2003 in Chess - Deaths

Deaths

February 4 – Jaroslav Šajtar (1921–2003), 81, Czech Grandmaster and FIDE vice chairman.
May 10 – Milan Vukcevich (1937–2003), 66, Yugoslav/American International Master, Grandmaster of Chess Composition, and scientist.
May 11 – Luděk Pachman (1924–2003), 78, Czech Grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.
May 16 – Bogdan Śliwa (1922–2003), 81, Polish Grandmaster.
June 24 – Russ Chauvenet (1920–2003), 83, American International Master, chess writer, U.S. deaf champion.
July 11 – Ken Whyld (1926–2003), 77, British chess writer and researcher.
August 31 - Péter Székely (1955–2003), 48, Hungarian Grandmaster.
October 31 – Antonio Medina (1919–2003), 84, International Master, many time Spanish Champion.
December 20 – Denis Barry (1929–2003), 74, American chess organizer and President of the USCF.
December 28 – Frank Parr (1918–2003), 85, English chess player.

Chess

Outline	History World Championship Tournaments Computers Variants Ratings Titles First-move advantage

Pieces	Pawn Knight Bishop Rook Queen King

Rules	Pawn promotion Castling En passant Check Checkmate Double check Draw By agreement Fifty-move rule Threefold repetition Perpetual check Stalemate Touch-move rule Time control Game clock

Terms	Battery Alekhine's gun Blunder Chess engine Chess notation Algebraic Descriptive PGN Annotation symbols Fianchetto Gambit Key square King walk Pawns Connected Isolated Doubled Backward Passed Open file Half-open file Opposition Tempo The exchange Transposition X-ray Zugzwang Zwischenzug

Tactics	Cross-check Decoy Deflection Desperado Discovered attack Fork Interference Overloading Pawn storm Pin Sacrifice Skewer Triangulation Undermining Windmill Anti-computer

Strategies	Artificial castling Exchange Fortress Pawn structure Swindle Tarrasch rule

Main openings	English Opening Queen's Gambit Indian Defence Ruy Lopez Caro–Kann Defence Sicilian Defence French Defence Slav Defense

Endgames	Endgame tablebase King and pawn vs king Opposite-coloured bishops Pawnless endgame Queen and pawn vs queen Queen vs pawn Rook and pawn vs rook Lucena position Philidor position Two knights endgame Wrong bishop Wrong rook pawn

Checkmates	Checkmate pattern Bishop and knight checkmate Back-rank checkmate Fool's mate Scholar's mate Smothered mate Boden's Mate

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