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Mirotvor Schwartz CHESS PLAYERS NAMED “A” on STAMPS Mirotvor Schwartz CHESS PLAYERS NAMED “A” ON STAMPS This is a part of my “Chess Players on Stamps” collection. It includes stamps and other philatelic materials depicting chess players whose last names start with “A”. Michael Adams World Team Championship: England 1989 (3), 1997 (4), 2019 (2) European Team Championship: England 1989 (8), 1992 (3), 1997 (1), 2001 (4, BB), 2007 (16), 2009 (12), 2011 (22), 2013 (10), 2015 (10), 2017 (16), 2019 (3) Interzonal Tournament: 1990 (25), 1993 (1) Olympiad: England 1990 (3), 1992 (10), 1994 (4), 1996 (4), 1998 (11), 2000 (7), 2002 (7), 2004 (30), 2006 (19), 2008 (15), 2010 (24), 2012 (17), 2014 (28), 2016 (9), 2018 (5) Interzonal (FIDE) Tournament: 1993 (5) Candidates Tournament: 1994/95 (3-4), 2002 (5-6), 2007 (9-16) World (FIDE) Championship: 1994-96 (8-13), 1997/98 (3), 1999 (3-4), 2000 (3-4), 2001/02 (9-16), 2004 (2), 2005 (6-7) International Tournament: Dortmund 1999 (3-5), Sarajevo 2000 (2-3), Gibraltar 2010 (1), 2011 (20) European Club Cup: SV Ordina Breda 2000 (3), Wijk aan Zee 2009 (13) World Cup: 2007 (9-16), 2011 (33-64), 2013 (33-64), 2015 (9-16), 2017 (33-64), 2019 (65-128) FIDE Grand Prix: 2012/13 (20), 2017 (13) FIDE Online Olympiad: England 2020 (21-24) 1 Tanitoluwa Adewumi (New York State Scholastic Championship 2019) (Casual Game vs Hikaru Nakamura 2019) (Casual Game vs Rex Sinquefeld 2019) 2 3 New York State Scholastic Championship (Primary): 2019 (1) 4 Baskaran Adhiban World Team Championship: India 2010 (3), 2017 (4), 2019 (4, BB) Olympiad: India 2010 (18), 2014 (3), 2016 (4), 2018 (6) Asian Games (Team Classical): India 2010 (3) World Cup: 2013 (17-32), 2015 (65-128), 2017 (33-64), 2019 (33-64), 2021 (33-64) World Rapid Championship: 2015 (28) World Blitz Championship: 2015 (95), 2019 (69) FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (65) 5 Vladimir Akopian (Olympiad 2008) (World Team Championship 2011) (Olympiad 2012) Olympiad: Armenia 1992 (3), 1994 (13), 1996 (5), 1998 (16), 2002 (3), 2004 (3), 2006 (1), 2008 (1, BB), 2010 (7), 2012 (1), 2014 (8) European Team Championship: Armenia 1992 (19), 1997 (3), 2005 (12), 2007 (2), 2009 (4), 2011 (4), 2013 (4) Interzonal (FIDE) Tournament: 1993 (47) World Team Championship: Armenia 1993 (4), 1997 (3), 2001 (3, BB), 2005 (3), 2010 (5), 2011 (1), 2013 (5), 2015 (3) Interzonal Tournament: 1993 (39) World (FIDE) Championship: 1997/98 (10-17), 1999 (2), 2000 (33-64), 2004 (5-8) European Individual Championship: 2001 (103), 2015 (52) Rapid Team Match: Rest of the World 2002 (beat Russia) International Tournament: Gibraltar 2006 (5-10) World Cup: 2007 (9-16), 2013 (65-127) FIDE Grand Prix: 2008-10 (18) World Rapid Championship: 2015 (35) World Blitz Championship: 2015 (93) FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (50) 6 Alexander Alekhine (St Petersburg International Tournament 1914) (German Chess Congress 1914) (The Hague International Tournament 1921) 7 (Hastings International Tournament 1922) (Baden-Baden International Tournament 1925) 8 (World Championship 1927) (World Championship 1929) 9 (Simultaneous Exhibition 1930) (World Championship 1935) 10 (World Championship 1937) (Margate International Tournament 1938) 11 12 13 14 15 German Chess Congress (Amateur Section): 1908 (4-5) International Tournament: St Petersburg 1914 (3), Budapest 1921 (1), The Hague 1921 (1), London 1922 (2), Hastings 1922 (1), Karlovy Vary 1923 (1-3), New York 1924 (3), Baden-Baden 1925 (1), Dresden 1926 (2), New York 1927 (2), Kecskemet 1927 (1), Nottingham 1936 (6), Margate 1938 (1), AVRO 1938 (4-7) German Chess Congress: 1914 (1) World Championship: 1927 (beat Jose Raul Capablanca), 1929 (beat Egim Bogoljubov), 1934 (beat Egim Bogoljubov), 1935 (lost to Max Euwe), 1937 (beat Max Euwe) Olympiad: France 1930 (12), 1931 (14, BB), 1933 (8, BB), 1935 (10), 1939 (10) 16 William Allison (American Chess Congress 1857) American Chess Congress: 1857 (9-16) 17 Viswanathan Anand (Candidates Final Match 1995) (World Championship 1995) 18 (World (FIDE) Championship 2000) (World (FIDE) Championship 2005) (World Championship 2008) 19 (World Championship 2010) (Sao Paulo - Bilbao Masters 2011) 20 (World Championship 2012) (World Championship 2013) 21 (Candidates Tournament 2014) (Bilbao Masters 2014) 22 (World Championship 2014) 23 24 25 26 Olympiad: India 1984 (33), 1986 (25), 1988 (19), 1990 (10), 1992 (22), 2004 (6), 2006 (30), 2018 (6) World U-20 Championship: 1985 (6) Interzonal Tournament: 1990 (3), 1993 (2) International Tournament: Linares 1991 (9-10), 1993 (2-3), 1994 (7-9), 1998 (1), Dortmund 1999 (3-5), Wijk aan Zee 2003 (1), Linares 2003 (3-4), 2007 (1), Sao Paulo - Bilbao 2011 (3-5), Bilbao 2014 (1) Candidates Tournament: 1991-93 (5-8), 1994/95 (1), 2014 (1), 2016 (2-3) Interzonal (FIDE) Tournament: 1993 (10) World (FIDE) Championship: 1994-96 (5-7), 1997/98 (2), 2000 (1), 2001/02 (3-4), 2005 (2-3) World Championship: 1995 (lost to Garry Kasparov), 2007 (1), 2008 (beat Vladimir Kramnik), 2010 (beat Veselin Topalov), 2012 (beat Boris Gelfand), 2013 (lost to Magnus Carlsen), 2014 (lost to Magnus Carlsen) World Cup: 2000 (1), 2002 (1), 2017 (33-64) Rapid Tournament: Grand Prix Dubai 2002 (9) Rapid Team Match: Rest of the World 2002 (beat Russia) World Rapid Championship: 2015 (25) World Blitz Championship: 2015 (22) FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (26) FIDE Online Olympiad: India 2020 (1-2) 27 Adolf Anderssen (Match vs Paul Morphy 1858) (Casual Game vs Paul Morphy 1858) 28 (Match vs Ignac Kolisch 1861) (London International Tournament 1862) (Match vs Wilhelm Steinitz 1866) 29 30 International Tournament: London 1851 (1), 1862 (1), Vienna 1873 (3) Match: 1858 (lost to Paul Morphy), 1861 (beat Ignac Kolisch), 1866 (lost to Wilhelm Steinitz) 31 Levon Aronian (Linares International Tournament 2007) (Olympiad 2008) 32 (World Team Championship 2011) (Olympiad 2012) 33 (Bilbao Masters 2014) Olympiad: Armenia "B" 1996 (50), Armenia 2004 (3), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2010 (7), 2012 (1, BB), 2014 (8), 2018 (8) World U-14 Championship: 1996 (2) World (FIDE) Championship: 1999 (33-64), 2004 (17-32) European Team Championship: Armenia 1999 (1), 2005 (12), 2007 (2), 2009 (4), 2011 (4), 2013 (4), 2015 (2), 2017 (12, BB), 2019 (4) European Individual Championship: 2001 (104) World U-20 Championship: 2001 (3) World Team Championship: Armenia 2005 (3), 2010 (5), 2011 (1), 2013 (5, BB), 2015 (3, BB) World Cup: 2005 (1), 2007 (9-16), 2013 (17-32), 2017 (1), 2019 (5-8), 2021 (65-128) International Tournament: Linares 2007 (4-5), M-Tel Masters 2008 (5-6), Wijk aan Zee 2009 (2), Sao Paulo - Bilbao 2011 (3-5), Bilbao 2014 (2) Candidates Tournament: 2007 (1-4), 2011 (5-8), 2013 (3-4), 2014 (6-7), 2016 (4-7), 2018 (8) World Championship: 2007 (6-7) FIDE Grand Prix: 2008-10 (1), 2017 (10), 2019 (21) World Rapid Championship: 2015 (43) World Blitz Championship: 2015 (11), 2019 (15) FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (4) FIDE Online Olympiad: Armenia 2020 (5-8) Chess Players on Stamps Players Named "B" 34 .
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