- James Mason
James Mason (November 19, 1849 - January 18, 1905) was a famous chess player and writer. He was born in Kilkenny in Ireland. His original name is unknown: he was adopted as a child and only took the name James Mason when he and his family moved to the United States of America in 1861. There he learnt chess and eventually secured a job at the "New York Herald". Mason made his first mark on the chess scene in 1876, … - Vasily Smyslov
Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (born March 24, 1921, in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. - David Norwood
David Robert Norwood (born October 3, 1968 in Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire) is an English chess Grandmaster and businessman. The son of an electrician, Norwood read history at Keble College, Oxford University before joining city investment bank Banker's Trust in 1991. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1985 and the International Grandmaster title in 1988. He is less active as a player these days, but maintains a strong interest in chess. - Ric Birch
Ric Birch, born in Australia, was a former Rock and Roll entertainer. He started his career studying Law, but his eventual profession took him down a different path. - Lev Polugaevsky
Lev Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players from the world from the late 1960s until the early 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day. Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was born in Mogilev in the then Soviet Union (now Mahilyow, Belarus). - Pyrros Dimas
Pyrros Dimas ; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a Greek weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion for Greece. Dimas was born in Himara, Albania (Northern Epirus) of Greek descent, and emigrated to Greece in 1991. He first competed for Greece in the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the 82.5 kg class. His birthplace gave rise to his nickname "The Lion of Himara". - Igor Glek
Igor V. Glek (born November 7, 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian chess master, coach, theorist, writer and organiser. He now lives in Essen, Germany and has been mainly resident there since 1994. Completing his University of Moscow engineering/economics qualification in 1983, he worked as an economist until 1986 and followed this with 2 years military service in the Soviet Army. From 1989, he was able to concentrate on chess, … - Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape designer (besides being a painter, ecologist and naturalist) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. Marx was respected by other 20th century architects. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. Marx's first landscaping inspirations came while studying painting in Germany, … - Alexey Suetin
Alexey Stepanovich Suetin (November 16 1926 in Kirovohrad- September 10 2001 in Moscow) was a Russian International Grandmaster of chess and an author. A resident of Moscow and a mechanical engineer by profession, he became an International Master in 1961 and a Grandmaster in 1965. His philosophy was always that "mastery is not enough; you must dare, take risks". - Michele Godena
Michele Godena (born Valdobbiadene June 30, 1967) is an Italian chess player and many times the national champion. A resident of Treviso, he achieved the title of International Grandmaster in 1996, following a plus score on board one for Italy at the Yerevan Olympiad. He has played many times for his country's Olympiad team and at Elista in 1998 posted an impressive 66.7% board 2 score. Godena has so far been five times the national champion in 1992, 1993, 1995, … - Ernst Grünfeld
Ernst Franz Grünfeld, an Austrian chess player specializing in opening theory and author, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world. - Stuart Milner-Barry
Sir (Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry OBE CB KCVO (20 September 1906-25 March 1995) was a British chess player, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", a section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine. - Friedrich Sämisch
Friedrich Sämisch was a German chess grandmaster. He was the champion of Austria in 1921, and finished third at the Baden-Baden tournament 1925, after Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein. In 1921, he also won a match against Richard Réti. Sämisch is today remembered primarily for his contributions to opening theory. - Paul Leonhardt
Paul Saladin Leonhardt was a German chess master. He was born in Posen, today part of Poland and died of a heart attack in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), during a game of chess. A player with a low profile and not many tournament wins, Leonhardt has been largely forgotten by the history books. However, at his best, he was able to defeat most of the elite players of the period. Tarrasch, Tartakower, Nimzowitsch, Maroczy and Reti all succumbed to his fierce, … - Győző Forintos
Győző Victor Forintos is a Hungarian chess master and by profession, an economist. He first participated in the Hungarian Championships as early as 1954 and became the national champion in 1968/9. In tournaments he was 2nd at Wijk aan Zee 1970 (after Andersson), 1st at Baja 1971, 3rd at Caorle 1972, 2nd at Vrnjačka Banja 1973, 2nd at Reykjavík 1974 (after Smyslov, but ahead of Bronstein), 2nd at Novi Sad 1974, 2nd= at Lone Pine 1976 (after Petrosian), … - Cedric Boyns
Cedric Nigel Boyns (born 14 August, 1954) is a former English cricketer who played at first-class level for a few years in the late 1970s. He was born in Starbeck, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Boyns started his career at Worcestershire in 1972, making a useful 47 opening for the Second XI against their Derbyshire equivalents on 31 July. He played two more Second XI matches that season, two in 1973, and then a considerable number in the second half of 1974. - Juli Mango>>bar And Grill Opening!!
