Yasser Seirawan

Yasser Seirawan (Arabic: ياسر سيروان) (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. He was winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 492 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1431 × 1743 pixel, file size: 657 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) en:Yasser Seirawan at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle, Washington. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 492 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1431 × 1743 pixel, file size: 657 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) en:Yasser Seirawan at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle, Washington. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (84th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ...

He was born in Damascus, Syria. His father was Arab and his mother an English nurse from Nottingham, where he spent some time in his early childhood. When he was seven, his family emigrated to Seattle (USA), where he attended McClure Middle School and Garfield High School, and honed his game at a (now-defunct) coffeehouse, The Last Exit on Brooklyn, playing against the likes of Latvian-born master Viktors Pupols and six-time Washington State Champion Jim McCormick. Damascus ( transliteration: , also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the largest city of Syria and is also the capital. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... James A. Garfield High School is a public high school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington, USA. Arguably the citys most famous school, it is known for its outstanding academic and arts programs, and for its high degree of cultural diversity. ... Viktors (Viktor Pupols) PÅ«pols (born 1935) a Latvian–American chess master. ... Official language(s) English Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  Ranked 18th  - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 6. ...

He is married to Yvette Nagel, daughter of former Leefbaar Nederland political party president and politician Jan Nagel. Leefbaar Nederland (Livable Netherlands) is a political party in the Netherlands, founded on March 21, 1999, by (among others) Jan Nagel and Henk Westbroek, respectively chairpersons of Leefbaar Hilversum and Leefbaar Utrecht. ... Johan George (Jan) Nagel (Amsterdam, June 20, 1939) is a former Dutch politician. ...

Seirawan began playing chess at 12; at 13 he became Washington junior champion. At 19 he won the World Junior Chess Championship. He also won a game against Victor Korchnoi, who then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his world title match against Anatoly Karpov. [1] The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). ... Viktor Korchnoi (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й) (born March 23, 1931) is sometimes reckoned to be the strongest chess player never to have been world champion. ... Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: ) (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ...

For many years he was the chief editor of the Inside Chess magazine, which however later became an Internet-only magazine and later just a column at the Chesscafe website.

In 2001, Seirawan released a plan to reunite the chess world, which at that time had two world champions: Ruslan Ponomariov had gained the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten Garry Kasparov to take the Einstein title. It called for one match between Ponomariov and Kasparov (the world number one), and another between Kramnik and the winner of the 2002 Einstein tournament in Dortmund (who turned out to be Péter Lékó). The winners of these matches would then play each other to become undisputed World Champion. This plan was signed by all parties on May 6, 2002, in the so-called "Prague Agreement". The Kramnik-Leko match took place (the match was drawn, with Kramnik retaining his title); the Kasparov-Ponomariov match was cancelled in 2003, and this particular plan became moot after the September–October of 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 between Kramnik and Veselin Topalov reunited the world championship title . Current World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. ... Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukrainian: Руслан Пономарьов; Russian: Русла́н Пономарёв) (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: ) (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current undisputed World Chess Champion. ... Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: ; IPA: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. ... Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ... Péter Lékó Péter Lékó (b. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (127th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 was a chess match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. ... Veselin Topalov 2005 Veselin Topalov (IPA: ; Bulgarian: ) (born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. ...

Following a series of events Seirawan participated in China during September 2003, there were reports that he would be retiring as a professional player. In the July 2006 FIDE list, Seirawan had an Elo rating of 2638 making him number 71 in the world, and America's number three (behind Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Onischuk). He played five games in the July 2006 FIDE update. He hadn't played a professional game for about a year up to that point. For current rating, see http://fide.com/ratings/id.phtml?event=2000032. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Hikaru Nakamura Hikaru Nakamura, (中村光 Nakamura Hikaru, born December 9, 1987 in Hirakata) is an American chess Grandmaster (GM). ... Alexander Onischuk (born 1975) is an American chess Grandmaster (GM). ...

In 2007 Yasser Seirawan unveiled his enhanced chess game called [Seirawan Chess] which he is currently promoting world-wide. The first ever event was a 12 board simultaneous exhibition held March 31 in Vancouver, Canada [Seirawan chess simultaneous].

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Books

Yasser Seirawan has, with chess writer and IM Jeremy Silman, written several books, all part of his popular "Winning Chess" Series. Originally published by Microsoft Press, they are now all published by Everyman Chess. They include: The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... Jeremy Silman (born August 25, 1954) is an American International Master of chess. ... Microsoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. ...

• Play Winning Chess - An introduction to chess and some basic strategies
• Winning Chess Tactics - An introduction to tactics with puzzles
• Winning Chess Strategies - A book on how to use small advantages and use strategies to make them
• Winning Chess Openings - Gives a brief description on hundreds of the most popular openings, as well as opening strategies
• Winning Chess Endings - Introduction to the endgame
• Winning Chess Brilliances - Notable games in chess that are analyzed by the author.
• Winning Chess Combinations - Teaches players how to recognize the main combination patterns; somewhat of a follow up to Winning Chess Tactics

External links

• FIDE rating card for Yasser Seirawan
• Yasser Seirawan at ChessGames.com
• Last Exit on Brooklyn on the SeattleWiki
• Seirawan Chess Enhanced Chess Devised by Yasser Seirawan in 2007