1. MIR SULTAN KHAN mir sultan khan mir sultan khan, je jedna od najzanimljivijih licnosti u sahovskoj istoriji. Dosao je u Englesku 1929 zajedno sa svojim gospodarom, maharadzom, ostao tu cetiri godine i zatim se vratio u Indiju 1933 zajedno sa maharadzom. clanak u British chess Magazine u kojem je receno da je sultan khan nadjen kao operski http://www.sah.paracin.co.yu/mir_sultan_khan.htm

Home SAH MAT LISTA SKOLA SAHA SAHOVSKE SLIKE ... KONTAKT MIR SULTAN KHAN Mir Sultan Khan, je jedna od najzanimljivijih licnosti u sahovskoj istoriji. Dosao je u Englesku 1929 zajedno sa svojim gospodarom, maharadzom, ostao tu cetiri godine i zatim se vratio u Indiju 1933 zajedno sa maharadzom. Nikad se vise u sahovskom svijetu nije culo za njega. Za vrijeme boravka u Engleskoj, Sultan Khan je pobijedio na Engleskom sampionatu, pobjedivsi svjetskog sampiona Aljehina i bivseg sampiona Kapablanku. Igrao je na prvoj tabli za Englesku za vrijeme Sahovske olimpijade u Pragu 1931 i u Folkestonu 1933. U isto vrijeme, drugi sluga doveden od istog maharadze, Miss Fatima, pobijedila je na zenskom sampionatu Engleske. Sultan Khan nije nikada zavrsio ispod cetvrtog mjesta na turnirima na kojima je igrao. U to vrijeme je bio jedan od najjacih sahista na svijetu. Po modernom sistemu rejtinga, Sultan Khan bi imao oko 2550 poena i bio velemajstor. To takodje znaci da je, ustvari, Sultan Khan prvi velemajstor u Aziji. Postoje neke nedoumice da li je Sultan Khan bio sluga ili rob. Reuben Fine, koji je jednom bio gost kod maharadze na veceri, u Engleskoj, pripovjeda da je Sultan Khan bio konobar koji je donosio posudje na sto.

2. Mir Sultan Khan Vs Jose Raul Capablanca mir sultan khan VS Jose Raul Capablanca the then reigning champion. what makes this game so interesting is that sultan khan learned the rules of western chess http://www.geocities.com/macjoubert/game1.htm

Mir Sultan Khan VS Jose Raul Capablanca Hastings 1933 This is one of my all time favorite games Mir Sultan Khan VS Jose Raul Capablanca the then reigning champion. what makes this game so interesting is that Sultan Khan learned the rules of western chess just a couple of days before arriving in the UK. Added to that he was illiterate and knew nothing about Chess theory. This browser is not Java-enabled. Home

3. Jaced.com Another widely favorite master is sultan khan, who went by the name of "mir sultan khan". He went to England from India in 1929. (Now a part of what is called today as Pakistan). He returned to Pakistan in 1933. board for England during the World chess Olympiads in 1931 and 1933. http://dev.jaced.com:8080/htm/c/cbios/cbios_khan.htm

Philidor Morphy Tarrasch Lasker ... Reshevsky Khan Sultan Khan Another widely favorite master is Sultan Khan, who went by the name of "Mir Sultan Khan". He went to England from India in 1929. (Now a part of what is called today as Pakistan). He returned to Pakistan in 1933. It was his master's wish (Sultan Khan was merely a servant), his master was a Maharaja. In the four years in England, Khan won the British Championship, defeated ex-World Champion Jose Capablanca, and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads in 1931 and 1933. You can't get better than that. Here's a quote from a famous Britain chess author: "(1905-1966) Sultan Khan won the British championship in 1929, 1932 and 1933, and represented England in three Olympiads. He had a great natural talent for the game which brought admiration from Capablanca who called him a genius." The great Paul Morphy played for 3 years, 1857-1859. The great Mir Sultan Khan played for 4 years, 1929-1933. How do they do that and be so good ?

