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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 ...
The 1962 Women's World Chess Championship is held in Moscow. Twenty-year-old Nona Gaprindashvili (Soviet Union) goes undefeated in the match, beating incumbent champion Elisabeth Bykova (Soviet Union) by the score 9–2 to become the fifth and youngest Women's World Champion.
In his eight US Chess Championships, Fischer lost only three games; to Edmar Mednis in the 1962/63 event, and in consecutive rounds to Samuel Reshevsky, and Robert Byrne in the 1965 championship, culminating in a total score of 74/90 (61 wins, 26 draws, 3 losses).
As of 2023, twelve players are invited to compete: the reigning US champion, as well as the respective winners of the US Open Chess Championship and the US Junior Championship. The remaining players are chosen by highest invitational rating, in addition to one organizer wildcard. [4] Fabiano Caruana is the current US chess champion.
Arthur Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929 – April 5, 2017) was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).. Bisguier won two U.S. Junior Championships (1948, 1949), three U.S. Open Chess Championship titles (1950, 1956, 1959), and the 1954 United States Chess Championship title.
Pages in category "1962 in chess" ... South African Open (chess) W. Women's World Chess Championship 1962 This page was ...
He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 1950. He won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1958 in Rochester. Eldis Cobo Arteaga played for Cuba in the Chess Olympiads: [1] In 1952, at fourth board in the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki (+6, =3, -5), In 1960, at second board in the 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig (+9, =7, -4), In 1962, at second ...
The Teenage Chess Book, 1965 (assisted by son Benjamin Fine), ISBN 978-4871875790 [27] The Psychology of the Chess Player, 1967. ISBN 4-87187-815-5. Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World's Chess Championship: The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match, 1973. ISBN 0-923891-47-1.