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Tara continued to grow from strength to strength and the need to move to even larger premises became evident. An opportunity arose where land and suitable buildings for Tara was up for sale. Tara's front entrance, 1960's The land on this current site on the top of the hill at Masons Drive was purchased in 1958 for 66,000 pounds, Tara’s loan was 50,000 – a considerable sum and hefty commitment made by the School Council at the time. - Opening N Savannah
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Graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005. Briefly worked in a renaissance faire as a blacksmith. - Henry Bird
Henry Edward Bird (1830 - 1908) was an English chess player. He was born in Portsea in Hampshire. Bird was invited to the first international tournament in London at the age of 21. He also participated in tournaments held in Vienna and New Jersey. He lost a match to Paul Morphy at the age of 28 (1858), yet he played high-level chess for another 50 years. Although Bird was a practicing accountant, not a professional chess player, it has been said that he "lived for chess, … - Semen Furman
Semen Abramovich Furman (December 1, 1920, Pinsk - March 16, 1978) also known as Semyon Furman or Simeon Furman was a Soviet chess grandmaster and chess theorist. He wrote many articles on chess and was named "Honoured Trainer of USSR" in 1973 for his outstanding work with young players. He was champion of Leningrad in 1953 and co-holder of the title in 1954 and 1957. A regular and consistent performer in the USSR Chess Championship, … - Zhang Zhong
Zhang Zhong (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Among Zhang's more notable results are the silver medal in the 1998 World Junior Chess Championship (behind Darmen Sadvakasov), first in the 2001 Chinese Championship, 8.5/12 at the 2002 Chess Olympiad in Bled, and first with 11/13 at the Corus B tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2003, three points ahead of his nearest rival. This result qualified him for the prestigious main Wijk aan Zee tournament in 2004, … - Pal Benko
Pal Benko is a chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. - Jonny Hector
Jonny Hector is a Swedish chess grandmaster. Born in Malmö, Sweden, Hector has lived in Denmark for many years. He learned chess at the relatively late age of 14, but quickly became a very strong player. He has an aggressive, attacking style and is known for playing unusual chess openings. - Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess," which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century. - Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Morozevich is a Russian chess player. In the July 2007 FIDE list, he had an ELO rating of 2758, making him number 5 in the world. Morozevich is noted for employing unusual openings. Against the Queen's Gambit, for instance, he has often played the Chigorin Defence (1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6), and more recently the Albin Countergambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5); both systems are hardly ever seen at the top level. - Carlos Torre Repetto
Carlos Torre Repetto was a chess grandmaster from Mexico. Torre won the Louisiana championship at New Orleans 1923. He was first at Detroit 1924, followed by Samuel Factor, Hahlbohm, Whitaker, Samuel Reshevsky, etc., and at Rochester 1924 (with Jennings). In 1924, Torre took third place in New York (Abraham Kupchik won). In 1925, he took tenth place in Baden-Baden (Alexander Alekhine won). In 1925, he tied for third/fourth place with Frank James Marshall, … - Sergio Mariotti
Sergio Mariotti (born Florence, August 10, 1946) is an Italian chess player and a former national champion. He became the Italian junior champion in 1965 at Turin and in 1969 at San Benedetto, the full national champion. One of his greatest tournament successes followed in 1971, when he finished second at Venice (after Browne but ahead of Hort, Kavalek and Gligoric). Mariotti represented his country at the Olympiads of 1972, 1974, 1986 and 1988. - Joseph Gallagher
Joseph Gerard Gallagher is a British Chess International Grandmaster and former British Champion. Born to Irish parents Norah and Patrick, Gallagher was the eldest child (his sisters Catherine, Noreen, Pauline and Marie, and brother Stephen also played chess). His sister Marie also played chess to an international standard at age 11. He played for many years on the European chess circuit, before marrying and moving to Neuchâtel in Switzerland, taking Swiss nationality, … - Vladimir Makogonov
Vladimir Andreevich Makogonov (August 27, 1904 - January 2, 1993) was a chess player from Azerbaijan. He was born in Nakhchivan but lived in Baku for most of his life. He became an International Master in 1950 and was awarded an honorary Grandmaster title in 1987. Makogonov never became well known outside the Soviet Union, but was highly respected in his country as a player and coach. - Michael Basman
Michael J. Basman (born March 16, 1946 in St Pancras, London) is an English chess player, and International Master. He is a prolific writer, who has made many contributions to the field of chess openings, and is particularly known for frequently choosing bizarre or rarely played openings in his own games, including the St. George Defence (with which English Grandmaster Tony Miles once famously defeated the then World Champion Anatoly Karpov), … - Nick de Firmian
Nicholas Ernest (Nick) de Firmian (born July 26, 1957 in Fresno, California), is a chess grandmaster and three-time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987 (with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998. He also tied for first in 2002, but Larry Christiansen won the playoff. He has represented the United States at several Interzonals and played on the United States Olympiad teams of 1980, 1984 and 1986. De Firmian earned the International Master title in 1979 and the GM title in 1985. - Vasily Panov
Vasily Nikolayevich Panov was a Soviet chess player, author, and journalist. Winner of the Moscow championship in 1929, he also played in six USSR Chess Championships from 1929 to 1948. His greatest tournament victory was Kiev, 1938. Awarded the International Master title by FIDE in 1950, Panov is best known for his chess writings and theoretical work on the openings. He was chess correspondent for "Izvestia" from 1942 to 1965. - Mark Tseitlin
Mark Danilovich Tseitlin (born September 23, 1943) in Leningrad, is an Israeli international chess grandmaster of Russian origin. As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2491, making him the # 23 player in Israel and the 769th-highest rated player in the world. His peak rating was 2509 in 2001. He grew up in Leningrad, and was the city's champion in 1970, 1975, 1976, and (jointly) 1978. He was awarded the International Master the same year (1978), … - Walter Korn
Walter Korn (born 22 May, 1908,in Prague, Czechoslovakia, died July 9, 1997, in San Mateo, California) was an author of books and magazine articles about chess. Despite his status as a writer, there is no known record of him playing tournament chess, and few chess players ever met him. Korn was the author of "Modern Chess Openings", which was considered the bible and authoritative work on the openings of chess. - Max Boyce
Maxwell Boyce, MBE, (born 7 September 1945 in Glynneath) is a Welsh comedian, singer and former coal miner. He rose to fame in the United Kingdom during the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in the mining communities of South Wales. Having sold more than two million albums in a career spanning four decades, and playing to full houses all around the world, … - Keith Jones
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