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Cleveland Open (chess)
The Cleveland Open is an annual chess tournament held in Cleveland, Ohio. The tournament was not held from 2004 until 2008, when it was resurrected. List of Winners References {{reflist Recurring sporting events established in 1992 1992 establishments in Ohio Sports competitions in Cleveland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the United States, U.S. U.S. state, state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. Canada–United States border, maritime border with Canada, northeast of Cincinnati, northeast of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, and approximately west of Pennsylvania. The largest city on Lake Erie and one of the major cities of the Great Lakes region, Cleveland ranks as the List of United States cities by population, 54th-largest city in the U.S. with a 2020 population of 372,624. The city anchors both the Greater Cleveland, Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the larger Northeast Ohio, Cleveland–Akron–Canton combined statistical area (CSA). The CSA is the most populous in Ohio and the 17th largest in the country, with a population of 3.63 million in 2020, while th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iryna Zenyuk
Iryna Zenyuk is a Ukrainian-American scientist working on the development and deployment of renewable hydrogen energy technologies, and an international chess player. She is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Irvine (UCI) and the director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UCI. Education and career Zenyuk was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the US at age 15. She received a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where she worked on the fundamental understanding meso-scale interfacial transport phenomena and electric double layers in fuel cells. She then became a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2014 to 2015 studying water-management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell using x-ray at the Advanced Light Source. From 2015 to 2018, she was an assistant profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recurring Sporting Events Established In 1992
Recurring means occurring repeatedly and can refer to several different things: Mathematics and finance *Recurring expense, an ongoing (continual) expenditure *Repeating decimal, or recurring decimal, a real number in the decimal numeral system in which a sequence of digits repeats infinitely *Curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP), a software design pattern Processes *Recursion, the process of repeating items in a self-similar way *Recurring dream, a dream that someone repeatedly experiences over an extended period Television *Recurring character, a character, usually on a television series, that appears from time to time and may grow into a larger role *Recurring status Recurring status is a class of actors that perform on U.S. soap operas. Recurring status performers consistently act in less than three episodes out of a five-day work week, and receive a certain sum for each episode in which they appear. This is ..., condition whereby a soap opera actor may be us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eltaj Safarli
Eltaj Safarli ( az, Eltac Səfərli; born 18 May 1992 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. In October 2016, he reached his all-time-highest rating of 2694 and was ranked as No. 3 in Azerbaijan and No. 46 in the world. He entered tournaments from the age of 6, with modest success. Safarli won the Azerbaijan Championships in 2010 and 2016. He won the under 10 World Youth Chess Championship in Heraklion in 2002. Team competitions Safarli played in the silver medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras in 2011, alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Vugar Gashimov and Qadir Huseynov. Notable tournament victories * 2010 Mikhail Chigorin Memorial, Saint Petersbourg, 1st * Winner of Azerbaijan Chess Championship The Azerbaijani Chess Championship is usually held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is organised by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). The first championship was played in 1934, when Azerbaijan was a part of the Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Belous
Vladimir Belous (born July 29, 1993, in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia) is a chess Grandmaster from Moscow, Russia. He got International Master (IM) title in 2011 and Grandmaster (GM) title in 2013. He was the winner of 25th Annual Chicago Open in 2016 and US Masters Championship in 2017. In 2016, he moved to Brownsville TX, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie .... Notable tournaments References {{DEFAULTSORT:Belous, Vladimir 1993 births Living people Grandmasters for chess composition Chess Grandmasters Russian chess players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidel Corrales Jimenez
Fidel Corrales Jimenez is an American chess Grandmaster. Chess career In 2009 Jimenez shared first place with Alexander Shabalov in the American Continental Chess Championship. He played in the Chess World Cup 2009 and Chess World Cup 2011, in both cases representing the Cuban Chess Federation, being defeated by Alexander Areshchenko and Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the you ..., respectively, in the first rounds. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Corrales Jimenez, Fidel 1987 births Living people American chess players Chess grandmasters Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florin Felecan
