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In 2021, Hikaru Nakamura published a Youtube video entitled "Hikaru's Hot Takes on the Ten Best Chess Players of All Time" [53] in which he reviewed a chess.com article on "The 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time." [54] In this video he suggested that it was unfair to exclude Paul Morphy and Viswanathan Anand from the 10 greatest players of all ...
Botez began playing chess in Canada at age six and won her first girls' national championship at age eight. She later moved back to the United States where she was born and won U.S. Girls Nationals at age 15. Botez began streaming chess content online in 2016 while she was a student at Stanford University. Her sister Andrea appeared on occasion ...
School of chess. A school of chess denotes a chess player or group of players that share common ideas about the strategy of the game. There have been several schools in the history of modern chess. Today there is less dependence on schools – players draw on many sources and play according to their personal style.
The Pennsylvania State Chess Federation ( PSCF) is the official Pennsylvania affiliate of the United States Chess Federation (US Chess). PSCF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. PSCF sponsors about 20 annual state championship events, held throughout the state. The Pennsylvania State Championship rotates between the eastern, central and ...
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. [1] The first world number one, in July 1971, was Bobby Fischer. In January 1976 Anatoly Karpov became the highest-rated player on the FIDE list, FIDE having dropped Fischer (whose rating was higher ...
Aquinas Academy (Pittsburgh) / 40.59806°N 79.96778°W / 40.59806; -79.96778. Aquinas Academy is a private, Roman Catholic K-12 school in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and consistently ranks in the top 5 schools in western Pennsylvania in its average SAT scores, in some years ranking ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
Backdoor compared with the dominant (front door) in the chromatic circle: they share two tones and are transpositionally equivalent. In jazz and jazz harmony, the chord progression from iv 7 to ♭ VII 7 to I (the tonic or "home" chord) has been nicknamed the backdoor progression [1] [2] or the backdoor ii-V, as described by jazz theorist and author Jerry Coker.