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Trixter is an American glam metal band formed in 1983 in Paramus, New Jersey. The band gained popularity in the early 1990s with hits like "Give It To Me Good" that peaked at sixty-five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990 [ 5 ] and "One In A Million".
Open House Chicago (OHC) is a free weekend festival held annually in Chicago that allows participants to visit dozens of buildings that are not typically open to the public. OHC is organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation over a two-day period each year in mid-October.
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 Chess Olympiad play, Mikhail Tal was a member of eight Soviet teams, each of which won team gold medals (1958, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1974, 1980, and 1982), won 65 games, drew 34, and lost only two games (81.2%). This percentage makes him the player with the best score among those participating in at least four Olympiads.
Walter Browne and Larry Evans are co-winners of the U.S. Open in Ventura. Over four hundred players participate. Larry Evans is the winner of the Statham Masters. The first edition of a series of tournaments, it is officially named after chess benefactor Louis D. Statham (1908–1983), who is primarily an engineer and inventor of medical ...
After the 1972 World Chess Championship, Fischer did not play a competitive game in public for nearly 20 years. [377] In 1977 he published three games he played against the MIT Greenblatt computer program, winning them all. [378] [379] He moved to the Los Angeles area and associated with the Worldwide Church of God for a time. [380]
The Chess Pavilion in Lincoln Park, Chicago Ever since the 1930s, North Avenue Beach had been a popular summer spot for Chicagoans to gather and play chess . [ 13 ] In the 1950s, Laurens Hammond , chairman of the board of the Hammond Organ Company and a chess lover himself, donated $90,000 for the construction of a new Chess Pavilion at North ...
This tournament later became known as the U.S. Open Chess Championship. During this era, it was an elite round-robin format event. His major results from this period: 16th Western Open, Excelsior, Minnesota 1915–8.5/10, second place, winner Jackson Showalter; 17th Western Open, Chicago 1916–13.5/19, tied 4-5th, winner Edward Lasker. [11]