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| | Miguel Najdorf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Miguel Najdorf (born as Mieczysław Najdorf; 1910 – 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess player. | | | Miguel Najdorf once played a game of chess with communist revolutionary Che Guevara. | | | Najdorf's enthusiasm for, and virtuosity in conducting, the attack against the enemy King is well shown here, in a game praised by David Bronstein in his famous book on the tournament. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Najdorf
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| | Miguel Najdorf vs Ernesto Ché Guevara (1962) |
| | According to her,quoting Najdorf, this game was not drawn. | | | In fact Najdorf said that Che had reminded him of the other game that they had played in Mar del Plata (the one that metajedrez mentioned). | | | By the other hand, Najdorf often said that when he played in such conditions against a gabinet he always drew with thw president by courtesy and defeat the ministers. |
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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1101539
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| | The chess games of Miguel Najdorf |
| | Najdorf's story remains a little suspect since no one has spotted a simul that such a game could have taken place and the only known game was not a simul either. | | | When Alekhine congratulated a young Najdorf on his victory in the regular simul, he said something like "good job on winning your first game from me". | | | They may also have played some skittle games. |
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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=21930
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| | Steve Brandwein, Professional Chess Hustler |
| | However, Najdorf was known as one of the strongest five-minute players in the world. | | | The name of that player was Miguel Najdorf. | | | I have defeated Najdorf, Dzindzichashvili, Browne, Benko, Polgars3, Kupchik, Edward Lasker and many other famous players individual games of chess, but I had never won a game against Steve Brandwein. |
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http://www.anusha.com/brandwein.htm
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| | Najdorf Life and Games |
| | Fortunately, the excellent NAJDORF: LIFE and GAMES is now available to remind the chess masses what a remarkable man Najdorf was. | | | Aside from the 130 annotated games, there are many other positions and full games without notes, a “find the winning move” section, and a section about “Najdorf and the Endgame.” At times the lack of notes raise questions and forces one to analyze if you want answers. | | | Alas, young players seem less and less interested in players of the past, and I always worry that the many fascinating personalities and lives that make chess so compelling will be forgotten. |
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http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_Najdorf_Life_games.html
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| | Chessmetrics Ratings: Najdorf, Miguel |
| | These ratings, calculated for Najdorf, Miguel, incorporate all games (against rated opponents) played in the year before the "Date of rating", along with the ratings that were already calculated one year previously. | | | If a player has an insufficient number of games in recent years, there may be gaps in the list, even though you may see ratings listed on previous and/or subsequent dates. | | | Click on the link to see the sorted list of all players' ratings on their birthdays when turning that same age. |
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http://www.chessmetrics.com/PL/PL27761.htm
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| | Attacking with 1.E4 |
| | Originally popularized by the Polish/Argentinean Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, the idea is pure prophylaxis — to deny White the use of the b5-square while hoping to play
e5 to force White’s Knight to a passive square. | | | There are many suggestions and discussions of move order nuance, and this is something that often goes missing in books written by players who are not regular players of the variation in question. | | | Finally, the
e5 systems tend not to be as popular among weekend tournament players, meaning white players will likely not be as familiar with the key lines. |
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http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_rb/rb_mastering_najdorf.html
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| | Book Reviews |
| | Well, someone once said that the Najdorf is the Rolls-Royce of chess openings; it has been the single most popular variation of the Sicilian since about 1950, and it has been the weapon of choice of many top GMs, such as Fischer and Kasparov. | | | There are bonuses in a section on some of Najdorf’s endgames and another consisting of a quiz based on some of Najdorf’s best combinations. | | | Unusually for GAMBIT, the material is based round complete games, so an index of players would have been useful. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~cccs.chess/review1.htm
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| | Chess Life Online News Column - Issue 19 |
