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	Eduard Gufeld by Bill Wall
		In 1971 he took 5th place in the 39th USSR championship semifinals in Novosibirsk, but failed to qualify and play in the finals (he had to be in the top 4) by 1/2 point.
		Eduard (Eddie) Efimovich Gufeld was born in Kiev in the Ukraine on March 19, 1936.
		In 1988 he was at the chess olympiad in Salonika, Greece as a chess trainer to the Russian women's team.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/gufeld.htm (1570 words)

	Chess Snaps
		Garry Kasparov of the former USSR was 22 years and 210 days old when he beat Anatoly Karpov for the world championship of chess on November 9th, 1985, making him the youngest men's champion in history.
		CHESS is based on the Fischer- Spassky World Championship match of 1972 and, at the time, was the most expensive play ever put on stage, with a budget of more than $4 million.
		The first time a chess computer and a person played a game under tournament conditions was at the Massachusetts Amateur Championship in 1967.
	park.org /Cdrom/Pavilions/IBM/DeepBlue/snaps.html (1686 words)

	Alexander Alekhine, The Game is Afoot - Biography
		This was the first world championship match to officially have seconds (a second was an assistant who stayed up all night analyzing an adjourned chess position and who gave advice to the champion as to the next move).
		In 1956 the USSR and French Chess Federation agreed to transfer his remains to the cemetery in Montparnasse, Paris.
		His older brother, Alexei, played chess and was able to draw Harry Nelson Pillsbury when the latter gave a simultaneous blindfold display in Moscow on 22 boards.
	www.starfireproject.com /chess/alekhine.html (1867 words)

	Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A referendum for the preservation of the USSR was held on March 17, 1991, with the population voting for preservation of the Union in most republics.
		While doubts remained over their authority to dissolve the Union, on 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the president of the USSR and turned the powers of his office over to Boris Yeltsin.
		In the late 1950s, a confrontation with China regarding the USSR's rapprochement with the West and what Mao perceived as Khrushchev's revisionism led to the Sino-Soviet split.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USSR (5977 words)

	History of chess
		The match foreshadowed a number of events within the chess world: the domination of the world championship by players from the Soviet Union, the problem of scheduling a match with an unlimited number of games, and the question of the right of the champion to a return match.
		FIDE staged a parallel championship match, featuring Karpov and Timman, and Karpov's win then provided the chess world with two World Champions: an official FIDE-sanctioned one, and a player unbeaten in match play who was clearly the world's best.
		Chess is one of the few sporting events in which the concept of a single world champion exists.
	www.ku.edu /~kuchess/History_of_chess.htm (2361 words)

	Chessville - The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
		Championship Beginnings: In 1920, Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky was given the responsibility of organizing the first USSR championship, which was held in Moscow.
		The next USSR championship was the 21st, held in Kiev in 1954.
		There was no USSR chess championship held in 1953, as all of the top players were competing in the Zurich Candidate's tournament.
	www.chessville.com /misc/History/Mad_Aussie_Trivia_Archive_Eight.htm (1247 words)

	Anatoly Karpov
		In their five world championship matches, Karpov has 19 wins, 21 losses, and 104 draws in 144 games.Although twelve years older than Kasparov, Karpov still has the stamina and endurance to be a match for Kasparov.
		Thus he won the right to challenge Fischer for the World Championship.Though the world championship match between the young Soviet prodigy and the incomparably dominant American Fischer was highly anticipated, the match never came about.
		In [[1969]] he became the first Soviet player since [[Boris Spassky]] (1955) to win the [[World Junior Chess Championship]] with a score of 10 out of 11.
	anatolykarpov.quickseek.com (2044 words)

	Bill Wall's Chess Master Profiles - Petrosian (Oct 1, 2005)
		In 1960 he took second in the USSR championship, behind Victor Korchnoi with 10 wins, 7 draws, and 2 losses.
		In February, 1961 Petrosian won the 28th USSR championship in Moscow with 9 wins, 9 draws, and 1 loss.
		In the 1951 USSR championship he took second place, behind Paul Keres.
	www.geocities.com /siliconvalley/lab/7378/petrosan.htm (908 words)

