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Giovanni Cenni
Giovanni Cenni (29 December 1881 – 14 March 1957) was an Italian chess master. He won twice Bologna City championships (1911, 1912), took 4th at Rome 1911 (unofficial Italian Chess Championship, ''V Torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana'', Matteo Gladig won), tied for 2nd-3rd at Viareggio 1912 (''I Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica"'', Alberto Batori won), took 3rd at Bologna 1913 (''II Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica"'', Arturo Reggio won), took 2nd, behind A. Reggio, at Milan 1916 (''I Torneo Nazionale "Crespi"''), took 2nd, behind Stefano Rosselli del Turco, at Milan 1922 (''III Torneo Nazionale "Crespi"''), and tied for 7-8th at Bologna 1925 (Mario Monticelli won). He participated in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each round ... at Paris 1924, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Chess Championship
The Italian Chess Federation (Italian: Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (FSI)) was established in 1920. The first Italian Chess Championship took place at Viareggio 1921. The 1998 Championship was held 21–29 November in Saint-Vincent. The ten-player field had an average Elo rating of 2390. GM Igor Efimov won the round-robin tournament with 6.5/9, a half point ahead of GM Michele Godena and IM Bruno Belotti. National Tournaments (unofficial championships) : Italian Championships References * *List of winners and standings on Italian Chess Federation websiteItalian Championship {{Chess national championships Chess national championships |
Matteo Gladig
Matteo Gladig (1880, Triest – 1915, Ljubljana) was an Italian chess master. Born in Triest (then Austria-Hungary Empire), he won at Triest 1905 (''torneo sociale della Società Scacchistica Triestina''), took 2nd, behind Giovanni Martinolich, at Triest 1909 (''campionato della SST''), and drew a short match with Oldřich Duras (+1 –1 =2) at Triest 1909. He won, ahead of Stefano Rosselli del Turco and Arturo Reggio, at Rome 1911 (unofficial Italian Chess Championship, ''V Torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana''). During World War I, he – as an Austrian citizen of Italian origin – did not want to fight for an Austrian Army on the Italian Front. Finally, he was captured and tried in Laibach Laibach () is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue S ... (Ljubljana, then Austria-Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Reggio
Arturo Reggio (9 January 1863 – 17 July 1917) was an Italian chess player. Born in Gorizia, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, both in Austria. After he settled in Milan in the 1890s, he joined the ''Societá Scacchistica Milanese'' and edited a chess column for the magazine ''La Bicicletta'', since 1898. At the beginning of the 20th century, Reggio was an unofficial Italian Chess Champion. He won five times in the strongest national tournaments: at Rome 1900 (1st ''Torneo dell'USI''), Venice 1901 (2nd ''Torneo dell'USI''), Florence 1905 (3rd ''Torneo dell'USI''), Bologna 1913 (2nd ''Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica"''), and Milan 1916 (1st ''Torneo Nazionale "Crespi"''). He also took 3rd at Milan 1906 (4th ''Torneo dell'USI'', Giovanni Martinolich won), took 3rd at Rome 1911 (5th ''Torneo dell'USI'', Matteo Gladig won), won at Bologna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Rosselli Del Turco
Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Marquis, (27 July 1877 – 18 August 1947) was an Italian chess player, writer and publisher. He was five times Italian champion and represented Italy in the Chess Olympiad seven times. He was a member of the famous Rosselli del Turco noble family of Florence. Italian championships results Born in Florence, Rosselli del Turco received the title of National Master from the Italian Chess Federation in 1900. He played in all ten of the first official Italian championships, and was twice official Italian champion. He tied for 7-8th at Viareggio 1921 (1st ITA-ch, Davide Marotti won); won a match for the title against Marotti (8½–4½) at Naples 1923; lost a match for the title to Mario Monticelli (6–8) at Florence 1929; won at Milan 1931 (4th ITA-ch); took 6th at Milan 1934 (Monticelli won); tied for 2nd-3rd at Florence 1935 (Antonio Sacconi won); tied for 7-9th at Florence 1936 (Vincenzo Castaldi won); took 12th at Naples 1937 (Castaldi won); tied for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Monticelli
Mario Monticelli (16 March 1902, Venice – 30 June 1995, Milan) was an Italian chess player. He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950 and the Grandmaster title honoris causa (GME) in 1985. In 1922, he won in Rome (ITA-ch Univ). In 1925, he won in Bologna. In 1926, Monticelli tied for 1st with Ernst Grünfeld in Budapest. In 1929, he took 11th in Budapest (José Raúl Capablanca won). In 1929, he tied for 4-5th in Barcelona (Capablanca won). In 1930, he took 14th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won). In 1933, Monticelli won in Milan (Padulli Memorial). In 1934, he took 8th in Syracuse (Samuel Reshevsky won). In 1938, he tied for 1st with Erich Eliskases in Milan. Monticelli was Italian Champion in 1929, 1934, and 1939. He is the eponym of the Monticelli Trap, a chess opening trap in the Bogo-Indian Defence The Bogo-Indian Defense is a chess opening characterised by the moves: :1. d4 Nf6 :2. c4 e6 :3. Nf3 Bb4+ The position arising after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Unofficial Chess Olympiad
The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each round qualified for the Championship while the rest joined an eight-round Swiss consolation tournament.Stanisław Gawlikowski ''Olimpiady szachowe 1924 - 1974'' Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978 Results The final results were as follows: Amateur World Championship : Consolation Cup : Individual medals : Team classification : 1 Potemkine and Kahn were émigrés living in Paris and represented "Russia", not the Soviet Union. FIDE On 20 July, the last day of the games, 15 delegates from all over the World signed the proclamation act of the International Chess Federation (originally known as Fédération Internationale des Échecs in French) and elected Dr. Alexander Rueb of the Netherlands the first FIDE president. Latin motto '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 Births
Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. * February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper ''La Citoyenne'' is published by Hubertine Auclert. * February 16 – The Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Deaths
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film '' Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
