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2012 In Chess
Below is a list of events in chess in the year 2012: Events * The film ''Brooklyn Castle'' is released in March. The movie documents Intermediate School 318, an inner-city public school in Brooklyn, New York, which becomes the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation's national high school championship. * World champion Viswanathan Anand (India) successfully defends his title against challenger Boris Gelfand (Israel) in the World Chess Championship 2012 held in Moscow in May. The match is tied 6–6 after the first 12 games, but Anand scores +1=3−0 in the four rapid tie-break games to retain the title. * The Spanish chess magazine ''Jaque'' publishes its final issue in July. * 40th Chess Olympiad is held in Istanbul from 27 August to 10 September. In the open event, Armenia wins the gold, with Russia and Ukraine earning silver and bronze. The women's event is won by Russia, followed by China and Ukraine. * The first two tournaments in the FIDE Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Castle
''Brooklyn Castle'' (2012 in film, 2012) is a documentary film about Intermediate School 318, an inner-city public school in Brooklyn, New York. Where an after-school chess program, having both dedicated educators and a supportive community, has triumphed over deep budget cuts to build the most winning junior high school chess team in the country, and the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation, United States Chess Federation's national high school championship. The film follows five of the school's chess team members for one year, from April 2009 to June 2010, and documents their challenges and triumphs both on and off the chessboard. Remake rights have been acquired by Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin. Rudin's other works include co-producing the acclaimed film ''Searching for Bobby Fischer'' (1993). ''Brooklyn Castle'' premiered at the South by Southwest, South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival on March 11, 2012. Over the next several months it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk ( uk, Анн́а Оле́гівна Музичу́к; sl, Ana Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up. Muzychuk grew up in a chess family where her younger sister Mariya also became a Grandmaster and her parents work as chess coaches, having taught her the game from when she was two years old. She soon established herself as a chess prodigy, first winning the European Youth Chess Championships at age six in the under-8 girls' category and later winning the under-10, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetozar Gligorić
Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић, 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. In 1958, he was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gligorić was one of the top players in the world. He was also among the world's most popular players, owing to his globe-trotting tournament schedule and a particularly engaging personality, reflected in the title of his autobiography, ''I Play Against Pieces'' (i.e., without hostility toward the opponent, and not differently against different players for "psychological" reasons; playing "the board and not the man"). Life Gligorić was born in Belgrade to a poor family. According to his recollections, his first exposure to chess was as a small child watching patrons play in a neighborhood bar. He began to play at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Piatigorsky
Jacqueline Rebecca Louise Piatigorsky (née de Rothschild; November 6, 1911 – July 15, 2012) was a French-American chess player, author, sculptor, philanthropist, and arts patron. She was a member of the Rothschild banking family of France. Early life, marriages, family The daughter of the wealthy and influential banker Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild, and Germaine Alice , she was the sister of Guy de Rothschild and Bethsabée de Rothschild. She was born in Paris, France. De Rothschild was raised in the Château de Ferrières in the country in Île-de-France, and at a home in the city in what is known as the "Talleyrand Building," a mansion at 2 rue Saint-Florentin that today is part of the United States Embassy complex in Paris. According to her 1988 memoir ''Jump in the Waves'', her parents were cold and distant and left her upbringing to an indifferent nanny. As a result, she grew into a timid, near-reclusive, young woman who at age 19 married publisher Robert Calmann-Lévy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Divinsky
Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official. Divinsky was also known for being the former husband of the 19th prime minister of Canada, Kim Campbell. Divinsky and Campbell were married from 1972 to 1983. Early life, education, professional career He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1925, and was a contemporary and friend of Canadian Grandmaster and lawyer Daniel Yanofsky. Divinsky received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Manitoba in 1946. He received a Master of Science in 1947, and a PhD in Mathematics under A. A. Albert in 1950 from the University of Chicago after which he returned to Winnipeg and was on the staff of the Mathematics Department of the University of Manitoba for most of the '50s. Divinsky then moved to Vancouver where he served as a mathematics professor, and also as an assistant dean of science, at the University of British Colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Open Chess Tournament
The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament played in most editions in Philadelphia and some editions in New York City. The inaugural event was a huge success played in New York in 1973 with 732 participants, and was won by Walter Browne. The tournament is divided into different sections, with typically 100–200 players in the top section. The 1986 edition had as many as 1507 participants, arguably a world record for a chess tournament. The 2009 edition had 1350 players divided into nine sections. The total prize fund was US$250,000 (first prize in the top section US$15,200). It is usually played in the first week of July, sometimes beginning at the end of June. All editions have been organized by the ''Continental Chess Association''. Winners All players finishing equal first are listed; the winners after tie-breaks are boldfaced. : Details * 1973 – The 1st World Open was held from June 30 through July 4 at the Hotel McAlpin (34th Street and Broadway) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Chess Championship
