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1974 In Chess
Events in chess in 1974; Top players FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1974 # Bobby Fischer 2780 # Anatoly Karpov 2660 # Mikhail Tal 2660 # Boris Spassky 2655 # Viktor Korchnoi 2650 # Lajos Portisch 2650 # Tigran Petrosian 2640 # Mikhail Botvinnik 2630 # Lev Polugaevsky 2625 # Bent Larsen 2620 Chess news in brief *The meteoric rise of Anatoly Karpov continues to hold the attention of the chess world, as he chalks up win after win in the latest World Chess Championship, world championship qualifying cycle. His Moscow based, Candidates' quarter-final match against Lev Polugaevsky, is a one-sided affair and Karpov emerges the victor by 5½-2½. In the other candidates' quarter-final matches, Viktor Korchnoi beats Henrique Mecking in Augusta, Georgia, Tigran Petrosian beats Lajos Portisch in Palma de Mallorca, and Boris Spassky beats Robert Byrne (chess player), Robert Byrne in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. In the semi-finals, Korchnoi defeats Petrosian by 3½-1½ in O ...
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ...
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