| | The following game is from a blindfold simul, in which Najdorf played 45 number of players simultaneously. | | | The fact is, judging from naming conventions, you won't find Najdorf as a big innovator; he was first and foremost a player, make that a gladiator. | | | Although not known as a "theory" player, his name is permanently attached to the Najdorf variations of the Sicilian. |
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http://www.uschess.org/clife/issue19
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| | Garri Kasparow - My great predecessors - Part IV - 496 pages, clothbound with jacket, 1st edition 2004.: 39,40 Euro - ... |
| | The only player who could contest Reshevsky's leadership was the Argentine grandmaster Miguel Najdorf. | | | After this Reshevsky remained practically alone against the Soviet cohort (subsequently his experience came in very useful to Fischer), Until the end of the 1950s he was the undisputed No. 1 in the West, although in the USA a new group of talented players had grown up: Evans, the Byrne brothers, Bisguier, Lombardy... | | | These two - the modest, religious Reshevsky, and the cheerful, sociable Najdorf- introduced western colour into top-ranking chess, which was dominated by representatives of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc countries. |
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http://www.niggemann.com/e/detail/buecher/7681.html
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| | Look Up (Finger) Player Najdorf-simul |
| | 1: My liblist has the 45 games GM Miguel Najdorf played on a blinfold simul in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1947. | | | 2: These games are taken from the book "Miguel Najdorf - El Hijo de Caissa" by Nicolás Capeika Calvo. | | | Information about Najdorf-simul (Last disconnected Mon Jul 19 2004 03:45): Najdorf-simul has not played any rated games yet. |
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http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Najdorf-simul
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| | In 1950, Najdorf engaged 250 opponents for 11 hours of chess, winning 226 games, drawing 15, and losing nine. | | | In 1943, he set a record playing 45 simultaneous games blindfolded and losing only two. | | | He won second place in the International Chess Tournament in 1947. |
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http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=chess&ID=20
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| | blindfold chess: Information From Answers.com |
| | One such player was the Polish master Miguel Najdorf and in 1943 he set a new simultaneous blindfold record of 40 opponents in an effort to gain sufficient publicity to communicate to his family that he was still alive. | | | This regulation somewhat slowed progression of the record, however in 1939 a number of the top chess players were stranded in Argentina when World War II broke out during the chess olympiad. | | | Evidently possessing quite a skill for this form of the game, he increased this record to 45 opponents in Sao Paolo in 1947, with the result of 39 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/blindfold-chess
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| | The Complete Najdorf (John Nunn) |
| | In the ever-changing world of the Najdorf, it is essential to have the latest reference for any player rated above 2000. | | | A must for the tournament player who wishes to include the Najdorf Sicilian in his or her opening reper- toire.(in memoriam Miguel Najdorf) George Baltzopoulos | | | If you want to play the 6.Bg5 lines, then you need this book. |
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http://www.interference.com/webstore/us/product/0805050485.htm
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| | WORLD CHESS HALL OF FAME |
| | However, there are some notable exceptions, such as Miguel Najdorf, |
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http://www.excaliburelectronics.com/johnbh_0501.html
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| | This work from the Spanish authors Julen Arizmendi and GM Javier Moreno does not learn you to memorize the Najdorf but leads you throw a selection repertoire Najdorf lines where both authors are not shy to explain all the necessarily strategies that go with this opening. | | | Some older readers shall recognize this set-up with some old games from Botvinnik on the Richter Rauzer variation with a earlier h6 but than with a important tempo up as for example the famous game between Timman and Kasparov from Niksic 1983. | | | All together I would like to recommend this book for all players who like to take up the Najdorf! |
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http://www.chessmail.com/books/elburg80.html
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| | Najdorf Chronicles - Round 8 |
| | Perhaps Polgar's motivation was at floor level after two loses in a row, and although the Najdorf she played anounced a revenge attempt, she offered draw on move 17 and Xie Jun agreed. | | | Last round isplenty of tension as the first place will be defined by three games. | | | After 32...Qf6 33.h3 the Argentinian tried to mess up the game with 33...exf4, but after 34.hxg4 hxg4 35.Bxb7 he couldn't find enough compensation for the piece and lost quickly. |
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http://www.ajedrezsiglo21.com/Najdorf2001/chronicles_8.asp
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| | Chessmetrics Ratings: Najdorf, Miguel |