	List of national chess championships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A number of countries hold national championships in chess.
		Spanish Chess Championship / Spanish Women's Chess Championship
		Dutch Chess Championship / Dutch Women's Chess Championship
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_national_chess_championships (79 words)

	CHESS
		Chess is very popular in Western countries specially in the USSR, the USA, Yugoslavia, Britain, Hungary, Germany and others.
		Chess in the present times is played the world over and 125 countries are affiliated to the World Chess Federation.
		It is said that the game of chess has its roots and origin in the Indus valley, incidentally in those parts of the united India which are now part and parcel of Pakistan.
	www.sports.gov.pk /html/chess.html (277 words)

	Chess Trivia
		The 1980 Italian championship was delayed until 1981 because of an earthquake.
		In 1982 the Israel Chess Championship was stopped as several of its participants were called up for Army service in Lebanon.
		The 1982 Ladies Championship of India 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place were all won by three sisters, the Khadilkars.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/i.html (640 words)

	Just Chess! - The Grandmasters
		Boris became a champion of the USSR among the youth (1985), and a champion of Europe among the youth (1987-1988).
		He was the Champion of the USSR in 1976, 1983 and 1988.
		Considered the best woman chess player in history, in the January 2004 FIDE rating list (including men and women) she was ranked number eight in the world with an Elo rating of 2728.
	www.justchess.biz /thebest.php (4834 words)

	Chess on Stamps
		The USSR continued its domination of the Chess Olympiads, which began with their participation at Helsinki.
		This stamp, probably the first "chess stamp," is one of a set of five issued to commemorate the 1947 Balkan Games, held in Bulgaria, in which Chess was one of the sports.
		The match-tournament was held as a result of the death of the champion since 1921, Alexander A. Alekhine of France, on March 24, 1946, and was between Botvinnik, Euwe, Keres, Reshevsky, and Smyslov.
	www.trussel.com /f_stamps.htm (1208 words)

	World Chess Championship. Overprint.
		Gold overprint on No 5210 “A. Karpov the owner of Eight Chess Oskar”.
	home.nestor.minsk.by /fsunews/ussr/1982/su5215.html (13 words)

	Computer Chess History
		In 1970 the first all-computer championship was held in New York and won by CHESS 3.0, a program written by Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University.
		In 1958, a chess program beat a human player for the first time (a secretary who was taught how to play chess just before the game).
		In 1999 the highest rated chess computer is Hiarcs 7.0, followed by Fritz 5.32, Fritz 5.0, Junior 5.0, Nimzo 98, Hiarcs 6.0, Rebel 9.0, MChess Pro 7.1, Rebel 8.0, and MChess Pro 6.0 (based on SSDF ratings as of Jan 28, 1999).
	www.cs.biu.ac.il /~davoudo/history.html (1424 words)

	Chess History
		1947 1st national championship of the Republic of the Philippines was won by Horacio Tagle.
		1940.10 Bondarevsky and Lilienthal tie for 1st at Moscow in USSR Ch.
		1948.12.14 Bronstein and Kotov tie in the 16th USSR Ch, Moscow.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/history/1931-1960.html (3033 words)

	BookkooB : Championship Chess - Mikhail M. Botvinnik : Compare Book Prices
		this book is the account of the ussr absolute championship in 1941 which pitted botvinnik against keres smyslov boleslavsky bondarevsky and lilienthal in a multi game clash of chess board arms.
		Championship Chess: Match Tournament for the Absolute Chess Championship of the USSR, Leningrad-Moscow 1941 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S.)
		Above you will see price and availability details for Championship Chess: Match Tournament for the Absolute Chess Championship of the USSR, Leningrad-Moscow 1941 by Mikhail M. Botvinnik from the leading UK book stores.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1843820129.htm (477 words)

	November, 1937
		The USSR Chess Championship match Mikhail Botvinnik- Grigory Levenfish 1937 took place in Moscow (1-8) and Leningrad.
		The World Chess Championship match Max Euwe - Alexander Alekhine 1937 took place in the Netherlands.
		The review 5 numbers of the newspaper "64" for November, 1937
	www.chessib.com /64nov37.html (101 words)

