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March 1, 2013: Yahoo! announces that it was making some changes to the products it offers, including shutting down some while updating others. On April 1, the Yahoo! Message Boards site closed. The Yahoo! updates API were no longer supported after April 16. [112] March 25, 2013: Yahoo! acquires Summly. [113] [114]
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1990s Country Player Peak rating in 1990s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2851 1999-07 2 Viswanathan Anand: 2795 1998-07 3 Vladimir Kramnik: 2790 1998-01 4 Anatoly Karpov: 2780 1994-07 5 Alexander Morozevich: 2758 1999-07 6 Veselin Topalov: 2750 1996-07 7 Gata Kamsky: 2745 1996-07 8 Alexei Shirov: 2740 ...
Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: Black Monday: 19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos ...
Anatoly Karpov defeats Gata Kamsky 10½-7½ in Elista, Kalmykia, to successfully defend his FIDE World Chess Championship Title. FIDE's suggestion of playing the match in Baghdad is dropped after protests are lodged. Zsuzsa Polgar defeats Xie Jun 8½-4½ in Spain, to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
Yahoo! grew rapidly through 1990–1999 and diversified into a web portal, followed by numerous high-profile acquisitions. The company's stock price rose rapidly during the dot-com bubble and closed at an all-time high of US$118.75 in 2000. [7] However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached an all-time low of $8.11 in 2001. [8]
The people in this list are famous in other areas of activity, but are known to have played chess, or have declared an interest in the game, or created works of art and literature in which the game is prominently featured.
In August 2022, the Play Magnus Group accepted an offer to be acquired by Chess.com at a value of 800 million kr (US$80 million). The Play Magnus Group owns brands and businesses including the chess server chess24, the mobile app Play Magnus, the Champions Chess Tour, and the chess improvement website Chessable. On December 16, 2022, the ...