4. Mir Malik Sultan Khan He had a servant, mir Malik sultan khan. He was an Indian chess master. In India, the rules were slightly different. http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBChess/Sultankhan.html

Mir Malik Sultan Khan One of the most astounding chess masters of all time was a man called Mir Malik Sultan Khan. A maharaja, Colonel Nawab Sir Umar HayatKhan, lived in India (actually in the area which is today's Pakistan), whichwas owned by Britain at the time....this is in 1929. He had a servant, Mir Malik Sultan Khan. He was an Indian chess master. In India, the rules were slightly different. The pawn could only ever move 1 square. There were some different rules for castling - but I'm not sure what they were- and if a pawn reach it's "queening square" it could only become the piece whose file it was in the original position (like if the pawn reached b8, it became a knight..if c8, a bishop..) Well, this maharaja brought Sultan Khan to England with him. Khan learned the Western rules. The maharaja was a friend of George V, the king, and had some influence. He entered Sultan Khan in the British Open. Khan won. He played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads at Prague 1931 and again at Folkestone 1933. He continued to play chess for 4 years. He never finished less than fourth in any tournament. He beat Capablanca, Rubinstein, Tartakower in games and drew against Alekhine. Oddly, he always lost to some master, named William Winter. Winter finished last in almost every tournament, but alway beat Khan ...weird! He was a servant, some think a slave...One time his master gave a diner party and invited many great chessmasters. Rueben Fine was there and relates how Sultan Khan was used to serve the food and drinks. He said it was very uncomfortable since he felt it was the others who should have been waiting on Khan.

5. The Chess Connoisseur's Column Page Of October 25, 2001. chess with Manny Benitez. 'Magnificent Ten' show the way to win in Spain to come out of Asia mir sultan khan of India (190566), now remembered as the http://www.datec.net.pg/~talejaga/columns/mb102501.htm

Chess with Manny Benitez 'Magnificent Ten' show the way to win in Spain THIS early, I feel confident that our young players battling it out with the world's best in Oropesa del Mar, Spain, will be the redeeming feature of Philippine chess today in the wake of our debacle in the Zonal and the Asian Continental Championships. Led by 17-year-old International Master (IM) Mark Paragua, who has won all his three games so far, the country's “Magnificent Ten” have each amply demonstrated he or she has the makings of a champion, accentuated by a fiercely competitive spirit. After three rounds, Mark who had repulsed Chinese Fide Master Ni Hua with Black led the field in the Under 18 group with four others, including Russian Grandmaster Dmitri Iakovenko and his next opponent, Ukrainian IM Oleksandr Kovchar. Six others who won their third assignments were National Master Oliver Barbosa, Woman IM Arianne Caoili, IM-candidate John Paul Gomez, Ivan Gil Biag, Karl Victor Ochoa and Kimberly Cunanan.. John Paul, Ivan Gil and Karl Victor, who had drawn their first games and won their second, scored major upsets when they trounced higher-seeded rivals. John Paul and Ivan Gil defeated young Russian rivals while Karl Victor outplayed his Bosnian opponent (Bosnia/Herzegovina used to be a province of the old Yugoslavia, a chess superpower). For his part, Oliver outwitted his Norwegian rival in carving his first win, Arianne whipped her Greek opponent and Kimberly creamed her Mexican adversary. Arianne and Kimberly had won their first assignments but lost their second.

6. Mir Sultan Khan, Asia's First Chess Grandmaster Features a biography of his chess career and lists some of the legends about this player.Category Games Board Games World Champions khan, mir sultan......mir sultan khan by Ismail Sloan. One of the most interesting and importantpersonalities in chess history was mir sultan khan. He http://www.shamema.com/sultan.htm

Mir Sultan Khan by Ismail Sloan One of the most interesting and important personalities in chess history was Mir Sultan Khan. He was brought from India to England in 1929 by his master, a maharaja, was kept there for four years, and then was taken back to India in 1933 by his master, never to be seen by the world of chess again. During his short stay in England, Sultan Khan won the British Chess Championship, defeated former World Champion Capablanca and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads at Prague 1931 and at Folkestone 1933. At the same time, another servant brought by the same maharaja, a Miss Fatima, won the British Woman's Chess Championship. Sultan Khan never finished lower than fourth in any chess tournament in which he ever played. Although he always lost to William Winter (who usually finished last, in spite of defeating Sultan Khan) there is no doubt that Sultan Khan was one of the strongest chess players in the world at that time. According to the modern rating system, Sultan Khan was about 2550 in strength and was easily a grandmaster. This also means that Sultan Khan was the first ever Asian grandmaster of chess. Sultan Khan There is some dispute as to whether Sultan Khan was a slave or was merely a servant. Reuben Fine related that when he was a guest for dinner at the maharaja's home in England, Sultan Khan was a waiter who brought the dishes to the table.

