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Finegold was recipient of the U.S. Chess Trust's Samford fellowship. In addition to filming and streaming chess topics on social media sites, he has been active in giving live tournament commentary, lectures, and writing. He was the grandmaster-in-residence of the Saint Louis Chess Club, and co-founded the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of ...
He has a dedicated YouTube channel of instructional chess videos and is one of the most popular chess YouTubers. [8] He is the co-founder of Chessable together with David Kramaley ─ a chess education website dedicated to teaching chess in a systematic manner. [ 9 ]
Alexandra Valeria Botez (/ ˈ b oʊ t ɛ z / BOH-tez; born 1995) [4] is an American and Canadian chess player, poker player, online streamer and YouTuber.In chess, she holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) and has a peak FIDE rating of 2092.
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [1] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [2]
He runs the PowerPlayChess Youtube Channel which is regularly updated with new chess-related content including chess puzzles and analysis of high-level games. In 2016, chess historian Edward Winter ranked him as one of the top six English-language internet chess commentators on major matches and tournaments. [5]
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, [3] [4] commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ / FEE-day, Fédération Internationale des Échecs), [5] is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
Eric Rosen (born September 3, 1993 [2]) is an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. [3] Rosen began playing chess as a child with his father and brother and became the United States Chess Federation (USCF) K12 national champion in 2011.