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	Chess News, Chess Programs, Databases - Play Chess Online
		The journalist, author and chess aficionado vents his frustration in today's Washington Post op ed piece.
		In his heyday he was one of the very few players who was thought to have a chance to challenge the Karpov/Kasparov dynasty.
		Chess politician, author and commentator Yasser Seirawan is the subject of tonight's Playchess lecture by Dennis Monokroussos.
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	Chess News, Chess Programs, Databases - Play Chess Online
		The latter are historical enemies of the Azeris, politically, culturally and in chess.
		At times she was in the top ten of the overall world rankings, but in the last three years, due to the birth of two children, has dropped back a little in her preparation and results.
		The Hungarian GM and strongest women in the history of the game defeated the 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov in round seven to join the chasing group.
	www.chessbase.com /index.asp?offset=12 (793 words)

	World Chess Championship Site Map
		Chess directories, chess rings, and a lot more chess material not specifically related to the World Chess Championship subject.
		The World Chess Championship is a broad subject and we doubt that we will ever really finish the site.
		The World Chess Championship is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
	www.mark-weeks.com /chess/wcc-site.htm (820 words)

	Junior Chess
		Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official world chess champion was born in Prague in 1836.
		Steinitz was the first systematic thinker and opened the doors of scientific approach breaking the game into its elements and maintaining a thin thread of connectivity between the phases.
		If they use up all their time, they lose the game (unless the opponent has no means of delivering checkmate, in which case the game is a draw).
	www.bjdy.com /juniorchess (1331 words)

	World Chess Champions,World Champion Chess Players,Chess Experts Of World,History Of Chess Championship,Chess World ...
		The Chess world knows number of World Champions since the first officially recognized Championship held in 1886.Each Champion had their own personal style of Playing - be it Aggressive, attacking, strategic or tactical.
		Some outstanding chess champions are known before the first recognized championship held in 1886 in USA between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort.
		S teinitz remained world champion until 1894 when he was 58 years of age.
	www.chessncrafts.com /chess-champions-and-their-style.html (614 words)

	World Chess Champions, 1859-present - Table - MSN Encarta
		World Chess Champions, 1859-present - Table - MSN Encarta
		The world chess champion was an informal title from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.
		In 2000 Kasparov competed in the Classical World Championship and was defeated by his pupil, Vladimir Kramnik.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461532414/World_Chess_Champions_1859-present.html (115 words)

	GameKnot: world chess news
		Held in honour of the ex-world chess champion (who has visited numerous times and given various exhibitions but never played in the tournament itself) this was the eighth edition of an event which, while it isn't in the absolute elite class, is nevertheless one of the very strongest in the chess calendar.
		World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik remained at the head of Amber Rapid and Blindfold chess tournament being held at Monaco, despite being defeated 1.5-0.5 by Vasily Ivanchuk in the sixth round.
		The chess tournament is sponsored by the Dutch millionaire, chess enthusiast and world Correspondence Chess champion Joop van Oosterom who began it to celebrate the birth of his first child.
	gameknot.com /chessnews.pl (3134 words)

	ChessOps - Basics - World Chess Champions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chess world champions have only been recognised since 1886, although the first international tournament was held in London in 1851 and won by Adolf Anderssen (of Germany).
		The first individual world chess champion was decided on the outcome of a match between Steinitz and Zukertort in 1886, two years after the death of American Paul Morphy (1837-84) who in a six-month tour of Europe in 1858 had proved himself the best player in the world at only 21 years of age.
		However after the death in 1946 of reigning champion Alekhine the control of world championship events was taken over by FIDE (the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, founded in 1924) who also organise world championships for women, teams, juniors, blind players etc. An elimination cycle now produces a championship challenger every three years.
	www.eudesign.com /chessops/basics/cpr-wch.htm (236 words)

	Topalov - Kramnik Match: World Chess Championship 2006. Champions: World Chess Champions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was the adherent of the rational and logical chess and the symbol of the scientific and technical revolution of the century, beginning of the atomic energy and computer ERA, 'the pragmatic, who studied everything that was published in chess'.
		The chess world has not witnessed such a player as Tigran Petrosian who could brilliantly foresee many moves in advance where a menace to his positions may come from and could long before take irreproachable measures to defend his lines.
		His views on chess as an art, on the necessity to raise the social status of chess players became a real break-through in the public perception of the ancient game and a forerunner of the reforms that are now being realized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
	www.worldchess2006.com /main.asp?cat=3 (2199 words)

