July 18, 1866 Steinitz took on Adolf Anderssen in London, considered the strongest active chess player in the world, and defeated him on August 10, 1866 with 8 wins and 6 losses.
		Back in England, Zukertort was claiming he was the world's best chess player because of his victory in the London 1883 tournament.
		Upon returning to the U.S. Steinitz was making claims that he could move chess pieces at will by emitting electric currents, that he could phone anyone in the world without wire, and that he was trying to contact God, offering a pawn and move in a match.
	members.tripod.com /HSK_Chess/steinitz.html (2095 words)

	The Pushed Pawn Chess for the Community
		Anderssen was not a chess prodigy; his progress was deliberate, and by 1840 at age twenty-two, he had not yet surpassed German masters such as Ludwig Bledow, von der Lasa, and Wilhelm Hanstein.
		Anderssen first came to the attention of the chess world when he published some short and lively chess problems in 1842.
		On the basis of this match and his general chess reputation, he received an invitation to be the standard-bearer for German chess at the world's first international chess tournament, London 1851.
	pushedpawn.org /chesspedia/Adolf_Anderssen.htm (838 words)

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		John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
		John I Stanley of the Isle of Man
		John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/j/jo (138 words)

	Chess Theory/Chess problems
		Chess Openings Statistics - Adam Bozon has investigated a great number of GM-games since 1991 to find out which openings, which are most advantageous for white respective fl, and the worst ones.
		Chess Theory is dedicated to chess theory, opening theory, chess practice, chess learning and analysis ”and will guide you from classical chess theory to modern”.
		Owen´s defence (1.e4 b6), which also could be called Queen fianchetto, if white plays d4 as his second move.
	www.schackportalen.nu /English/eschackteori.htm (3162 words)

	Chessville - Chess and other Occupations - Bill Walls' Wonderful World of Chess - by Bill Wall
		Chess players who knew how to fly airplanes include Ed Edmundson (he was a Lt Col in the USAF and navigator), Max Euwe, Harry Golombek and Carol Jarecki.
		Carl Ahlhausen was a librarian for the Berlin Chess Association.
		John Cochrane was a lieutenant in the British navy.
	www.chessville.com /BillWall/ChessandotherOccupations.htm (1135 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess.
		Anderssen was born in Breslau, in the Prussian Province of Silesia, in 1818.
		For the next few years he was considered by many people to be the world's premier player, but as he needed to earn a living, he had to return to his teaching profession after the competition.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Adolf_Anderssen (1031 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Pestaño: The ‘holy men’ of the checkered board
		If a chess team were to be formed among holy men, the team captain would be a woman, St. Teresa of Avila, a major figure of the Catholic Reformation and the patron saint of chess players.
		Another saint who plays chess is St. Charles Borromeo, who was so enamored of the game that his superiors reprimanded him and asked him what he would do if the world would come to the end and he would be playing chess.
		John Owen was ordained and became a vicar of Hooten from 1862—1900 and was one of England’s best players.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2006/09/01/sports/pesta.o.the.holy.men.of.the.checkered.board.html (693 words)

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		Chess History, 1900-1930 1900 Brentano invents Brentano variation of the Ruy Lopez.
		1921.09.22 Nadareishvili, soviet IGM of chess compositions, born.
		Prez of USSR Chess Fed (1973-1978) 1922.02.16 Teschner, German master and author, born.
	members.tripod.com /~scalise/scalise4/19001930.html (2060 words)

	John Owen (chess player) - Chesspedia, the free chess encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org
		John Owen (1827 - 1901) was an English vicar and strong amateur chess player.
		His performance in the 1862 London tournament, the first international round-robin event (in which each participant plays every other) was more impressive - he finished third, ahead of future world champion Wilhelm Steinitz, and was the only player to win against the tournament winner, Adolf Anderssen.
		Owen is the eponym of Owen's Defence, a chess opening he often played (including in his victory over Morphy) characterised by the moves 1.e4 b6 (in algebraic notation).
	pushedpawn.org /test6/John_Owen_(chess_player).htm (196 words)

