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Olimpiu Di Luppi (born Urcan, 1977) is a historian and author. Of Italian and Turkish heritage, he is a Permanent Resident in Singapore since 2002, where he works as a consultant on advanced research in Arts and Humanities. [1] He is a long-time contributor to Edward Winter's Chess Notes.
On June 26, 2021, Di Luppi announced in Chess Notes the "Capablanca Project," [2] which comprises a scholarly pictorial biography, a graphic novel and a documentary. [3] According to his project's website, "In addition to a comprehensive chronicle, the aim is to salvage, restore and preserve material related to the Cuban marvel."
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.
Henry Edward Bird was an English chess player, author and accountant. He wrote the books Chess History and Reminiscences and An Analysis of Railways in the United Kingdom.
Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion in history. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players in history.
Adolf Albin was a Romanian chess player. He is best known for the countergambit that bears his name and for authoring the first chess book written in Romanian.
Oscar Chajes was an American chess player.
Edward Winter is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author. He writes a regular column on chess history, Chess Notes.
Boris de Greiff Bernal was a Colombian chess master and writer, born in Medellín and son of the Colombian poet León de Greiff.
James Henry Gerard Mortimer was an American-born British chess player, journalist, and playwright.
Lodewijk Prins was a Dutch chess player and referee of chess competitions.
Arthur Kaufmann was an Austrian attorney, philosopher and chess master.
John Stuart Morrison (1889-1975) was a chess master who won the Canadian Championship five times between 1910 and 1926. He represented Canada at the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad and played in several international tournaments that were won by José Raúl Capablanca.
William Henry Krause Pollock was an English chess master, and a surgeon.
Louis Moses (Mozes) van Vliet was a Dutch chess master.
This international super-tournament, organised by Nikolai Krylenko, was held at Moscow in the Soviet Union, from 10 November to 8 December 1925. It was the world's first state-sponsored chess tournament."Russian Chess History by Bill Wall". 2009-10-28. Archived from the original on 2009-10-28. Retrieved 2019-11-20.</ref> There were eleven foreign stars and ten Soviet masters. World champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker were expected to be the main contenders, as they had been in the New York 1924 chess tournament, but the Soviet master Efim Bogoljubov achieved an unexpected victory. Lasker finished 1½ points behind Bogolyubov and just ahead of Capablanca.
Eugene Ernest Colman was an English chess master.
The Malaysian Chess Championship is organized by the Malaysian Chess Federation. Known as the National Closed Chess Championship prior to 2016, the first edition was held in 1974. A separate Malaysian Women's Chess Championship has also been held annually since 1990. FIDE Master Christi Hon has won the national title a record five times, while Woman International Master Siti Zulaikha Foudzi has won the women's title a record eight times. It has occurred twice that a pair of siblings have won the national and the women's titles in the same year: Kamal Ariffin Wahiddudin and Nurul Huda Wahiduddin in 1991, and Zarul Shazwan Zullkafli and Nur Shazwani Zullkafli in 2007.
The Brassey Institute at 13 Claremont in Hastings, England, was founded by Thomas Brassey in 1879 and, as the Brassey School of Science and Art, provided for the study of arts and the sciences. It opened a chemistry laboratory in the Old Town of Hastings around 1900. The building has housed the town's library for decades. Stocking 11,000 volumes as of 1933, the Institute also housed a museum devoted to natural history, archaeology and local art.
Heinz Gerhard Lehmann was a German chess master and 1956 West Berlin Chess Champion.