The Icelandic Chess Championship is usually held in Reykjavík. It is organised by the Icelandic Chess Federation (ICF), the body responsible for holding national chess events and for representing Icelandic chess at the World Chess Federation ( FIDE). The ICF was founded in 1925 and its main activities include the national chess championship and the annual 'Reykjavik Open' tournament. The tournament has always been organized as a round robin with the exception of the 100th anniversary tournament in 2013, which was held as a Swiss-style open tournament. The current Icelandic chess champion is Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson (2022). National championship winners The list of Icelandic champions before 2013 is taken from the Icelandic Chess Federation website. : Note – no contest was held on the years denoted *. The incumbent champion therefore retained his title. Women's championship winners The list of women's champions before 2013 is taken from the Icelandic Chess Federation webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haukur Angantýsson
Haukur Angantýsson (2 December 1948 – 4 May 2012) was an Icelandic chess International Master. He was awarded the International Master title by FIDE in 1981. Haukur won the Icelandic Chess Championship The Icelandic Chess Championship is usually held in Reykjavík. It is organised by the Icelandic Chess Federation (ICF), the body responsible for holding national chess events and for representing Icelandic chess at the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ... in 1976. His greatest success was his victory in the 1979 World Open chess tournament, World Open at Philadelphia with 8 points out of 10 games, after a tie-break with six other players, four of whom were grandmasters: Tony Miles, Florin Gheorghiu, Walter Browne, Arthur Bisguier, Bernard Zuckerman and John Fedorowicz. References External links Haukur Angantysson rating card at FIDE * 1948 births 2012 deaths Icelandic chess players, Haukur Angantysson Chess International Masters, Haukur Angantysson {{Icela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Razuvaev
Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Разува́ев (also Razuvayev; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian chess player and trainer. Chess career Razuvaev became an International Master in 1973, a Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster in 1976 and an Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR, Honoured Coach of Russia in 1977. Razuvaev's tournament wins included Dubna 1978, Polanica-Zdrój 1979, London 1983, Dortmund 1985, Jūrmala 1987, Pula 1988, Protvino 1988, Reykjavík 1990, Leningrad 1992, Tiraspol 1994, Reggio Emilia 1996 and San Sebastián, San Sebastian 1996. At the second Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World, USSR vs Rest of the World match in 1984, he substituted for Tigran Petrosian, who was absent because of illness. Razuvaev limited his opponent, the much higher rated Robert Hübner, to four straight draw (chess), draws. Razuvaev was a respected trainer, becoming a second to Anatoly Karpov from 1971 until 1978, steppi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Albareda Creus
Miguel Albareda Creus (20 February 1919 in Sabadell - 13 April 2012) was a Spanish chess player. He was once runner-up in the 1945 Spanish competition behind the international master Antonio Medina García. He was eight times champion of Catalonia in the years 1943, 1945, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1963, and he was runner-up four times, in the years 1946, 1948, 1953 and 1965. He won the Sabadell tournament in 1944 and represented Spain in the Chess Olympiads of 1958 in Munich, and the UEFA European Chess Team in Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ... in 1961. References External links * 1919 births 2012 deaths Spanish chess players Sportspeople from Sabadell {{Spain-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Women's Chess Championship
The British Chess Championships are organised by the English Chess Federation. The main tournament incorporates the British Championship, the English Chess Championships and the British Women's Chess Championship so it is possible, although it has never happened, for one player to win all three titles in the same competition. The English Women's Chess Championship was also incorporated into this event but did not take place in 2015 and was held as a separate competition in 2016. Since 1923 there have been sections for juniors, and since 1982 there has been an over-sixty championship. The championship venue usually changes every year and has been held in different locations in England, Scotland, Wales and once on the Isle of Man. The championship was originally open to citizens of any Commonwealth country and has previously been won by Mir Sultan Khan (India) and Abe Yanofsky (Canada). After the Indian R. B. Ramesh finished first in 2002 and several other Indians took top prizes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Pritchard
Elaine Zelia Pritchard (7 January 1926 – 7 January 2012), née Saunders, was an English chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1957). She was a four-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship (1939, 1946, 1956, 1965). Biography Pritchard learned to play chess at the age of five, and was considered a child prodigy. For two consecutive years, she won the World Girl Chess Championships (1936, 1937), and also successfully participated in simultaneous exhibitions against Alexander Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann. For decades, she was among England's leading women chess players. Elaine Pritchard four times won the British Women's Chess Championships (1939, 1946 — after winning an additional match against Rowena Mary Bruce, 1956, 1965). Pritchard played for England in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1957, at first board in the 1st Chess Olympiad (women) in Emmen (+6, =4, -4), * In 1972, at second board in the 5th Chess Olympiad (women) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
