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Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament
The Reggio Emilia chess tournament was an annual chess tournament held in Reggio Emilia, Italy. In Italian the tournament is called ''Torneo di Capodanno'' (New Year's tournament), as it used to start just after Christmas and end on the day of Epiphany (holiday), Epiphany (6 January). It was established as an annual event in 1958 by grandmaster Enrico Paoli. In 1982/83 the tournament attracted a new sponsor and by the 1990s the tournament had gained significant international reputation, climaxing in the 1991/1992 edition. This was the first Category (chess tournament), Category 18 tournament ever played; it was won by the 22-year-old Viswanathan Anand ahead of Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov and Vassily Ivanchuk. It was Italy's oldest and most renowned chess tournament. The tournament was usually played as a 10 to 16 player round-robin tournament. The announced 55th edition had to be canceled due to economic reasons. Winners : See also *Hastings International Chess Congress Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Győző Forintos
Győző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935 – 5 December 2018) was a Hungarian chess player and by profession, an economist. He was awarded the titles International Master, in 1963, and Grandmaster, in 1974, by FIDE. He first participated in the Hungarian championship as early as 1954 and became the national champion in 1968/9. In tournaments he was 1st at Reggio Emilia 1962/3, 2nd at Wijk aan Zee-B 1970 (after Andersson), 1st at Baja ( Asztalos Memorial) 1971, 3rd at Caorle 1972, 2nd at Vrnjačka Banja 1973, 2nd at Reykjavík 1974 (after Smyslov, but ahead of Bronstein), 2nd at Novi Sad 1974, 2nd= at Lone Pine 1976 (after Petrosian), 2nd at Sarajevo 1978, and 1st= at the Perpignan Open 1987. He played for Hungary in six Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennadi Kuzmin
Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin (, ; January 19, 1946 – February 28, 2020) was a Ukrainian chess player and trainer. He reached his peak strength in the early to mid-1970s and in 1973, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, the governing body. Career Kuzmin competed in the Soviet Chess Championship eleven times between 1965 and 1991. His best results occurred in 1972 in Baku (3rd= behind Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Tukmakov) and 1973 in Moscow (2nd= behind Boris Spassky). The Baku final was also a qualifier for the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal, in which he placed seventh of eighteen players. He was invited to compete at the Biel Interzonal in 1976, but ex-World Champion Vassily Smyslov played in his place. Kuzmin later expressed disquiet regarding that. A second Interzonal appearance occurred at Riga 1979, when he again finished in the top half of the table. In other competition, he achieved outright or shared first place at Hastings 1973/74 (with László Szabó, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luděk Pachman
Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 – March 6, 2003) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany. He lived the remainder of his life there, and resumed his chess career with considerable success, including playing in the Interzonal in 1976 and winning the West German Championship in 1978. Career Pachman's first chess championship came in 1940, when he became champion of the nearby village of Cista (population 900). The first break in his chess career came in 1943, when he was invited to an international tournament in Prague. World Champion Alexander Alekhine dominated the event, with Paul Keres taking second place. Pachman finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament. Alekhine paid him a compliment in an article in the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' and from the fifth round on, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes Rodríguez Vargas
Orestes Rodríguez Vargas (born 4 July 1943) is a Peruvian Grandmaster (GM) (1978), who representing Spain since 1982, five-times Peruvian Chess Championship winner (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972), Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1978), Pan American Chess Championship medalist (1970). Biography From the mid-1960s to the first half of the 1980s, Orestes Rodríguez Vargas was one of Peru's leading chess players. He five times in row won Peruvian Chess Championship: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972. In 1970, in Havana Orestes Rodríguez Vargas won silver medal in Pan American Chess Championship. In 1969, in Mar del Plata (shared 6th–7th place) and in 1972 in São Paulo (shared 6th–7th place) he twice participated in World Chess Championship South American zonal. With chess club ''CE Vulcà Barcelona'' Orestes Rodríguez Vargas five times won Spanish Team Chess Championship (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1995). His chess tournament successes include 2nd place in Buenos Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luben Popov
Luben Popov ( bg, Любен Попов; born 28 January 1936) is Bulgarian chess International Master (IM) (1965), Bulgarian Chess Championship winner (1970), European Team Chess Championships individual medalist (1977, 1980), World Student Team Chess Championships winner (1959). Biography In the 1960s and 1970s Luben Popov was one of the leading Bulgarian chess players. In 1970, he won Bulgarian Chess Championship.Luben Popov won bronze medals four times in the Bulgarian Chess Championships (1959, 1962, 1963, 1971). Three times he participated in FIDE Zonal tournaments: Budapest (1960), Enschede (1963), Warsaw (1979). Luben Popov was winner of many international chess tournament awards, including first place in Plovdiv (1973), Reggio Emilia (1973/74), Albena (1977), Rome (1981). In 1965, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title. Luben Popov played for Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiads: * In 1962, at second reserve board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+1, =6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levente Lengyel
