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List of chess players
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This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.
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[edit]- Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973)
- Manuel Aaron (India, born 1935)
- Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, born 1995)
- István Abonyi (Hungary, 1886–1942)
- Gerald Abrahams (England, 1907–1980)
- Tatev Abrahamyan (Armenia, US, born 1988)
- Hasan Abbasifar (Iran, born 1972)
- Farid Abbasov (Azerbaijan, born 1979)
- Jude Acers (US, born 1944)
- Péter Ács (Hungary, born 1981)
- Weaver Adams (US, 1901–1963)
- Tanitoluwa Adewumi (Nigeria, US, born 2010)
- Utut Adianto (Indonesia, born 1965)
- András Adorján (Hungary, born 1950)
- Vladimir Afromeev (Russia, born 1954)
- Simen Agdestein (Norway, born 1967)
- Evgeny Agrest (Belarus, Sweden, born 1966)
- Georgy Agzamov (Uzbekistan, 1954–1986)
- Carl Ahues (Germany, 1883–1968)
- James Macrae Aitken (Scotland, 1908–1983)
- Ralf Åkesson (Sweden, born 1961
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Today, half a century ago, one of the greatest chess events of the 20th century started in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Virtually all of the top players in the world participated in this match between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World.
The event was repeated two more times in later years, but never on the same level, and it never igen spoke to the imagination quite as much as the first event. The 1970 match USSR vs Rest of the World, "an epoch-making battle" in the words of GM Garry Kasparov, had virtually all the top players—including GM Bobby Fischer—together for one week in Belgrade, the capital of what was then Yugoslavia.
Video footage of the event (without sound).Fischer's participation in this event (or in any event, in fact) was far from automatic. In his "My Great Predecessors IV," Kasparov tells a story about how the American player, who would become world mästare two years later, initially hesitated.
According to Bobby, he was persuaded by
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Chess Records
American record label (1950–1975)
For records achieved in the game of chess, see List of world records in chess.
Record label
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo/Cadet. The Chess catalogue is owned by Universal Music Group and managed by Geffen Records and Universal Music Enterprises.
Established and run by two Jewish immigrant brothers from what was then Poland, Leonard and Phil Chess, the company produced and released many singles and albums regarded as central to the rock music canon. The musician and critic Cub Koda described Chess as "America's greatest blues label".[1]
Chess was based at several locations on the south side of Chicago, initia