7. SultanChess Games, Created With PGNtoJS (www.mailchess.de/pgntojse.html) Oscar - weekly newsletter covering international chess news, history and biographies. One of my favorite chess players is sultan khan, who went by the name of "mir sultan khan". http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/Java/HTML/Sultan/sultan.htm

8. Mir Sultan Khan His name was mir sultan khan and there has never been another playerquite like him in the annals of chess. Illiterate, unfamiliar http://www.smartchess.com/SmartChessOnline/SmartChessOnline/Sep00Nov00/caissa04.

Caissa's Warriors by Steve Lopez MIR SULTAN KHAN He was a mysterious figure who seemed to come from nowhere, much like a samurai in a Kurosawa film or a gunslinger in a Leone western. Arriving in England in 1929, he took British chess by storm, winning the British championship three times before vanishing again just four years after his arrival. His name was Mir Sultan Khan and there has never been another player quite like him in the annals of chess. Illiterate, unfamiliar with Western chess until just a few years before his professional debut, he had a natural aptitude for the game to rival that of the legendary Capablanca. Sultan was born in a small village in India (in an area that is now part of Pakistan) in 1905. He learned one of the Indian forms of chess (possibly chaturanga) from his father at the age of nine. By adulthood he was recognized as a master of that form of chess. When Sultan was 21, a noted chess patron named Sir Umar Hayat Khan brought Sultan into his household, supposedly to be employed as a servant, but the real goal was to educate Sultan in the Western form of chess. Numerous Indian masters of the game were hired to instruct him and, after two years, Sultan was ready to make his debut. Sultan entered the All-India Championship in 1928 and succeeded beyond his patron's wildest expectations. Of the nine games he played, he drew just a single game and won the rest, finishing first by a margin of 2.5 points.

9. Schaakverhalen : Mir Sultan Khan. Schaakboekje 41 in juni 1998. Schaakverhalen mir sultan khan. Sven Gorts plots een artikel in British chess Magazine dat sultan khan was teruggevonden als operazanger in http://users.pandora.be/geelse.schaakkring/GSK%20Wist%20je%20dat/Pennensprokkels

Schaakboekje 41 in juni 1998 Schaakverhalen: Mir Sultan Khan. Sven Gorts M ir Sultan Khan was een van de vele mysterieuze figuren die in de schaakgeschiedenis opdoken. Hij werkte als bediende in het huis van maharadja Sir Umar Hayat Khan Tiwano. In 1929 kwam hij samen met zijn meester vanuit India (geografisch gezien nu Pakistan) naar Engeland. Khan was toen een kerel van om en bij de 24 waarvan de schaakwereld nog nooit had gehoord. Op dat moment had Khan slechts drie jaar ervaring met de Europese schaakregels. Toch was Khan geen beginneling. Hij was namelijk een meester in de Indische variant van het schaakspel waarbij ietwat andere regels golden. Bij de Indische regels mocht o.a. de pion geen dubbele openingszet spelen. Zijn resultaten echter waren verbluffend, zeker als je weet dat hij lezen noch schrijven kon (nvdr: wie of hoe hij zijn partijen noteerde kon ik niet terugvinden). In ieder geval was theorie niet aan hem besteed. Tijdens zijn vierjarig verblijf in Engeland won Khan het Brits Schaakkampioenschap, versloeg hij zowel wereld-kampioen Aljechin als voormalig wereldkampioen Capablanca en speelde hij op het eerste bord voor Engeland tijdens de Schaakolympiaden te Praag (1931) en te Folkestone (1933). In geen enkel tornooi eindigde Khan lager dan de vierde plaats hoewel hij steeds verloor van William Winter, de rode lantaarn van die tijd. Toch is er geen enkele twijfel dat hij een van de sterkste spelers van zijn tijd was. Volgens het moderne elo-systeem moet hij ongeveer 2550 elo waard zijn geweest. Khan wordt dan ook beschouwd als de eerste Aziatische grootmeester van het moderne schaak.

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11. Exeter Chess Club: Trawled From The 'Net Host newsbf02.mail.aol.com mir sultan khan by Ismail Sloan One of the most interestingand important personalities in chess history was mir sultan khan. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/Trawl/Sultan.html

Exeter Chess Club: Trawled from the 'Net From info!strath-cs!clyde.open.ac.uk!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!peer-news.britain.eu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Wed Jan 31 09:06:48 GMT 1996 Article: 6904 of rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!strath-cs!clyde.open.ac.uk!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!peer-news.britain.eu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: vanupp@aol.com (VanUpp) Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Subject: Mir Sultan Khan Date: 22 Jan 1996 11:48:43 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 68 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: Back to Chess Coaching Page This document (.html) was last modified on by Dr. Dave

