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Kramnik says that Swedish grandmaster Gösta Stoltz (born 9 May 1904 -
died 25 July 1963) played the most brilliant game of chess ever
(below). Stoltz won individual gold medal at second board (+10 -1 =7)
at the 4th Olympiad in Prague in 1931. He won team bronze medal

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[quote="samsloan"]I have a registered copyright on more than 50 books
with the US Copyright office, you can look it up, and I speak to the
copyright office all the time, so it is a safe bet that I know

Who are the 30 best chess players of all time?
f.ck knows.
I would have the World Champions plus:
Reshevsky

ChessBase.com has this trivia quiz item, asking readers to identify
a GM from a childhood photo and a few clues:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6166
 I've been trying to identify him, without success. The most specific

Happy 75th birthday to one of my all-time favorite GMs, Denmark's Bent
Larsen:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6162

Things I dislike:  All clocks:
(1) No battery status indicator
(2) Light,  tippy or flimsy -- has to stand up to a blitz beating
Things I dislike: Analog:

Loneliest Man in the World:
Inside Story of the Thirty Year Imprisonment of Rudolf Hess
by Eugene K. Bird
Without doubt, the most bizarre and controversial event in the History

i would say Knights vs Knights just because of the way they move ...You
would have to think a lot more...