| | Each yearly rating incorporates all rated games played in the preceding year, along with the ratings that were already calculated at the start of that year. | | | Each year, everyone's rating on the January 1st list has been increased/decreased by an identical amount, so that the average rating of the #8 through #12 players is aligned at 2600. | | | These ratings for Najdorf, Miguel are calculated yearly, as of January 1st of the indicated year. |
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http://www.chessmetrics.com/player_lists/Player2405.html
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| | newindpress on sunday - News Items |
| | Ask the top eight chess players who have assembled in San Luis to play for the world title, and they will mention the tango, beef steak, red wine and Miguel Najdorf (the legendary Grandmaster). | | | Viswanathan Anand and the seven top Grandmasters will be in the news in Argentina for the next 10 days, playing in the World Championship. | | | Argentina has a rich chess history, especially after Miguel Najdorf started living there. |
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http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayitems.asp?id=SES20050929073516&eTitle=Sport&rLink=0
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| | Wolfgang Unzicker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At the Tel Aviv 1965 Chess Olympiad Unzicker scored 13.5 points playing first board for the West German team that won the bronze medal on the strength of a 3:1 team victory over the Soviet Union. | | | In 1950, Unzicker shared the prize for best top-board score (+9 =4 -1) with Miguel Najdorf for his performance on first board for the West German team at the Dubrovnik Chess Olympiad. | | | His tournament victories include the first place tie (+6 =9) with Boris Spassky at Sochi 1965, first at Maribor 1967 ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, first at Krems, and first at Amsterdam 1980 tied with Hans Ree. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Unzicker
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| | Florencio Campomanes |
| | Florencio Campomanes (born 1927) is a Filipino chess player and organizer. | | | He represented his country at several Chess Olympiads, and met some distinguished opposition as a result, losing games against Pal Benko and Ludek Pachman at Moscow 1956, Oscar Panno at Munich 1958, Mikhail Tal and Miguel Najdorf at Leipzig 1960 and Lev Polugaevsky at Havana 1966. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/F/Florencio-Campomanes.htm
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| | Rc6 1-0 [Event "Candidats Tournament"] [Site "Zuerich"] [Date "1953.08.30"] [Round "1"] [White "Najdorf, Miguel"] [Black "Reshevsky, Samuel Herman"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "E59"] [PlyCount "48"] [EventDate "1953.08.30"] [SourceDate "2003.01.01"] 1. | | | Bb6 0-1 [Event "Candidats Tournament"] [Site "Zuerich"] [Date "1953.09.15"] [Round "10"] [White "Najdorf, Miguel"] [Black "Stahlberg, Gideon"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D67"] [PlyCount "109"] [EventDate "1953.08.30"] 1. | | | Rb6 Qc7 0-1 [Event "Candidats Tournament"] [Site "Zuerich"] [Date "1953.09.02"] [Round "3"] [White "Najdorf, Miguel"] [Black "Gligoric, Svetozar"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "E60"] [PlyCount "40"] [EventDate "1953.08.30"] 1. |
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http://www.chessaid.com/chess_download/games/Zurich1953.pgn
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| | Najdorf: Life and Games - LISSOWSKI - Chess House |
| | Najdorf: Life and Games - LISSOWSKI - Chess House | | | The book includes more than 130 complete games, of which nearly half are annotated by Najdorf himself or his contemporaries, while the rest are elucidated by Adrian Mikhalchishin's authoritative modern commentary. | | | Miguel Najdorf's chess career spanned more than six decades. |
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http://www.chesshouse.com/Najdorf_Life_and_Games_p/6533.htm
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Supervised Coffee -- Jul. 13, 1953 |
| | Najdorf was soundly beaten, eleven games to seven. | | | Back home, making no sportsmanlike denial of the nasty tiding, Najdorf instead cried for revenge. | | | In the U.S. last year, anxiety-prone Argentine Chess Champion Miguel Najdorf seemed in terrible physical shape all the while he matched moves with chainsmoking U.S. Champion Samuel Reshevsky (TIME, Oct. 20). |
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http://www.time.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,806702,00.html
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| | GM Miguel Najdorf makes his last move |
| | Another interesting story is about his comments on sex.``Sex before the game is very bad for chess players,'' he wrote once. | | | Najdorf is one of the veterans of the chess Olympiad, having played in 14 editions, which is a unique feat. | | | Najdorf came down to New York two years ago to watch the PCA match between Kasparov and Anand and paid glowing tributes to Anand, the person and the player. |
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http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19970707/18850533.html
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| | BFCC: |
