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	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mir Sultan Khan of Punjab, however, was the first one to leave the lasting imprint of his un-questioned genius at the international level.
		It is believed that Sultan Khan was uneducated and was an employee of Sir Umar Hayat Khan, who took him to Britain in the late 1920s, where he excelled as a chess player of enormous skill.
		Sultan Khan had the rare distinction of beating the legendary Jose Raoul Capablanca of Cuba, who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
	pib.nic.in /feature/feyr2003/fmay2003/f130520031.html (2519 words)

	Mir Sultan Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mir Sultan Khan (1905 - 1966) was generally considered to have been the strongest chess master of his time from Asia.
		His meteoric rise was parallel to Morphy's, who conquered the chess world in about three years.
		About eighty years later, Sultan Khan almost conquered the chess world in about four years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mir_Sultan_Khan (318 words)

	Mir Sultan Khan, Asia's First Chess Grandmaster
		Sultan Khan never finished lower than fourth in any chess tournament in which he ever played.
		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 that he was a master at the Indian version of chess.
		I am the grand son of mir sultan khan (british empire chess champion 1929-1934) i visited ur site and found that u require adress of my grandfather and his family so here is my adress.
	www.ishipress.com /sultan.htm (663 words)

	The chess games of Mir Sultan Khan
		Mir Sultan Khan was born in 1905 in Mittha in the Punjab, India.
		As much as you think that Sultan Khan is one the most hyped player of all time, don't you think that you are trying to make a 14 year old one the most hyped player of all time too by claiming that he could beat Sultan Khan.
		Sultan Khan by the way doesn't need to prove his worth with a 14 year old.
	www.chessgames.com /player/mir_sultan_khan.html (1148 words)

	General Information
		Mir Sultan Khan is the forgotten hero of Indian chess.
		Sultan Khan surprised the chess world by winning a ten match series against Tatakover, one of the greatest players of all time.
		Sultan Khan’s aspirations of winning a world championship were shot down as he had to accompany Sir Umar Hyat back home.
	www.indembsudan.com /isl_004.htm (4969 words)

	Star Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mir Malik Sultan Khan (1905-1966), the new champion, appeared on the international chess scene with a bang.
		Sultan Khan was a caretaker in the royal palace of Sir Umer Hayat Khan, a feudal lord of Punjab.
		Sultan Khan had to learn the international rules of the game but took very little time to adjust himself to the changed circumstances.
	www.thedailystar.net /magazine/2004/03/01/time.htm (341 words)

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		One of the most astounding chess masters of all time was a man called Mir Malik Sultan Khan.
		He had a servant, Mir Malik Sultan Khan.
		Rueben Fine was there and relates how Sultan Khan was used to serve the food and drinks.
	www.angelfire.com /games/SBChess/Sultankhan.html (374 words)

	The AICCF Bulletin Chap08
		According to the modern rating system, Sultan Khan was about 2550 ELO in strength and thus was easily a Grandmaster.
		Reuben Fine related once that when he was a guest for dinner at the maharaja's home in England, Sultan Khan was a waiter who brought the dishes to the table.
		According to the book by R.N.Coles, Sultan Khan lived out his life on his family plot in Pakistan, in the Sargodha district of Punjab province, surrounded by his children and great grand children and died in 1966.
	www.geocities.com /aiccf/may03/chap08.htm (1077 words)

	jaced.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Another widely favorite master is Sultan Khan, who went by the name of "Mir Sultan Khan".
		It was his master's wish (Sultan Khan was merely a servant), his master was a Maharaja.
		In the four years in England, Khan won the British Championship, defeated ex-World Champion Jose Capablanca, and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads in 1931 and 1933.
	dev.jaced.com:8080 /htm/c/cbios/cbios_khan.htm (156 words)

	Mir Sultan Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whether his master took him to Europe because of his unique chess talent which he was apparently aware of and whether Sultan Khan was a slave of a maharaja or just a servant is not clear.
		Reuben Fine reported once that he came to a dinner to Sultan Khan master's house and was embarrased to see the Indian grandmaster serving him the dishes, yet the validity of the story has been questioned many times.
		Sultan Khan achieved outstanding successes during his short stay in Europe.
	www.olimpbase.org /articles/sultan_khan.html (319 words)

	surat5
		Mir Muhammad 'Ali Khan Sahib, of Baroda, a cousin.
		June 1878, rcvd: KIH silver medal (1877), younger son of Mir Syed Akhi walad Mir Muhammad Mazhar Husain, sometime Qazi of Surat and Gadinashin of the tomb of Khwaja Da'ana Sahib, a direct descendant, in the female line, of Sayyid Jamal ud-din al-Maroof Beh Khwaja Da'ana Sahib.
		Sahibzada Mir Mahbub 'Ali Khan [Shansha Pasha], younger brother of Sikandar Jahan Begum Sahiba, and son of Nawab Dilar ul-Mulk Bahadur, a nobleman from Hyderabad, Deccan.
	4dw.net /royalark/India4/surat5.htm (1863 words)

