31 Chess Facts Most People Don’t Know
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1. The first game of Chess between Space and Earth was played on June 9, 1970 by the Be-9 team. The game ended with a draw.
2. Judit Polgar, at the age of 9 in 1986, won the uncategorized section of the New York Open, winning 7 games and 1 drawn match. At 11 years old, she was evaluated at 2350 and obtained an international Master's degree, younger than Fischer or Kasparov. At 12 years old, she was assessed at 2555 and received the title of Woman Gm. At 13, she was the FIDE's best-rated woman. Grand Master at 15 years, 4 months and 27 days.
3. In the match between Britton and Crouch in 1984, the black player checked his opponent forty-three consecutive times!
4. The recording of movements without capture is 100 movements during the match between Thorton and Mr. Walker in 1992.
5. Chinese Emperor Wen-ti executed two foreign chess players after learning that one of the pieces was called "the emperor." He was annoyed that his title of emperor could be associated with a simple game and prohibited the game.
6. The longest time recorded for a chess player to make a move, goes to Grand Master International Three of Brazil with 2 hours and 20 minutes on the 7th move.
7. The number of possible ways to play the first four movements per side in a chess game is 318,979,554,000.
8. The first mention of the failures in America occurred in the year 1641 in the history of Esther Singleton of the Dutch settlers. The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
9. During the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match in Rekjavik, the Russians connected Spassky's erratic play to Fischer's chair. The Icelandic organization put a 24-hour police warden around the chair while chemical tests and X-rays were carried out on the chair. Nothing unusual was found.
10. The first computer program that played a good failure was written to MIT by Alex Bernstein in 1959. The first chess tournament in which the only players were computer programs was held in New York in 1970.
11. BEAUTIFUL, the first computer awarded the title of American Chess Master in 1983. BELLE won the 1980 World Championship of computers in Linz, on a PDP 11/23. BELLE was created by Ken Thompson and Joe Condon.
12. Albert Einstein was a good friend of World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker. In an interview with the New York Times in 1936, Albert said, "I do not play games. There is no time for that. When I go through the work, I do not want anything that requires the functioning of the mind. "He took over the failures in his life later.
13. The police attacked a chess tournament in Cleveland in 1973, arrested the tournament director and confiscated the chess games for allowing the game (prize money to the winners) and the possession of games of chance ( The chess games).
14. Anatoly Karpov, the first world champion to win the title without playing a chess match. He won the title in 1975 when Fischer refused to defend his title. Anatoly became Master Candidate at the age of 11, Master at 15, Grandmaster at 19 and World Champion at 24.
15. Frank Marshall (1877-1944) was the first American to defeat a Soviet player in an international tournament in New York in 1924. He reigned as US champion for 30 years, but only defended his title one Times when he defeated Ed Lasker (5 -4) in 1923. He was the first master to play more than 100 games simultaneously.
16. The youngest Master was Jordy Mont-Reynaud at 10 years, 7 months (1994). The oldest player to become chess master was Oscar Shapiro, at the age of 74 years.
17. Mephisto Portorose, is one of the most powerful microcomputers of commercially available chess. In 1990, defeated Karpov, Huebner and Bronstein in simultaneous exhibitions, won the West Germany blitz championship and secured a Master International (IM) standard by scoring 7-4 in the Open of Dortmond.
18. The first child prodigy of chess was Paul Morphy. He learned the movements at the age of 8 and beat the strongest players from New Orleans to 11 years old.
19. Until 1886, the title of world champion was not official
20. The word tabiya refers to the initial position, however, over the years it has come to describe critical points in which players decide on the future course of the game.
21. FIDE uses the tournament ranking category to determine how much someone must do in a tournament to get a Grandmaster title (or other). The highest category tournaments were placed in category 22. This indicates that the average Elo score for the players was between 2776 and 2800.
22. Russia has the biggest masters of any other country, a total of 156 GM. Germany is second with 61 and the US stalks with 60.
