During the Cable Match between England and America in 1901, Bellingham called his resignation (probably wrongly) at the same time that his opponent was cabling his offer of a draw. The final result was a draw.

A composite piece is one which combines the move of two or three chess men, as the Q. is a combination of a R. and B. We can also name the Amazon, Q+N; Empress R+N; Dragon, P+N; Gnu Camel+N; Okapi Zebra+N; Bison Camel+Zebra.

China joint FIDE at the end of 1975 and two months later, on October 19, the federation held its first international tournament- a six round match, China-Philippines. The final score was Philippines 35-China 25. Qi Jingxuan was one of the first local heros.

The 9th game of the match Bird-Mason shows Bird beginning to make use of the opening move 1. f4 which was later named after him, though this time without great success…

The new Pawn move, advancing two squares on its first move instead of one, was first introduced in Spain in 1280.

Shirov’s move 47…Bh3 gainst Topalov in Linares can certainly be considered as one of the most amazing moves of all time.

U.S. Grandmaster (1950), author and psychologist.  Fine, like Mikhail Botvinnik and Samuel Reshevsky, was one of the greatest living masters. Fine learned chess at the age of ten and developed his strength as a Marshall Chess Club junior.  At the age of seventeen he won the club championship; a title he won several times.  Fine

Hungarian Grandmaster (1950). He is considered to be one of the strongest chess players at the beginning of the twentieth century. Maroczy began to play chess at the age of 15, often playing with Rudolf Charousek. He studied engineering at Zurich Polytechnic. In 1895 on the recommendation of Emanuel Lasker, he played in the Hastings

Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster (2015) who became the  Girls’ U20 World Champion in 2015.

Russian Grandmaster in Solving Chess (1991), one of the leading solvers in the World. Five times World Champion in Solving Chess (1989-1991, 1999 and 2009), five times Solving Champion with the USSR and Russian teams and European Champion in 2015. In recent years, he was the undisputable leader of the rating list of best solvers