| | There are 100 of Najdorfs games in this book and these feature outstanding players such as Fischer, Spassky, Keres and many others who are still held in high regard today. | | | Of course many modern players will recall that Najdorf brought us the famous Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence, a variation adopted by two of the games greatest ever World Champions, Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov. | | | This is an excellent biography of Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, in his lifetime he played against no fewer than eleven world champions of chess. |
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http://www.bfcc-online.org.uk/files/reviews/batsford/najdorf_life&games.htm
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| | Najdorf, Mieczyslaw -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster who was active in the sport for nearly 70 years, during which he won 52 international tournaments, was for a time ranked in the top-10 players in the world, and had his name given to a popular variation of the Sicilian defense (b. | | | "Najdorf, Mieczyslaw." Britannica Book of the Year, 1998. | | | More results on "Najdorf, Mieczyslaw" when you join. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9114828?tocId=9114828
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| | Miguel Najdorf |
| | In this game, sometimes called the "Polish Immortal," Miguel Najdorf strips bare the enemy King (Ignacio Glucksberg), finally sacrificing four pieces and driving it into a mating net. | | | Never lacking in self-confidence, he declared in 1947 that he would soon become world champion. | | | Polish-Argentinean GM Miguel Najdorf has had a long and remarkable career. |
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http://www.chess-poster.com/great_games/miguel_najdorf.htm
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| | White to move and win except where noted. | | | Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Miguel Najdorf. | | | Najdorf vs Julio Salas Romo, Vina del Mar, 1945 |
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| | MECCA - CLINK! - Click the link! |
| | People >> Players >> N >> Najdorf Miguel | | | In association with Amazon, the greatest library on the net, La Mecca - Chess Encyclopedia can offer all of your favorite chess books, from their incredible catalog. |
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http://www.maskeret.com/cgi-bin/seek/tseekdir.cgi?location=Root-People-Players-N-Najdorf_Miguel
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| | Najdorf Variation |
| | [This is the characteristic move popularized by Miguel Najdorf and refined into a feared weapon in the hands of Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. | | | Other important 6th moves by White are 6 f4 and 6 Be3, in which case Black has the choice between the thematic Najdorf 6... | | | On 6 Bc4 (controlling d5) or 6 Bg5 (potentially pinning the f6 knight which defends d5), Black should play 6... |
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http://www.kidschess.com/sicilian/najdorf.html
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| | Chess Trivia |
| | He then played 222 opponents simultaneously, over-the board, winning 202, drew 12 and lost 8 games. | | | Polish-born player who stayed in Argentina after the outbreak of World War II and became a naturalized citizen of Argentina five years later. | | | He changed his first name from Mieczyslaw to Mendel to Miguel. |
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http://www.logicalchess.com/info/trivia/n.html
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| | ::: Star Weekend Magazine ::: |
| | Frank Marshall and some other masters had to leave their baggage at a Mannheim hotel, as they rushed out for the first train going out of Germany. | | | Miguel Najdorf, the Polish master, was in Buenos Aires when the bad news came. | | | Najdorf never got an answer to his question. |
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http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2005/01/04/time.htm
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| | Chessville - Headline Archive - Past Headlines from Chessville - Since 7-11-2004 |
| | Find this 141 kb file on our Downloads - Games by Players page. | | | Lasker, Reshevsky, Keres, Smyslov, Bronstein, Najdorf, Petrosian, Taimanov, Geller, Benko, Spassky, Gligoric, and many others. |
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http://www.chessville.com/HeadlineArchive_JanMar2005.htm
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| | Viking Chess |
| | Bent Larsen is playing in the Festival Miguel Najdorf 2002 play off. | | | Play chess online or by email, chess news, games and much more. | | | In the first round Larsen won against IM Jorge Rosito. |
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http://home.worldonline.dk/~kfyhn/VikingChess
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| | A highly influential chess writer he won many International tournaments although never played for the World Championship. | | | A celebrated Grandmaster, his playing career spanned six decades. | | | He is perhaps best known for the eponymous Najdorf opening variation of the Sicilian Defence — often used to good effect by Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. |
