Sentence examples for of competitive chess from inspiring English sources

We fought quite a lot of competitive chess matches.

A second principle, sometimes called sudden death, was also considered and abandoned in the early days of competitive chess.

The girls of competitive chess are vastly outnumbered by boys, but these young players won't be intimidated.

Approximately one million years ago, when I was in my early teens, I briefly dipped a toe into the world of competitive chess.

I remembered all those old Soviet-era Russians humming math problems in their heads or playing twelve hours of competitive chess with themselves.

Up until that moment when I sat down at my first ever game of competitive chess, I thought the world was fair, I thought everything was lovely.

Staunton and his colleagues had ambitious objectives for this tournament, including convening a "Chess Parliament" to complete the standardisation of various rules and procedures for competitive chess and for writing about chess.

Page 11 CHESS GROWS IN CALIFORNIA In the last couple of years there has been a burst of activity in competitive chess in California, with a large number of international tournaments that have given players a chance to qualify for grandmaster and international master titles.

It said a likely reason for the dearth of good women players was that not enough of them played competitive chess.

He cites a study by Guillermo Campitelli and Fernand Gobet of a hundred and four competitive chess players.

A Brooklyn native, Pandolfini rose to the rank of Master in competitive chess before leaving the tournament circuit to give lessons full time in 1972, "during [Bobby] Fischer's rise to the top".