12. Schaakverhalen : Mir Sultan Khan. mir sultan khan” by Ismail Sloan Internet . A Brief History of chess”Edinburgh University chess Club Home Page. . http://users.pandora.be/geelse.schaakkring/GSK Wist je dat/Pennensprokkels/De Su

Schaakboekje 41 in juni 1998 Schaakverhalen: Mir Sultan Khan. Sven Gorts M ir Sultan Khan was een van de vele mysterieuze figuren die in de schaakgeschiedenis opdoken. Hij werkte als bediende in het huis van maharadja Sir Umar Hayat Khan Tiwano. In 1929 kwam hij samen met zijn meester vanuit India (geografisch gezien nu Pakistan) naar Engeland. Khan was toen een kerel van om en bij de 24 waarvan de schaakwereld nog nooit had gehoord. Op dat moment had Khan slechts drie jaar ervaring met de Europese schaakregels. Toch was Khan geen beginneling. Hij was namelijk een meester in de Indische variant van het schaakspel waarbij ietwat andere regels golden. Bij de Indische regels mocht o.a. de pion geen dubbele openingszet spelen. Zijn resultaten echter waren verbluffend, zeker als je weet dat hij lezen noch schrijven kon (nvdr: wie of hoe hij zijn partijen noteerde kon ik niet terugvinden). In ieder geval was theorie niet aan hem besteed. Tijdens zijn vierjarig verblijf in Engeland won Khan het Brits Schaakkampioenschap, versloeg hij zowel wereld-kampioen Aljechin als voormalig wereldkampioen Capablanca en speelde hij op het eerste bord voor Engeland tijdens de Schaakolympiaden te Praag (1931) en te Folkestone (1933). In geen enkel tornooi eindigde Khan lager dan de vierde plaats hoewel hij steeds verloor van William Winter, de rode lantaarn van die tijd. Toch is er geen enkele twijfel dat hij een van de sterkste spelers van zijn tijd was. Volgens het moderne elo-systeem moet hij ongeveer 2550 elo waard zijn geweest. Khan wordt dan ook beschouwd als de eerste Aziatische grootmeester van het moderne schaak.

13. Sultan Khan, The Game Is Afoot - Biography One of my favorite chess players is sultan khan, who went by the nameof mir sultan khan . He went to England from India in 1929. http://www.starfireproject.com/chess/khan.html

One of my favorite chess players is Sultan Khan, who went by the name of "Mir Sultan Khan". He went to England from India in 1929. (Now a part of what is called today as Pakistan). He returned to Pakistan in 1933. It was his master's wish (Sultan Khan was merely a servant), his master was a Maharaja. In the four years in England, Khan won the British Championship, defeated ex-World Champion Jose Capablanca, and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads in 1931 and 1933. You can't get better than that. Here's a quote from a famous Britain chess author: "(1905-1966) Sultan Khan won the British championship in 1929, 1932 and 1933, and represented England in three Olympiads. He had a great natural talent for the game which brought admiration from Capablanca who called him a genius." The great Paul Morphy played for 3 years, 1857-1859. The great Mir Sultan Khan played for 4 years, 1929-1933. How do they do that and be so good ? -Terry Crandall

14. Mir Sultan Khan mir sultan khan. One of the most interesting and important personalitiesin chess history was mir sultan khan (190566). He was brought http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/chess/Chess/History/Sultan.html

Mir Sultan Khan One of the most interesting and important personalities in chess history was Mir Sultan Khan (1905-66). He was brought from India to England in 1929 by his master a maharaja, after winning the 1928 Indian Championship. He stayed in England for four years, and then was taken back to India in 1933 by his master, never to be seen by the world of chess again. During his short stay, Sultan Khan won the British Chess Championship, defeated World Champion Alekhine and former World Champion Capablanca (see game below), and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads at Prague 1931 and at Folkestone 1933. At the same time, another servant brought by the same maharaja, a Miss Fatima, won the British Woman's Chess Championship. Sultan Khan never finished lower than fourth in any chess tournament in which he ever played. Although he always lost to William Winter (who usually finished last, in spite of defeating Sultan Khan) there is no doubt that Sultan Khan was one of the strongest chess players in the world at that time. According to the modern rating system, Sultan Khan was about 2550 in strength and was easily a grandmaster. This also means that Sultan Khan was the first ever Asian grandmaster of chess. "A striking figure whose black hair was usually turbanned, he sat at the board impassively, showing no emotion in positions good or bad," ran one account. "Unable to read or write, he never studied any books on the game yet became one of the ten best players in the world."

