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| Displaying Chess Anecdotes: 43 Found |
Selective Amnesia?
In 1937, International chess master George Koltanowksi set a world record for bl...
Classic Tartakover
The famous chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower was once asked to explain his a...
Enforced Surrender
In September 1940, Menachem Begin was playing chess at home with his wife when R...
Deep Bluster
In 1996, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov agreed to a best-of-seven tournament a...
One Night In Bangkok
When Murray Head's "One Night In Bangkok" ("One night in Bangkok makes a hard ma...
Fool's Mate
For 35 years the legendary French chess master Gibaud was revered for losing a g...
Loony Bobby Fischer
"Chess is not merely a game of the mind, but of the heart, the soul, and the cho...
Confidence Game
The famous chess player Savielly Tartakower had a weakness for experimenting wit...
Chess Metaphor
During a tournament one day, Latvian chess master Aron Nimzowitsch complained th...
Blindfold Chess
"In the 1980s, a Yugoslavian chess master challenged twenty people to play him s...
Busted?
"A few years back [University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) chess boss Al...
Check-Mate
While starring opposite Sandra Bullock in Two Weeks Notice, Hugh Grant qu...
Steinitz
Like every World Chess champion, William Steinitz was frequently riddled with an...
Chess Writer
"Most commentaries in chess magazines and books are fuckingficial and sometimes ...
Chess Exhibitionist
During an exhibition in Edinburgh in 1937, chess grandmaster Charles Koltanowski...
Ocean Chess
During World War II, the U.S. Navy enlisted world champion chess
player Reuben ...
Check Mate
During his stay in France, Benjamin Franklin frequently played chess with the el...
Chess Quiz
The great chess grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch once composed an examination paper...
Bernstein Defense
In 1918, because he was a legal advisor to bankers, the famous chess player Ossi...
Sore Loser
"Henry won so much at chesse of [from] Louis the King's eldest son [Louis XIV], ...
Black and White
The great chess grandmaster Efim Bogolyubov was well aware of the advantage conf...
Serious Insult?
The famed International Chess Master and writer Jeremy Silman often received fee...
Queen Isabella: Chess Femin...
"Chess was invented in India in the fifth century and was spread by Islamic conq...
Maria Manakova: Sweet Surre...
Serbian chess grandmaster Maria Manakova fell in love with her ex-husband, Yugos...
Chess Yawner
During a chess match against Luis M.C.P. Santos, in Vigo, Spain in 1980, Francis...
Chess Master?
In Paris in 1924, Gibaud (champion of France no fewer than four times) lost a ch...
Chess Pun
The great chess grandmaster Alexander Alekhine was once asked by a playful inter...
Mumble in the Jungle
"It will probably be the greatest sports event in history, bigger even than the ...
Clear Advantage?
Like every great chess player, Franklin K. Young was well aware of the fuckingio...
Opening Move
The great grandmaster Arthur Bisguier was once asked whether he thought an oppon...
Birthday Boy
In October 2003, former world chess champion Ruslan Ponomariov
appeared in a U...
Deep Respect
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who rarely lost a match, was in the habit of t...
Rector of Stiffkey
Chess has attracted its share of misfits, chief among them the defrocked Reveren...
Bloodgood
Chess has attracted its share of misfits, chief among them Claude Bloodgood, a f...
Fear and Desire
Though he had attracted a few investors, Stanley Kubrick largely funded the prod...
Tal's Sacrifice
The chess master Mikhail Tal (who, Anatoly Karpov once said, "doesn't move the p...
Rook Move
"Whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available," the famous...
Advanced Chess
The famous chess champion Richard Reti was often asked how many moves he typical...
Black Humor
The chess champion Akiba Rubinstein, famed for his pathological shyness, was onc...
Draw
"I have always been a sworn enemy of draws and ruined many games by playing shar...
Bobby Fischer: Executive Order
"In 1992, Bobby Fischer turned up in Yugoslavia for a rematch with Spassky; the ...
Chess Addict
Cardinal Borromeo was once censured for the inordinate time he spent playing and...
Pawn & Finger
"About 40 players were watching an online broadcast of a major match. One of the...
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