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Todd Bardwick (born 1963) is an American author, chess teacher, and US National Chess Master [1] from Denver, Colorado. He was recognized by the United States Chess Federation with the highest lifetime title for a chess teacher, Professional Chess Coach (Level V), [2] for his lifetime work running the Rocky Mountain Chess Camp through the Denver Chess Academy [3] continuously since 1995.
Academic Chess is a non-profit program founded in 1994 that teaches elementary-aged students how to play chess.It produced many United States Chess Federation-ranked players, including Nicholas Nip, a 9- year- old who in 2008 became the youngest chess master in history at age 9. [1]
In 2012, Aagaard won the Scottish Chess Championships with a score of 7/9. [ 6 ] Aagaard is the only chess writer in the world to win all four major Book of the Year awards: English Chess Federation (2010), ChessCafe.com (2001), Association of Chess Professionals (2013) and the Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE's trainer committee (2012).
2009 August – 3rd place in U16 World Youth Chess Olympiad. [4] 2009 September – 8th place in U16 European Youth Chess Championship. 2010 February – 2nd place in G. Kasparian memorial – Young Masters (Chess Academy tournament). 2010 March – 2nd place in tournament named after G. Kasparian 100th anniversary (tournament “A”) in Chess ...
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
Romantic chess was the style of chess prevalent in the 19th century. It was characterized by brash sacrifices and open, tactical games. Winning was secondary to winning with style – so much, in fact, that it was considered unsportsmanly to decline a gambit (the sacrifice of a pawn or piece to obtain an attack).
Arturs Neiksans (Latvian: Arturs Neikšāns, born 16 March 1983) is a Latvian chess player who has held the FIDE title of Grandmaster since 2012. He is a four-time Latvian champion, one of the leading Latvian chess players, an FIDE-accredited chess trainer, [2] author and a commentator of high-level chess tournaments.
The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (like a queen) but only by hopping over another piece.The piece to be hopped may be of either color and any distance away, but the grasshopper must land on the square immediately beyond it in the same direction.