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  • It is called in the East the game of the King, and the word Schach mat, or Shah mat in the

    Chess History and Reminiscences 1869

  • Using these ratings, the German website Caissa Schach Chronik published the top 50 highest ratings adjusted by inflation: 1. Fischer 2787 2. Kasparov 2759 3. Karpov 2722 4. Tal 2700 5. Anand and Kramnik 2699

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess History: From Bobby Fischer to Hikaru Nakamura Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • Using these ratings, the German website Caissa Schach Chronik published the top 50 highest ratings adjusted by inflation: 1. Fischer 2787 2. Kasparov 2759 3. Karpov 2722 4. Tal 2700 5. Anand and Kramnik 2699

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess History: From Bobby Fischer to Hikaru Nakamura Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • Using these ratings, the German website Caissa Schach Chronik published the top 50 highest ratings adjusted by inflation: 1. Fischer 2787 2. Kasparov 2759 3. Karpov 2722 4. Tal 2700 5. Anand and Kramnik 2699

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess History: From Bobby Fischer to Hikaru Nakamura Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • My favorite: - Fussball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel.

    Greatest Quotes from Soccer Players 2008

  • A number 9 of Dr Hans Ellinger's series "Tübinger Beiträge zum Thema Schach" a reprint of the Lasker drama Vom Menschen die Geschichte The History of Man has just been published, you will learn all essential things from this flyer which also contains an order slip in German; pdf-file.

    News from the Ken Whyld Association Jan 2008

  • A number 9 of Dr Hans Ellinger's series "Tübinger Beiträge zum Thema Schach" a reprint of the Lasker drama Vom Menschen die Geschichte The History of Man has just been published, you will learn all essential things from this flyer which also contains an order slip in German; pdf-file.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • I was given to understand that Lubavitch is as Left Wing as the Charedim get - so left, in fact, that many of the other Charedim look upon them as apikorsim (I was told that Rav Schach, when asked which non-Jewish religion is the closest to Judaism, replied “Lubavitch”) - but they accept the geocentric idea as binding (and, as I said, they attempt to back it up with a biased interpretation of relativity).

    Inter-Lubav Infighting Leaves 770 in Shambles | Jewschool 2006

  • The men would take the chess sets from the birch wardrobe, sit down at the long tables, and play, their silence punctuated only by punched chess clocks and the clipped warning: “Schach”—“Check.”

    Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

  • The men would take the chess sets from the birch wardrobe, sit down at the long tables, and play, their silence punctuated only by punched chess clocks and the clipped warning: “Schach”—“Check.”

    Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

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