What chess champion who holds the records for consecutive professional tournament victories (15) was featured in the World Chess Championship 1984?
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World Chess Championship 1984 The World Chess Championship 1984 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow from 10 September 1984 to 15 February 1985 for the World Chess Championship title. After 5 months and 48 games, the match was abandoned in controversial circumstances with Karpov leading five wins to three (with 40 draws), and replayed in the World Chess Championship 1985.
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Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров , ] ; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian (since 1991) and Croatian (since 2014) chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11).
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Joseph Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924), nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years. At one point he was the world's second most successful player, with a string of tournament victories behind him, and popularised chess by giving simultaneous and blindfold displays around the country. Blackburne also published a collection of his own games.
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Chess in Armenia Chess has been played in Armenia since the early Middle Ages; however, it was institutionalized during the early Soviet period. Highly popular in Armenia today, chess gained widespread recognition during the 1960s, when Soviet Armenian grandmaster Tigran Petrosian became the World Chess Champion. A country of about three million people, Armenia is considered one of the strongest chess nations today. Among countries, Armenia has one of the most chess grandmasters per capita.
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London 1883 chess tournament The London 1883 chess tournament was a strong chess tournament among most of the leading players of the day. It was won convincingly by Johannes Zukertort (22 points out of 26) ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz (with 19 points). Remarkably, Zukertort was already assured of victory with three rounds to go, having scored an astonishing 22/23. He then lost his last three games against relatively weak players, probably due to exhaustion. The tournament established Zukertort as rivalling Steinitz to claim to be the best player in the world, and led to the World Chess Championship 1886 match between the two (the first official World Chess Championship match). The event was a double round-robin tournament. Marmaduke Wyvill contributed to organizing the tournament.
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Bhagyashree Thipsay Bhagyashree Thipsay (née Sathe; born 4 August 1961) is an Indian chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She won five times the Indian Women's Championship (1985, 1986, 1988, 1991 and 1994) and the Asian Women's Championship in 1991. In 1984 she was joint winner with Vasanti Unni of the British Ladies' Championship. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2000, losing in the first round to Peng Zhaoqin.
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Aleksander Wojtkiewicz Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (Latvian: "Aleksandrs Voitkevičs" ; January 15, 1963 – July 14, 2006) was a Polish chess grandmaster. He was born in Latvia. In his early teens he was already a strong player; a student of ex-world champion Mikhail Tal whom he assisted in the 1979 Interzonal tournament in Riga. He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1981. His promising chess career was interrupted when he refused to join the Soviet Army. For several years he went undercover but in 1986 he was sentenced to two years in prison. After one year he received an amnesty after the meeting of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Following his release he moved from Riga to Warsaw where he won two Polish Chess Championships. He played for Poland in the Chess Olympiads of 1990 and 1992.
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Martina Navratilova's 74-match winning streak in 1984 Martina Navratilova's 74-match winning streak in 1984
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Alexander Cherepkov Alexander Vasilyevich Cherepkov (Russian: Александр Васильевич Черепков , 30 October 1920 – 12 July 2009) was a Soviet and Russian International Master of chess. He was champion of Leningrad three times: 1967, 1968 (after a playoff), and 1982 (after a playoff). He played in three Soviet finals (1961, 1967, and 1968), and was awarded his IM title at the age of 64 in 1984, one of the oldest players to have reached this standard.
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Mikhail Tal Mikhail Tal (Latvian: "Mihails Tāls" ; Russian: Михаил Нехемьевич Таль , "Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal", ] ; sometimes transliterated "Mihails Tals" or "Mihail Tal"; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
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Samuel Reshevsky Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was never a full-time chess professional. He was a strong contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s: he tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, and tied for second in the 1953 Candidates Tournament. He was an eight-time winner of the U.S. Chess Championship. An outstanding match player throughout his career, Reshevsky excelled at positional play, and could be a brilliant tactician when required. He took a long time over his opening moves, and often found himself in time pressure, but this sometimes unsettled his opponent more than it did Reshevsky.
