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View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and ... (England, 1907–1980) Tatev ...
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Shreyas was born in Bangalore, India and moved to Woolwich, South East London at the age of 3 when his father Jitendra Singh was offered a job as an IT project manager.. Singh's visa was due to expire in September 2018, but he was granted a new work visa one month prior, allowing the family to stay and Royal to continue playing chess in England
Around 1825–1826, on shore leave in London, Evans played Alexander McDonnell, beating the latter with what is now regarded in chess circles as the first Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4). [2] According to GM Andrew Soltis, Evans was "the first player to be widely honored for an opening we know he played". [3]
He gained his first GM norm in the 2016/17 4NCL British Team Championship, his second and third GM norms in August 2021 in a ten-player all-play-all in Stafford, England, and winning the Northumbria Masters in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He lifted his rating above the 2500 threshold in November 2021 when selected as board five for England in the ...
Stewart Reuben (14 March 1939 – 4 February 2025) was a British chess player, organiser, arbiter and author. He was also a professional poker player, has been called "one of Britain's foremost poker players" and "one of the best two or three players in England", and had written several books on the topic.
Similarly, players who are unversed in, and indifferent to, chess history should not touch it." [75] William Hartston wrote of Staunton's non-match with Morphy: Sadly, this blemish on Staunton the man also did considerable harm to the reputation among later generations of Staunton the chess player. [76] G. H. Diggle wrote in the British Chess ...