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The first U.S. Armed Forces Chess Championship (USAFCC) was held at the American Legion Hall of Flags in Washington, D.C. There were 12 invited participants. Feuerstein was four times New York state champion. [citation needed] Hudson was a bombardier-navigator on B-52 bombers and a former US Amateur champion.
Air support was provided by Second Allied Tactical Air Force. In 1966, France had withdrawn from the NATO Military Command Structure , but still wished to take part in the defence of Western Europe. A series of secret agreements made between NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the French Chief of the Defence Staff detailed how French ...
Claude Shannon. The Shannon number, named after the American mathematician Claude Shannon, is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10 120, based on an average of about 10 3 possibilities for a pair of moves consisting of a move for White followed by a move for Black, and a typical game lasting about 40 such pairs of moves.
Portal chess. Portal chess is a chess variant which uses at least two fairy pieces called portals (or less commonly portholes ). These pieces can be easily added by using poker chips, coins or other suitably sized objects. The game seeks to incorporate portals to allow pieces to teleport around the board.
2026 →. The World Chess Championship 2024 will be a match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh D to determine the World Chess Champion, taking place between 25 November and 13 December 2024, with Singapore hosting the match. It will be played to a best of 14 games, with tiebreaks if required.
The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland. The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation. From India it spread to Persia, where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and ...
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI or AFOSI) [5] is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency that reports directly to the Secretary of the Air Force.OSI is also a U.S. Air Force field operating agency under the administrative guidance and oversight of the Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...