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Chess Grand Master Ossip Bernstein was arrested by the Bolshevik secret police and ordered to be shot. As the firing squad lined up, an officer asked if he was really the famous chess master. The officer made Bernstein play a game for his life against him. Bernstein won easily and was released.
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International Master Jeremy Silman created the Chess puzzle for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone where Ron sacrifices himself, but wasn't credited for his role, while "everyone from the hairdressers to the donut delivery boy" were.
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Both Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte played, and we're beaten by a, chess robot. The robot toured the world, beating masters and novices alike. However, in reality it was just a man in a box.
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Forrest Gump curses, smokes pot, goes to jail, travels to outer space, becomes a professional wrestler, visits a mental hospital, is a chess master, a stunt man and is friends with an ape named Sue. But, only if you read the novel.
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There was a successful chess-playing machine called "The Turk" constructed in late 18th century. Its secret, a chess master inside, wasn't revealed for almost a century.
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Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.
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"The Immortal Game", a casual match between chess grand masters in the interim of the first international chess tournament. Despite not being an official match, it is considered one of the most famous matches of all time.
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In the 1940s, chess master Miguel Najdorf set multiple world records for the number of simultaneously played blindfold chess games, while living in Argentina. He hoped that news of his feats would spread to Europe, so that his family could flee the Holocaust and join him.
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Surrealist/Dadaist master Marcel Duchamp quit the art world, moved to Argentina, carved his own chess pieces and devoted the rest of his life to playing chess.
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In 1999, Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson played chess Grand Master and the former World Chanpion Gary Kasparov to a draw
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Binet's early work was with memory, in which he studied master chess players by having them play the game blindfolded. He found that some of them could envision the board in their heads as they played, meaning they had developed a system for remembering the layout.
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Chess grand master Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami, who within a span of 25 hours won 590 out of the 614 simultaneous chess games he played.
Bobby Fischer, noted Chess master and anti-semite in later years, was Jewish. - source
Mir Sultan Khan, a servant who was "the greatest natural [chess] player of modern times." In his brief stay in Europe, he defeated former world champion Casablanca before returning to India with his master.
When do you become a grandmaster in chess?
Chess Grandmaster Samuel Rechevsky was labeled as a child prodigy after he won a simultaneous exhibition against 9 Chess Masters when he was 8 years old.
How to become a chess master?
World chess champion Bobby Fischer wouldn't have qualified for the latter stages of the process if not for another chess master giving up his spot for him.
In 1998 Hikaru Nakamura became the youngest ever U.S. Chess Master at 10 years, 79 days.
AlphaZero, the artificial intelligence that mastered chess, shogi and go, is estimated to have taken only 4 hours of learning in order to achieve an Elo rating higher than any other chess grandmaster or engine.
There has never been a single female world champion in chess and just 1% of Grand Masters are women.
The Amazon Mechanical Turk was inspired by "The Turk", an 18th-century chess-playing automaton that beat both Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this "machine" was not an automaton at all, but was a human chess master controlling the humanoid robot.