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16. MORE HERITAGE One such player was mir sultan khan with the notable exception that he was pickedout by an Indian Nawab and exposed to the worldwide chess colloseum. http://www.geocities.com/aiccf/feb02/chap11.htm

MORE HERITAGE Mir Sultan Khan, 1905-1966 By Dr. A.Chatterjee Like Dushyant Tyagi (see Auto-Chess-O-Graphy 21, this Bulletin), many chess players in India first learn the game in its desi variant before becoming acquainted with the modern rules. There may have been countless players particularly in pre-partition rural India with special skills for intricate manoeuvring, skills which would forever be hidden to the arena of international chess. One such player was Mir Sultan Khan with the notable exception that he was picked out by an Indian Nawab and exposed to the worldwide chess colloseum. Sultan Khan went far. In the three and a half years of his rather short international career, he was thrice British Champion, represented Britain on top board in several team championships, beat Dr. Tartakower 6.5 - 5.5 in a match and recorded enough wins in tournaments to be considered of world championship rank. At Hastings (1930-31) he defeated Capablanca in their single encounter (see game below), and came third in the tournament (behind Euwe and Capablanca). In Prague (1931) he drew against Alekhine and Bogoljubov and defeated Rubenstein and Flohr with a total score of 111/2 out of 17. Sultan Khan was India's sole beacon, the only pillar symbolising world class in a game that originated in India. We would have to wait another 50 years before a dashing Vishwanathan Anand would carry the baton from there.

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19. PRACTICAL CHESS ENDING + COMPUTER ANALSIS LAST WEEK, POSITION 98. sultan khan, mir (190566) A natural chessgenius who overcame all obstacles to become a world class player. http://members.aol.com/brigosling/psitn098.htm

PRACTICAL CHESS ENDGAME or BRIAN'S CHESS FOLLY. Welcome to this active site. Each week I am going to present to you a endgame position for you to solve or to workout the best continuation. Computer analysis will also be considered. Some of these positions will come from actual historical games. Others will be composed endgame studies, but all the solutions will be relevant to the practical game. The new position will occur each SUNDAY and I will always be pleased to receive POSITIVE feedback about the positions and the analysis and I will try to acknowledge these where relevant. THIS WEEK POSITION 99 FORSYTH NOTATION:q7/5p2/3R4/4k3/7P/2K4B/5R2/8: LAST WEEK, POSITION 98 Sultan Khan, Mir (1905-66) A natural chess genius who overcame all obstacles to become a world class player. After winning the All-Indian championship in 1928 he played in the 1929 British Championship and to everyone's surprise he won the tournament. A brilliant achievement considering he had very little experience of the Western game and could not read or speak English. He again won the British Championship in 1932 and 1933. He played first board for the British Olympiad team of 1930 (65%), 1931 (68%) and 1933 (50%). At Hastings 1930-31 he came 3rd, beating Capablanca in their individual game. In December of 1933 Sultan returned to India, his short but brilliant international career was over. Sultan Khan vs Flohr

20. Girls In Chess, Way Back "Then"! was quite impressive Max Euwe (twice), Sammy Reshevsky, mir sultan khan, Sir GeorgeThomas a unique and uncompromising place in the evolution of woman's chess. http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBChess/then.html

Girl Chess: How It Was While segregation of gender in chess wasn't always true -woman and men often played together, both in Literature and reality before 1800; Shakespeare's only chess scene has Miranda playing Ferdinand in the last act of The Tempest; many paintings depict men and women playing at chess together; Ben Franklin, as well as Paul Morphy were fond of playing against ladies. Women, however, were often barred from the private clubs as well as the coffeehouses and the taverns where these chess clubs developed in the 19th century. By the middle of that century, female players started to gain their own chessic distinction - separate from men . The first chess clubs exclusively for women were organized in The Netherlands in 1847. The first chess book written by a woman, The ABC of Chess, by "A Lady" (H.I. Cooke), appeared in England in 1860 and went into 10 editions. The first women's tournament was sponsored in 1884 by the Sussex Chess Association. Women also gained a certain prominance in postal and problem chess during this period. An American woman, Ellen Gilbert, defeated a strong English amateur, George Gossip, twice in an international correspondence match in 1879 - announcing checkmate in 21 moves in one game and in 35 moves in the other!! Edith Winter-Wood composed more than 2,000 problems, 700 of which appeared in a book published in 1902. The first woman player to gain attention in direct OTB competition with men was Vera Menchik (1906-44) of Great Britain.

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