	39th USSR Chess Championship, 1971
		39th USSR Championship; Leningrad 1971 September 15 - October 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1.
	members.aol.com /graemecree/chesschamps/ussr/ussr39.htm (642 words)

	World Chess Championship : Computer Chess
		Chess experts, on the other hand, vastly overestimate the time involved.
		Computer experts vastly underestimate the time required to beat the World Champion.
	www.mark-weeks.com /chess/wcc-comp.htm (23 words)

	4th USSR Chess Championship, 1927
		4th USSR Championship, Leningrad 1925 August 11 - September 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1.
	members.aol.com /graemecree/chesschamps/ussr/ussr04.htm (544 words)

	Amazon.com: Championship Chess: Books: Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik
		Lilienthal and Bondarevsky had tied for first in the USSR championship, and were to play off, while Botvinnik was only in the top six.
		everyone interested in the ussr, in the history of chess and in some really great games by top players annotated by a supreme expert will want to own this book.no chess library worth the name is complete without it.
		The 1946 Groningen super-tourney and especially the 1948 World Championship match-tourney merely ratified what most of the chess world already knew--he was the best.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1843820129?v=glance (746 words)

	13th USSR Chess Championship, 1944
		13th USSR Championship, Moscow 1944 May 21 - June 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1.
	members.aol.com /graemecree/chesschamps/ussr/ussr13.htm (415 words)

	OldNews04A
		If the Championship is won by one or more of the Olympiad Team qualifiers (Polgar, Zatonskih or Krush), a four game match will be held immediately after the US Championship between the top two finishers who are not already qualified Olympiad Team members.
		The Swiss system Championship scheduled for this fall in San Diego will be held as planned, but will be titled the 2005 US Championships and will include those who qualify from the preliminary tournaments plus seeded players.
		Founded on the hope of making chess a subject taught in every school in theUnited States, AF4C, a nonprofit organization, is committed to making chess a larger part of America's cultural fabric — accessible in schools and in popular culture.
	www.chessclub.org /OldNews04A.html (17279 words)

	Famous Fixed Games of Chess - Keres vs. Botvinnik - World Championship 1948
		One of the most persistent rumors in chess concerns the 1948 World Chess Championship, held in Amsterdam and The Hague.
		The remaining players were Reshevsky of the USA, Botvinnik, Keres and Smyslov of the USSR and Euwe of the Netherlands.
		This event was made possible by the death of World Champion Alekhine in Portugal in 1946, which gave FIDE the opportunity to organize a world championship for the first time.
	www.ishipress.com /keres-bo.htm (1245 words)

	U.S. Amateur Chess Championship West
		An extensive selection of chess books and merchandise will be available to purchase through National Chess and Games.
		Prizes: 75% of entries in cash prizes to place and class winners based on entries.
		Eastside Chess Club at the JCC, every Wednesday evening 7:00 pm!
	www.sazchess.org /2002usamwest.html (247 words)

	Chess
		In October-November 2000 I had the honor of serving as Arbiter of the World Chess Championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov.
		Refereeing a chess match may seem genteel, but there have been a few fistfights and other interesting episodes on the way.
		I started playing chess at the age of four, and no matter what efforts I make to escape, the addiction keeps drawing me back.
	www.ericschiller.com /schiller/chess.htm (550 words)

	Chess Game Review - Spassky-Bronstein USSR Championship 1960 King's Gambit
		Chess Game Review - Spassky-Bronstein USSR Championship 1960 King's Gambit
		• As a closing inspiration he said as chess players we must follow the principle of finding the 'best' move.
		• Paul Morphy is a chess hero to him and how Morphy's life is so similar to Fischer's fate.
	chess-now.com /kings-gambit.htm (747 words)

	Out of Print Books
		Chess Annuals 8 ½ by 11 Vol 5 and 6
		Chess Annuals 8 ½ by 11 Vol 1 and 2
		Official Laws of Chess FIDE HB Keene and Kazic
	www.chessartifactsterminal.com /CATCATALOG2.html (166 words)

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