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Robert Bobby Fischer

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was born March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. He is a grandmaster and former world chess champion, who on September 1, 1972, became the first American chess player to win the FIDE World Chess Championship. In 1975, he officially lost the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, refused to accept his conditions for a title defense. Garry Kasparov wrote that of all world champions of chess, the skill gap between Fischer and his contemporaries was the largest in history. Fischer is also well known for his eccentricity, unconventional and irrational behavior, and outspoken political views. Despite his prolonged absence from competitive play, or perhaps because of it, Fischer is still among the best known of all chess players.


Fischer's victory over the Soviet champion Boris Spassky to win the world championship in the "Match of the Century" was seen as a ...

Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal was born in Riga, Latvia in 1937. He learned to play chess at the age of eight by watching his father play, and soon started to attend the chess club at the Riga Palace of Young Pioneers. At first, his play was not exceptional, but he world hard at the game and began to be tutored by Alexander Koblentz in 1949. He improved quickly and in 1951 he reached the final of the Latvian Championship. In 1952, he competed again and finished ahead of his trainer. In 1952, he won the tournament for the first time and earned the title of candidate master.

In 1956, Tal qualified for the U.S.S.R. Championship and finished tied for fifth place. The following year, at the age of 20, he became the youngest player to win the championship. Although he had not played in enough international ...

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was born on October 31, or November 1, in 1892 to a wealthy family in Moscow, Russia. His father was a member of the Duma and also a landowner. His mother was the daughter of a rich industrialist. His mother and brother taught him how to play chess in 1903. In 1909 at the age of 17, Alekhine won the All-Russian Amateur Tournament in St. Petersburg with a score of 12 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws. This was his first chess accomplishment, and he was awarded a national master title for the performance.

In 1914, Alekhine played in a tournament in Saint Petersburg. He finished 3rd behind Lasker and Capablanca, and Tsar Nicholas II named him as one of the 5 original grandmasters. Alekhine also served in World War 1 and was wounded. After this, he began living in many different countries, and speaking Russian, French ...

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Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europeduring the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

The game is played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove it from attack on the ...