	ScienceDaily: Mir sultan khan
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	Impact of World Chess Championship - Vishal Sareen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		About 70 years back there was one Mir Sultan Khan who worked as a cook for one of the haves of society.
		The boss was a chess enthusiast and since he thought Sultan Khan was good in the game, he entered him in a few tournaments in Europe.
		Sultan Khan defeated the chess genius and former World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca at the Hastings International tournament.
	www.chathurangam.com /news/wchimpact.asp (531 words)

	Chess Trivia
		He was a servant in the household of Colonel Umar Hayat Khan Tiwano, an army officer in charge of the horses for King George V. He defeated Capablanca, Nimzovich, Rubinstein and other top players.
		Sultan Khan was required to wait on everyone as a servant the entire evening.
		Sultan Khan was invited to play at Moscow 1936, but was too poor to attend.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/s.html (3010 words)

	Mir Sultan Khan vs Jose Raul Capablanca (1930) "The Wrath of Khan"
		Mir Sultan Khan vs Jose Raul Capablanca (1930) "The Wrath of Khan"
		One of the versions why Sultan Khan wasn't playing at all his strength stated that he wasn't used to the European climate.
		Wrath of Khan is the best original Star Trek movie (6 is a close second).
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1135510 (1134 words)

	The Riyazu-s-Salatin: section 64 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All did so, except Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan, a brother-in-law of Nawab Mahabat Jang, and the generalissimo of the army, who refused to pay respect to Mohanlal, and for some time ceased to pay respect even to Siraju-d-daulah.
		As decreed by fate, a bullet from the gun of a servant of Dost Muhammad Khan hit Shaukat Jang on the forehead, and the bird of his soul flew away, and nestled on the branches of annihilation.
		And Karguzar Khan, the generalissimo Shaikh Bahadur Narnuti, Abu Turab Khan, Murad Sher Khan, nephew of Shaikh Jahan Yar, Shaikh Murad Ali, disciple of Nawab Saif Khan, Mir Sult
	erga.packhum.org /persian/pf?file=07601010&ct=64 (1550 words)

	Savielly Tartakower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the latter occasion he managed to beat as notable chess players as Frank Marshall, Milan Vidmar and Yefim Bogolubov.
		In 1930 he won the Liège tournament beating Mir Sultan Khan by two points.
		Further down the list were, among others, Akiba Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch and Marshall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Savielly_Tartakower (1132 words)

	Chessmetrics Ratings: Sultan Khan, Mir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These ratings for Sultan Khan, Mir are calculated yearly, as of January 1st of the indicated year.
		Each yearly rating incorporates all rated games played in the preceding year, along with the ratings that were already calculated at the start of that year.
		Each year, everyone's rating on the January 1st list has been increased/decreased by an identical amount, so that the average rating of the #8 through #12 players is aligned at 2600.
	www.chessmetrics.com /player_lists/Player3453.html (96 words)

	Hardinge Simpole - Best Games of Mir Sultan Khan, The
		At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the imperial capital as part of the feudal retinue of Sir Umar, his high caste master.
		Then, as suddenly and mysteriously as he had arrived, Sultan Khan departed for India and was never heard from again - though rumours did emerge from Kashmir in 1951 that an Indian village chessplayer, when shown the games from the world title match of that year, had opined: "these are two very weak players!"
		R.N.Coles is a noted chess author, whose books Dynamic Chess, Battles Royal of the Chessboard and Howard Staunton: the English World Champion (co-authored with Ray Keene) established him as one of the most perceptive and readable chess writers of twentieth century English language chess prose.
	www.hardingesimpole.co.uk /biblio/1843821001.htm (276 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Mir Sultan Khan vs José Raul Capablanca
		One of the great enigmatic phenomena during the mid-1920s was the Indian menial Mir Sultan Khan, a virtual illiterate who came to England and demolished some of the strongest chess players in the world, amongst them the great Capablanca, who called him "a genius".
		In 1929 his patron and master (these were the days of British colonial rule in India) brought him to London, and he won the British championship a few months later.
		According to Hooper and Whyld’s The Oxford Companion to Chess, Sultan Khan was one of the world’s ten best players at the time; according to Jose Capablanca, he was a genius.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2347 (626 words)