	The Hindu : A galaxy of great champions
		It worked well for him, for he became the champion at 26, defeating an ageing Steinitz in 1894 with ten wins, five losses and four draws, and held the title for 27 years, a record that is surely not going to be broken.
		Euwe, who had a doctorate in mathematics, became the World champion by shocking Alexander Alekhine 15.5-14.5, in the title match held over 15 cities across the Netherlands in 1935, though the odds were heavily against him.
		The eighth World champion was arguably the greatest attacking genius of modern chess.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/11/25/stories/0725020e.htm (2310 words)

	Chess Legends History
		In 1947, the FIDE Congress voted for Euwe to be world champion since Alekhine died.
		Fischer once withdrew from a chess tournament because a woman was playing in the event (she was Lisa Lane and U.S. woman champion).
		In tournament chess, the average time someone is given to think of their move is 3 minutes.
	www.geocities.com /citycollegechess/champions.html (2791 words)

	CheckMate: The making of Chess champions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chess was probably discovered by the ancient Vedic mathematicians to understand the concept of infinity.
		Ivana picked up Chess at four and half years - perhaps the right age when neurons – the cellular microcomputers in the brain are in their final burst of building a network of connections.
		A chess player uses the focused consciousness as a switch to turn on this neuronal supercomputer to analyse the opponent’s moves, compute the pros and cons of millions of possible moves in real time and prepare a strategy to win the game.
	chessplace.blogspot.com /2006/11/making-of-chess-champions.html (1029 words)

	chess world champions (men) - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chess is child's play: if you want your children to improve their memory and verbal skills, teach them one of the world's oldest board games.
		World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, Along With Other World-Class Players, Brought to Dutch Master Class Team of Groningen by Ambitious New Sponsor.
		Chess Champion Garry Kasparov Challenges the World on MSN.COM.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-chessworldchampionsmen.html (618 words)

	World Chess Champions
		When Kasparov departed from FIDE, a split was created of the champions; the classical world champion, this is one who defeated the past world champion in match play.
		The second is the FIDE world champion, a winner of the annual FIDE Chess Championship Tournament.
		The re-unification match took place on Friday, October, 13, 2006; Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik defeated FIDE World Chess Champion Vesselin Topalov to be the unified "World Chess Champion."
	www.chess.jpkoonce.net /WorldChampions.html (87 words)

	The Week in Chess
		Although how attractive this event will be to those serious about winning the World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk (Arrival supposed to be on the 22nd, Opening Ceremony 23rd and Round 1 24th November) is anyone's guess.
		The "Chess Champions League" (Jesus de Lafuente memorial) took place 1st-15th November 2007 in Vitoria Gasteiz.
		http://www.coruschess.com Five of the top 6 in the world are playing including the new World Champion Anand and new World number 2 Ivanchuk.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/twic.html (854 words)

	New In Chess
		The tournament is followed by the World Blitz Championship on November 21 and 22 (a double round-robin).
		All participants of the Tal Memorial are seeded into the final as are Grischuk (defending champion), Svidler, Morozevich and Karpov.
		Originally Alexander Khalifman was also on the list of participants, but the former FIDE world champion had to withdraw at the last moment for health reasons and was replaced by Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu.
	www.newinchess.com (338 words)

	Chess - Chess World Champions
		Chess store selling chess sets, electronic chess games, chess computers and fine chess pieces, carved chess figures and chess boards.
		Free chess concepts without having to memorize moves from an instructor.
		World Chess Network has posted an article by former Chess Life editor Larry Parr on the history of...
	www.chess-city.com /chessworldchampions (448 words)

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		Everyone was fascinated by the incredible tales of chess skill that were told about the the world chess champion.
		The most famous chess tournament organized by Rousso was one between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and X3D Fritz.
		World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, contemplates a move during the opening moments of the 15th game in the world chess championships in a London file photo from November 2, 2000.
	www.lycos.com /info/garry-kasparov--world-chess-champion-garry-kasparov.html (413 words)

