Brief notes on the History of Chess  - by Bill Wall

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<<  1961-1980

Event  ( 1981 to 1999 )

 

1981

  Browne and Seirawan win US Championship. South Bend, Indiana.

1981

  Computer;  First computer program to win a State Championship - Cray
  Blitz in Mississipi.

1981

  Korchnoi wins Lone Pine.

1981

  Redman elected USCF president.

1981

  Savereide wins US women's Championship.

1981

  Standard notation (algebraic notation) established by FIDE.

1981

  US OPEN; 5 tie for US Open, Palo Alto (704 players).

1981

  Watson and deFirmian win American Open (390 players).

1981

  01/ Sarapu wins New Zealand Championship for the 16th time.

1981

  01/08 Kotov died.

1981

  02/14 Canal, Esteban died in Varese, Italy. Hungarian Champion 1933.
  IM 1950. HGM 1977.

1981

  03/23 Lasker;  Edward Lasker died.

1981

  04/25 Ahman, Ernst died in Sweden. 1948 Swedish Champion.

1981

  05/ Fischer arrested in Pasadena under suspicion of a bank robber.

1981

  05/20 Gedult, David died in Paris.

1981

  05/29 Altschul, Frank died in Stamford, CT. Problem book publisher.

1981

  08/02 Breuer, Johann died in Reichshof, Germany. IJComp 1957;
  IMComp 1973
.

1981

  08/03 Heidenfeld, Wolfgang died in Ulm, Germany. South African
  Champion
8 times; Irish Champion 6 times.

1981

  09/29 Chernev, Irving died in San Francisco. Chess author.

1981

  10/01 Karpov-Korchnoi match, Merano.

1981

  10/24 Kevitz died.

1981

  10/27 Endzelins, Lucius died in Adelaide. GMC 1959. 2nd in the World
  Correspondence
Championship 1956-9. Australian Champion 1961.

1981

  11/12 Pilnik died.

1981

  11/20 Karpov defeats Korchnoi, 11-7, Merano.

1981

  11/26 Euwe, Max died in Amsterdam. Dutch Champion 12 times. World
  Champion
1935-37. GM 1950; IA 1951. FIDE President 1970-78.

1982

  First brother-sister to tie for 1st in a tournament - Chicago.

1982

  First time an American beat a reigning world Champion:  Seirawan-
  Karpov.

1982

  First world under-20 Championship for women.

1982

  Aronin, Lev died. IM 1950. Moscow Champion 1965.

1982

  Browne and Henley tie in 1st lady international, Indonesia.

1982

  Olympiad; Youngest Olympiad player, Kien Tjing-Joe, age 12, for
  Surinam.

1982

  01/02 Barendregt, Johan died in Gravenhage, Netherlands. IM 1962.
  Professor of psychology.

1982

  02/03 Frydman, Paulin died in Buenos Aires. IM 1955. Warsaw
  Champion
1931, 1932, 1933, 1936.

1982

  03/13 Fairhurst, William died in Howick, New Zealand. British Champion
  1937. Scottish Champion 11 times.

1982

  04/02 Coles, Richard died in West Clandon, England. Author of chess
  biographies.

1982

  05/22 Herbstmann, Alexander, IM for Chess compositions, died in Taby,
  Sweden. IJComp 1956; IMComp 1959.

1982

  05/26 Albrecht, Hermann died in Frankfurt. IJComp 1957.

1982

  07/05 Hunter, Charles died in Horley, England. British Correspondence
  Champion
'61. World's fastest speaker. IMC 1967.

1982

  09/18 Bjelica played 301 opponents at Sarajevo (+258=36-7).

1982

  10/21 Edmondson, Edmund died in Honolulu, Hawaii. USCF President
  1963. USCF executive director 1967.

1982

  12/ First electronic Chess game on a complete bulletin board.

1983

  First national hs individual Champion, won by Patrick Wolff.

1983

  First time a microcomputer beats a master in tournament play.

1983

  First time computer gains an established master's rating.

1983

  First video Chess cassette - Orson Welles, Seirawan, Christiansen.

1983

  Candidates;  A tied candidates match was decided by a roulette wheel.

1983

  Bobby Fischer publishes "I was tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse."

1983

  Martz dies, age 37.

1983

  Yarosh, Leonid (1957- ) composed a direct mate orthodox Babson Task,
  though impossible for 70 years.

1983

  01/31 Statham died.

1983

  07/18 Flohr, Salo, Soviet IGM, died in Moscow. GM 1950; IA 1963.

1983

  08/16 Mont-Reynaud, Jordy born, Stanford, CA.

1983

  08/23 Anderson, Gerald Frank died in Hove, England. IJComp 1960;
  IMComp 1975. Last person to play Alekhine.

1983

  09/10 Ciocaltea, Victor died in Manresa, Spain. Romanian Champion
  1952, 59, 61, 62, 70, 71. IM 1957; GM 1979.

1983

  11/15 Dubinen, Peter died in Gorky. GMC 1962. Second in 1962 world
  Correspondence
Championship. IM 1950. USSR Corr. Champion 1957.