	Sultan kan chess books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Berthold NULL Germany 1837 1904 2440 NULL Sultan Khan Mir NULL Pakistan...
		Sultan Khan by Coles 1st ed 1965 2nd ed 1977...
		Sumatra that the Sultan of the native State of Acheen, with whom the Dutch have...
	illcom.com /Sultan-kan-chess-books (736 words)

	CHESS GALAXY'S DOWNLOADS
		A small database of his games is presented here which includes some annotated games in zipped chessbase format.
		MIR SULTAN KHAN is one of the greatest legends of Indian chess.
		During the late 1920's,before independent India came into existence he was taken by his master-an Englishman- to Europe.
	www.geocities.com /duvvuriravi/downloads.htm (406 words)

	Britbase Chess Archive : Material from the 1930s - Part 1
		Pictured playing left at Worcester, c.1931, are Mir Sultan Khan (1905-1966) (on the left, playing fl) and Theodore H. Tylor (1900-1968) (right, playing white).
		Sultan Khan won the British Championship in 1929, 1932 and 1933, returning in the latter year to India whence he never returned.
		At chess he finished in high positions in several British Championships and played on board 5 in the England team at the Hamburg 1930 Olympiad (Thomas was on board 3 and Sultan Khan on board 1).
	www.bcmchess.co.uk /britbase/arch30.htm (922 words)

	Sports - Indian Express
		Former champions India brightened chances of topping Group A as they scored their second straight win by thrashing UAE Seniors 25-19 25-19 25-16 in the 5th Rashid International Volleyball tournament.
		Mir Sultan Khan probably the first world class sportsperson India produced, The winner of All India chess championships in 1926 and the British Open in 1929, 1932 and 1933.
		He also played alongside and beat the likes of Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca and died an unsung hero in 1966.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000101/sports.htm (104 words)

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		1905 Sultan Khan, british master, born in the Punjab, India.
		Elo: 2530 1926 KHAN; Sir Umer Hayat Khan discovers Mir Sultan Khan in India.
		1928 Sultan Khan wins All-India ch (BCM 1978,519) 1928 White, John died.
	www.members.tripod.com /scalise/scalise4/19001930.html (2060 words)

	onegoodmove: World Champions Meet She Wins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It wasn't a good thing to be a member of the club since the only way you could get there was if you were male and lost a game to Vera.
		Among her victims were Max Euwe (twice), Sammy Reshevsky, Mir Sultan Khan, Sir George Thomas, C. Alexander, Edgar Colle, Frederick Yates, William Winter, Lajos Steiner, Frederich Saemisch, Milner-Barry, Harry Golombek, and Jacques Mieses (who lost to her four times in a match).
		After Vera's death there were few women who competed with the male chess players until the late eighties when the Polgar sisters burst upon the scene.
	onegoodmove.org /1gm/1gmarchive/000075.html (326 words)

	[Ngo-list] HYDERABAD: Legislation against child labour demanded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They were speaking at a seminar on "Elimination of Child Labour" to mark the international day against child labour.
		Abdul Latif Nizamani, Mohammad Asghar, Mohammad Iqbal Kaimkhani, Malik Sultan, Mir Khan Baloch and others spoke on the occasion.
		They said in order to raise the image of the country among the community of nations, it was necessary to eliminate child labour from Pakistan.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/ngo-list/2002-June/001925.html (216 words)

	The Chess Mind This Monday's ChessBase Show
		Yet the chess mind is not only a chess mind, and other topics, such as philosophy, may appear from time to time.
		In the mid-1920s, Mir Sultan Khan (1905-1966) started to play chess as we know it.
		According to Hooper and Whyld’s The Oxford Companion to Chess, Sultan Khan was one of the world’s 10 best players at the time; according to Jose Capablanca, he was a genius.
	chessmind.powerblogs.com /posts/1114416950.shtml (344 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Sports -> Ramesh wins British Open Chess Championship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the 11th and final round, Ramesh, who also achieved his second GM norm here, beat GM Luke Mcshane of England to accumulate 8.5 points and take the title.
		It was way back in 1929 (Ramsgate) when India's Mir Sultan Khan clinched the title and he repeated the feat twice, winning in 1932 (London) and 1933 (Hastings) as well.
		Ramesh who emerged as the dark horse in the final stretch, finished in style beating four Grandmasters in the last four rounds to take home Pounds Sterling 10,000 (Approximately Rupees 740,000).
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/08/10/10chess.html (258 words)

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