Levente Lengyel (13 June 1933 – 18 August 2014) was a Hungarian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1964. Background Lengyel gained the title of International Master in 1962 and became a Grandmaster in 1964. His final published rating from the international chess federation FIDE was 2293, although he had not been active for a number of years. At his peak, he was regarded as a strong grandmaster, competing for his nation at the top level and winning medals. He died in Budapest in 2014. Notable team results Lengyel played for Hungary in six Olympiads between 1960 and 1970. His most notable results were: * 15th Chess Olympiad 1962 Varna - Lengyel scored 8½/12 receiving an individual bronze medal, and Hungary finished 5th of 37 teams. * 17th Chess Olympiad 1966 Havana - Lengyel scored 4/10 and Hungary finished 3rd of 52 teams, receiving bronze medals *19th Chess Olympiad 1970 Siegen - Lengyel scored 5½/12 and Hungary finished 2nd of 60 teams, receiving silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Soltis
Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in September 2011. Chess career Soltis learned how the chess pieces moved at age 10 when he came upon a how-to-play book in the public library in Astoria, Queens where he grew up. He took no further interest in the game until he was 14, when he joined an Astoria chess club, then the Marshall Chess Club and competed in his first tournament, the 1961 New York City Junior Championship. Tournaments and championships In 1970, Soltis played second board on the gold-medal winning US team in the 17th World Student Team Championship and tied for the best overall score, 8–1. He was also a member of the silver-medal winning US teams in the 14th and the 18th World Student Team Championships. Soltis won the annual international tournament at Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1972 and was awarded the International Master title two years later. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Mariotti
Sergio Mariotti (born 10 August 1946) is an Italian chess player. He is the first Italian to achieve the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1974. Career Born in Florence, he became the Italian junior champion in 1965 at Turin and in 1969 at San Benedetto, the full Italian Champion. One of his greatest tournament successes followed in 1971, when he finished second at Venice (after Walter Browne and ahead of Vlastimil Hort, Lubomir Kavalek and Svetozar Gligorić). Mariotti represented his country at the Chess Olympiad in 1972, 1974, 1986 and 1988. At the Olympiad of 1974, held in Nice, he scored a double success. A board one score of 73.7% (+12 =4 −3) earned him the individual bronze medal (behind Anatoly Karpov and Delgado, jointly with Eugenio Torre) also securing his final grandmaster norm. As no Italian before him had achieved the title of International Grandmaster, he gained overnight celebrity status when the honour was bestowed on him the same year. Aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Mista
Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava. Folk etymology occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada. Spellings and variations In Bulgarian and Russian this name is spelled in . ''László'' is a Hungarian variation of this name. Athletes *Ladislav Beneš, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player * Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player *Ladislav Čepčianský, Czechoslovak sprint canoer *Ladislav Dluhoš, Czechoslovak ski jumper *Ladislav Fouček * Ladislav Hecht (1909–2004), Czechoslovak/American tennis player *Ladislav Hrubý, cross-country skier *Ladislav Jurkemik, Czechoslovak/Slovak footballer and manager *Ladislav Kačáni, Czechoslovak footballer and coach *Ladislav Kohn, Czech ice hockey player *Ladislav Kuna, Czechoslovak footballer *Ladislav Lubina, Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach *Ladislav Maier, Czech footballer *Ladislav Nagy, Slovak ice hockey p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Matulović
Milan Matulović (10 June 1935 – 9 October 2013) was a chess grandmaster who was the second or third strongest Yugoslav player for much of the 1960s and 1970s behind Svetozar Gligorić and possibly Borislav Ivkov. He was primarily active before 1977, but remained an occasional tournament competitor until 2006. Career Matulović was born in Belgrade. In 1958 he played a four-game training match with Bobby Fischer, of which he won one, drew one and lost two. He achieved the International Master title in 1961 and became a Grandmaster in 1965. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championships of 1965 and 1967 and was a prolific competitor on the international tournament scene during the 1960s and 1970s. Probably his best result was equal first with Gligorić, Ivkov and Lev Polugaevsky at Skopje 1969 ahead of former World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik and multiple candidate Efim Geller. Other first-place finishes during this period, either shared or outright, included Netanya 1961, Vrša ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Ciocâltea
Victor Ciocâltea (January 16, 1932 – September 10, 1983) was a Romanian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978. Among his notable games is the one at the 15th Chess Olympiad, held in Varna in 1962, where he defeated Bobby Fischer. Biography Ciocâltea was Romanian Champion in 1952, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, and 1979. He played for Romania in eleven Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1982. He was a participant of four zonal FIDE tournaments (1954–1982). In 1954, he took 14th in Mariánské Lázně–Prague (Luděk Pachman won). In 1967, he took 15th in Halle ( Lajos Portisch won). In 1972, he tied for 5–7th in Vrnjačka Banja. In 1982, he tied for 19–20th in Băile Herculane (Zoltán Ribli won). In 1953, he tied for 11–12th in Bucharest (Alexander Tolush won). In 1954, he took 16th in Bucharest (Viktor Korchnoi won). In 1956, he took 3rd, behind Yuri Averbakh and Ratmir Kholmov, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