Florin Felecan (born 7 April 1981, in Brasov) is a chess International Master. Born in Romania, he resides in Skokie, Illinois, having moved there on July 17, 1997, along with his family. Chess career Felecan is a multiple-time former junior national champion of Romania. In 1994, he tied for first in the U14 European Championships with a 7/9 points performance. He won the 1998 National Denker Tournament of High School Champions in Hawaii with 5/5 record. He served as one of four advisors on the World team in the Kasparov versus The World chess match in 1999. Felecan attended University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC) on a chess scholarship from 1998 until 1999. He played first/second board and led UMBC to the Pan-American team Championship in Dallas (1998) and Toronto (1999), but left shortly thereafter. He intermittently played chess from 2000 through 2002, then stopped playing until May 2006. Felecan began actively seeking his International Master title after being co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Bonin
Jay Bonin (born July 7, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American International Master in chess, chess teacher, author and lecturer. He is known as the "Iron Man of Chess" and is among the most active tournament players in the US, having played over 25,000 tournament games (over 13,000 games since the US Chess Federation started collecting data in 1991 and an estimated 12,000 games for his almost 20 years of tournament play prior). According to a 2012 article by Dylan McClain in '' The New York Times'', Bonin has "probably has played more tournaments than anyone. The United States Chess Federation lists more than 3,300 tournaments Bonin has competed in since 1991, which is as far back as the computerized records go, though Bonin played just as frequently in the '80s." His peak USCF rating is 2526. Chess career; early years Bonin got interested in chess at the age of 14 while attending Andres Hudde Junior High School but did not actively pursue chess until the age of 17 when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Smith (chess Player)
Bryan Garrett Smith is an American chess grandmaster. Chess career Smith grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. He earned the International Master title in January 2007. In May 2011, he earned a Grandmaster norm in the LIMPEDEA Cup in Romania by winning the tournament. In March 2013, he tied for first place with GM Mikheil Kekelidze in the open section of the 35th Annual Marchand held in Rochester, New York. He was awarded the Grandmaster title later in 2013. In November 2017, he won the 48th National Chess Congress held in Philadelphia. The event had 7 other Grandmasters, and Smith was rated over 200 points lower than the top seeded players. During the tournament, Smith defeated Alexander Shabalov in an upset and drew against Alexey Dreev Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Kudrin
Sergey Kudrin (born September 7, 1959) is an American chess Grandmaster who was born in the Soviet Union. He achieved his Grandmaster title in 1984 going on to win chess tournaments at Copenhagen in 1983, and Beer-Sheva in 1984, and Torremolinos in 1985. He played in the 2005 Chess World Cup at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia seeded 102nd, the 1999 Las Vegas FIDE Chess World Championship seeded 70th, and the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship held in Tripoli, Libya, where he was seeded 92nd. In the United States Kudrin won third place in the 2008 Frank K. Berry United States Chess Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2008. He is also third in the 2008 World Chess Live Grand Prix standings. He has also been a valued member on the United States Chess League in 2007 and 2008. Kudrin won the United States Open Championship in 1984 and 2007. In the July 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2578. GM Kudrin often has encouraged chess activities such as recruiting GM Boris Spassky t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Paragua
Mark Callano Paragua (born March 29, 1984) is a Filipino chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. He won the Philippine Chess Championship in 2012. He was the youngest Filipino master ever, at nine years of age. He also became the youngest Filipino GM ever at 20 (until Wesley So surpassed it), beating Eugenio Torre's record by about two years. Chess career At the 1998 The Walt Disney Company, Disney World Rapid Chess Championship for Kids, Paragua tied for finished first with 7½ points in the boys' 14-and-under section, and took the gold medal on tiebreak points. Paragua also played in the 3rd Asian Indoor Games held in 2009 where he finished with 5 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses with a Tournament Performance Rating (TPR) of 2522 (ELO 2501) leading the team to a 7th-place finish but missed out on a playoff berth. World Youth Chess Championship Paragua took part in two World Youth Chess Championships: * 15th World Youth Chess Championship (2001) where he tied for 17th-26th place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pal Benko
Pál C. Benkő ( hu, Benkő Pál; July 15, 1928 – August 26, 2019) was a Hungarian-American chess player, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. Early life Benko was born on July 15, 1928 in Amiens, France, where his Hungarian parents were on vacation. He was raised in Hungary. Benko learned to play chess aged eight from his father, but did not compete in tournaments until age 17, due to World War II. During the war, he dug ditches for the Hungarian army before being captured by the Soviet army, which forced him to be a laborer. He eventually escaped to his home, only to find that his brother and father had been sent to Russia as laborers, and his mother died as the war neared its conclusion. Benko made rapid progress once he began tournament play, and became Hungarian champion by age 20. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1950. He qualified for the 1952 Interzonal tournament, but was unable to compete as he was sent to a concentrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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