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It is an almost senseless challenge to describe GM Vladimir Kramnik in only a few lines. His personality has too many facets; his areas of interests are too diverse. What is clear is that Vladimir Kramnik is not solely fixated on chess. Current affairs interest him just as intensively as numerous sport and cultural activities, several of which he regularly engages in. The cosmopolitan would love to enjoy life ever more intensively, but his drive to succeed holds this inclination within limits...
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 | Viswanathan Anand
Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the national chess champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess...
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Chess Corner - Gary Kasporov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov was born Gary Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR in 1963. Kasparov learned to play chess from his father who later died in a road accident when he was 7 years old. He subsequently changed his name to Kasparov, a Russified version of his mother's maiden name, Kasparyan. Kasparov's chess talent was apparent at an early age. In 1973 he attended the Botvinnik Chess School and Kasparov continued to make rapid progress...
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Chess Corner - Jose Capablanca
Jose Raul Capablanca was born in Havana, Cuba on the 19th of November 1888. He learned chess at the age of four by watching his father play and in 1901, at the age of 12, he beat Juan Corzo, the Cuban champion. Capablanca was regarded as the most naturally talented chess player anyone had ever seen. He was educated in America, studied engineering at Columbia University and spent much of his free time playing masters at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York City...
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Chess Corner - Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. He was born in Chicago, USA in 1943 and brought up in Brooklyn where his mother moved after she was divorced in 1945. He learned to play chess at the age of 6 and soon became deeply absorbed in the game saying "All I want to do, ever, is play chess." At the age of 13 he became the youngest national junior chess champion in the USA and at the age of 14 he became the youngest senior US Champion...
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov was born to an Armenian mother and a Jewish father on April 13, 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan, then part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). His birth name was actually Gari Weinstein, but he adopted the Russian version of his mother’s surname, Kasparova, after his father died when he was 7. Garry Kasparov, however, was only able to officially use the surname at the age of 12, which was the age of legality in the former Soviet Union republic. |
Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer, also known as Bobby Fischer, was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois to a Swiss mother, Regina Fischer, and to a German father, Hans-Gerhardt Fischer. Bobby, however, have not found the joy of living with his father, as the latter left him together with his sister, Joan Fischer Targ, in custody of their mother. |
Jose Capablanca
A natural born chess player, often called the “Mozart of Chess”, Jose Capablanca was born on November 19, 1888 at Havana, Cuba. He was the second son of a Cuban military officer. |
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