	OPEN LETTER FROM KARPOV
		The world’s chessplayers have been denied a voice in these matters, and we who represent these conventions at the highest level see the need to set aside our differences and speak out publicly in defense of the game that has brought us so much joy.
		Of greater concern is the behavior of FIDE in regard to the prestige and tradition of the World Chess Championship.
		The chess world is depending on its leaders to provide a suitable and democratic solution to this unsatisfactory state of affairs.
	www.chessnews.org /kkk.htm (828 words)

	World Champions
		Each champion has their own particular brand of play - be it aggressive, attacking, tactical or strategic - which is just as personal as their signature.
		He was the first player to try to systematize Chess knowledge and his ‘Analyse du Jeu des Echecs’ (Chess Analyzed), is a very influential book of the period which appeared in 100+ editions.
		He remained world champion until 1894 when he was 58 years of age.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/chesmayne/world_champions.htm (617 words)

	World Champions
		The "Chess Machine" as he was called, won the title against Emanuel Lasker in 1921 without a single game lost.
		In 1935, in Holland, Dutchman Max Euwe won the title to Alekhine by a score of 15½ to 14½ and was the World Champion from 1935-37.
		He was World Champion for one year after losing the Championship title back to Botvinnik in 1961.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/world_champions.htm (373 words)

	Chess Trivia
		The police raided a chess tournament in Cleveland in 1973, arrested the tournament director and confiscated the chess sets on charges of allowing gambling (cash prizes to winners) and possession of gambling devices (the chess sets).
		She was woman champion of her native Germany until the outbreak of World War II.
		At the chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1939, she was prevented from playing on the German team by a Nazi edit.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/g.html (1539 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The world chess champions
		Steinitz was the first chess master to play to scientific principles, and is regarded as the founder of modern chess.
		Lasker was something of a renaissance man; as well as being champion of the world for 27 years, he was a distinguished mathematician (a pupil of Hilbert) and his name is still attached to a theorem in algebraic geometry.
		During the second world war or shortly afterwards Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine all died, and Euwe was therefore one of the few links between pre-war and post-war chess at the very highest level (others were Mikhail Botvinnik and Paul Keres).
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1308890 (3805 words)

	chess@Everything2.com
		Playing at Chess, is the most ancient and the most universal game known among men; for its original is beyond the memory of history, and it has, for numberless ages, been the amusement of all the civilized nations of Asia, the Persians, the Indians, and the Chinese.
		For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.
		And, lastly, we learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node=chess (2052 words)

	AOL Games Presents World Champion Chess Match; World Chess Champions Karpov vs. Kasparov Face Off on December 19th and ...
		AOL Games Presents World Champion Chess Match; World Chess Champions Karpov vs. Kasparov Face Off on December 19th and 20th; 'X3D World Chess Match 2002' Available Live on AOL.
		Chess fans around the world can watch world champion chess masters Antoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov play out their historic rivalry online as America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, joins X3D Technologies who will host the match that will occur this Thursday and Friday, Dec. 19-20.
		After five months and a series of 17 consecutive draws, the World Chess Federation had to cancel the match, citing the exhaustion of both players.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-95570970.html (487 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Chess
		The objective in chess is to checkmate, or trap, the opponent's king, a piece whose mobility is limited.
		Claude Shannon were altogether serious in their interest in chess, because of the complexity of the game in relation to the simplicity of its rules, and because they suspected that the shortcut needed to perform this kind of time-consuming search-procedure would also be a clue to the way brains solved all sorts of problems.
		The chess position and moves that we see are from a game played in 1913 in Hamburg between two undistinguished players named Roesch and Schlage.
	fusionanomaly.net /chess.html (1490 words)

	CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
		The greatest success of his career came in October at the FIDE world championship where he outpaced the competition and became the new world champion.
		Washington chess life will not be the same without the writings of Joseph McLellan, a former music critic and chess writer for the Washington Post, who died last Monday at the age of 76.
		He loved chess passionately and was always amazed by its beauty and amused by those who played it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200523_pf.html (703 words)

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