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Levitsky versus Marshall, also known as the Gold Coins Game, [1] [2] is a famous game of chess played by Stepan Levitsky and Frank Marshall. It was played in Breslau (now Wrocław ) on July 20, 1912, during the master's tournament of the DSB Congress .
The opening is named after Alonzo Wheeler Jerome (1834–1902) of Paxton, Illinois, who had a game with this opening against the problemist William Shinkman published in the Dubuque Chess Journal in 1876. [1] Blackburne wrote of it, "I used to call this the Kentucky opening. For a while after its introduction, it was greatly favoured by certain ...
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com.The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on 21 December 2024. It involved four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,000.
The oldest recorded game in chess history is a 10th-century game played between a historian from Baghdad and a pupil. [11] [non-tertiary source needed] A manuscript explaining the rules of the game, called "Matikan-i-chatrang" (the book of chess) in Middle Persian or Pahlavi, still exists. [33]
Badenoch, who is the sixth Tory leader in less than nine years, now faces the task of uniting a fractured party and leading opposition to Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government.
The Conservatives won every seat in Cornwall at the 2015 election [Getty Images] Next Saturday we will finally find out who the Conservatives have chosen as their next party leader - and the ...
Also, Iain Duncan Smith became Tory leader of the opposition in 2001, but lost the confidence of his MPs and was deposed in a coup (orchestrated by the Tory whips office) two years later.
Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant.