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Theodor Ghițescu
Theodor Ghițescu (24 January 1934 ─ 22 November 2008) was a Romanian chess player. He was Romanian champion in 1963, and represented Romania at twelve chess olympiads from 1956 until 1984. He was awarded the International Master title in 1962, and in 1986 he was awarded the honorary Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster title. His tournament successes include wins at the Wijk aan Zee B tournament in 1966 and 1973, and at the Bucharest International tournament of 1976 (ahead of Jozsef Pinter and Evgeny Sveshnikov). He competed in several Romanian Chess Championship, Romanian championships, winning the event in 1963, finishing second in 1961, 1972, 1975 and 1977 and finishing third in 1959 and 1971. His peak FIDE rating was 2460 in the July 1971 list. External links Ghitescu biography by Marian Stere (Romanian chess historian) 1934 births 2008 deaths Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Bucharest 20th-century Romanian chess players 20th-century Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM Schaaktoernooi, G
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 and soon became the leading manufacturer of Tabulating machine, punch-card tabulating systems. During the 1960s and 1970s, the IBM mainframe, exemplified by the IBM System/360, System/360 and its successors, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