	Amos Burn vs John Owen (1898)
		I think it's hilarious that the cautious positional player Amos Burn played a sacrifice...and it turns out not to be as forcing as he may have thought.
		Moreover, blunder or not, when the game stands as a part of chess culture/history, the soundness of the move matters less than the role the game plays in chess history.
		Owen plays, as a rule, far superior games to this one, which is one of the worst specimens of his we have ever seen." - Leopold Hoffer
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1035950 (866 words)

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		Chess History and Chronology by Bill Wall (Sep 16, 2005) 0550 Chaturanga, earliest chess precursor, created in the Punjab.
		1291 The Archbishop of Cantebury, John Peckman, forbids chess.
		1310 Chess forbidden to the clergy in Germany (Council of Trier).
	www.geocities.com /siliconvalley/lab/7378/history.txt (12388 words)

	August 31st
		When quite a young man, an intense love of chess seized him; and at one time he entertained a hope of adding to his income by exhibiting his chess-playing powers, and giving instructions in the game.
		The art of playing chess blind-fold was one by which Phillidor greatly astonished his contemporaries, though he was not the first to do it.
		On this day, in 1527, is dated the 'ordinary' of the corporation of weavers in Newcastle, in which, amongst other regulations, there is a strict one that no member should take a Scotsman to apprentice, or set any of that nation to work, under a penalty of forty shillings.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/31.htm (1902 words)

	The Campbell Report - "On the Square" article
		No one expects of chess books, sadly enough, the "continuous dream" of great literature, wherein ideally the reader forgets, after a fashion, and if only momentarily, that he or she is reading at all.
		One wonders if John Owen or Caissa Editions were ever contacted for permission to use such extensive quotations in such a fashion.
		Unfortunately such an explanation overlooks the fact that Whyld and The Chess Player in fact put out a three volume predecessor work on Lasker, the third volume of which was published no more recently than 1976.
	correspondencechess.com /campbell/articles/a980906.htm (1887 words)

	Paul Cherles Morphy (1837-1884)
		Born to a well-to-do family in New Orleans, Paul Morphy became quite a strong player (thanks largely to the fact that his father – a Judge who also served in the House of Representatives from 1825-1829 – was an avid chess fan) by the age of eight.
		Paul wasn’t only skilled at chess, he also excelled in his academic pursuits and, by the tender age of nineteen, he had earned his law degree and admission to the bar (he had memorized the entire Civil code of Louisiana!).
		Viewed as a chess professional (though he stridently insisted that chess could never be a profession, and that it was merely a pleasurable game, not to be taken too seriously), his career in law never got off the ground.
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_history/grt_plyr_pc_morphy.html (1962 words)

	uschess.org \| The South Rises Again
		With so many chess players aspiring to become engineers and scientists, Ludwig’s early notion is to become a teacher, and he has his eye on a few colleges in North Carolina.
		Fouts, the lowest-rated player in the tournament, overachieved for the first seven rounds and found himself across the board from his new teacher Margvelashvili (the highest-rated player) in Round 8.
		Players electing to play the two-weekend schedule began their qualification quest with two rounds yet to be played in San Diego.
	beta.uschess.org /frontend/magazine_124_22.php (1876 words)

	Chess \| Robert Byrne
		In Round 8, Harikrishna felled the highest-ranked player in the event, Zhang Zhong of China, in a well-executed performance.
		When John Owen played 3...Bb7 in the mid-19th century, he was anticipating hypermodernism, but then it was known simply as Fianchetto Opening.
		Owen used it to win the only game he ever won from Paul Morphy.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/crosswords/chess/020120chess.html (502 words)

	John B. Henderson's Chess Column: The Scotsman daily chess news
		The legendary gladiatorial contest of these championships, spanning from Alekhine's win in civil war-torn 1920 (where a players' protest succeeded in raising their food rations), through to the last in 1991 due to the break-up of the Soviet Union, were regarded as the ultimate in tournament praxis.
		The world chess federation, FIDE, upset by the contractual antics of Ruslan Ponomariov, opted to act swiftly to cancel his title match with Garry Kasparov rather than be dictated to by a teenager.
		THE world chess federation, FIDE, and world no.1 Garry Kasparov are being held to hostage by the petulant demands of a teenager, as Ruslan Ponamriov seems intent on sabotaging the $1m title match that was due to start 18th September in Yalta.
	www.rochadekuppenheim.de /heco (4645 words)

