| Aldo Zadrima | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Aldo Zadrima |
| Country |  |
| Born | 15/1/1948 Tirana, Albania |
| Title | Former Albanian National Champion |
| FIDE rating | 2255 (January 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
Aldo Zadrima (born January 15, 1948) is a chess player. On July 1994 Zadrima won the Albanian Chess Championship tournament to become the national champion.
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Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga sometime before the 7th century. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi, and shogi. Chess reached Europe by the 9th century, due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the modern rules were standardized in the 19th century.
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This article presents a number of methodologies that have been suggested for the task of comparing the greatest chess players in history. Statistical methods offer objectivity but, while there is agreement on systems to rate the strengths of current players, there is disagreement on whether such techniques can be applied to players from different generations who never competed against each other.
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