Bill Wall’s Chess Encyclopedia
Balogh, Janos (1892-1980) Winner of the first international correspondence tournament, in 1932.
Banks, Newell (1887-1977) U.S. checker champion who was also a chess master. He defeated the U.S. chess champion, Frank Marshall, and he leading challenger, Isaac Kashdan, at the Chicago Tournament in 1926. In his lifetime he traveled over a million miles playing chess and checkers and played over 600,000 games of chess and checkers.
Bardeleben, Kurt Von (1861-1924) Strongest German player of the late 19th century and Grandmaster strength. He committed suicide by jumping out of an upper window of his boarding house in Berlin where he lived in poverty.
Baring chess A chess game where there is no checkmate and the game is won by the player who is able to capture all his opponent’s pieces, leaving the opponent with a bare King. This game was played as early as the 9th century and some think that the baring game was the original game of chess.
Barnes, Thomas (1825-1874) Thomas Barnes scored more wins than anyone else against Paul Morphy, winning 8 games and losing 19. He went on a diet and lost 130 pounds in 10 months, causing his death.
”BASIC CHESS ENDINGS" Best known endgame book. Reuben Fine took only 3 months to write it.
Battel, Jack (1909-1985) Former executive editor of CHESS REVIEW from 1948 to 1969.
Baturinsky, Victor (1914-
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Chief of Karpov’s delegation during the early years as world champion. He was a prosecutor in Stalin’s NKVD (secret police) and a Colonel under Lavrenti Beria, the secret police chief who was later executed by Nikita Kruschev.
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