	British Chess Magazine: The Chess Shop and the Bridge Shop
		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.
		Three other players can qualify for the Candidates' via what is called a 'Last Chance Super-Tournament', and two more players qualify by virtue of finishing third and fourth in the proposed FIDE world championship which is pencilled in for Argentina later this year.
		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 (8656 words)

	John 18:12-27 -- June 10, 2001
		What is interesting is the information that he was known to the high priest, and known well enough not only to gain access to the courtyard of the high priest by presenting himself to a servant girl, but to bring Peter in with him.
		As John Owen memorably puts it in his great work on resisting temptation: "Venture all on the first attempt." You can handle any temptation if you throw everything against it when it first appears, before it has sunk its teeth in you, when you still have your spiritual wits about you.
		I am speaking of the contrast that John is very intentionally drawing between the Lord under temptation and one of his disciples under temptation.
	www.faithtacoma.org /sermons/John/John_18.12-27.Jun10.01.htm (3223 words)

	Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess by Edward Winter
		From cobwebbed dreams of King Fritz and the brave Empress, the veteran chess player awakened to encounter a greater man, fresh from the field of recent victories.
		All the chess references to Napoleon are in the third of these and in that chapter Augustus is called Lieutenant Fitzsnob.
		He was told that the commandant of the town, I believe General Beauvoir, was a great chess player, and he expressed a wish to play a game with him.
	www.chesshistory.com /winter/extra/napoleon.html (4052 words)

	Aaron, Manuel (1935- )
		AIPE awarded the Chess Oscars from 1967 (first won by Bent Larsen) to 1988 (won by Kasparov for the 7th time in a row) to the outstanding male and female players of the year.
		The strongest chess player at the end of the 14th century.
		Algebraic notation is a form of chess notation by using a combination of letters and numbers (a to h horizontally and 1 to 8 vertically from the White point of view).
	us.share.geocities.com /wallw_99/trivia5.htm (8734 words)

	Chess Notes by Edward Winter
		John Townsend (Wokingham, England) asks whether it is known where Howard Staunton was living at the time of the 1841 census.
		Basalla’s love of both chess and the cinema is evident, and he has put an extraordinary amount of research into what is, after all, a brave venture, given that no remotely comparable book exists.
		Chess in the Movies, which is available from Amazon, will certainly be scrutinized avidly by readers around the world, and the author invites corrections.
	www.chesshistory.com /winter/winter15.html (10836 words)

	5.2 Games that Made ’em Sit Up and Notice - The Chess Beat 5 - Chess News - World Chess Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		So often was the query directed at him, the champion relates, that finally the subject, as he puts it, got ‘on his nerves.’ He emphasized his point by telling of an imaginary visit to a school in Germany, where the scholars were reciting the Greek alphabet.
		Loewenthal let the world know about the first child prodigy in the history of chess, and to this day, there is a debate whether the games were part of a match.
		The Rev. John Owen, whom Morphy had earlier treated as a punching bag by pummeling him in a match (+5 =2) at pawn and move odds, finished third in the tournament.
	www.worldchessnetwork.com /English/chessNews/articles/5-2-1.php (1969 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.
		Yet, paradoxically, a line invented by another player, whose name is now unknown to the chess world, bears Albin’s name, while his name is omitted from the line he really invented.
	www.chessarch.com /excavations/0015_albin/albin.shtml (1567 words)

	Headley Theatre Club - Reviews
		Wendy Downs played (amongst other roles) the Butler, Pawn - quite stealing the show from all the Bishops and other chess players, especially with his (her) play with the tray flashing reflected light apparently casually around the highly amused audience.
		Joining these younger players was the competent Buttons (Daniel Radford) - their talents to be treasured for the future.
		The Club is extremely fortunate to have Jo Levy as Musical Director who, together with her husband Martin on guitar and Keith Ireland on percussion, provide a perfect accompaniment to the varied selection of songs and dance.
	www.johnowensmith.co.uk /htc/reviews.htm (3132 words)

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