23. Gustav Neumann won all 34 of his games at the Berlin tournament 1865 mentioned above.
24. At the Linköping tournament in 1969, Friedrich Sämisch lost the 13 games by going beyond the control of time.
25. Between October 23, 1973, when he lost a match in a Soviet championship and on October 16, 1974, when he lost Kirov at the Novi Sad tournament, Mikhail Tal had a series of 95 lossless tournaments (46 victories And 49 prints).
26. Thirteen players played for the first time with 5-1 scores at the Open National from 17 to 19 March 2000 in Las Vegas: the great masters Jaan Ehlvest, Alexander Goldin, Alexander Baburin, Pavel Blatny, Eduard Gufeld, Yuri Shulman, Alex Yermolinsky, Gregory Kaidanov, Dmitry Gurevich, Alexander Stripunsky and Gregory Serper, and International Masters Rade Milovanovic and Levon Altounian.
27. On the FIDE scoring list of July 1972, Bobby Fischer's nominal score of 2785 was 125 points ahead of the second highest player, defending world champion Boris Spassky (2660). Kasparov's greatest advance at its peak was 82 points in January 2000.
28. On January 11, 2009, nine-year-old Hetul Shah became the youngest player to defeat a Grand Master in a standard time tournament game when he defeated Grandmaster Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan 7th Parsvnath International Open in New Delhi, India
29. In 1922, José Raúl Capablanca, the recently crowned world champion, played 103 opponents simultaneously in Cleveland. He completed the show in seven hours, scoring 102 victories and a draw (99.5%), the best result ever achieved in a simultaneous exhibition on more than 75 tables.
30. The worst result of a simultaneous exhibition given by a master took place in 1951 when International Master Robert Wade gave simultaneous exposure to 30 Russian pupils aged 14 years and under. After 7 hours of play, Wade lost 20 games and removed the remaining 10 (16.7%).
31. Miguel Najdorf played against 45 opponents in a simultaneous blindfolded show given in Sao Paulo in 1947, winning 39, losing 2 and shooting 4 games (after a similar display in Rosario, Argentina, in 1943 , Against 40 players). Later, Janos Flesch (52 games) claimed to have broken that record, but his exposure was not properly monitored and so it was not recognized.
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1. The first game of Chess between Space and Earth was played on June 9, 1970 by the Be-9 team. The game ended with a draw.
2. Judit Polgar, at the age of 9 in 1986, won the uncategorized section of the New York Open, winning 7 games and 1 drawn match. At 11 years old, she was evaluated at 2350 and obtained an international Master's degree, younger than Fischer or Kasparov. At 12 years old, she was assessed at 2555 and received the title of Woman Gm. At 13, she was the FIDE's best-rated woman. Grand Master at 15 years, 4 months and 27 days.
3. In the match between Britton and Crouch in 1984, the black player checked his opponent forty-three consecutive times!
4. The recording of movements without capture is 100 movements during the match between Thorton and Mr. Walker in 1992.
5. Chinese Emperor Wen-ti executed two foreign chess players after learning that one of the pieces was called "the emperor." He was annoyed that his title of emperor could be associated with a simple game and prohibited the game.
6. The longest time recorded for a chess player to make a move, goes to Grand Master International Three of Brazil with 2 hours and 20 minutes on the 7th move.
7. The number of possible ways to play the first four movements per side in a chess game is 318,979,554,000.
8. The first mention of the failures in America occurred in the year 1641 in the history of Esther Singleton of the Dutch settlers. The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
9. During the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match in Rekjavik, the Russians connected Spassky's erratic play to Fischer's chair. The Icelandic organization put a 24-hour police warden around the chair while chemical tests and X-rays were carried out on the chair. Nothing unusual was found.
10. The first computer program that played a good failure was written to MIT by Alex Bernstein in 1959. The first chess tournament in which the only players were computer programs was held in New York in 1970.
11. BEAUTIFUL, the first computer awarded the title of American Chess Master in 1983. BELLE won the 1980 World Championship of computers in Linz, on a PDP 11/23. BELLE was created by Ken Thompson and Joe Condon.
12. Albert Einstein was a good friend of World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker. In an interview with the New York Times in 1936, Albert said, "I do not play games. There is no time for that. When I go through the work, I do not want anything that requires the functioning of the mind. "He took over the failures in his life later.
