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Backdoor progression. Backdoor compared with the dominant (front door) in the chromatic circle: they share two tones and are transpositionally equivalent. In jazz and jazz harmony, the chord progression from iv 7 to ♭ VII 7 to I (the tonic or "home" chord) has been nicknamed the backdoor progression [1] [2] or the backdoor ii-V, as described ...
2595 (January 1993) Michael Rohde (born August 26, 1959) is an American chess grandmaster and attorney-at-law . Rohde was rated as a master at thirteen. He gained the International Master title in 1976, followed by that of Grandmaster in 1988. At one point, he was ranked as high as 59th in the world. In 1975 he was the National Scholastic Chess ...
Yuri Shulman ( Belarusian: Юрый Маркавіч Шульман, Russian: Ю́рий Ма́ркович Шу́льман; born April 29, 1975, in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He also goes by the alternate spelling of "Yury Shulman." He is married to the ...
Last updated: May 6, 2024. Olexandr Bortnyk (born 18 October 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A former chess prodigy, Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category.
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The Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge was an 8-player over-the-board classical Fischer random chess tournament that took place at Gut Weißenhaus in Wangels, Germany from February 9–16, 2024. It was the first major Fischer random chess tournament that used classical chess time controls. [1]
Soviet chess school. The Soviet school of chess was asserted to be a national style of play by Soviet chess players and journalists. Although chess had been a game of the bourgeoisie and upper classes before the Russian Revolution, its popularity among Bolshevik leaders, including Vladimir Lenin, contributed to it being supported by state ...
Having started his playing career in a similar facility, he aimed to recreate the same opportunities for talented children of the present day. The Academy is not solely for chess, but will cover a range of intellectual sports development needs. Rashkovsky died on 14 March 2023, at the age of 76. See also. List of Jewish chess players
Robert Katende is a Ugandan chess coach, footballer, and engineer. He is also the executive director of Sports Outreach. He promoted the game of chess to the slums and street kids of Kampala. [1] [2] [3] He is also known for mentoring Phiona Mutesi, Uganda's first woman candidate master chess player [4] [5] and the subject of a 2012 book by Tim ...
Moscow, USSR. Title. Grandmaster (2004) FIDE rating. 2481 (April 2024) Peak rating. 2515 (January 2000) Boris Kreiman (born June 7, 1976) is an American Grandmaster of chess. Kreiman a 3rd-place winner in a U.S. Chess Championship in Seattle is also a winner of the Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellowship.