1983

  12/03 Aitken, James died in Cheltenham, England. Former Scottish &
  London Champion.

1983

  12/09 Flesch, Janos, IGM (1980), died. IM 1963.

1984

  First satellite simultaneous exhibition - London & New York (Kasparov).

1984

  First time a microcomputer won an event with mainframes, in Canada.

1984

  Bolbochan, Jacobo died in Argentina. Argentina Champion 1932, 1933.
  IM 1965.

1984

  Chess Collectors International started.

1984

  Doyle, Steve elected USCF President.

1984

  Nunn has performace rating of 2886 at Thessaloniki (10 of 11).

1984

  Olympiad; U.S. first win over USSR in Olympiad at Thessaloniki.

1984

  Shirazi goes .5 points in 17 games. Lost in 5 moves to Peters.

1984

  03/16 Bonham, Reginald died in Worcester, England. Blind world
  Champion
1958. Correspondence Champion 6 times.

1984

  03/28 Mansfield died.

1984

  04/08 Udovcic died.

1984

  05/17 Becker, Albert died in Vicente Lopez, Argentina.  Austrian
  Champion
1925, 1937. IM 1953.

1984

  05/19 Long, Roger & Graham Croft played 200 hours in Bristol.

1984

  07/16 Cozens, William died in Taunton, England.  Author.

1984

  08/13 Petrosian (born 1929), former world Chess Champion, died.

1984

  08/25 Blau, Max died in Bern, Switzerland. IM 1953. Swiss Champion
  1953, 55, 56, 67.

1984

  08/31 Czerniak, Moshe died in Tel Aviv. Palestine Champion 1936.
  Israeli Champion 1955. IM 1952.

1984

  09/04 Bohatirchuk, Fedor died in Ottawa. USSR Champion 1927. IM
  1954. IMC 1967.

1984

  09/10 Karpov-Kasparov match, Moscow.

1984

  10/06 Hort played 663 games in 32.5 hrs at Porz, West Germany.

1984

  11/09 Fritz, Jindrich died in Prague. IJComp 1956; IMComp 1966;
  GMComp 1975.

1985

1985

  First time a match for the world Championship abandoned.

1985

  First tournament of high school Champions won by Fishbein.

1985

  New York Open; 6 tie for NY Open. Richest ($126,000) and largest (1070)
  tournament.

1985

  Seirawan becomes First US candidate since 1973.

1985

  World open largest (1,251) and richest ($150,000).

1985

  Scholastic Championship draw a record 1,572 players.

1985

  01/26 Yukhtman died.

1985

  02/15 Kasparov-Karpov match halted after 48 games.

1985

  02/20 Kashdan (born 1905), American GM, died.

1985

  03/ Dunphy, William died in Hastings. Irish Champion 1957.

1985

  08/ Gurevich, Ilya wins world under-14 Championship (first US player to
  do so)
.

1985

  09/03 Karpov-Kasparov match, Moscow.

1985

  09/16 Knoppert;  Eric Knoppert played 500 games of 10-minute Chess in
  68 hours.

1985

  10/01 Bron, Vladimir died in Sverdlovsk, Russia. IJComp 1956; IMComp
  1966; GMComp 1975.

1985

  10/11 Candidates; Start of Montpellier Candidates tournament.

1985

  10/20 Batik, Frantisek died in Jaromer, Czechoslovakia. IMC 1959.

1985

  11/03 Battell, Jack died. (American postal pioneer).

1985

  11/03 Yusupov, Vaganian, Sokolov tie at Montpellier.

1985

  11/09 Kasparov defeats Karpov to become world Champion.  Age 22 yrs,
  210 days.

1985

  11/27 First world team Championship tournament, won by USSR in
  Lucerne.

1985

  12/05 Cuellar-Gacharna, Miguel died in Columbia. IM 1957.

1985

  12/18 Dunst (born 1907), American player, died in Lambertville, NJ.

1986

  First time there is a Soviet entrant in a U.S. Open.

1986

  First time world Championship played in England.

1986

  Agzamov, Georgy died in a fall from a cliff. IM 1982; GM 1984.

1986

  Chikvaidze replaced Sevastionov as President of the Soviet Chess Fed.

1986

  Harman, John died in England. Classified Chess studies.

1986

  Polgar; Judit Polgar, 9, wins NY Open, unrated section with 7.5-.5.

1986

  01/24 Buschke, Albrecht died in New York City.

1986

  02/27 Barcza, Gedeon died in Budapest. IM 1950; GM 1954; IMC 1966.

1986

  03/05 Rudenko, Lyudmila died. World women's Championship 1949-53.
  Challenger 1956.

1986

  03/13 House of Reps passed resolution recognizing Bobby Fischer as
  world
Champion.

1986

  05/25 Fraenkel, Heinrich died in London. Assiac.

1986

  07/25 Kasparov-Karpov match, London.

1986

  08/10 Hall of Fame;  Formation of the US Chess hall of fame.

1986

  10/08 Kasparov defeats Karpov, 12.5-11.5, Leningrad.

1986

  10/31 Computer;  6th world microcomputer Championship; Dallas,
  Mephisto III
First.