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| | Sonja Graf - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | Like some of the others, including George Koltanowski, Gideon Stahlberg and Miguel Najdorf, Graf decided to stay in Argentina after the tournament rather than return to war-torn Europe. | | | In her game against Menchik, Graf lost after acheiving a winning position, something she always regretted ("Against Menchik, when she was world champion, I had a won game, but I found the three stupidest moves you could think of and lost." - New Yorker, September 19, 1964). | | | She quickly learned the language and assimilated herself in the culture.. |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Sonja_Graf
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| | Newsroom - ChessBase.com |
| | During his stay Karpov was a guest on the new Talkshow hosted by the Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, against whom he played a game of chess. | | | A "human chess" re-enactment of Karpov's game against Najdorf in Hastings 1971 | | | Karpov was a guest of the Asociación Miguel Najdorf and to inaugurate the XVI Festival of Chess that began last Friday in a shopping center. |
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http://www.chessbase.com/newsroom2.asp?id=2647
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| | CHESS Lubomir Kavalek |
| | (Mamedyarov forces the knight to move away from the white king, while Najdorf contains it with g6-g5. | | | The game is from the Abu Dhabi Masters, won this month by the Armenian grandmaster Ashot Anastasian. | | | But did Mamedyarov conduct the attack as well as the legendary Polish-Argentine grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, who at age 76 defeated with the same sacrifice former world junior champion Carlos Bielicki at the 1986 Argentine championship? |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/28/AR2005082800889.html
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| | Najdorf - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Home > Books > Games > Chess > Najdorf | | | Najdorf - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions |
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http://www.smarter.com/books-1/product/najdorf-2006389
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| | Chess Notes by Edward Winter |
| | This states that on 19 April of that year (beginning at 14.30) Najdorf played 222 games at one and the same time and that when the séance ended (at about four o’clock the following morning) Najdorf had scored +202 —8 =12. | | | There was also the impossible-sounding assertion that two hours later Najdorf had already won 48 games. | | | We are not aware that these games have been preserved and would welcome information about any mentions of the scientist in contemporary chess literature. |
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http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter01.html
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| | Video Chess - Games |
| | Here are the games from the Kasparov - Deep Blue match. | | | Here are a couple of cute games from GM Miguel Najdorf: |
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http://www.klink.net/~chestutr/games.html
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| | The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: The West Is Best |
| | I used to see Najdorf all the time and lost several rapid and blitz games to him as well. | | | His habit of announcing a draw instead of proposing one didn't hurt, but who was going to argue with Don Miguel?! | | | He was world class for decades and adding him to the series is a great move. |
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http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/archives/the_west_is_best.htm
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| | Wolfgang Heidenfeld |
| | He also won games against Miguel Najdorf, Durao and Ludek Pachman. | | | In 1955 he beat former world champion Max Euwe. | | | He never became an International Master - he did eventually attain the required qualifications but declined to accept the award from FIDE. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/W/Wolfgang-Heidenfeld.htm
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| | Spectator, The: Mustard |
| | Miguel Najdorf bore more than a passing resemblance to Mr Magoo of cartoon fame. | | | 'Mustard - you have no mustard,' and with that sudden dawning of enlightenment Najdorf seized a huge pot of thick yellow mustard and hurled it all over Kavalek's lunch. | | | Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200506/ai_n14903096
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| | ChessBase.com - Chess News - Was Fischer afraid of Karpov? |
| | Garry Kasparov's "Great Predecessors" series is out, with the long-awaited volume IV "On Fischer" hitting the bookstands. | | | The rest of the book is all about Bobby. | | | The first 200 pages or so focus on the lives and careers of Sam Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf and Bent Larsen. |
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http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2091
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| | OL i K-skak |
| | Welcome to the LADAC Memorial Miguel Najdorf A. These are some points useful for you: | | | The impressive figure of Grandmaster of Chess of Miguel Najdorf doesn't need a presentation. | | | Mere information om Najdorf kan fås ved at bruge linksiden, speciel de spanske (sydamerikanske) links. |
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http://www.birkeskak.dk/najdorf.htm
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