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Alexander Kotov Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Ко́тов; 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1913 – 8 January 1981) was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific chess author. Kotov served in high posts in the Soviet Chess Federation and most of his books were written during the period of Cold War between the US and the USSR.
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World Team Chess Championship The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads are the most important international tournaments for teams.
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FIDE World Chess Championships (1998–2004) The FIDE World Chess Championships from 1998 till 2004 followed a similar knockout format, radically different from previous World Chess Championship events. Previous events had had long qualifying cycles, spread over more than a year, culminating in a long match (best of 20 or 24 games) between the incumbent champion and a challenger. From 1998 to 2004, however, FIDE organised its World Championship as a single event over about a month, with a large number of players playing short knockout matches, rather in the style of a tennis tournament such as Wimbledon.
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Sergei Makarichev Sergei Yuryevic Makarichev (Russian: Серге́й Юрьевич Макарычев ; born November 17, 1953) is a Russian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1976.
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World Chess Championship 1975 The 1975 World Chess Championship was never played due to a dispute over the match format. Champion Bobby Fischer (United States) was to play Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union) in Manila, commencing June 1, 1975. However, he refused to play the then-standard "Best of 24 games" match, and after FIDE were unable to work out a compromise, forfeited his title instead. Karpov was named World Champion by default on April 3, 1975.
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New York 1924 chess tournament New York 1924 was an elite chess tournament held in the Alamac Hotel in New York City from March 6 to April 18, 1924. It was organized by the Manhattan Chess Club. The competitors included world champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker. Nine other top players from Europe and America were also invited. Emanuel Lasker met Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubow, Géza Maróczy, Richard Réti, Savielly Tartakower and Frederick Yates in Hamburg. They steamed with the "SS Cleveland" on February 28, 1924, and joined Capablanca, Frank Marshall, Dawid Janowski and Edward Lasker in New York. The tournament was played as a double round robin, with each player meeting every other one twice. Emanuel Lasker got $1500 for his first prize, generous payment for expenses and still complained. Capablanca gained $1000, compensation for costs and an extra fee.
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Joel Benjamin Joel Benjamin (born March 11, 1964) is an American chess Grandmaster. In 1998, he was voted "Grandmaster of the Year" by the U.S. Chess Federation. As of October 2012 , his Elo rating was 2530, making him the No. 37 player in the U.S. and the 620th-highest rated player in the world.
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Tõnu Õim Tõnu Õim (spelled Tonu Iym in FIDE records), born 16 June 1941 in Raasiku, is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999. In 1991 he won the Axelson Memorial. In over the board play, he was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1966. He does not hold a FIDE title for over the board play, however his peak FIDE rating of 2410 indicates a player of International Master strength.
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Jutta Hempel Jutta Hempel (born September 27, 1960 in Flensburg) is a German former chess prodigy. Hempel showed remarkable aptitude for the game at a young age - by age three she could watch a game of chess and replay it from memory, and by age four she was playing competitively at the Youth Center in Flensburg. By the age of five, Hempel was the top junior player in Flensburg. On her sixth birthday, Hempel performed the impressive feat of scoring 9.5-2.5 in a four-hour simultaneous exhibition. In her next simultaneous exhibition, which took place in the town square, Hempel won with a decisive 9-1 score. Hempel won the Flensburg junior championship at age seven. She also played six games of simultaneous blindfold chess. When she was eight years old, Hempel continued to give simultaneous exhibitions, some of which were broadcast on television. At the age of nine, Hempel managed to win a chess problem solving contest. Perhaps her most impressive accomplishment was her two draws against International Master Jens Enevoldsen at age 9.
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James Eade James Eade (born March 23, 1957) is an American chess master, chess administrator, chess tournament organizer, and chess book publisher. He holds the title of FIDE Master. He is best known for the books "Chess for Dummies" (1996) and "The Chess Player's Bible" (2004), both of which have been through several editions and been translated into 8 languages.
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Wong Meng Kong Wong Meng Kong (born 18 September 1963) is a Singaporean chess grandmaster. He won the national Singaporean Chess Championship in 1989, 1990, 1991. He represented Singapore eleven times in Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006).