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Quiz Question
This is probably far too easy but I'll ask anyway....
Which players who either were British citizens at the time or were to become British Citizens have played in an official world championship title match?
Which players who either were British citizens at the time or were to become British Citizens have played in an official world championship title match?
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Isidor Gunsberg?
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Michael Adams? lost to Kazimdzhanov (when Nigel and Garry broke away to have an unofficial match...)
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You are correct that it was Michael Adams. It was in Libya in 2004.Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:32 pmMichael Adams? lost to Kazimdzhanov (when Nigel and Garry broke away to have an unofficial match...)
But it wasn't really a World Championship match. It was the Final of one of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's World Championship Knockout Tournaments.
The question refers to "an official world championship title match". If that is taken to be a FIDE sanctioned event, then Nigel Short didn't play in one.
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Gerald is right both times.
Gunsberg: Yes, he became a British citizen many years after his match with Steinitz.
Short: of course yes, unless you agree with David and don't count his Kasparov match as "official".
Zukertort: never a British citizen.
Menchik: yes, two matches with Sonia Graf (1934 and 1937) as well as world championship tournaments. I don't have her citizenship details but presumably she became a British subject when she married Stevenson, if not before then.
Adams: see David's posting
Of course the list gets much longer if we include world championship tournaments: FIDE KO and correspondence.
Gunsberg: Yes, he became a British citizen many years after his match with Steinitz.
Short: of course yes, unless you agree with David and don't count his Kasparov match as "official".
Zukertort: never a British citizen.
Menchik: yes, two matches with Sonia Graf (1934 and 1937) as well as world championship tournaments. I don't have her citizenship details but presumably she became a British subject when she married Stevenson, if not before then.
Adams: see David's posting
Of course the list gets much longer if we include world championship tournaments: FIDE KO and correspondence.
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You mean, because it quite specifically wasn't.Tim Harding wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 5:23 pmunless you agree with David and don't count his Kasparov match as "official".
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When questioned by the BBC Campomanes didn't see it as official, to which the BBC reporter asked which match had the better players Timman - Karpov or Short -Kasparov which was quite an apt retort I thought.
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Gazza v Nosher can reasonably be considered "de facto" if not "de jure".
Certainly more so than some of the "official champions" FIDE had a few years later.
Certainly more so than some of the "official champions" FIDE had a few years later.
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It doesn't really matter for the purposes of the question.
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Perhaps I default too easily to quiz mode, but when I saw the question my first thought was that the word "official" was important, perhaps a trap, and ruled out Short.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:44 pmIt doesn't really matter for the purposes of the question.
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Even though it may not have been official, the bottom line was that it was the only match taken seriously at the time.
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Oh for sure, but as we know there's no agreement on the definition, people are going to give two sets of answers anyway.NickFaulks wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:35 pmPerhaps I default too easily to quiz mode, but when I saw the question my first thought was that the word "official" was important, perhaps a trap, and ruled out Short.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:44 pmIt doesn't really matter for the purposes of the question.
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I realise I am quoting a secondary/tertiary source but I will do so in any case :
From The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks :
"Meanwhile, Zukertort had decided to make England his permanent home and became a naturalised Englishman in l878."
Sadly (for me at least) I do not have Jimmy's wonderful book.
I assume Anne did not make-up the 1878 date.
Is being a "naturalised Englishman" the same as being a "British citizen"?
RJ tells me that the BCM 1888 obituary for JZ says
"he settled in London, becoming naturalized in 1878"
but that JBA could find no evidence of this.
Any help would be appreciated.
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