Sentence examples for chess aficionado from inspiring English sources

Lenny is also a numismatist and chess aficionado.

Beckett played regularly with friends during the second world war, when he was holed up in France working for the Resistance; he liked to annotate master games – the chess books in his library are full of comments – and corresponded with Spanish playwright and fellow chess aficionado Fernando Arrabal.

A chess aficionado who painted abstract canvases and played the organ, Schmidt carved out an assertive new image for West Germany.

Many chess aficionados, including Kasparov, considered Kramnik the most likely heir to the chess throne.

In the popular imagination, if not among chess aficionados, Kasparov's one lingering rival was a retired lunatic — Bobby Fischer.

Paulson is attempting to create a structure which is comprehensible to players, chess aficionados and casual onlookers alike.

Going into the match, he had been the heavy favorite, based on the assessment of virtually all chess aficionados.

The men pushing Iceland as the birthplace of the pieces are two chess aficionados, Gudmundur G. Thorarinsson and Einar S. Einarsson.

Last year two chess aficionados in Iceland, Gudmundur G. Thorarinsson and Einar S. Einarsson, set out to prove that the pieces were actually from their country.

Chess aficionados and devotees of Nabokov may miss the novel's cerebral dazzle, but Ms. Gorris's film, wisely concentrating on the more accessible emotional aspects of her source, succeeds on its own terms as a touching and elegant period romance (Scott).

In 1997, then-champion Garry Kasparov lost a six-game match to IBM's improved Deep Blue computer, but many chess aficionados (including Kasparov) argued that the tournament was unfair.