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Frederick Yates (January 16 1884 – November 10, 1932) was a chess master who won the British Championship six times. He was not one of the top players, but could be very dangerous, as shown by his victories over Alexander Alekhine, [Max Euwe]], Akiba Rubinstein and Milan Vidmar. However, he had minus scores against them: Alehine +2-10=3, Rubinstein +2-8=5, Euwe +2-5=1, Vidmar +1-4=1. Positional players such as José Raúl Capablanca (+8-0=2) and Géza Maróczy (+8-0=1) gave him little chance. January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who themselves typically can nearly always prevail against the level of play generally possessed by the average player in the general population. ... Jump to: navigation, search Alexander Alekhine Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (sometimes spelled Aljechin) (in Russian, Александр Александрович Алë́хин), (October 31 or November 1, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a chess master and a former World Chess Champion. ... Akiba Rubinstein (born 12 December 1882, died 15 March 1961 in Antwerp) was a brilliant Polish chess master and a famous grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search Milan Vidmar (June 22, 1885 – October 9, 1962) was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher and writer, born in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). ... Jump to: navigation, search Time Magazine, December 7, 1925 José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942) was a Cuban world-class chess player in the early to mid-twentieth century. ... Jump to: navigation, search Géza Maróczy (pronounced GEH-zaw MAHR-ot-see, not MarOXy) (3 March 1870—29 May 1951) was a leading Hungarian chess master, one of the best players in the world in his time. ...


Yates was a very sporting player, publishing one loss to Capablanca[1] in his (Yates') own collection of best games. Yates' most famous victory was agaisnt Alekhine at Karlsbad in 1923,[2] involving a very deep combination. the traditional English name for the city and spa Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Carlsbad, California Carlsbad, New Mexico, with Carlsbad Caverns National Park nearby Carlsbad, Texas ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...




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Frederick Yates was born in England in 1854.
He abandoned a desk in a London mercantile house for art study in the Paris ateliers of Bonnat, Boulanger, and Lefebvre.
Yates was active in San Francisco until 1900 and then returned to England where he remained until his death in 1919.
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