13. The police attacked a chess tournament in Cleveland in 1973, arrested the tournament director and confiscated the chess games for allowing the game (prize money to the winners) and the possession of games of chance ( The chess games).
14. Anatoly Karpov, the first world champion to win the title without playing a chess match. He won the title in 1975 when Fischer refused to defend his title. Anatoly became Master Candidate at the age of 11, Master at 15, Grandmaster at 19 and World Champion at 24.
15. Frank Marshall (1877-1944) was the first American to defeat a Soviet player in an international tournament in New York in 1924. He reigned as US champion for 30 years, but only defended his title one Times when he defeated Ed Lasker (5 -4) in 1923. He was the first master to play more than 100 games simultaneously.
16. The youngest Master was Jordy Mont-Reynaud at 10 years, 7 months (1994). The oldest player to become chess master was Oscar Shapiro, at the age of 74 years.
17. Mephisto Portorose, is one of the most powerful microcomputers of commercially available chess. In 1990, defeated Karpov, Huebner and Bronstein in simultaneous exhibitions, won the West Germany blitz championship and secured a Master International (IM) standard by scoring 7-4 in the Open of Dortmond.
18. The first child prodigy of chess was Paul Morphy. He learned the movements at the age of 8 and beat the strongest players from New Orleans to 11 years old.
19. Until 1886, the title of world champion was not official
20. The word tabiya refers to the initial position, however, over the years it has come to describe critical points in which players decide on the future course of the game.
21. FIDE uses the tournament ranking category to determine how much someone must do in a tournament to get a Grandmaster title (or other). The highest category tournaments were placed in category 22. This indicates that the average Elo score for the players was between 2776 and 2800.
22. Russia has the biggest masters of any other country, a total of 156 GM. Germany is second with 61 and the US stalks with 60.
23. Gustav Neumann won all 34 of his games at the Berlin tournament 1865 mentioned above.
24. At the Linköping tournament in 1969, Friedrich Sämisch lost the 13 games by going beyond the control of time.
25. Between October 23, 1973, when he lost a match in a Soviet championship and on October 16, 1974, when he lost Kirov at the Novi Sad tournament, Mikhail Tal had a series of 95 lossless tournaments (46 victories And 49 prints).
26. Thirteen players played for the first time with 5-1 scores at the Open National from 17 to 19 March 2000 in Las Vegas: the great masters Jaan Ehlvest, Alexander Goldin, Alexander Baburin, Pavel Blatny, Eduard Gufeld, Yuri Shulman, Alex Yermolinsky, Gregory Kaidanov, Dmitry Gurevich, Alexander Stripunsky and Gregory Serper, and International Masters Rade Milovanovic and Levon Altounian.
27. On the FIDE scoring list of July 1972, Bobby Fischer's nominal score of 2785 was 125 points ahead of the second highest player, defending world champion Boris Spassky (2660). Kasparov's greatest advance at its peak was 82 points in January 2000.
28. On January 11, 2009, nine-year-old Hetul Shah became the youngest player to defeat a Grand Master in a standard time tournament game when he defeated Grandmaster Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan 7th Parsvnath International Open in New Delhi, India
29. In 1922, José Raúl Capablanca, the recently crowned world champion, played 103 opponents simultaneously in Cleveland. He completed the show in seven hours, scoring 102 victories and a draw (99.5%), the best result ever achieved in a simultaneous exhibition on more than 75 tables.
30. The worst result of a simultaneous exhibition given by a master took place in 1951 when International Master Robert Wade gave simultaneous exposure to 30 Russian pupils aged 14 years and under. After 7 hours of play, Wade lost 20 games and removed the remaining 10 (16.7%).
31. Miguel Najdorf played against 45 opponents in a simultaneous blindfolded show given in Sao Paulo in 1947, winning 39, losing 2 and shooting 4 games (after a similar display in Rosario, Argentina, in 1943 , Against 40 players). Later, Janos Flesch (52 games) claimed to have broken that record, but his exposure was not properly monitored and so it was not recognized.
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