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The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament usually held in Philadelphia. The inaugural event was held in New York in 1973 with 732 players, and was won by Walter Browne . The tournament is divided into different sections, with typically 100–200 players in the top section.
The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
In April 2022, Yisrael (rated 1695 FIDE) scored a win against Makaio Krienke (who was rated 2131 FIDE) in a game that lasted 32 moves at the Space Coast Open Chess Festival in Melbourne, Florida. [3] In June 2024, she held grandmaster Aleksa Striković to a draw in the 11th Summer Solstice Open held in Boca Raton, Florida. [4]
An Open Game (or Double King's Pawn Opening) is a generic term for a family of chess openings beginning with the moves: 1. e4 e5. White has moved the king's pawn two squares and Black has replied in kind. The result is an Open Game. Other responses to 1.e4 are termed Semi-Open Games or Single King's Pawn Games.
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot.It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament; in 2013 it was converted to a rapid and blitz event, while in 2014 it wasn't held.
This was the second edition of the Qatar Masters Open, played from December 20 to December 29, 2015. The time control for each of the tournament games was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
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It's listed as Chess 960 and Chess960, respectively. Common usage has also shifted along with organizations and companies. For example, There are 236 posts with "Chess 960" or "Chess960" in the title on Reddit's /r/chess forum from the last 16 years, and 118 posts with "Fischer Random", "Fischerrandom", or "Fischerandom" in the title.