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A historical game of Chess between two players.
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| x Poole - HAL 9000 |
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Frank Poole |
In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. As HAL is supposed to be infallible, no one is surprised when HAL soundly defeats Poole. The director Stanley Kubrick was a...
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| x Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 | Feb 10, 1996 | Philadelphia | Deep Blue |
Deep Blue – Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 is a famous chess game in which a computer played against a human being. It was the first game played in the 1996 Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov match, and the first time that a chess-playing computer defeated a...
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| x Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 |
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May 11, 1997 | New York City | Deep Blue |
The infamous Sixth game of the Deep Blue - Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the rematch of 1997 of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. (Deep Blue was further...
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| x The Game of the Century |
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Oct 17, 1956 | New York City | Donald Byrne |
The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played between Donald Byrne and 13-year old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in...
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| x Immortal game |
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Jun 21, 1851 | London | Lionel Kieseritzky |
The Immortal Game was a chess game played on 21 June 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. The very bold sacrifices made by Anderssen to finally secure victory have made it one of the most famous chess games of all time. Anderssen gave up...
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| x Evergreen game | 1852 | Berlin | Jean Dufresne |
The Evergreen game is a famous chess game played in 1852 between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne.
Adolf Anderssen was one of the strongest players of his time, and was considered by many to be the world champion after winning the 1851 London...
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| x Immortal Zugzwang game | 1923 | Copenhagen | Aron Nimzowitsch |
The "Immortal Zugzwang Game" is a 1923 chess game between Friedrich Saemisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, played in Copenhagen. It is called that because the final position is sometimes considered a rare instance of zugzwang occurring in the middlegame....
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| x Immortal losing game | 1957 | Gotha | David Bronstein |
A chess game between the Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein and the Polish International Master Bogdan Śliwa in 1957 in Gotha is referred to as the "Immortal Losing Game" - an allusion to the more famous Immortal Game between Adolf Anderssen and...
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| x Opera game | 1858 | Paris | Count Isouard |
The Opera Game was a famous chess game played in 1858 between the American chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard, who consulted, playing together as partners...
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| x Polish Immortal | 1928 | Warsaw | Miguel Najdorf |
The Polish Immortal is the name given to a famous chess game between Glinksberg and Miguel Najdorf played in Warsaw. Some sources give its date as 1930 or 1935, and give the name of the player of the white pieces as "Glucksberg". Garry Kasparov...
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| x Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889 | 1889 | Amsterdam | Johann Bauer |
The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous of all time on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops to blow away the pawn cover around his opponent's king and win material.
The...
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| x Peruvian Immortal | 1934 | Budapest | Esteban Canal |
The Peruvian Immortal is the name given to a spectacular chess game played by the Peruvian master (later grandmaster) Esteban Canal against an unknown amateur in a simultaneous exhibition he gave at Budapest in 1934. In just 14 moves, Canal...
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| x Kasparov versus The World | 1999 | The World |
Kasparov versus the World was a game of chess played in 1999 over the Internet. Conducting the white pieces, Garry Kasparov faced the rest of the world in consultation, with the World Team moves to be decided by plurality vote. Over 50,000...
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| x Chess Olympiad |
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The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.
The first Olympiad was unofficial. For the 1924 Olympics an attempt...
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| x 34th Chess Olympiad | Richard Farleigh |
The 34th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, took place between October 28 and November 12, 2000, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Both tournament sections were officiated by...
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| x 31st Chess Olympiad | Richard Farleigh |
The 31st Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, took place between November 30 and December 17, 1994, in Moscow, Russia.
Both tournament sections were officiated by...
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| x 1993 U.S Junior Chess Championship | |||||
| x U.S. Chess Championship |
The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round...
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