1986

  12/29 Hastings;  62nd Hastings, Chandler, Larsen, Lputian, Speelman
  first.

1986

  12/30 Asenova, Venka died in Bulgaria. WIM 1965; HWGM 1986.

1987

  Kamsky wins US jr Championship at age 12.

1987

  Longest game. Martinovsky-Jansa, Gausdal 1987 (drawn after 194
  moves
).

1987

  Niemeijer, Meindert died. Dutch Chess bibliophile.

1987

  Winston elected USCF president.

1987

  01/15 49th Hoogovens international, Wijk aan Zee, Korchnoi & Short 1st.

1987

  01/29 Hartong, Jan died in Rotterdam. IMComp 1959.

1987

  02/ Reykjavik international, Short First.

1987

  02/02 Estrin, Yakov died in Russia. World Correspondence Champion
  1975. IMC 1965; GMC 1966; IM 1975; GM 1984.

1987

  02/27 Lugano international, Seirawan First.

1987

  03/01 Computer;  First national Championship (US amateur Champion)
  directed by computer.

1987

  03/15 National Open, Las Vegas, Maxim Dlugy First.

1987

  03/26 Karpov defeats Sokolov in candidate's final match, Spain.

1987

  04/09 New York Open, Seirawan & Adorjan first.

1987

  04/25 Kasparov & Ljubojevic win 2nd SWIFT international, Brussels.

1987

  05/27 US Amateur Championship, Knoxvile, Kreitner first.

1987

  06/26 Gulko wins World Open.

1987

  07/ Calvo declared persona non grata by FIDE, Seville, Spain.

1987

  08/ Anand wins world jr Championship, Baguio City.

1987

  09/19 Yudovich died.

1987

  10/12 Kasparov-Karpov match, Seville.

1987

  12/ Kasparov retains world Championship, Seville.

1987

  12/05 Avigad-Vernon, Ariel (7yrs, 237 days) beat expert Nick Dumyk.

1987

  12/19 Kasparov draws with Karpov and ties match to retain title.

1988

  Gurevich wins US Open, Boston.

1988

  Hanauer, Milton died.

1988

  Wilder wins US Championship.

1988

  06/24 Serotta wins US jr Open, St Louis.

1988

  07/ Dlugy wins World Open, Philadelphia.

1988

  07/07 Second world and peace festival, Romania.

1988

  07/13 Dlugy wins US Open blitz Championship Boston.

1988

  07/21 Grumette died.

1988

  08/ Gurevich, D. wins US Open, Boston (614 players).

1988

  08/ Kasparov & Karpov wins USSR Championship (cat 14 - 2594).

1988

  08/ Mestel wins British Championship.

1988

  08/ Speelman beats Short 3.5-1.5 in London for Candidates match.

1988

  08/05 Fischer filed a patent for a digital Chess clock.

1988

  09/ Karpov wins Tilburg Interpolis (cat 15 - 2627).

1988

  09/15 USAF wins Armed Forces Championship.

1988

  10/ Kasparov wins Reykjavik (cat 15 - 2618).

1988

  10/ Lautier, Ivanchuk, Serper, Gelfand tie in world jr Championship,
  Adelaide
.

1988

  10/ Wilder wins US Championship (cat 12 - 2546).

1988

  11/ Miles wins Software Toolworks Championship, Long Beach.

1988

  11/27 Donner, Johannes (Jan) died. IM 1952; GM 1959. Dutch Champion
  1954, 1957, 1958.

1988

  12/ Olympiad; Hungary wins Thessaloniki women's Olympiad (56
  teams)
.

1988

  12/ Olympiad;  USSR wins Thessaloniki Olympiad (107 teams).

1988

  12/17 Karpov wins world action Chess Championship, Mazatlan,
  Mexico. (61 players)

1988

  12/18 First World Chess Congress: USSR vs World; USSR wins (Madrid).

1988

  12/30 Harvard wins Pan-am intercollegiate, New Jersey. (35 teams).

1989

  Bikova, (Bykova) Elizaveta died in Russia. WIM 1950; IM 1953; WGM
  1976; World Champion 1953-6, 1958-62.

1989

  Eisinger Jr, Max died in Germany.

1989

  Haring, Jacobus died in the Netherlands. IJComp 1964; IMComp 1968.
  Died of cancer.

1989

  Wolff wins 3rd annual '89 Samford stipend ($30,000).

1989

  01/ Ratings;  USCF ratings: Seirawan (2725), Gulko (2697), deFirmian
  2679)
.

1989

  01/14 Short wins Hastings.

1989

  02/ Polgar, Zsofia achieves 2900 performance rating.

1989

  02/04 Yusupov defeats Spraggett in quarterfinals in Quebec.

1989

  02/05 Gurevich, D. wins 7th Bermuda international Open.

1989

  02/05 Karpov defeats Hjartarson in quarterfinals in Seattle.

1989

  02/26 Benjamin wins Cannes Open.

1989

  03/28 Fedorowicz wins 7th NY Open.

1989

  04/18 Cramer, Fred, former USCF president, died.

1989

  04/20 Kasparov, Ljubojevic w