Bill Wall’s Chess Encyclopedia
Marx, Karl Amateur chess player who was a very poor loser at chess. When he lost, he got angry and flew in a rage.
Master The youngest player to gain a master rating is Hikaru Nakamura in 1998 at age 10 years and 79 days. The oldest player to become a master was Oscar Shapiro, at age 74.
Matanovic, Aleksandar (1930- ) Yugoslav Grandmaster (1955) and chief editor of Chess Informant. He has won the Yugoslav championship 3 times. From 1990 to 1994 he was FIDE Executive Deputy President.
Match The first over-the-board match of consequence was the McDonnell- La Bourdonnais match in 1834. The longest running annual match is the Oxford-Cambridge match, which has been held every year since 1873.
Match of the Century The first USSR vs. Rest of the World match held in Belgrade in 1970.
Mate There are 8 different ways to mate in two moves and 355 different ways to mate in three moves.
Mathematics and Chess There are 318,979,564,000 ways of playing the first four moves in chess.
Mathilda Daughter of Otto II who was “won” as a result of a chess match between Ezzo, the Count of Palatine, and her brother, the Holy Emperor, Otto III.
Matulovic, Milan (1935-
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GM Matulovic of Yugoslavia was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for killing a woman by dangerous driving (No, he didn’t say J’adoube).
McCormick, Edgar (1914-1991) Participant of more U.S. Open chess tournaments than any other person (37 times). In World War II he was a cryptographer. He won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1961, 109